Clocks & Sleep

2nd Friday of the month
3:30p – 5:00p
HYBRID: BJC Institute of Health 9AB and Zoom conference (*unless noted)

There will be food, drink and conversation for those attending in-person!

For virtual meeting information email the Hope Center or Erik Herzog, or click the Zoom links button below.

NOTE: Each presenter has 30 minutes for slides and 15 minutes for questions.

• January 13 – *NOTE Location: Zoom/Farrell LTC 204
  • Jackie Pelham (Holehouse lab, WashU Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) “Deciphering the Contributions of Protein Disorder to the Circadian Clock Repressors”
  • Jason Dude (Ju lab, WashU Neurology) “Can Sleep-EEG features predict cognitive performance and Alzheimer disease pathology?”
• February 10
  • Yifan Xu (Hengen lab, WashU Biology) “Sleep restores an optimal computational regime in cortical networks”
  • Christine Merlin (Texas A & M University) “Circadian clock regulation of monarch butterfly seasonal migration”
• March 10 – *NOTE Location: Zoom/Farrell LTC 205
  • Melanie Ford (Shaw lab, WashU Neuroscience) “Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Fragmentation and Social Jet Lag increase temperature preference in Drosophila”
  • Aaron Cone (Norris lab, WashU Anesthesiology), Spencer Blackwood (Lee lab, WashU Neurology) with a brief introduction by Eric Landsness (WashU Neurology)
    “Population of medial preoptic area neurons that regulate metabolism, temperature and arousal”
• April 14 – *NOTE Location: Zoom/Farrell LTC 205
  • Haspel lab (WashU Medicine)
  • Lizzie Tilden (Y Chen lab, WashU Neuroscience)
• May 12 – *NOTE Location: Zoom/Farrell LTC 205
  • Landsness lab (WashU Neurology)
  • Palanca lab (WashU Anesthesiology)

For previous years’ talks, check out the archives link below.

All meetings are listed on the ONR Calendar of the Office of Neuroscience Research.