Mini-Symposium: Circadian Clock
Friday, Ocotber 17 - Session 1: The Vertebrate System
Chair: Ueli Schibler, University of Geneva
- Opening of the Mini-Symposium , 14.00
- Martha Gillette, (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain),
14.05-14.40
"How light signaling pathways engage the molecular clockworks" - Peter Achermann, , (University of Zurich), 14.40-15.15
"Modeling circadian rhythm generation in the suprachiasmatic nucleus with locally coupled self-sustained oscillators" - Nicholas Foulkes, (Max-Planck Institute, Tübingen),
16.00-16.35
"Regulation and function of peripheral clocks in zebrafish" - Satchin Panda, (Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego),
16:35-17:10
"Input, Output and the Core Oscillator - A systems biology approach to understanding the mammalian circadian system" - Frank Doyle, (University of California, Santa Barbara),
17:10-17:45
"Systems approach to robustness analysis in circadian rhythm gene network models"
Saturday, Ocotber 18 - Session 2: Clocks in Bacteria, Fungi and Flies
Chair: Albert Goldbeter, University of Bruxelles
- Susan Golden, (Texas A&M University, College Station),
9:15-9:50
"The cyanobacterial circadian system: a mechanical clock" - Michael Brunner, (University of Heidelberg),
9:50-10:25
"The cyanobacterial circadian system: a mechanical clock" - Michael Brunner, (University of Heidelberg),
9:50-10:25
"Functional elements of the Neurospora clock protein FREQUENCY" - Peter Ruoff, (Stavanger University, Norway),
10:25-11:00
"Modeling the Neurospora circadian clock" - Michael Rosbash, (Brandeis University, Waltham),
1:45-12:20
"Circadian rhythms in flies: molecules, cells and systems" - Paul Smolen, (University of Texas, Houston),
12:20-12:55
"A Drosophila circadian model incorporating VRI, PDP-1, and CLK simulates mutations and temperature compensation"
Saturday, October 18 - Session 3: Clocks in Humans
Chair: Russell Foster, Imperial College London
- Derk-Jan Dijk, (University of Surrey), 14:30-15:05
"Circadian regulation of human sleep" - Martha Merrow, (University of Munich), 15:05-15:40
"What is tau? The relationship between period and phase" - Anna Wirz-Justic, (University of Basel), 16:30-17:05
"Clockitis, clockosis, clockoma, or clockles? Diagnosis and treatment of putative circadian rhythm pathologies" - Till Roenneberg, (University of Munich), 17:05-17:40
"Human Chrono-Ecology"
Location: Lecture Hall 12, Institute for Biology, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin-Mitte. For more details, please visit: http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/events/circadianclocks_2003.html