Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Collaborative Research Center for Theoretical Biology

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