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23 - 25 April 2007
By invitation only
Venue: B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR
Please see map at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/images/map_arounducl_l.jpg
Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
PROGRAMME
B10, Basement, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square
[45 minute talks plus 15 minutes for discussion]
| Sunday 22 April | |
| 18.00 – 20.00 | Welcome Drinks (4th Floor, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square ) |
| Monday 23 April | |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Tea, coffee and Welcome (Peter Dayan, Mick Hastings) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Michael Hastings (MRC-LMB) - Introduction to circadian molecular clockworks |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Stephen Williams (MRC-LMB) - Potential Targets for Circadian Modulation in the Cortex |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Clif Saper (Harvard) - Inducible clocks: Living in an unpredictable world |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room) |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Erik Herzog (WUSTL) - For whom the bells toll: Networked circadian clocks in the brain |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Tea and Coffee |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Lisa Lyons (U Houston) - Circadian Modulation of Memory Via Suppression of Learning-Induced Gene Expression |
| Tuesday 24 April | |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Shimon Amir (Concordia) - Forebrain clocks and motivated behaviour |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Christopher Colwell (UCLA) - Circadian modulation of cognitive function |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Tea and Coffee |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Vincenzo Crunelli (Cardiff) - The slow oscillation: a sleep master-clock for co-ordination of neuronal ensembles |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Igor Timofeev (Quebec) - Synchronization and information processing in thalamus and cortex during slow sleep oscillation |
| 13..30 – 14.30 | Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room) |
| 14.30 – 15.30 | Marcos Frank (UPENN) - Synaptic plasticity across sleep and wakefulness |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Tea and Coffee |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Matthew Wilson (MIT) - Sleep and Synaptic homeostasis |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Kenneth Wright (Colorado) - Influence of the circadian timekeeping system on cognitive function in humans |
| 19.00 – finish | Dinner - Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, London , WC1 4BL |
| Wednesday 25 April | |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Jorge Goncalves (Cambridge) - Mathematical tools for the analysis of oscillators |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Frank Doyle (UCSB) - Robustness in Circadian Clock Networks: From Genes to Cells |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Tea and Coffee |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Rae Silver (Columbia) - Cells and Circuits of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | General discussion (available) |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room) |
| 14.30 | FINISH |
