Biohub

Sleep Symposium 2020

When:
–
Where:
San Francisco

Event Overview

Presented by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Sleep is critical for health and chronic sleep deprivation increases risk for virtually all diseases. Despite this, we know very little about what sleep is and how it’s regulated. This symposium will explore our understanding of sleep physiology and basic biology related to sleep. It will also review the contributions genetics is making toward understanding sleep regulation and sleep disorders. Emerging technical tools are contributing to our ability to better understand sleep. And increasing knowledge about molecular and circuit level regulation of sleep will ultimately enable more rational approaches to improving sleep in patients with sleep disorders.

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Program

8:55 a.m.

Welcome to Sleep Symposium

BASIC BIOLOGY

9 a.m.

Sleep and synaptic homeostatis

Chiara Cirelli, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:25 a.m.

A motor theory of sleep-wake control

Yang Dan, University of California, Berkeley & Howard Hughes Medical Institute

9:50 a.m.

Fluorescent polysomnography for single cell resolution whole-body comprehension of sleep

Philippe Mourrain, Stanford University

10:45 a.m.

The impact of sleep on oxidative stress

Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, Columbia University

SLEEP AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHM GENETICS AND PHYSIOLOGY

11:10 a.m.

Is a broken clock right twice a day? Regulation of sleep and waking functions by the circadian timing system

Jeanne Duffy, Harvard University

11:35 a.m.

Genetics and biology of human circadian regulation

Louis Ptáček, University of California, San Francisco

1:15 p.m.

Sleep and the human brain

Matthew Walker, University of California, Berkeley

1:40 p.m.

Understanding sleep efficiency

Ying-Hui Fu, University of California, San Francisco

2:05 p.m.

Large-scale direct neurophysiology and modulation of sleep dynamics in humans

Matthew Leonard, University of California, San Francisco

GENETICS/PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SLEEP DISORDERS

3 p.m.

Insomnia – blame is all on restless legs syndrome?

Juliane Winkelmann, Technical University Munich & Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Institute of Neurogenomics

3:25 p.m.

A mechanism for sleep instability during aging

Luis de Lecea, Stanford University

3:50 p.m.

Genetics of sleep disorders: from gene discovery towards biology and clinical translation

Richa Saxena, Harvard University

4:15 p.m.

Chicken or egg?: sleep, clocks, and neurodegeneration

Yo-El Ju, Washington University

4:40 p.m.

Poster Session/Reception

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