LASC 2017 PROGRAM
NOTE: this program is preliminary. Please check for updates.
DAY 1 (Tuesday November 14)
9:30 – 17:15 One-day course on Sleep and Rhythms
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome
9:45 – 11:00 Lecture 1: Basic concepts of sleep and clocks
Adrián Ocampo (CH) and Horacio de la Iglesia (USA)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45 Lecture 2: Human sleep and Clocks
Luiz Menna (BR)
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch (on your own)
14:15 – 15:30 Lecture 3: Circadian Clocks
María Fernanda Ceriani (ARG)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:15 Lecture 4: Cellular basis of sleep architecture.
Pablo Torterolo (UY)
17:15 – 17:30 Closing remarks
14:00 – 18:00 Registration
18:00 -18:10 Opening address
18:10 -19:10 Keynote address: Joseph Takahashi, HHMI Investigator, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
19:10 – 21:00 Opening Reception
DAY 2 (Wednesday November 15)
9:00-10:00 Plenary Lecture 1. Amita Sehgal, HHMI investigator, University of Pennsylvania, USA
10:00 -11:30 Workshop I: Neural Models of Rhythmic Physiology
Chair: M. Fernanda Ceriani (AR)
Paul Taghert (USA)
To be announced
To be announced
To be announced
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30 Workshop II. Mechanisms of Entrainment
Chair: Luis Larrondo (CH)
Jennifer Loros (USA)
Joseph Takahashi (USA)
Charlotte Foerster (GER)
To be announced
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch on site
15:00 – 16:30 Workshop III. Neural Processes Underlying Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Chair: Adrián Ocampo (CH)
Panel members:
Pablo Torterolo (UY)
José Luis Valdés (CH)
Orie Shafer (USA)
Vlad Vyazovskiy (UK)
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 Workshop IV. Chronobiology of the Sleep-wake Cycle
Chair, Claudia Moreno (BRA)
Adrián Ocampo (CH)
Tom de Boer (NL)
Horacio de la Iglesia (USA)
Mario Pedrazolli (BRA)
18:30 – 19:30 Final discussion
19:30 Dinner (on your own)
DAY 3 (Thursday November 16)
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture 2 Jay Dunlap, Dartmouth College, USA
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 Symposium I Molecular Biology of Circadian Clocks
Chair: Carola Millán
Carrie Partch (USA)
Carla Green (USA)
Luis Larrondo (CH)
Susan Golden (USA)
12:30 – 12:45 Data blitz
12:45 – 13:30 Short talks on circadian clocks and sleep (based on submitted abstracts)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch on site
14:30 – 16:30 Symposium II Circadian Clocks: Cells and Circuits
Chair: John Ewer (CH)
Erik Herzog (USA)
Paul Taghert (USA)
- Fernanda Ceriani (AR)
To be announced
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 Poster session I
18:30 – 19:30 Public Lecture: Céline Vetter, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
19:30 Dinner (on your own)
DAY 4 (Friday November 17)
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture 3 Michael Rosbash, HHMI Investigator, Brandeis University, USA.
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Short talks on circadian clocks and sleep (based on submitted abstracts)
11:30 – 12:00 Data blitz
12:00 – 13:30 Round table discussion: Chronobiology in Latin America
Moderator: Mario Pedrazolli (BRA)
Participants
Adrián Ocampo (CH) Fernanda Ceriani (AR), Horacio de la Iglesia (AR), Diego Golombek (AR), Pablo Torterolo (UY), Verónica Valentinuzzi (AR), Luiz Menna (BR).
13:30 – Free afternoon (see “Free afternoon” tab for options)
20:00 – 23:00 LASC dinner
DAY 5 (Saturday November 18)
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture 4 Susan Golden, HHMI Professor, University of California San Diego, USA
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 Symposium IV “Human Sleep”
Chair: Horacio de la Iglesia (USA) OK
Claudia Moreno (BRA)
Pablo Brockmann (CL)
Luiz Menna (BRA)
Patricio Peirano (CL)
12:30 – 12:45 Data blitz
12:45 – 13:30 Short talks on circadian clocks and sleep (based on submitted abstracts)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch on site
14:30 – 16:30 Symposium V “Chronodisruption and work schedules”
Chair: Horacio de la Iglesia (USA)
Céline Vetter (USA)
Tom Deboer (NL)
To be announced
To be announced
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 Poster session II
18:30 – 19:30 LASC Closing Public Lecture: Michael Rosbash, 2017 Nobel Prizewinner Physiology or Medicine.
19:30 – 20:00 Business meeting
DAY 6 (Sunday November 19)
08:00 – 10:00 Breakfast & departure
08:00 – 10:00 Breakfast & departure
