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Program

Saturday - November 5, 2022

Arrivals
17:30 Welcome Registration
Sunday - November 6, 2022
The Foundations

8:30 - Breakfast
9:00 - Introductions - Martha Merrow, LMU Munich
9:30 - Lecture - What is a biological clock? (incl. various timeframes). Martha Merrow - LMU Munich, Russell Foster - Oxford University and Antony Dodd - John Innes Center
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - Lecture - Molecular mechanisms of the circadian clock in flies and mice. Urs Albrech - University of Fribourg
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Workshop - Comparative clocks: unifiying properties and important mechanisims. Anthony Dodd - John Innes Center and Martha Merrow - LMU Munich
17:30 - End
Monday- November 7, 2022
Circadian Organization

8:30 - Breakfast
9:00 - Tutor session - Merrow, Albrecht, Dodd
9:30 - Lecture - Photoreception for animal circadian clocks: Photopigments to behaviour. Russell Foster - Oxford University
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - Lecture - Entrainment and chronotype. Martha Merrow - LMU Munich
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Datablitz I - Students
14:30 - Workshop - Neurobiology of circadian systems. Sato Honma - Sapporo University and Monika Stengl - University of Kassel
17:30 - End
Tuesday- November 8, 2022
The clock in flies, plants and non-circadian chronobiology concepts

8:30 - Breakfast
9:00 - Tutor session - Honma, Stengl, Merrow
9:30 - Interactive lecture - Circadian organisation: peripheral clocks and their coordination. Russell Foster - Oxford University
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - Lecture - Green clocks: daily timing in plants from molecules to behaviours. Antony Dodd - John Innes Centre
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Datablitz II - Students
14:30 - Workshop - Photoperiodism and seasonal behaviours. Tyler Stevenson - Universitz of Glasgow and Valerie Simmoneaux - Strasbourg University
17:30 - End
Wednesday- November 9, 2022
Free Day
This is your free day, however if you wish to discover Munich and surroundings, we have 2 options for you. Please contact us for more details.
Thursday- November 10, 2022
Clocks by the numbers

8:30 - Breakfast
9:00 - Tutor session - Stengl, Merrow
9:30 - Workshop - Clock controlled genes: Omics approaches. Steve Brown - University of Zurich and Maria Robles - LMU Munich
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - Lecture - Modeling Clocks. James Locke, University of Cambridge
13:00 - Lunch
13:45 - Posters - Students
14:30 - Workshop - Data analysis methods - Bharath Ananthasubramaniam, Humbolt University, Charité University
17:30 - Lecture - Concepts in Annual Rhythms, Tyler Stevenson, University of Glasgow
18:30 - End of class
19:00 - Banquet
Friday - November 11, 2022
Translational Chronobiology

8:30 - Breakfast
9:00 - Tutor session
9:30 - Lecture - Epidemiology and study designs. Eva Schernhammer - University of Vienna, Harvard University
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - Lecture - Drug design and the circadian clock. Aarti Jagannath - Oxford University
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Lecture - The clock and the malarial parasite. Sarah Reece - University of Edingburgh
16:00 - Coffee break
16:30 - Lecture - Sleep. Vlad Vyasovskiy - Oxford University
18:30 - Class adjourn
Saturday - November 12, 2022
Continuing education for physicians:Sleep

8:30 - Breakfast
9:30 - Case 1 - Non-24h sleep disorder: Circadian timing and sleep - Jan Remi, LMU Munich | Charo Robles, LMU Munich | Vlad Vyasovskiy, Oxford Uni
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - Case 2 - Narcolepsy: genetic and immunological regulation of sleep - Luciana Besedovsky, LMU Munich | Elisabeth Kaufmann, LMU Munich
13:00 - Lunch - Tutor sessions and networking
14:30 - Case 3 - REM sleep behaviour disorder - Sandra Nischwitz, MIP | Vlad Vyasovskiy, Oxford Uni
15:45 - Coffee break
16:15 - Case 4 - Sleep apnea - Fabienne Oettgen, LMU Munich | Nico Lutz, LMU Munich
17:30 - Evaluation and Feedback
18:30 - End