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Program

Welcome to the program overview for the EBRS 2025 Congress! In this presentation, we’ll provide you with a brief outline of the key sessions, topics, and events planned for this year's congress. Please note that this is a preliminary overview, and the schedule is subject to change as we finalize the details. Stay tuned for updates as we approach the event. We look forward to your participation!
Leopoldina Symposium “Sleep and Clocks in Health and Disease” Link to the Leopoldina Event .

Day to Day Program

Sunday 24 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Sunday Schedule

Trainee Day & Opening

08:00 – 09:00 - Trainee Day Check-in and Coffee

09:00 – 09:15 - Welcome by the EBRS Trainee Board
Betty Rodriguez-Cortes (France)

09:15 – 10:00 - Keynote Lecture (AM 2)
Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal adaptation and maladaptation
Speaker: Valérie Simonneaux (France)

10:15 – 11:00 - Trainee Day Session 1
AM 2: Basics of Chronobiology: Entrainment - Andrew Millar (UK)
AM 3: The SCN achieves global impact through relay and amplification of diffusible signaling - Rae Silver (USA)
AM 4: PhD survival kit - Arisa Hirano (Japan)

11:00 – 11:15 - Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:00 - Trainee Day Session 2
AM 2: Evolution of the circadian system - Emi Nagoshi (Switzerland)
AM 3: Clocks in different environments - Alex West (Norway) & Noga Kronfeld-Schor (Israel)
AM 4: Is there life after PhD? Academic vs industry - Pieterjan Dierickx (Germany) & Yuanyuan Chen (Germany)

12:00 – 13:15 - Lunch Break

13:15 – 14:00 - Trainee Day Session 3
AM 2: Circadian rhythms in plants - Alex Webb (UK)
AM 3: State-of-the-art strategies in human circadian biology – Frank Scheer (USA)
AM 4: Sex differences in circadian regulation - Horacio de la Iglesia (USA)

14:00 – 14:30 - Coffee Break

14:30 – 15:15 - Trainee Day Session 4
AM 2: Circadian biology in clinical setting - Laura Kervezee (Netherlands) & Dirk Jan Stenvers (Netherlands)
AM 3: Non-traditional model organisms in chronobiology - Kristin Tessmar (Austria) & Martha Merrow (Germany)
AM 4: Trends and future of chronobiology - Ruud Buijs (Mexico) & Satchin Panda (USA)

15:15 – 16:00 - Trivia quiz and closing remarks

14:00 – 16:30 - Registration for EBRS Congress (Foyer)

16:45 – 17:00 - Congress Opening / Welcome (AM 1)
Henrik Oster (Congress Chair)

17:00 – 17:45 - Opening Keynote (AM 1)
Chrononutrition to Optimize Health
Speaker: Frank Scheer (USA)
Chair: Henrik Oster (Germany)

18:00 - Welcome Reception (Foyer)
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Monday 25 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Monday Schedule
09:15 – 10:00 - Kappers Lecture (AM 1)
Melatonin and Metabolomics: Tracking central and peripheral clock rhythms in humans
Chair: Christian Cajochen (Switzerland)
Speaker: Debra Skene (UK)

10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 1: CLOCKS IN THE BRAIN
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 1)
Chairs: Alena Sumová (Czech Republic) & Shahar Amichai (Israel)
10:30 - Suprachiasmatic circadian circuits
Michael Hastings (UK)
10:55 - The SCN neuronal network in diurnal animals
Johanna Meijer (Netherlands)
11:20 - Visualization of cellular and network rhythmicity in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in vivo
Alec Davidson (USA)
11:45 - How clocks talk to clocks globally
Rae Silver (USA)
12:10 - Zinc finger homeobox-3 (ZFHX3) orchestrates genome-wide daily gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus
Akanksha Bafna (UK)

Symposium 2: METABOLISM
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 2)
Chairs: Etienne Challet (France) & Andrew Biancolin (Switzerland)
10:30 - Rhythms in the gut - a novel link between diet and metabolism?
Silke Kiessling (Germany)
10:55 - From circadian clock resetting to hepatopulmonary syndrome
Gad Asher (Israel)
11:20 - Human meal anticipation
Cheryl Isherwood (UK)
11:45 - A sexually dimorphic hepatic cycle of periportal VLDL generation and subsequent pericentral VLDLR-mediated re-uptake
Tomaz Martini (Slovenia)
12:00 - Protein Secretion Ex Vivo Reveals Regulation of Hepatokines by the Liver Circadian Clock
Kevin Koronowski (USA)
12:15 - Re-scoping ultradian metabolism
Daan Van der Veen (UK)

Symposium 3: BIOLOGICAL TIMING FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS & MENTAL HEALTH
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 3)
Chairs: Thomas Erren (Germany) & Emma van Andel (Netherlands)
10:30 - The light-dark cycle during development and later life affective disorders
Philip Lewis (Germany)
10:55 - New approaches to studying mechanisms underlying sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in mental health
Stuart Peirson (UK)
11:20 - Delayed sleep timing and mental disorder: implications and interventions
Nicholas Meyer (UK)
11:45 - Relaxation of social time pressure extends fasting and reveals a tight coupling between sleep/wake and fast/eat daily behaviors
Maria Korman (Israel)
12:00 - Evening light reduction for improving depressive and insomnia symptoms in people taking an SSRI
Rebecca Fitton (Australia)
12:15 - Impact of night shifts on cognitive, psychological, and cardiovascular health: findings from the OPTI-SHIFT observational study
Friedrich C. Jassil (Switzerland)

Symposium 4: SHORT AND LONG CLOCKS
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 4)
Chairs: Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Austria) & Charlotte Förster (Germany)
10:30 - Lunar effects on the behavior of humans and other primates
Horacio de la Iglesia (USA)
10:55 - Photoperiodism: insights from insects
Sakiko Shiga (Japan)
11:20 - Timing in the deep sea: circatidal rhythms in a hot vent shrimp
Jin Sun (China)
11:45 - Faster clock in mice and cells lacking mRNA cap methylation
Jean-Michel Fustin (UK)
12:00 - Circadian clock-independent ultradian rhythms in lipid metabolism in the Drosophila fat body
Emi Nagoshi (Switzerland)
12:15 - Platynereis dumerilii as a functional molecular model organism for circalunar clock analyses
Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Austria)

12:30 – 12:40 - Group Photo of All Participants (Entrance Stairs)
12:40 – 14:00 - Lunch Break and Poster Session A

Symposium 5: CELL BIOLOGY
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 3)
Chairs: Ganna Panasyuk (France) & Melissa Pisteljic (Switzerland)
14:00 - Allele-Specific Expression in Circadian Clock Genes Across Multiple Tissues in Baboons
Satchidananda Panda (USA)
14:25 - Investigating the mechanisms driving TRE-induced fat loss
Mimi Shirasu-Hiza (USA)
14:50 - Talk
David Jacobi (France)
15:15 - Linking the establishment of circadian rhythm with the establishment of long-term epigenetic silencing
Marine Blewitt (Australia)
15:40 - Role of GRIP1 as a Coactivator in Bmal1 Promoter Rhythm Formation
Masaaki Ikeda (Japan)

Symposium 6: CLOCK, BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 1)
Chairs: Johanna H. Meijer (Netherlands) & Lukasz Chobrok (UK)
14:00 - A Mechanism for Circadian Rest Time Allocation
Masao Doi (Japan)
14:25 - Clock in the choroid plexus is a gatekeeper for the brain
Alena Sumova (Czech Republic)
14:50 - On the role of circadian dopamine rhythms in mammalian time memory
Martin Ralph (Canada)
15:15 - Elucidating The Mechanisms of Bright Light Therapy via Per1
Dan-Adrian Epuran (Switzerland)
15:30 - Identification of the key diffusible output factor that regulates circadian behavioral rhythms
Shota Miyazaki (Japan)
15:45 - Light intensity modulates thermoregulation in a cooling environment
Francesca Borghese (Netherlands)

Symposium 7: CIRCADIAN MEDICINE: DETECTING THE CLOCK
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 2)
Chairs: Achim Kramer (Germany) & Salma Thalji (Germany)
14:00 - Circadian clock detection in humans: challenges and opportunities
Derk-Jan Dijk (UK)
14:25 - Decoding circadian clock state heterogeneity at single-cell resolution
Felix Naef (Switzerland)
14:50 - Temporal patterns in circadian alignment: insights from real-life behavioral data
Luisa Klaus Pilz (Germany)
15:15 - Telling time from intercellular communication in the blood-brain barrier
Rachael Ralph (UK)
15:30 - Quantifying Circadian Rhythmicity in Vital Signs of Preterm Infants in the NICU: A Cosinor-Based Approach
Roos Bos (Netherlands)
15:45 - Little overlap in circadian phase biomarker predictors developed from different methods/datasets, but overlap in underlying biological processes
Simon Archer (UK)

Symposium 8: EVOLUTION
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 4)
Chairs: Emi Nagoshi (Switzerland) & Tobias Kaiser (Germany)
14:00 - Evolution of circadian clock genes
David Doležel (Czech Republic)
14:25 - Mechanisms underlying circadian plasticity loss in an equatorial endemic species
Michael Parviz Shahandeh (Switzerland)
14:50 - Punctual parasites: why are rhythms advantageous?
Sarah Reece (UK)
15:15 - Circadian and ultradian membrane potential rhythms in hawkmoth olfactory receptor neurons depend on Orco, indicative of an endogenous multiscale membrane clockwork
Anna C. Schneider (Germany)
15:30 - Towards a molecular understanding of moon-controlled timers: Linking the light valence detector L-Cry to the circalunar clock in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii
Aida Coric (Austria)
15:45 - Cryptochrome and magnetic fields in Drosophila
Charalambos Kyriacou (UK)

16:00 – 16:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 9: PRESIDENT’S SYMPOSIUM
16:30 – 18:15 (AM 1)
Chair: Charalambos Kyriacou (UK)
16:30 – 16:35 - Introduction by Chair
16:35 - Circadian anti-tumor immune responses
Christoph Scheiermann (Switzerland)
17:00 - Who, when, where: tissue-specificity in the plant circadian system
Maria A. Nohales (Spain)
17:25 - Asthma… it’s about time!
Hannah Durrington (UK)
17:50 - What drives daily rhythms in physiology?
John O’Neill (UK)

20:00 - 21:00 - Drinks with the editors of npj Biological Timing and Sleep (see attendance list at registration desk on Monday morning) Café Bar Celona
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Tuesday 26 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Tuesday Schedule
08:15 – 09:00 - EBRS Board Meeting (by invitation only) (AM S2)

Opening of Leopoldina Symposium
Horst-Werner Korf (Germany)

09:15 – 10:00 - Axelrod Lecture (AM 1)
(part of Leopoldina Symposium)
Discovering the Ins and Outs of the SCN based on its Prototypical Neurotransmitter Vasopressin
Chair: Ruud Buijs (Mexico)
Speaker: Andries Kalsbeek (Netherlands)

10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 10: ESRS-EBRS JOINT SYMPOSIUM
(part of Leopoldina Symposium)
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 1)
Chairs: Stuart Peirson (UK) & Katarina Nahtigal (Slovenia)
10:30 - Sleep & Rhythm in Neurodegeneration
Dieter Kunz (Germany)
10:55 - Effects of photoperiod in development and adulthood on sleep
Tom de Boer (Netherlands)
11:20 - Sleep is for brain cleaning – mechanisms and function of the glymphatic system
Natalie Hauglund (UK)
11:45 - Stimulating waves – Sleep and memory consolidation
Lisa Marshall (Germany)
12:10 - Impacts of Night Work and Seasonal Variation on Wearable-Derived Sleep Architecture in Arctic Industrial Workers
Fred Haugen (Norway)

Symposium 11: ENDOCRINE FUNCTION
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 2)
Chairs: Charna Dibner (Switzerland) & Ameena Khan Sullivan (UK)
10:30 - Is there an optimal time of the day to exercise?
Anna Krook (Sweden)
10:55 - Control of hepatic transcriptional and metabolic rhythms by glucocorticoid hormones
Fabiana Quagliarini (Germany)
11:20 - Restoring 24-hour substrate rhythmicity to improve glycemic control by timing of lifestyle factors
Joris Hoeks (Netherlands)
11:45 - Cellular Clocks on Steroids: How Glucocorticoids Signal Time of Day to Circadian Clocks
Anna Edmondson (UK)
12:00 - Night work affects diurnal rhythms of cortisol, melatonin, and testosterone in permanent night workers
Anne Helene Garde (Denmark)
12:15 - Diurnal Variation in Human Plasma Metabolites and Circadian Hormones Across Seasons
Namrata Roy Chowdhury (UK)

Symposium 12: CIRCADIAN MEDICINE: TARGETING THE CLOCK
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 3)
Chairs: Sara Montagnese (Italy) & Katarina Stebelova (Slovakia)
10:30 - Emerging links between the sleep and circadian system and cardiometabolic disease
David Ray (UK)
10:55 - The Potential of Circadian Medicine to Prevent Delirium in the ICU and Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
Claudia Spies (Germany)
11:20 - Minding the Implementation Gap in Circadian Medicine: Lessons from ADHD
Andrew Coogan (Ireland)
11:45 - Impact of early vs. late time-restricted eating on glucose and lipid profiles and internal circadian time in overweight or obese women
Olga Ramich (Germany)
12:00 - Clocking the clot: A novel use for a circadian clock compound to restore clot breakdown pathways inhibited by inflammation
Paula Klavina (Ireland)
12:15 - Targeting BMAL1 to develop various circadian medicines
Hua Pu (UK)

Symposium 13: CLOCKS IN THE WILD
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 4)
Chairs: Till Roenneberg (Germany) & Leo Creasey (Israel)
10:30 - The circadian clock in the deep sea
Audrey Mat (Austria)
10:55 - Effects of environmental factors on rhythms in mosquito-host interactions
Clément Vinauger (USA)
11:20 - Ultradian sleep cycle dynamics during human infancy
Grégory Hammad (Belgium)
11:45 - Light pollution alters immune rhythmicity and function in nocturnal and diurnal wild rodents
Hagar Vardi-Naim (Israel)
12:00 - Weak coupling between energetic status and timing of seasonal reproduction in an Arctic ungulate
David Hazlerigg (Norway)
12:15 - Entrainment in natural conditions
Pirita Paajanen (UK)

12:30 – 14:00 - Lunch Break and Poster Session B

Symposium 14: POST-TRANSLATIONAL REGULATIONS IN CLOCK AND SLEEP (JSC-EBRS JOINT SYMPOSIUM)
(part of Leopoldina Symposium)
14:00 – 16:10 (AM 1)
Chairs: Sato Honma (Japan) & Yoichi Tanaka (Japan)
14:00 - Mouse Circadian Proteome Atlas and Post-translational Regulations in the Circadian Clock
Hikari Yoshitane (Japan)
14:25 - Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: The Role of Calcium and Phosphorylation in Sleep
Hiroki Ueda (Japan)
14:50 - Beyond Timekeeping: Roles of Post-Translational Modifications of Clock Proteins
Arisa Hirano (Japan)
15:15 - Digital twins for circadian-sleep health?
Anne Skeldon (UK)
15:30 - Perinatal photoperiod has lasting effects on the sleep-wake cycle and the circadian system
Rick van Dorp (Netherlands)
15:45 - Influence of Circadian Phenotypes on Excessive Sleepiness, Sleep Disturbance and Performance in Patients with Shift-Work Disorder
Luisa Marot (USA)

Symposium 15: MOLECULAR SLEEP CIRCUITS
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 4)
Chairs: Henrik Bringmann (Germany) & Hugo Calligaro (USA)
14:00 - Cortical Interneurons Convey Infraslow Oscillations During Sleep
Niels Niethard (Germany)
14:20 - Sleep deprivation enhances decision making in larval zebrafish
Hanna Zwaka (Germany)
14:40 - Network synchrony creates neural filters promoting quiescence in Drosophila
David Owald (Germany)
15:00 - Sleep - A Worm's-Eye View
Henrik Bringmann (Germany)
15:15 - Lovit protein in photoreceptors regulates histamine-mediated Drosophila sleep
Mehran Akhtar (UK)
15:30 - Genetic basis of the natural polymorphisms of sleep-wake rhythms in Drosophila
Chiara Bettini (Germany)
15:45 - VIP and its receptor (VPAC2R) in circadian timing of the sleep-wake cycles
Jens Hannibal (Denmark)

Symposium 16: METABOLIC DISORDERS
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 3)
Chairs: Susanne la Fleur & Dirk Jan Stenvers (Netherlands)
14:00 - Neuronal circadian circuit controlling metabolism during sleep revealed by an engineered transcriptional switch
Jonathan Cedernaes (Sweden)
14:25 - Defining the islet cell-specific binding landscape of core-clock protein Bmal1
Charna Dibner (Switzerland)
14:50 - The circadian control of energy metabolism: implications for people with obesity, type 2 diabetes, and shift workers
Dirk Jan Stenvers (Netherlands)
15:15 - Effect of chronodisruption on gut circadian clock rhythmicity in human intestinal organoids
Alice Denis (Belgium)
15:30 - The impact of misalignment with the external light cycle on diabetic retinopathy
Eleni Beli (UK)
15:45 - Tert deletion impairs circadian regulation of blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Kateryna Semenovykh (Czech Republic)

Symposium 17: NEURAL CIRCUITS CONTROLLING CIRCADIAN TIMEKEEPING
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 2)
Chairs: Marco Brancaccio (UK) & Daisuke Ono (Japan)
14:00 - Glial control of circadian rhythms
Marco Brancaccio (UK)
14:25 - Dissecting the Neural Network of Mammalian Circadian Clock
Jun Yan (China)
14:50 - The role of oligodendroglia in sleep and circadian rhythms
Erin Gibson (USA)
15:15 - GABA transmission in AVP neurons of the SCN is essential for regular estrous cycling in mice
Takahiro Nakamura (Japan)
15:30 - Integrity of the circadian clock determines regularity of high-frequency and diurnal LFP rhythms within and between brain areas
Dominic Landgraf (Germany)
15:45 - Role of Ca2+ signaling for Oscillation of Circadian Transcriptional Circuits
Naohiro Kon (Japan)

16:00 – 16:30 - Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:00 - Discussion on Statements (AM 2)
Circadian Medicine and Daylight Saving Time Changes

17:15 – 18:00 - JSC Lecture (AM 1)
(part of Leopoldina Symposium)
Neuronal feedback loop in the mammalian central circadian clock
Chair: Yasufumi Shigeyoshi (Japan)
Speaker: Michihiro Mieda (Japan)

18:15 – 19:00 – Leopoldina Public Lecture (AM 1)
(part of Leopoldina Symposium)
Lernen im Schlaf, kein Traum
Chair: Horst-Werner Korf
Speaker: Jan Born (Germany)

Evening Activity - TBD
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Tuesday 26 August 2025 - Leopoldina Symposium
Leopoldina Symposium

Wednesday 27 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Wednesday Schedule
09:15 – 10:00 - Gwinner Lecture (AM 1)
Chair: Luisa Klaus Pilz (Germany)
Speaker: Martha Merrow (Germany)

10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 18: SYSTEMS CHRONOBIOLOGY
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 2)
Chair: Felix Naef (Switzerland) & Franz Aschel (Germany)
10:30 - Hair test reveals plasticity of human chronotype
Achim Kramer (Germany)
10:55 - PDF-mediated seasonal plasticity of locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster
Nils Reinhard (Germany)
11:20 - Systemwide transcriptome and behavioral plasticity as an adaptation strategy to changing energy demand
Laura van Rosmalen (USA)
11:45 - The balancing act of the SCN
Ruud M Buijs (Mexico)
12:10 - A systems biology approach to analyze intercellular coupling of peripheral circadian clocks
Franck Delaunay (France)

Symposium 19: WHEREFORE A TTFL?
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 1)
Chairs: Martin Ralph (Canada) & Sylvia Adriana Newbold (UK)
10:30 - Preparation for food availability, and other important things
Ralph Mistlberger (Canada)
10:55 - A dopamine regulated circadian resonator underlying sensorimotor integration
Adam Stinchcombe (Canada)
11:20 - The post-translational nature of mammalian circadian timekeeping
Andrei Mihut (UK)
11:45 - The chronology of developing cells: epigenomic and transcriptomic oscillations are interlinked with linear trajectories
Art Petronis (Lithuania)
12:10 - A functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in mPers-deficient mice
Wataru Nakamura (Japan)

Symposium 20: CIRCADIAN MEDICINE IN PATIENT CARE
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 4)
Chairs: Laura Kervezee (Netherlands) & Filippo Pigazzani (UK)
10:30 - Light, circadian rhythms, and psychiatry
Elise McGlashan (Australia)
10:55 - Sampling in the real world: What can ambulatory biosampling tell us about our rhythms?
Thomas Upton (UK)
11:20 - Circadian Medicine in the Intensive Care Unit
Laura Kervezee (Netherlands)
11:45 - Can translational studies help to determine the optimal time point for cancer therapy in humans?
Horst-Werner Korf (Germany)
12:00 - Effect of cyclic daytime versus continuous enteral nutrition on circadian rhythms in patients in the Intensive Care Unit: a randomized controlled trial
Floor Willemijn Hiemstra (Netherlands)
12:15 - Preliminary Results of a Scoping Review of use of Wearables and Internet of Things Technologies in Circadian Medicine
Eduardo Salgado (Germany)

Symposium 21: CLOCKS IN DIVERSE SPECIES
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 3)
Chairs: Cristiano Bertolucci (Italy) & Abhishek Chatterjee (France)
10:30 - Interplay of Circadian Clocks, DNA Damage, and Sleep Patterns in Cnidarians with Divergent Chronotypes
Oren Levy (Israel)
10:55 - The sexy clock of the bee: The influence of sex and caste on circadian rhythms
Guy Bloch (Israel)
11:20 - Clocks in the dark: Adaptations of circadian clocks in cave animals
Nicholas Foulkes (Germany)
11:45 - Low-Temperature Dynamics in Single Cyanobacterial Cells Highlight Critical Features of Circadian Clock Response
Irina Mihalcescu (France)
12:00 - How beetles tick- Insights into the circadian system of the model species Tribolium castaneum
Tobias Prüser (Germany)
12:15 - The membrane hand of the circadian clock in flies and mice: Experimental and modelling insights
Edgar Buhl (UK)

12:30 – 14:00 - EBRS Members’ Assembly (AM 1)

14:00 – 19:00 - Free Time or Social Activities

19:00 - Banquet in Schuppen 9
Presentation of the Kappers Medal Recipient
Award of Ashoff’s Ruler

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Thursday 28 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Thursday Schedule
09:15 – 10:00 - Keynote Lecture (AM 1)
Circadian temporal organization of behaviour and its benefits in insects
Chair: Francois Rouyer (France)
Speaker: Ralf Stanewsky (Germany)

10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 22: COMPUTATION AND MODELING
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 4)
Chairs: Hanspeter Herzel (Germany) & Anjoom Nikhat (India)
10:30 - Mathematical modeling and controlling of spatiotemporal dynamics in Arabidopsis circadian clock
Isao Tokuda (Japan)
10:55 - Deciphering the role of rhythmic stability for circadian dynamics through single-cell analysis and mathematical modeling
Marta del Olmo (Spain)
11:20 - Fundamental limits to (Deep) Learning circadian clock phase from single-cell snapshot data
Shaon Chakrabarti (India)
11:45 - Modelling Entrainment in Arabidopsis
Alex Webb (UK)
12:00 - WANTED: Nonlinearities & Long Delays
Hans-Peter Herzel (Germany)
12:15 - PyCycleBio: modelling non-sinusoidal-oscillator systems in circadian biology
Alex Bennett (Sweden)

Symposium 23: CIRCADIAN REGULATION OF IMMUNITY
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 1)
Chairs: Hannah Durrington (UK) & Constant Tellinga (Switzerland)
10:30 - Host immune responses and circadian rhythms in the context of malaria and leishmaniasis
Nicolas Cermakian (Canada)
10:55 - The molecular circadian clock in asthma
Eva Böhm (Austria)
11:20 - Exploring the role of circadian rhythms in Neurodevelopmental disorders
Paola Tognini (Italy)
11:45 - Time-restricted feeding provides limited microglial immunometabolic improvements in diet-induced obese rats
Han Jiao (Netherlands)
12:00 - Uncovering the circadian basis of vascular homeostasis
Mahak Singhal (Germany)
12:15 - Chronic inflammatory arthritis alters the circadian rhythms of liver macrophages
Siyu Chen (UK)

Symposium 24: AT THE INTERSECTION OF LIGHT, SLEEP, AND CIRCADIAN TIMING (ACS-EBRS JOINT SYMPOSIUM)
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 3)
Chairs: Oliver Rawashdeh (Australia) & Thomas Kantermann (Germany)
10:30 - Interactive effects of sleep, circadian timing, and light on mood and cognition in adolescents
Shanthakumar Wilson Rajaratnam (Australia)
10:55 - Individual variability in light-dark patterns and circadian entrainment
Julia Stone (Australia)
11:20 - New perspectives on the molecular control of circadian timing and sleep
Oliver Rawashdeh (Australia)
11:45 - Ultradian cycles within sleep: how are they shaped by circadian and sleep homeostatic processes?
Zoe Ilona Spock (UK)
12:00 - Misalignment of peripheral circadian rhythms is associated with irregular sleep
Billy Smith (UK)
12:15 - Mapping the conflict between social time and sun time: sleep patterns from a large wearable data donation project confirm spatiotemporal solar influences year-round
Eva Winnebeck (UK)

Symposium 25: SEASONALITY
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 2)
Chairs: Takashi Yoshimura (Japan) & Francesca Conti (Italy)
10:30 - Hypothalamic tanycytes as mediators of maternally programmed seasonal plasticity
Shona Wood (Norway)
10:55 - Photoperiodism and temperature interaction in voles
Roelof Hut (Netherlands)
11:20 - The winter blue-greens: how cyanobacteria anticipate the seasons
Luisa Jabbur (UK)
11:45 - Longitudinal variation in sleep and circadian rhythms across season and photoperiod: Results from the Ecology of Human Sleep (EcoSleep) Cohort Study
Anna Biller (Germany)
12:00 - How daily and seasonal timing aids polar adaptation in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)
Lukas Hüppe (Germany)
12:15 - Seasonal signaling between the pars tuberalis and tanycytes: a comparative study between a mammal and bird
Anna Hofinger (Norway)

12:30 – 14:00 - Lunch Break and Poster Session C

14:00 – 14:30 - Awards
Congress Closing

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