Colorado Sleep and Circadan Research Symposium 2016
June 10, 2016
| Time/Topic | Speaker | Department | Institution |
| 0815 Registration / Name Badge pick-up | |||
| 0825 Opening | |||
| Introductory Remarks | Ken Wright, PhD | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
| 0830 International Keynote | |||
| Rai1 haplo-insufficiency greatly exacerbates suppression of locomotor activity by light in a murine SMS model | Paul Franken, PhD | Integrative Genomics | Université de Lausanne |
| 0900 Of Brains, Emotion and Muscle | |||
| Knockdown of prefrontal cortex Period1 gene expression impairs diurnal-dependent conditioned fear extinction learning | Elizabeth Woodruff, MS | Psychology and Neuroscience | CU-Boulder |
| Sleep is of the muscle, by the muscle, and for the muscle | Allison Brager, PhD | Neurobiology | Morehouse School of Med. |
| 0930 Sleep Countermeasures | |||
| Novel methods to improve adherence to CPAP | Mark Aloia, PhD | Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | National Jewish Health |
| Impact of Sustained Sleep Loss and Weekend Recovery Sleep on Vigilance Performance and Subjective Sleepiness | Hannah Ritchie, MS | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
| 1000 Coffee Break | |||
| 1030 Circadian Rhythms, Light, and Development | |||
| Adolescent circadian responses to light | Stephanie Crowley, PhD | Department of Behavioral Sciences | Rush University |
| Longitudinal Assessment of Circadian Phase and Chronotype Across Early Childhood | Katy Thellman, MS | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
| Evening Bright Light Suppresses Melatonin in Preschool Age Children | Lameese Akacem, PhD | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
| Impact of childcare attendance on weekly sleep patterning | Karen Thorpe, PhD | Psychology and Counseling | Queensland University of Tech Brisbane |
| Impact of Weekend Exposure to the Modern versus Natural Light-Dark Cycle on Circadian Timing in Humans | Ellen Stothard, MS | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
| 1145 Basic Research Data Blitz (short slide presentations from other faculty and trainees) | |||
| 1200-1300 Lunch on your own | |||
| 1300 Sleep, Metabolism and Cognition | |||
Epidemiological investigation of self-report sleep duration and waist-to-height ratio | Matt McQueen, PhD | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
Effects of sleep loss versus a high fat diet on insulin sensitivity | Josiane Broussard, PhD | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
Insufficient sleep, metabolomics and insulin sensitivity | Christopher Depner, PhD | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
Prebiotic diet and sleep | Monika Fleshner, PhD | Integrative Physiology | CU-Boulder |
The shiftwork and health agenda: The moment is now for microbes | Amy Reynolds, PhD | Human, Health and Social Sciences | Appleton Institute |
| 1415 Translational Research Data Blitz (short slide presentations from other faculty and trainees) | |||
| 1445 Concluding Remarks and adjourn | |||