SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Regulation of Melatonin Synthesis |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: David Klein (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Michael Menaker (University of Virginia)
"Melatonin synthesis and per1 rhythmicity in the pineal" |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | Steven Coon (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) "Post-translational regulation of AANAT in a stable cell line" |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Surajit Ganguly (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) "Melatonin Production: Regulation of AANAT by its Binding Partners" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Nonvisual phototransduction |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Russell Foster (Imperial College School of Medicine, London) |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Robert Lucas (Imperial College School of Medicine, London) "The role of novel photoreceptors in non-image forming light responses in mammals" |
9:55 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | David Berson (Brown University)
"Phototransduction by ganglion cells of the retinohypothalamic tract" |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Ignacio Provencio (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) "Melanopsin: Shedding light on photoentrainment?" |
11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Russell Van Gelder (Washington University) "Ocular functions for mammalian cryptochromes" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Signal Transduction I |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Martin Zatz (National Institute of Mental Health) |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Stuart Dryer (University of Houston) "Mechanisms underlying circadian control of ion channel gating in retinal photoreceptors: A mechanism for daily adjustments in the gain of a sensory system" |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | King-Wai Yau (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) "Study of phototransduction in vertebrate non-rod/non-cone photoreceptors" |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | P. Michael Iuvone (Emory University School of Medicine) "Circadian and light-driven regulation of AA-NAT in chicken retina"
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TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Melatonin Actions I (Human) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Debra Skene (University of Surrey, Guildford, UK) |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Kenneth Wright (Brigham & Women's Hospital) "Entrainment of the Human Biological Clock" |
9:55 am - 10:35 am | Josephine Arendt and others (University of Surrey, Guildford, UK) "Effects of long duration melatonin in humans" |
10:35 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Rebecca Costello (Office of Dietary Supplements, NIH) "Melatonin as a Dietary Supplement: Facts, Figures and Fancies of the American Public" |
11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Steven Hill (Tulane University School of Medicine) "Regulation of Steroid Hormone Receptor Transcriptional Activity and Gene Expression by Melatonin in Breast Cancer is Mediated through G alph i2 and G apha q proteins" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (continued) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Regulation of Gene Expression |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Pierre Voisin (Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Cellulaire, CNRS - Poitiers, France) |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Seth Blackshaw (Harvard Medical School)
"Genomic Analysis of Photoreceptor and Pinealocyte-specific Transcription" |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | Ruben Baler (National Institutes of Mental Health, NIH)
"Decoding the rat AA-NAT gene promoter" |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Jennifer Liang (Case Western University)
"Circadian gene regulation in the zebrafish pineal and parapineal organs" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Circadian Mechanisms |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Carla Green (University of Virginia) |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Gregory Cahill (University of Houston)
"Clock mechanisms in zebrafish" |
9:55 am - 10:35 am | Vincent Cassone (Texas A & M University) "Clock genes, the SCN and the Neuroendocrine Loop"
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10:35 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Steven Reppert (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
"Post-translational control of the mammalian circadian clock" |
11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Michael Hastings (Cambridge University, U.K.) "Central and peripheral clock mechanisms in mice"
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12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Photoperiodism |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Maywood (Cambridge University, U.K.) |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Andrew Loudon (University of Manchester, U.K.)
"Photoperiodism, clock genes and refractoriness" |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | Horacio de la Iglesia (University of Massachusetts)
"SCN as a photoperiodic tissue" |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Charlambos Kyriacou (University of Leicester)
"Comparative molecular analysis of circadian systems" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Pineal/Retinal Signal Transduction II |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Gianluca Tosini (Morehouse University School of Medicine) |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Yoshitaka Fukada (The University of Tokyo)
"Circadian clock oscillation and its photic regulation in the chicken pineal gland" |
9:55 am - 10:35 am | Chiaki Fukahara (Morehouse University School of Medicine) "Regulation of gene expression in the rat pineal gland" |
10:35 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Anthony Ho (University of Alberta)
"MAPKs in rat pinealocytes" |
11:50 am - 12:30 am | Jimo Borjigin (Carnegie Institution of Washington) "Tri-phasic circadian rhythm of serotonin secretion from the pineal" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II (continued) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Melatonin Action II |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Margarita Dubocovich (Northwestern University Medical School) |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | David Hazlerigg (Rowett Research Institute, Scotland, U.K.)
"Photoperiodic effects on circadian gene expression in a melatonin target tissue" |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | Jörg Stehle (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
"Melatonin - a clock output, a clock input" |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Célia R. S. Garcia (University of São Paulo)
"Melatonin synchronizes intraerythrocytic Malaria parasites"
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FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |