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Sleep Regulation and Function (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Origins and Models of Sleep

March 17 - 18, 2018

Chairs Kate E. Sprecher and Zoltan A. Torontali

Hotel Galvez

2024 Seawall Boulevard

Galveston, TX, US

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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Sleep Regulation and Function is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas in a friendly environment.

This meeting will focus on the origins of sleep, with particular attention to how sleep differs across animal phyla and human environments, how sleep develops throughout life, and sleep's contribution to cognitive and physiologic development. A complementary theme throughout the sessions will be the exploration of different models of sleep, including approaches from mathematics, neuroscience and anthropology, and model systems from insects to humans. With a senior mentor we will also discuss how to engage the public and policy makers with our science.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Sleep Regulation and Function" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm	Network Models of Sleep Discussion Leader: Nicolette Ognjanovski (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm	James Roach (University of Michigan, USA) "Competition or Concert? Using Network Models of Cholinergic Modulation to Investigate the Interaction Between REM and NREM Sleep"
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm	Discussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm	Eric Landsness (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) "Mesoscopic Cortical Calcium Slow Waves During Wakefulness, Sleep, and Anesthesia"
4:20 pm - 4:25 pm	Discussion
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm	General Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Phylogeny and Evolution of Sleep Discussion Leaders: Marieke Hoekstra (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) and Jacqueline van der Meij (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm	Claire Bedbrook (California Institute of Technology, USA) "Long-Term Tracking and Automated Image Analysis Reveals that the Upside-Down Jellyfish Has a Sleep-Like State"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm	Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm	Paul-Antoine Libourel (Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, France) "Do Reptiles Sleep Like Mammals and Birds? A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study of the Black and White Tegu (Salvator merianae)"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm	Sanne Moorman (Tufts University, USA) "Calcium Imaging During Sleep Reveals Noisy Activity in a Highly Stereotyped Premotor Brain Region in Songbirds"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm	Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm	Luísa Pilz (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) "Human Sleep and Activity in Quilombolas Communities at Different Levels of Electrification and Urbanisation"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm	Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am	Development of Sleep Discussion Leaders: Carlos Del Rio-Bermudez (University of Iowa, USA) and Zoltan Torontali (University of Toronto, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:20 am	Sebastian Bitzenhofer (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany) "Activity-Dependent Cognitive Development"
9:20 am - 9:30 am	Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am	Milan Szuperak (University of Pennsylvania, USA) "A Sleep State in Drosophila Larvae Required for Neural Stem Cell Proliferation"
9:50 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am	Monica Lewin (New York University, USA) "Developmental Ethanol Induced Sleep Fragmentation, Behavioral Hyperactivity, Cognitive Impairment, and Parvalbumin Cell Loss Are Prevented by Lithium Co-Treatment"
10:20 am - 10:30 am	Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am	Sarah Schoch (University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland) "Relationship Between Infant Sleep Behavior and Gut Microbiome Beta Diversity"
10:50 am - 11:00 am	Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Poster Session Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Mentorship Component: Science Beyond the Lab: Communicating Science to the Public and to Policy Makers Discussion Leader: Kate Sprecher (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm	Hans Van Dongen (Washington State University, USA) "Science Beyond the Lab: Communicating Science to the Public and to Policy Makers"
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm	Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Evaluation Period Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm	Seminar Concludes

Contributors

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R13NS105170. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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