72nd CSHL SYMPOSIUM:
CLOCKS & RHYTHMS
May 30 - June 4, 2007
Abstract Deadline: March 7, 2007

Organizers:
Bruce Stillman and David Stewart
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Introductory Workshop: Chronobiology Concepts & Nomenclature
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We are pleased to host the 72nd Cold Spring Harbor Symposium which will address Clocks & Rhythms. The Symposium will begin at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 and end on the evening of Monday June 4 with normal departure on the following morning.

The Symposium will include 12/13 oral sessions and 2/3 poster sessions covering molecular strategies aimed at understanding the structure and function of biological clocks and rhythms. Most of the talks will be given by invited speakers but we may select a few talks from openly submitted abstracts. Social events throughout the Symposium provide ample opportunity for informal interactions and will include a wine-and-cheese party, a beach picnic, cocktails and banquet, and departure brunch.

Topics:
·Genetics Approaches to Circadian Clocks
·Clocks and the Cell Cycle
·Monitoring Control of Circadian Gene Activity
·Intrinsic Clocks
·Anatomical Representation of Neural Clocks
·Intercellular Signaling
·Peripheral Circadian Clocks
·Mosaic Circadian Systems
·Physiological/Endocrine Rhythms
·Photoperiodism
·Rhythms & Behavior
·Sleep & Sleep Disorders
·Migration & Hibernation
·Rhythms & Depression
·Arrhythmias

Speakers:
Urs Albrecht, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Deborah Bell-Pedersen, Texas A&M University
Justin Blau, New York University
Thomas Bourgeron, Institut Pasteur, France
Steven Brown, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Brunner, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Gregory Cahill, University of Houston
Joanne Chory, The Salk Institute
Charles Czeisler, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard University
Jay Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School
Isaac Edery, Rutgers University/CABM
Ron Evans, The Salk Institute
Susan Golden, Texas A&M University
Carla Green, Universityof Virginia
Leonard Guarente, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Hall, Brandeis University
Paul Hardin, Texas A&M University
J. Woodland Hastings, Harvard University
Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Samer Hattar, Johns Hopkins University
Charlotte Helfrich-Forster, University of Regensburg, Germany
John Hogenesch, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Carl Johnson, Vanderbilt University
Ryoichiro Kageyama, Kyoto University, Japan
Steve Kay, The Scripps Research Institute
Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco
Robert Klevecz, City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute
H. Phillip Koeffler, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA
Noriaki Kondo, Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, Japan
Takao Kondo, Nagoya University, Japan
Achim Kramer, Charite, Institut for Medical Immunology, Germany
Cheng Chi Lee, University of Texas
Francis Levi, Hospital Paul Bush/INSERM, France
Alfred Lewy, Oregon Health & Science University
Yi Liu, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Jennifer Loros, Dartmouth Medical School
Michael Menaker, University of Virginia
Martha Merrow, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh, UK
Felix Naef, ISREC, Switzerland
Hitoshi Okamura, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Olivier Pourquie, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Louis Ptacek, HHMI/University of California, San Francisco
Martin Raff, University College London, UK
Steven Reppert, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Till Roenneberg, University of Munich, Germany
Michael Rosbash, HHMI/ Brandeis University
Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital
Aziz Sancar, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Clifford Saper, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Paolo Sassone-Corsi, University of California, Irvine
Ueli Schibler, University of Geneva, Switzerland
William Schwartz, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Amita Sehgal, HHMI/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Rae Silver, Columbia University
David Somers, University of Ohio
Meidi Tafti, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Joseph Takahashi, HHMI/Northwestern University
Hiroki Ueda, RIKEN, Center for Developmental Biology, Japan
Gijsbertus (Bert) T.J. van der Horst, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
David Virshup, University of Utah
Charles Weitz, Harvard Medical School
Masashi Yanagisawa, HHMI/UT Southwestern Medical Center
Michael Young, Rockefeller University

Session Chairs:
Steven McKnight, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Martin Zatz, Journal of Biological Rhythms

We are accepting abstracts for consideration as poster presentations. Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Status of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

In order to bring participants up to speed with key concepts and nomenclature in the field of chronobiology we have organized an introductory workshop on the afternoon of Wednesday May 30 (4-6pm) immediately prior to the Symposium. All Symposium participants are welcome to attend, though note that the workshop is primarily designed for graduate students and postdocs new to the field, or who are interested in the broader context of their own research. This workshop is arranged in three parts as follows:

A. Molecular basis of rhythms generation
(Shannon Mackey, Texas A&M University)
B. Neurophysiology of pacemaker function
(Sandra Kuhlman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
C. Sleep and rhythms
(Jeanne Duffy, Harvard University)

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in May/June.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by CSHL's Corporate Sponsor Program and the National Cancer Institute.

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.