Program
May 4, Wednesday
09:00-09:50 Conference 1. Time in the brain
Diego Golombek (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)
10:00-12:00 Thematic session 1. From genes to society
Chair: Claudia Moreno
Adaptation to environmental light/dark cycle and clock genes
Mario Pedrazzoli (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Internal and external temporal organization
Luiz Menna-Barreto (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Not all adolescents are sleep deprived: environmental influences on sleep-wake cycle
Fernando Louzada (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance at different times of day
Pablo Valdez (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico)
Job satisfaction and discrepancies between social and biological timing
Claudia Moreno (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
12:00-13:30 Student projects session
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:20 Conference 2. From the sense of time to genes and back
Urs Albrecht (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
16:30-18:30 Thematic session 2. Ionic Mechanisms underlying circadian oscillations
Chair: Raúl Aguilar-Roblero
Excitatory synaptic transmission increases the intracellular calcium concentration in suprachiasmatic nucleus neurons.
Charles N. Allen (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
Fast delayed rectifier potassium current: critical for input and output of the circadian system.
Christopher S. Colwell (UCLA Medical School, USA)
Participation of intracellular calcium-release channels and calcium pumps in the circadian rhythmicity of the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
Adrián Báez-Ruiz (Instituto de Neurobiología, UNAM, Mexico)
As time goes by: how aging affects clock cell physiology
Stephan Michel (Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands)
From the nucleus to the membrane: Ca2+ release from RyR signals time in SCN neurons.
Raúl Aguilar-Roblero (Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, Mexico)
18:30-20:00 Poster session 1
20:00-21:30 Dinner
21:30-22:30 Late night discussion
May 5, Thursday
09:00-09:50 Conference 3. Clock gene expression in peripheral clocks of mice and humans
Nicolas Cermakian (McGill University, Canada)
10:00-12:00 Thematic session 3. Mechanisms of synchronization
Chair: Carolina Escobar
Distinct molecular mechanisms in the suprachiasmatic nucleus underlie circadian clock photoentrainment by advances or delays
William J. Schwartz (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
The Oscillatory Carnivale: synchronization, desynchronization, and resynchronization of the circadian clock
Juan J. Chiesa (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/CONICET, Argentina)
Mechanisms for food entrainment: the contribution of extra-SCN pacemakers
Carolina Escobar (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Social synchronization in non-human primates
Carolina Azevedo (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
Entrainment in a subterranean rodent: field work meets mathematical modeling in South America
Gisele Akemi Oda (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
12:00-13:30 Poster session 2
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-17:30 Thematic session 4. Generating rhythms in invertebrates: where do they come from?
Chairs: María Luisa Fanjul, Mirian D. Marques
Role of the Drosophila Clock gene in circadian and non-circadian responses to light
Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Molecular dissection of cricket’s clock systems
Kenji Tomioka (Okayama University, Japan)
Stingless bees and their clocks
Mirian D. Marques (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Crustacean β-PDH I but not β-PDH II and their putative roles in pigment dispersion and circadian regulation
Horacio de la Iglesia (University of Washington, USA)
Sixth abdominal ganglion modulates the circadian rhythms of locomotor activity and abdominal posture in crayfish
Leonardo Rodríguez Sosa (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
The crayfish circadian clock: a biochemical and molecular approach
Julio Prieto-Sagredo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
17:30-18:20 Conference 4. Chrono-nutrition and chrono-dietetics
Shigenobu Shibata (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
