Centre for Biological Timing Winter Symposium 2024
Date:
January 16th, 2024
Venue
Smith Lecture Theatre
Dover St, Manchester M13 9NT
Session 1: Circadian organisation of immunity
Moderator: Andrea Luengas-Martinez
9:30 – Opening by Rob Lucas
9:40 – Jafar Cain (Manchester): “Circadian Patterns in Immune Cell Trafficking in Chronic Allergic Airways Disease.”
10:00 – Emma Leacy (RCSI Dublin): “BMAL1 Expression and Associated Circadian Rhythmicity is Dysregulated in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficient Monocytes.”
10:20 – Magdalena Grudzien (Manchester): “The role of Reverba in regulation of white adipose tissue expansion and inflammation during obesity,”
10:40 – Felicity Hunter (Manchester): “The influence of feeding time on circadian rhythms in immunity”
11:00 – Coffee break (please visit the exhibits of our kind sponsors)
Session 2: Crosstalk between metabolism and the clock
Moderator: Magdalena Grudzien
11:30 – Rebecca Grossman (Oxford): “Circadian regulation of liver energy metabolism: translational studies in diabetes and obesity.”
11:50 – Isaiah Ting (Surrey): “"Co-expression of Biological Rhythms.”
12:10 – Natalie Rogers (Manchester): “Characterising the intervertebral disc molecular clock: How is it stimulated and what is its role in matrix homeostasis?”
12:30 – Catherine Drysdale (Birmingham): “Exploring Peturbations to Ultradian Rhythms of the HPA axis.”
12:50 – Frederick Odun-Ayo (Tecniplast): “Locomotor Activity: refinement, reduction and replicability ‘round the clock in mouse models using Digital Ventilated Cages (DVC®)”
13:05– 14:05 Lunch time (please visit the exhibits of our kind sponsors)
14:10 – Keynote Presentation
Keynote Speaker: Dr Brendan Gabriel (The Rowett Institute): “Disrupted muscle circadian rhythms in metabolic disease & the importance of treatment timing”
Session 3: How the circadian system responds to light
Moderator: Josh Mouland
14:50 – Angelique Lamaze (Münster): “A CRY in the red district: presentation of a blue-light independent function of dCRY.”
15:10 – Pierluigi Cocco (Manchester): "Challenges to adaptation to the loss of the day/night cycle: the case of Antarctica and the Svalbard islands."
15:30 – Adam Liddle (Glasgow): “Uncovering the transcriptomic architecture of avian photoperiodism.”
15:50 – Closing remarks by Jean-Michel Fustin
16:00 Happy hour
Location
Michael Smith Lecture Theatre, Michael Smith Building, The University of Manchester, M13 9PT