Program



WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012

Registration/check-in   8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Luncheon   11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m

Keynote Address 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m

  Paolo Sassone-Corsi, PhD Director, Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism, and Donald Bren Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Session I: Sleep - Introduction and Overview 2:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

  Clifford Saper, MD, PhD Circuitry for Sleep/Wake Control
  Allan Pack, MBChB, PhD Molecular Regulation of Sleep
  Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD Sleep Disorders

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Session II: Epigenetics - State of the Art 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

  Shelley Berger, PhD Histone Modification
  Marissa Bartolomei, PhD DNA Methylation
  Gerald R. Crabtree, MD Chromatin Regulatory Mechanisms

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Welcome Reception   5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m
Dinner   7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m
Welcome Remarks Allan I. Pack, MBChB, PhD Director, Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012

Breakfast   8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m

Session III: Behavioral Epigenomics: Synaptic Plasticity, Addiction & Sleep 8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m

  Ted Abel, PhD Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Storage
  Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD Sleep and Synaptic Plasticity: The Synaptic Homeostasis Hypothesis
  Marcos Frank, PhD Sleep and Synaptic Plasticity in the Developing Brain

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Break   10:00-10:15

Session IV: Aging & Neurodegeneration 10:20 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.

  David M. Holtzman, MD Sleep and Neurodegenerative Disease
  Nirinjini Naidoo, PhD Molecular Mechanisms of Age-Related Changes in Sleep
  Leonard Guarente, PhD Epigenetics and Aging Mechanisms
  Andre Fischer, PhD Epigenomic Mechanisms in Age-Related Changes in Memory

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Lunch   12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Junior Investigator Session 1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Break   2:45 - 3:00 p.m.

Session V: Metabolism, Sleep & Epigenomics 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m

  Lisa Morselli, MD, PhD Effects of Sleep and Sleep Loss on Metabolism
  Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD Epigenomic Regulation of Metabolism
  Joseph T. Bass, MD, PhD Circadian Control of Acetylation and Bioenergetics

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Poster Session and Reception   5:00-7:00 p.m

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2012

Breakfast   8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m

Session VI: Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Disorders 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m

  Art Petronis, MD, PhD Epigenomics: A New Approach to Human Disease
  Schraham Akbarian MD, PhD Neuronal Epigenome Mapping - Insights into Human Brain Evolution and Disease
  Beth Malow, MD Sleep in Autism
  Mary Phillips, MD Circadian Gene and Sleep Modulation of Reward Circuitry: Implications for Vulnerability to Bipolar Disorder

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Session VII: Techniques 10:00 a.m. -12:00 noon

  Luis de Lecea, PhD Optogenetics
  Sigrid Veasey, MD Use of Models of Intermittent Hypoxia

Wrap up and Future Directions (11:20 -12:00) top