Schedule Symposium Research Platform Marine Rhythms of Life

version: May 8th, 2016

Sunday, May 8th 
Registration: 1pm - 2pm 
  
Session 1: The importance of light and time for human biology 
Chair: Thomas Hummel 
   
2:00pm -
2:35pm
Till Roenneberg (Institute of Medical Psychology at LMU Munich, Germany)
The Humans Sleep Project - Studying Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in the Field
  
2:40pm -
3:15pm
Christian Cajochen (Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Switzerland)
Can light make us bright? Non-visual effects of light on cognition and sleep
  
3:20pm -
3:55pm
Martha Merrow (Institute of Medical Psychology at LMU Munich, Germany) 
Zeitgeber cycles and neurodegeneration pathologies: the circadian clock and protein aggregates
  
coffee break
  
Session 2: Light and Timers: What we learn from vertebrate systems 
Chair: Florian Raible 
    
4:10pm -
4:45pm
Davide Dulcis (Department of Psychiatry, UCSD, San Diego, USA)
Light-induced neurotransmitter plasticity affecting behavior
   
4:50pm - 
5:25pm
Nick Foulkes (Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Evolution and function of light sensing in fish
   
coffee break
   
Session 3: Once upon a Time in the Oceans 
Chair: Kristin Tessmar-Raible 
  
5:40pm - 6:15pmAngela Falciatore (UMR 7238 CNRS-UPMC, Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology, Paris, France)
Unraveling diatom circadian clock architecture and function
  
6:20pm - 6:55pmOren Levy (Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
Some tales about biological clocks and cnidarians
   
7:00pm - 7:35pmCharalambos Kyriacou (Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Molecular basis for circadian and tidal rhythms in an intertidal crustacean
   
Dinner: 8pm
 
Monday, May 9th 
  
Session 4: The Research Platform "Rhythms of Life" 
Chair: Martha Merrow 
  
9:00am - 9:35amKristin Tessmar-Raible
The Research Platform (Marine) Rhythms of Life – Past and Future
9:40am- 10:05amTobias Kaiser (Tessmar-Raible/ von Haeseler/ Hummel)
From genome to function: Timing adaptations in the intertidal insect Cunio marinus
  
10:20am-10:45amBirgit Poehn (Tessmar-Raible/Hummel/von Haeseler)
A molecular basis for circadian timing variations
  
coffee break
  
Chair: David Hazlerigg 
  
11:00am-11:25am

Stephanie Bannister (Tessmar-Raible/Raible/ von Haeseler)
Illuminating molecular changes in circalunar reproductive timing: A transcriptomics approach in Platynereis dumerilii
  
11:30-11:55amSven Schenk (Raible/Gerner)
To breed, or not to breed, that is the question: Identification of the annelid brain hormone
  
12pm-12:25pmSamuel Meier (Gerner/ Raible)
Reproducible quantification of metabolites from fingertips via triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry
   
12:30pm- 1:30pm lunch
   
Chair: Charalambos Kyriacou 
    
1:30pm- 1:55pmVinoth Babu Veedin Rajan (Tessmar-Raible/ Straw)
How do worms sense sun and moon?
   
2:00pm - 2:25pmRoger Revilla-i-Domingo (Raible/ von Haeseler)
A cell type-specific sequencing approach sheds light on the possible function and evolution of opsin-positive cells outside the eye
  
2:30pm 2:55pm

Bruno Fontinha (Tessmar-Raible/von Haeseler/Straw)
Unravelling new functions of an ancient vertebrate opsin
  
3pm - 
3:25pm
Max Hofbauer (Tessmar-Raible/ Raible/ Hummel/ Straw)
Advancing behavioural analyses
  
3:30pm - Internal meeting Research Platform (PIs and evaluation board)
  
Poster session
3:30pm - 4:45pm
  
Trip through the Vienna woods and vineyards (for participants)
  
5:00pm - 7:45pm



A bus will leave at 5pm at the venue; if weather permits, the trip will include a hike through the woods and vineyards (1-1.5h walking time)

Please have your badges ready for the bus as well as the restaurant

Mayor's Reception and Dinner
8pm Heuriger "s'Pfiff", Rathstraße 4, 1190 Vienna
7:45pm - 10:15pm

Mayor’s reception at the Heuriger “’s Pfiff”, Rathstraße 4, 1190 Vienna

10:15pm

Bus transport back to the meeting venue

 
Tuesday, May 10th 
Session 5: On the importance of diverse rhythms and clocks 
Chair: Nick Foulkes 
  
9am - 
9:35am
Martha Merrow (Institute of Medical Psychology at LMU Munich, Germany)
tba
   
9:40am- 10:05amKim Last (Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, United Kingdom)
Were the sun doesn't shine: Moonlight drives ocean scale mass vertical migration of zooplankton during the Arctic winter
10:20am-10:45amMathias Teschke (Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany)
Biological Timing in Antarctic Krill: Endogeneous clocks and physiological rhythms at the daily and annual scale
  
coffee break 
  
11:00am-11:25amAkihiro Takemura (University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan)
Possible involvement of moonlight in lunar-phase perception in tropical fish with lunar spawning cycle
  
11:30-11:55amDavid Wilcoxon (Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom)
Evidence for separate sun and moon compass mechanisms in the beach amphipod Talitrus saltator
12:00pmJacques Lemans Poster Award
   
12:10pmKristin Tessmar-Raible
Concluding remarks
  
lunch and good bye
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