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Center for Chronobiology (CCB) Organized Research Unit (ORU), UCSD Established July 1, 2009

By Susan Golden Director

The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

Mission Statement The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

CCB Faculty Members

BioCircuits Institute – Nikolai Rulkov, Lev Tsimring Department of Pharmacology – William Joiner Department of Philosophy – William Bechtel Department of Physics – Terence Hwa Department of Psychology – Jeff Elliott, Michael Gorman, Timothy Rickard Department of Reproductive Medicine – Alex Kauffman, Pamela Mellon Department of Psychiatry – Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Sean Drummond, Daniel Kripke, Sara Mednick, Barbara Parry, David Welsh Division of Biological Sciences and Salk – Stuart Brody, Joanne Chory, Ron Evans, Susan Golden, Jeff Hasty (Engineering), Andy Huberman (Neuroscience), Steve Kay, Marc Montminy, Satchin Panda, Terry Sejnowski Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind – Ralph Greenspan Quantitative and Systems , UC Merced – Andy LiWang (affiliate) The Scripps Research Institute – Katja Lamia (associate) The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

CCB Directors & Staff

Susan Golden – Director David Welsh – Associate Director Stuart Brody – Founding Director ______

Terry Peters – Business Manager Pattie Magallanez – Admin Specialist The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

External Advisory Committee

. Gene Block, Chancellor of UCLA and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, at the University of California, LA.

. Michael Young, Vice President for Academic Affairs Professor of , at the Rockefeller University.

. Joseph Takahashi, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

. Phyllis Zee, Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Physiology, at Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience.

. Alexander Hoffmann, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Associate Director of The BioCircuits Institute, at the University of California, San Diego. The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

Executive Committee

Sonia Ancoli-Israel – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine) Stuart Brody – Division of Biological Sciences Susan Golden – Division of Biological Sciences Michael Gorman – Department of Psychology Mike McCarthy – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine) Satchin Panda – Division of Biological Sciences & Salk Institute David Welsh – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine) The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

Symposia

. Internaonal Center for Chronobiology Symposium “Cells to Clinic” . 3 day event held annually . Unique in field for translaonal research breadth, basic and clinical sciensts . Top Chronobiologists from US and abroad . 3rd Symposium will be held February 15-17, 2012 . CCB Mini-Symposia . Held annually, highlight CCB labs . We encourage CCB postdocs, students, and researchers to speak and suggest topics The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

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Website

. Launched summer 2010 . News, event schedules, and registraon links . 13,000 views .3,000 unique viewers from 10 countries The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

“Clockwatchers” Journal Club

. Meets 1 st & 3rd Thursdays each month . Alternates mammalian and non-mammalian circadian papers . Speakers include faculty, postdocs, and students The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

Circadian Rhythms – Biological Clocks Course

. Upper-level 4 credit-hour undergraduate course . Taught jointly between the Division of Biological Sciences (BIMM 116) and the Department of Psychology (PSYC 133) . Explores the fundamental properes and mechanisms of the daily biological clock in humans, other animals, plants, and microbes . Graduate TAs from CCB labs in Biological Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry . Fall course of 2010 had an enrollment of 300 students The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

Grants . Awards . NIH R01 proposal, $1,238,750, 2011-2015 . DOE Consorum with SD-CAB, $300,000, 2010-2013 . Las Patronas, $34,310 for shared equipment . Pending Proposals . NSF , NIH R01 & supplement proposals . 5 NIH and ACS postdoc fellowship proposals . Chancellor’s Office Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Project . 2010 – 2012 . Supports 5 CCB graduate students . Industrial & gi support for symposia and CCB . $4,500 from Johnson & Johnson and Bay Capital Fdn. . $9,500 – gis in support of CCB