LASC 2017 PROGRAM NOTE: THERE MAY BE LAST MINUTE CHANGES. PLEASE CHECK FOR UPDATES. DAY 1 (Tuesday November 14) 9:30 – 17:15 One-day course on Sleep and Rhythms 9:30 - 9:45 Welcome 9:45 - 11:00 Lecture 1: Basic concepts of sleep and clocks Adrián Ocampo and Horacio de la Iglesia 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:45 Lecture 2: Human sleep and Clocks Luiz Menna 12:45 - 14:15 Lunch (on your own) 14:15 - 15:30 Lecture 3: Circadian Clocks María Fernanda Ceriani 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:15 Lecture 4: Cellular basis of sleep architecture. Pablo Torterolo 17:15 - 17:30 Closing remarks 14:00 – 18:00 Registration 18:00 -18:10 Opening address 18:10 -19:10 Keynote address: Joseph Takahashi, HHMI Investigator, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA 19:10 - 21:00 Opening Reception DAY 2 (Wednesday November 15) 9:00-10:00 Plenary Lecture 1. Amita Sehgal, HHMI investigator, University of Pennsylvania, USA 10:00 -11:30 Workshop I: Rhythmic Physiology Chair: M. Fernanda Ceriani Paul Taghert Daniel Vigo Susan Golden Verónica Valentinuzzi 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break 12:00 - 13:30 Workshop II. Inputs and outputs to the circadian clock Chair: Luis Larrondo Joseph Takahashi Jennifer Loros Amita Sehgal Charlotte Forster 13:30 - 15:00 Lunch on site 1 15:00 - 16:30 Workshop III. Neural Processes Underlying Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Chair: Adrián Ocampo Pablo Torterolo Orie Shafer Vlad Vyazovskiy Javier Díaz 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 – 17:15 Data Blitz 1 17:15 - 18:45 Workshop IV. Chronobiology of the Sleep-wake Cycle Chair, Claudia Moreno Adrián Ocampo Tom de Boer Horacio de la Iglesia Mario Pedrazolli 18:45 - 19:30 Final discussion (all workshops) 19:30 Dinner (on your own) DAY 3 (Thursday November 16) 9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture 2 Jay Dunlap, Dartmouth College, USA 10:00 – 11:00 Short talks on circadian clocks and sleep I Chair: Ana Silva Luis Larrondo Miriam Ben-Hamo Lia Frenkel Carlos Trujillo 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:15 Symposium I Molecular Biology of Circadian Clocks Chair: John Ewer Carrie Partch Carla Green Jennifer Loros Susan Golden 13:15 - 13:30 Data Blitz 2 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch on site 14:30 - 16:15 Symposium II Circadian Clocks: Cells and Circuits Chair: Carola Millán Paul Taghert M. Fernanda Ceriani Charlotte Förster Erik Herzog 16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break 16:45 - 18:30 Poster session I 2 18:30 - 19:30 Public Lecture: Céline Vetter, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. 19:30 Dinner (on your own) DAY 4 (Friday November 17) 9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture 3 Michael Rosbash, HHMI Investigator, Brandeis University, USA. 10:00 - 11:00 Short talks on circadian clocks and sleep II Chair: Pablo Torterolo Victoria Acosta Malena Mul Fedele Monserrat Hevia Guadalupe Cascallares 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:00 Data blitz 3 12:00 - 13:30 Round table discussion: Chronobiology in Latin America Moderator: Mario Pedrazolli Participants Adrián Ocampo, Fernanda Ceriani, Horacio de la Iglesia, Diego Golombek, Pablo Torterolo, Verónica Valentinuzzi, Luiz Menna, Ana Silva. 13:30 - Free afternoon (see “Free afternoon” tab for options) 20:00 - 23:00 LASC dinner. To be held at Baburizza Palace. DAY 5 (Saturday November 18) 9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture 4 Susan Golden, HHMI Professor, University of California San Diego, USA 10:00 - 11:00 Short talks on circadian clocks and sleep III Chair: Verónica Valentinuzzi Ignacio Estevan Esteban Salazar Rubia Mendes Maria Juliana Leone 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:15 Symposium III “Human Sleep” Chair: Diego Golombek Carmen Betancur Luiz Menna Ennio Vivaldi Koike Bruna 13:15 - 13:30 Data blitz 4 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch on site 14:30 - 16:15 Symposium IV “Chronodisruption and work schedules” Chair: Horacio de la Iglesia Céline Vetter 3 Tom Deboer Claudia Moreno Frida Marina Fischer 16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break 16:45 - 18:30 Poster session II 18:30 - 19:30 LASC Closing Public Lecture: Michael Rosbash, 2017 Nobel Prizewinner Physiology or Medicine. 19:30 - 20:00 Business meeting. 4 .