| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Keynote speaker: Jay C. Dunlap (Dartmouth University)
"Some Things I Learned While Studying Clocks" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular Clocks |
| Discussion Leader: John B. Hogenesch (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Ngoc-Hien Du (University of Lausanne)
"MicroRNAs shape circadian gene expression on a transcriptome-wide scale"
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| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Jennifer Hurley (Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth)
"Conserved RNA helicase FRH acts as Nanny to Neurospora clock protein FRQ"
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| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Jin Young Kim (Harvard University)
"A functional NuRD transcriptional repressor complex reconstituted by the interaction of PER-CRY complex with BMAL1/CLOCK"
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| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Yong Zhang (UMass Medical School)
"A role for Drosophila ATAXIN-2 in the activation of PERIOD translation and circadian behavior"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Clocks and Physiology |
| Discussion Leader: Erik Herzog (Washington University in St Louis) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Marco Brancaccio (Medical Research Council)
"A Gq - Ca2+ axis controls circuit-level encoding of circadian time in the suprachiasmatic nucleus by recruiting VIPergic intrinsic connectivity"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Jennifer Evans (Morehouse School of Medicine)
"Dynamic interactions mediated by non-redundant signaling mechanisms couple circadian clock neurons"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Matthieu Flourakis (Northwestern University)
"A conserved bicycle model for circadian clock control of membrane excitability"
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| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Jihwan Myung (Riken Brain Science Institute)
"A Negative Force of Interaction within Society of Clocks"
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| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Clocks and Behavior |
| Discussion Leader: Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Francesco La Spada (University of Lausanne)
"Impaired sleep homeostasis in Period 2 knock-out mice"
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| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Mi Shi (University of Pennsylvania)
"redeye (rye) is a novel gene regulating sleep in Drosophila"
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| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
