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What is Sleep?

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Sunday, November 17, 2019
6:30 pm Group dinner at Hotel Santa Fe Restaurant Amaya
 
Monday, November 18, 2019
8:15 am Day 1 Shuttle Departing Hotel Santa Fe (at lobby) to SFI
 
8:30 am - 9:00 am Day 1 Continental Breakfast (outside SFI Collins Conference Room)
 
9:00 am - 9:15 am SFI Welcome - Amy P Chen (SFI)
 
9:15 am - 9:30 am Working Group Welcome - Van Savage (UCLA/SFI), Alex Herman (Univ. Minnesota)
 
9:30 am - 10:30 am Is sleep for remembering or forgetting? - Susan Sara (École des Neurosciences Paris Île de France), Gina Poe (UCLA)
 
10:30 am - 11:30 am Why are brain oscillations important to the function of sleep? - Sara Aton (Univ. Michigan), Kimberley Whitehead (Univ. College London)
 
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Modeling circadian systems: are they the ultimate sleep clock? - Elizabeth Klerman (Harvard Medical School), Cecilia Diniz Behn (Colorado School of Mines)
 
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Day 1 Lunch (outside SFI Collins Conference Room)
 
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Funding opportunities for sleep research - Marishka Brown (NIH)
 
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm How does zooming out to look across species help us to then zoom in on sleep function? - Van Savage (UCLA/SFI), Jerome Siegel (UCLA), Alex Herman (Univ. Minnesota)
 
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Day 1 PM Break
 
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm What’s the best level or timescale for modeling sleep or do we need to integrate them all? - Geoffrey West (SFI), Van Savage (UCLA/SFI), Victoria Booth (Univ. Michigan)
 
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Day 1 Wiki Platform Work Time
 
5:00 pm Day 1 Shuttle Departing SFI to Hotel Santa Fe
 
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
8:15 am Day 2 Shuttle Departing Hotel Santa Fe (at lobby) to SFI
 
8:30 am - 9:00 am Day 2 Continental Breakfast (outside SFI Collins Conference Room)
 
9:00 am - 9:30 am Recap from Day 1, breakout organization - Van Savage (UCLA/SFI), Alex Herman (Univ. Minnesota)
 
9:30 am - 12:00 pm Breakout Session 1
 
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Day 2 Lunch (outside SFI Collins Conference Room)
 
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm Breakout Session 2
 
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Day 2 PM Break
 
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Day 2 Wiki Platform Work Time
 
5:00 pm Day 2 Shuttle Departing SFI to Hotel Santa Fe
 
6:30 pm Group dinner at La Choza
 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
8:15 am Day 3 Shuttle Departing Hotel Santa Fe (at lobby) to SFI
 
8:30 am - 9:00 am Day 3 Continental Breakfast (outside SFI Collins Conference Room)
 
9:00 am - 9:30 am Recap from Day 1 & 2, breakout organization - Van Savage (UCLA/SFI), Alex Herman (Univ. Minnesota)
 
9:30 am - 12:00 pm Breakout Session 3
 
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Day 3 Lunch (outside SFI Collins Conference Room); Adjourn
 
12:45 pm - 1:15 pm Conclusion & planning for the future
 
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm Day 3 Wiki Platform Work Time
 
2:00 pm Day 3 Shuttle Departing SFI to Hotel Santa Fe




  • Resources
  • Paradoxical timing of the circadian rhythm of sleep propensity serves to consolidate sleep and wakefulness in humans
  • Parvalbumin-expressing interneurons coordinate hippocampal network dynamics required for memory consolidation
  • Peak of circadian melatonin rhythm occurs later within the sleep of older subjects
  • Probabilistic sleep architecture models in patients with and without sleep apnea
  • Quantifying Human Circadian Pacemaker Response to Brief, Extended, and Repeated Light Stimuli over the Phototopic Range
  • A Period2 Phosphoswitch Regulates and Temperature Compensates Circadian Period
  • A Simpler Model of the Human Circadian Pacemaker
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