Sleep is critical for health and chronic sleep deprivation increases risk for virtually all diseases. Despite this, we know very little about what sleep is and how it’s regulated. This symposium will explore our understanding of sleep physiology and basic biology related to sleep. It will also review the contributions genetics is making toward understanding sleep regulation and sleep disorders. Emerging technical tools are contributing to our ability to better understand sleep. And increasing knowledge about molecular and circuit level regulation of sleep will ultimately enable more rational approaches to improving sleep in patients with sleep disorders.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020
4:15 p.m. – Chicken or egg?: sleep, clocks, and neurodegeneration
- Yo-El Ju, Washington University
4:40 p.m. – Poster Session/Reception
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020
9:00 a.m. – Mechanism matters: the effects of insomnia drugs that are wake promoting neurotransmitter receptor antagonists vs. GABA-A allosteric modulators
- Andrew Krystal, University of California, San Francisco
9:25 a.m. – Novel tailored therapies for sleep apnea treatment and management: A respiratory phenotyping precision medicine approach
- Danny Eckert, Flinders University
9:50 a.m. – Lightning Talks
10:45 a.m. – Lightning Talks
SLEEP ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY
11:15 a.m. – Future trends in sleep research and medicine
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Emmanuel Mignot, Stanford University
11:40 a.m. – Proteomic biomarkers of circadian rhythm and sleep debt
- Aditya Ambati, Stanford University
12:05 p.m. – Sleep tech: crossing the intimacy threshold
- Jonathan Berent, Google X
12:50 p.m. – Panel Discussion
Moderator – Katja Brose, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- Jonathan Berent, Google X
- Yang Dan, University of California, Berkeley & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Emmanuel Mignot, Stanford University
- Louis Ptáček, University of California, San Francisco
- Richa Saxena, Harvard University