April 6, 2018
9:00 am / 5:00 pm
Venue
NRB Auditorium
UCLA Sleep and Cognition Symposium
To register and poster abstracts, visit: http://www.iclm.ucla.edu/events/SleepCognition.html
Program Agenda:
9:05Gene Block (UCLA)
Introduction
9:15Chris Colwell (UCLA)
Circadian Disruption in Neurodevelopmental disorders: mechanisms and opportunities for interventions
9:40Ruth Benca (UC Irvine)
Local Sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease
10:05Nelson Freimer (UCLA)
Sleep and activity in mood disorders
10:30Break
10:45Sara Mednick (UC Riverside)
Tracking the role of sleep spindles in human memory consolidation
11:10Gina Poe (UCLA)
Sleep signatures supportingsynaptic reorganization during memory (re)consolidation and the clinical significance of their loss
11:35Jeff Donlea (UCLA)
Mapping the neural organization of homeostatic sleep control
12:00 Lunch (free for registered attendees)
1:00Keynote Speaker: Miranda Lim (Oregon Health & Science University)
Early life sleep disruption and social development in prairie voles: A model of autism spectrum disorder
2:00 Break
2:15Jennifer Martin (UCLA/VA)
Sleep disorders in women veterans
2:40Bill Joiner (UCSD)
Plasticity in the sleep homeostat
3:05Ron Szymusiak (UCLA/VA)
Hypothalamic control ofsleep homeostasis
3:30Ketema Paul (UCLA)
Bmal1 function in skeletal muscle regulates sleep
4:00Reception & Poster Session (NRB Lobby)