The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD

Center for Chronobiology (CCB)  Organized  Research  Unit  (ORU),  UCSD  

Established  July  1,  2009  

By  Susan  Golden  

Director  

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Mission Statement    

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CCB Faculty Members

BioCircuits Institute – Nikolai Rulkov, Lev Tsimring Department of Pharmacology – William Joiner Department of Philosophy – William Bechtel Department of Physics – Terence Hwa Department of Psychology – Jeff Elliott, Michael Gorman, Timothy Rickard Department of Reproductive Medicine – Alex Kauffman, Pamela Mellon Department of Psychiatry – Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Sean Drummond, Daniel Kripke,

Sara Mednick, Barbara Parry, David Welsh Division of Biological Sciences and Salk – Stuart Brody, Joanne Chory, Ron Evans, Susan

Golden, Jeff Hasty (Engineering), Andy Huberman (Neuroscience), Steve Kay, Marc Montminy, Satchin Panda, Terry Sejnowski

Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind – Ralph Greenspan Quantitative and Systems Biology, UC Merced – Andy LiWang (affiliate) The Scripps Research Institute – Katja Lamia (associate)

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CCB Directors & Staff

Susan Golden – Director David Welsh – Associate Director Stuart Brody – Founding Director

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Terry Peters – Business Manager Pattie Magallanez – Admin Specialist

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External Advisory Committee

  Gene Block, Chancellor of UCLA and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, at the University of California, LA.

  Michael Young, Vice President for Academic Affairs Professor of Genetics, at the Rockefeller University.

  Joseph Takahashi, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

  Phyllis Zee, Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Physiology, at Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience.

  Alexander Hoffmann, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Associate Director of The BioCircuits Institute, at the University of California, San Diego.

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Executive Committee

Sonia Ancoli-Israel – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine)   Stuart Brody – Division of Biological Sciences Susan Golden – Division of Biological Sciences Michael Gorman – Department of Psychology Mike McCarthy – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine)   Satchin Panda – Division of Biological Sciences & Salk Institute David Welsh – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine)    

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Symposia

  Interna(onal  Center  for  Chronobiology  Symposium  “Cells  to  Clinic”    3  day  event  held  annually  

  Unique  in  field  for  transla(onal  research  breadth,  basic  and  clinical  scien(sts    

  Top  Chronobiologists  from  US  and  abroad  

  3rd  Symposium  will  be  held  February    15-­‐17,  2012  

  CCB  Mini-­‐Symposia    Held  annually,  highlight  CCB  labs  

  We  encourage  CCB  postdocs,  students,  and  researchers  to  speak  and  suggest  topics  

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Symposia

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Website

   Launched  summer  2010  

   News,  event  schedules,  and  registra(on  links  

   13,000  views   3,000  unique  viewers  from  10  countries  

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“Clockwatchers” Journal Club

   Meets  1st  &  3rd  Thursdays  each  month     Alternates  mammalian  and  non-­‐mammalian  circadian  papers     Speakers  include  faculty,  postdocs,  and  students  

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Circadian Rhythms – Biological Clocks Course

   Upper-­‐level  4  credit-­‐hour  undergraduate  course     Taught  jointly  between  the  Division  of  Biological  Sciences  (BIMM  116)  and  the  Department  of  Psychology  (PSYC  133)  

   Explores  the  fundamental  proper(es  and  mechanisms  of  the  daily  biological  clock  in  humans,  other  animals,  plants,  and  microbes  

   Graduate  TAs  from  CCB  labs  in  Biological  Sciences,  Philosophy,  Psychology,  and  Psychiatry  

   Fall  course  of  2010  had  an  enrollment  of  300  students  

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Grants   Awards  

  NIH  R01  proposal,  $1,238,750,  2011-­‐2015    DOE  Consor(um  with  SD-­‐CAB,  $300,000,  2010-­‐2013    Las  Patronas,  $34,310  for  shared  equipment  

  Pending  Proposals    NSF  ,  NIH  R01  &  supplement  proposals      5  NIH  and  ACS  postdoc  fellowship  proposals  

  Chancellor’s  Office  Interdisciplinary  Collaboratories  Project    2010  –  2012    Supports  5  CCB  graduate  students  

  Industrial  &  gie  support  for  symposia  and  CCB    $4,500  from  Johnson  &  Johnson  and  Bay  Capital  Fdn.    $9,500  –  gies  in  support  of  CCB