| Sunday |
| 1. Circadian organization |
| Chair: Serge Daan, University of Groningen |
| Urs Albrecht, Max Planck Institute
Per, Cry and clock-resetting in the mouse. |
| Horacio de la Iglesia, UMASS Medical School
Dual oscillators and the regulation of behavioral rhythmicity |
| Michael R. Gorman, University of California at San Diego
Non-photic and photic induction of split rhythms: insights into component circadian oscillators. |
| Monday |
| 2. Beyond the transcription-translation feedback loop |
| Chair: Martin Zatz |
| Patricia Lakin-Thomas, University of Cambridge
Beyond frq/wc in Neurospora: the role of diacylglerol. |
| David R. Weaver, Massachusetts General Hospital
The role of mammalian Period genes in the circadian clock. |
| Sharon Low-Zeddies, Northwestern University
Mixing pacemakers in vivo in mouse chimeras |
| Martha Merrow, Institut für Medizinische Psychologie
Short paper Photoperiodic time measurement in Neurospora : Frq as a night timer |
| 3. Photoecology and rhythms of H. sapiens |
| Chair: Diane Boivin, Douglas Hospital Research Centre |
| Luiz Menna-Barreto, Universidade de São Paulo
Sleep-wake cycle in people with and without access to electricity. |
| Jennifer Martin, Brown University
Light, sleep and rhythms in dementia |
| Steven W. Lockley, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Human circadian physiology and behaviour in the absence of photoreception. |
| Tuesday |
| 4. Visions of the future |
| Chair: Russell Foster, Imperial College, London |
| Nicholas Mrosovsky, University of Toronto
Introduction |
| William J. Schwartz, University of Massachusetts
Lost in a brain map. |
| Till Roenneberg, Institut für Medizinische Psychologie
Back to the future - finding and unwrapping black boxes. |
| Carl H. Johnson, Vanderbilt University
Natural selection and circadian rhythms. |
| 5. Weird and miscellaneous topics |
| Chair: Eberhard Gwinner, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology |
| Eddy A. van der Zee, University of Groningen
Associative learning and changes in cholinergic transduction in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. |
| Bruce Goldman, University of Connecticut
Circadian rhythms in subterranean rodents. |
| Gene E. Robinson, University of Illinois
Social regulation of Period expression in the honey bee brain. |
| Wednesday |
| 6. Sleep |
| Chair: Michael H. Smolensky, University of Texas |
| Clifford Saper, Harvard Medical School
Role of the subparaventricular zone in organizing circadian rhythms of sleep and body temperature. |
| Ralph Mistlberger, Simon Fraser University
Interactions between the sleep-wake and circadian systems; sleep deprivation effects in mammals. |
| Paul Shaw, The Neuroscience Institute
Homeostatic and circadian aspects of sleep-like behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. |
| Christopher Jones, University of Utah
Short paper: Familial sleep schedule disorder in human beings |
| Fabienne Aujard, CNRS
Short paper: Aging alters circadian rhythmicity of individual suprachiasmatic nucleus neurons in mice |
| 7b. Microarrays and techniques |
| Chair: George Keesler, Aventis Pharmaceuticals |
| Jens D. Mikkelsen, Azign Bioscience
Microarray identification of new genes downstream from the oscillator. |
| Deborah Bell-Pedersen, Texas A&M University
Time of day transcriptional profiling in wild type and clock mutant strains of Neurospora crassa |
| Douglas McMahon, University of Kentucky
A clockwork green: exploring the mammalian biological clock with an unstable GFP transgene reporter. |
| Thursday |
| 8. Communication between central and peripheral oscillators |
| Chair: David J. Earnest, Texas A&M University |
| Jadwiga Gielbutowicz, Oregon State University
Peripheral clocks in Drosophila are turned on independently during adult development. |
| Paul E. Hardin, University of Houston
Mechanism of central and peripheral oscillator function in Drosophila. |
| Shin Yamazaki, University of Virginia
Chronoarchitecture: hierarchical structure of central and peripheral clocks in mammals. |
| Sanbing Shen, University of Edinburgh
Short paper: Role of VPAC2 receptor in the control of circadian rhythms |
| Robert McClung, Dartmouth College
Short paper: Oops! Falling out of phase in Arabidopsis |
| 9. Suprachiasmatic nucleus |
| Chair: Alena Sumova, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
| Johanna H. Meijer, Leiden University Medical Centre
Phase differences in discharge rhythms between populations of neurons. |
| Hitoshi Okamura, Kobe University School of Medicine
mPer1 gene expression in vitro and in vivo. |
| Rae Silver, Columbia University
What brain pacemakers and oscillators tell each other. |