Date: November 10, 2018
Venue: Room B103, Northwest Bldg., Harvard University
52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Program:
Moderator : Takao K. Hensch, Harvard University, IRCN
10:30am- Registration
11:00am-12:45pm Poster Session and Lunch
1:00pm-1:30pm Opening Remarks
Kohji Hirata (Director of JSPS Washington Office)
Rokuichiro Michii (Consul General of Japan in Boston)
Mark C. Elliott (Vice Provost, Harvard University)
Takao K. Hensch (Professor, Harvard University, IRCN)
Part 1 Key Note Lectures
1:30 – 2:15pm Masashi Yanagisawa (Professor, University of Tsukuba, IIIS )
“Toward the Mysteries of Sleep”
2:15 – 3:00pm Hiroki Ueda (Professor, The University of Tokyo, IRCN)
“Systems Biology of Mammalian Sleep/Wake Cycles
-Toward Molecular definition of Non-REM and REM sleeps-”
3:00 – 3:50pm Break and Poster Session
Part 2 Panel Discussion “Sleep and Society”
3:50 – 5:25pm
(1) Mental: Sara Lazar (Associate Researcher in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital)
(2) Clinical: Robert Stickgold (Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School)
(3) Developmental: Rebecca Spencer(Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
(4) Social: Merry White(Professor & Associate Chair of Anthropology, Boston University)
(5) Discussion all the lecturers
Part 3 Award
5:30 – 5:40pm Award Ceremony / Closing
Registration from here. (Deadline is 5pm EST on Wednesday, November, 2018)
For more information:
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