January 29 - February 3, 2012 

Hotel Galvez, Galveston, TX  

Chair: Debra J. Skene

Vice Chair: Vincent Cassone 

The 2012 Gordon Conference on Pineal Cell Biology will bring together world leading experts in the newly emerging supra-disciplinary field of metabolism, sleep and circadian rhythms. Full details of the program available here.

Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Deadline for applications January 1, 2012. 

•  Clocks and Metabolism

(Carla Green / Joseph Bass / Paolo Sassone-Corsi / Mukesh Jain) 

•  Linking Clocks, Sleep, Metabolic and Cardiovascular Processes

(Eve van Cauter / Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen / Radhika Basheer / Martin Young / Steven Shea) 

•  Sleep, Clocks and Feeding

(Jim Horne / Denis Burdakov / Ralph Mistlberger / Ken Wright) 

•  Metabolic Clocks

(Michael Hastings / Akhilesh Reddy / John Hogenesch / Alan Gerber / Joseph Takahashi) 

• Interactions between Light, Sleep, Clocks and Metabolism

(Ignacio Provencio / Etienne Challet / Steven Lockley / Marijke Gordijn / Phyllis Zee) 

•  Melatonin, Food, Peripheral Clocks and Metabolism

(Michael Menaker / Andries Kalsbeek / Carolina Escobar / Jeff Gimble)

•  Melatonin, Sleep and Metabolism

(Jörg Stehle / Philippe Mourrain / José Cipolla-Neto / Gabriella Gobbi / Oliver Rawashdeh)  

•  Seasonality, Melatonin and Metabolism

(Peter Morgan / Gisela Helfer / Craig Heller) 

•  Shift work, Sleep Restriction, Metabolic and Cardiovascular Function

(Josephine Arendt / Till Roenneberg / Naomi Rogers / Sampsa Puttonen)

• Keynote Speaker  David C Klein 

• Hot Topic Sessions and Poster Presentations