Welcome to the Chronobiology Workshop, a collaboration of colleagues associated with the University of Minnesota, who are interested in exploring the history of study of biological rhythms and chronobiology.  Our plan is to meet once a month during the 2010-11 academic year, beginning in September, with the intention of 'mapping out' the historical and philosophical contours of chronobiology as it developed, mainly in the 20th century to the present. Results of this exchange of ideas will be posted on this website: to encourage research projects undertaken by some of you, other interested scholars and students; to decide on speakers to bring to campus; to develop curricula for a graduate seminar to be held Fall Semester 2011 and an undergraduate course; and, ultimately, to organize a small conference/workshop for the Spring Semester 2012.  Details, including the NSF grant proposal, may be found on the About page.

We encourage people to brainstorm together about the history of biological rhythms research and chronobiology—what it entails, its temporal and topical scope, how to go about doing this, and so on.  This website is a work in progress and may be edited by those involved in the grant. If you are not on the grant but have information that would be useful to the project or a suggested correction to the information presented, please email the RA on the project: Maggie Hofius at hofiu002@umn.edu

New monograph in the history of chronobiology in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (vol. 103, part 2).  The early history of the organizational meeting and first decade of the Societas pro studio rhythmi biologici, Ronneby 1937.