2023

8:30-9:00 a.m.         Registration & poster setup

9:00-10:00 a.m.       Trainee platform presentations

Jing Huang:  Sleep and Depressive Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Findings from Ambulatory Sleep EEG

Corinne Beier:  The role of a retina-thalamic circuit in the circadian modulation of sleep 

Matthew Reid:  Fast-Dominant Sleep Spindles Predict Next Day Pain in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Katie Kruk:  The Effects of Estradiol on A1R and A2AR Signaling and Sleep in the Median Preoptic Nucleus

10:00-10:15 a.m.     Coffee break

10:15-11:15 a.m.     Trainee platform presentations

Jingyu Zhang:  The Effect of Auricular Point Acupressure (APA) on Insomnia among Older Adults with Chronic Low back pain.

Sang Soo Lee:   An excitatory midline thalamic circuit encodes homeostatic sleep drive

Diefei Chen:   Associations of Vitamins D and B12 Levels with Actigraphic Sleep in Middle-Aged and Older Adults

O Aung:  Setmelanotide, a melanocortin-4-receptor agonist, increases the hypercapnic ventilatory response and relieves hypoventilation in obese mice

 11:15-12:00 p.m.     Lunch

 12:00-2:00 p.m.       Poster session

                                 Odd numbered posters: 12-1 p.m.

                                 Even numbered posters: 1-2 p.m.

 2:00-3:00 p.m.        Richard P. Allen Distinguished Lectureship in Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Keynote speaker: Chandra Jackson, PhD, MS / NIEHS 

"Climate Change and Human Sleep Health: A Call to Action to Address the Existential Threat and Exacerbation of Inequities"

3:00-4:00 p.m.         Reception and award presentation