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

2023 Organizing Committee

Mark Wu, M.D., Ph.D. Adam Spira, Ph.D. Luis Buenaver, Ph.D.

Valerie Paasch, Ph.D. David Neubauer, M.D. Jonathan Jun, M.D.

Junxin Li, Ph.D., M.S., R.N. Sarah Wanigatunga, C.C.R.C.

Sangsoo Lee, Ph.D. Diefei ("Vicky") Chen, M.H.S.

2023 Sponsors

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Phillips Respironics, Inc.

MedBridge Healthcare

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)

Department of Psychiatry (Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center)

Department of Mental Health (Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Department of Medicine (School of Medicine)

Department of Neurology (School of Medicine)

School of Nursing