The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD
Center for Chronobiology (CCB) Organized Research Unit (ORU), UCSD
Established July 1, 2009
By Susan Golden
Director
The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD
Mission Statement
The Center for Chronobiology, UCSD
CCB Faculty Members
BioCircuits Institute – Nikolai Rulkov, Lev Tsimring Department of Pharmacology – William Joiner Department of Philosophy – William Bechtel Department of Physics – Terence Hwa Department of Psychology – Jeff Elliott, Michael Gorman, Timothy Rickard Department of Reproductive Medicine – Alex Kauffman, Pamela Mellon Department of Psychiatry – Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Sean Drummond, Daniel Kripke,
Sara Mednick, Barbara Parry, David Welsh Division of Biological Sciences and Salk – Stuart Brody, Joanne Chory, Ron Evans, Susan
Golden, Jeff Hasty (Engineering), Andy Huberman (Neuroscience), Steve Kay, Marc Montminy, Satchin Panda, Terry Sejnowski
Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind – Ralph Greenspan Quantitative and Systems Biology, UC Merced – Andy LiWang (affiliate) The Scripps Research Institute – Katja Lamia (associate)
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CCB Directors & Staff
Susan Golden – Director David Welsh – Associate Director Stuart Brody – Founding Director
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Terry Peters – Business Manager Pattie Magallanez – Admin Specialist
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External Advisory Committee
Gene Block, Chancellor of UCLA and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, at the University of California, LA.
Michael Young, Vice President for Academic Affairs Professor of Genetics, at the Rockefeller University.
Joseph Takahashi, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Phyllis Zee, Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Physiology, at Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience.
Alexander Hoffmann, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Associate Director of The BioCircuits Institute, at the University of California, San Diego.
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Executive Committee
Sonia Ancoli-Israel – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine) Stuart Brody – Division of Biological Sciences Susan Golden – Division of Biological Sciences Michael Gorman – Department of Psychology Mike McCarthy – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine) Satchin Panda – Division of Biological Sciences & Salk Institute David Welsh – Department of Psychiatry (School of Medicine)
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Symposia
Interna(onal Center for Chronobiology Symposium “Cells to Clinic” 3 day event held annually
Unique in field for transla(onal research breadth, basic and clinical scien(sts
Top Chronobiologists from US and abroad
3rd Symposium will be held February 15-‐17, 2012
CCB Mini-‐Symposia Held annually, highlight CCB labs
We encourage CCB postdocs, students, and researchers to speak and suggest topics
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Symposia
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Website
Launched summer 2010
News, event schedules, and registra(on links
13,000 views 3,000 unique viewers from 10 countries
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“Clockwatchers” Journal Club
Meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays each month Alternates mammalian and non-‐mammalian circadian papers Speakers include faculty, postdocs, and students
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Circadian Rhythms – Biological Clocks Course
Upper-‐level 4 credit-‐hour undergraduate course Taught jointly between the Division of Biological Sciences (BIMM 116) and the Department of Psychology (PSYC 133)
Explores the fundamental proper(es and mechanisms of the daily biological clock in humans, other animals, plants, and microbes
Graduate TAs from CCB labs in Biological Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry
Fall course of 2010 had an enrollment of 300 students
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Grants Awards
NIH R01 proposal, $1,238,750, 2011-‐2015 DOE Consor(um with SD-‐CAB, $300,000, 2010-‐2013 Las Patronas, $34,310 for shared equipment
Pending Proposals NSF , NIH R01 & supplement proposals 5 NIH and ACS postdoc fellowship proposals
Chancellor’s Office Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Project 2010 – 2012 Supports 5 CCB graduate students
Industrial & gie support for symposia and CCB $4,500 from Johnson & Johnson and Bay Capital Fdn. $9,500 – gies in support of CCB