Dormivigilia

Surprisingly, this year’s meeting devoted several symposia, posters, and invited lectures (including the keynote address!!) to the interactions of sleep homeostasis and circadian timing in metabolic, memory, immune, and emotional systems. The general conclusion being that severe disruption to the circadian timing system, whether through shift work, repeated jet lag, and/or gene mutations, increases risk [...]

Tonight, I realized I almost made a grave and irreparable mistake: deleting all my pictures from 2003-2007 (the albums were sitting in the trash!). I had previously lost these pictures when my hard drive crashed circa 2006, but luckily had found a CD upload. Many of these pictures include my 10-day visit to Hawaii Summer [...]

Pingbacking from my previous post, much of the apoptosis seen during chronic hypoxic conditions manifests from an unfolded protein response (UPR); this intracellular cascade is evoked by misfolded proteins within the endoplasmic reticulum of the cell, which activates molecular machinery involved with apoptosis (caspases). Biology is complex, indeed.

Reporting at 9 PM, it’s 09.09.09.

Today’s meeting was short, well, because it was the last day of the conference. But, it was equally as awesome. I went to a series of talks today on circadian rhythm disorders in human models. One of the talks studied Antarctic explorers who resided there for months at a time. The bottom line is: even [...]

For the next three weeks, I will be residing on the West Coast for two scientific meetings and reunions with college friends. Hopefully soon, pictures will accompany these travels, but in the meantime, I provide random tidbits about and current events within the cities I will be traveling to via Amtrak. June 6th-June 13th; SLEEP [...]

Tomorrow morning, I will be presenting my dissertation work at University Hospital, near Case Western. It begins at 7: 30 AM. I attach the flyer. sleep-lecture-2-11-09