Episode 21 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast comes from the 2024 Society for Research on Biology Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This week’s guest is Dr. Achim Kramer who developed an assay (BodyTime) to determine internal circadian time. He talks about the development of the assay and how it can be used in circadian medicine. Dr. Kramer is Head of Chronobiology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the largest research hospital in Europe. Thank you for listening.

Guest:

Dr. Achim Kramer

Head of Chronobiology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Lab website:

https://www.achim-kramer-lab.de/

Body clock test:

https://www.bodyclock.health/

BodyTime

High-accuracy determination of internal circadian time from a single blood sample

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29953415/

Host:

Dr. Satchin Panda

@SatchinPanda

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More science: https://mycircadianclock.org/

Performance Around the Clock episode 20 comes from the 2024 Society for Research on Biology Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We have the pleasure to talk with Dr. Christoph Scheiermann who studies the role of circadian rhythms in immune response and how this impacts health and disease. In particular, he’s known for his research on the recruitment and localization of leukocytes which is under circadian control. This process plays a crucial role in immune response which can be leveraged to improve cancer immunotherapy and vaccination efficacy. Learn more about his impactful research in this episode. Thanks for listening.

Guest:

Dr. Christoph Scheiermann

Full Professor

Department of Pathology and Immunology

Centre Medical Universitaire (CMU)

X (formerly Twitter): @ScheiermannLab

https://twitter.com/ScheiermannLab

Lab webpage:

http://scheiermannlab.de/

Host:

Dr. Satchin Panda

@SatchinPanda

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Instagram: @satchin.panda

https://www.instagram.com/satchin.panda/

Episode 19 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast comes from the 2024 Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We have the honor to talk with one of the pillars of the circadian field - Dr. Joseph Takahashi. Dr. Takahashi pioneered the use of forward genetics and positional cloning in mouse as a tool to discover genes that underlie neurobiology and behavior. His discovery of clock genes led to a description of a conserved circadian clock mechanism in animals. In this podcast, we hear about how his lab discovered and cloned the mouse circadian Clock gene. In addition, we find out how circadian alignment of feeding, daily fasting and caloric restriction can combine to increase longevity.

Dr. Takahashi has authored more than 300+ scientific publications and the recipient of many awards and distinctions including:

The Honma Prize in Biological Rhythms Research

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

Searle Scholars Award

Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Neuroscience, and the C. U. Ariens Kappers Medal. W. Alden Spencer Award in Neuroscience from Columbia University

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Member of the National Academy of Medicine

Gruber Neuroscience Prize at the Society for Neuroscience

Guest:

Dr. Joseph Takahashi

Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience

X (formerly Twitter): @CircadianClocks

https://twitter.com/circadianclocks

UT Southwestern profile:

https://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/105885/joseph-takahashi.html

Lab webpage:

https://labs.utsouthwestern.edu/takahashi-lab

Host:

Dr. Satchin Panda

@SatchinPanda

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Instagram: @satchin.panda

https://www.instagram.com/satchin.panda/

Links:

Donations: https://panda.salk.edu/giving/

Research: https://www.salk.edu/scientist/satchidananda-panda/

More science: https://mycircadianclock.org/