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Congress Organization

Prof. Henrik Oster

Chaoqun Jiang

Program

Welcome to the program overview for the EBRS 2025 Congress! In this presentation, we’ll provide you with a brief outline of the key sessions, topics, and events planned for this year's congress. Please note that this is a preliminary overview, and the schedule is subject to change as we finalize the details. Stay tuned for updates as we approach the event. We look forward to your participation!

Day to Day Program

Sunday 24 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Additional Day Schedule
09:00 – 15:30 - Trainee Day (AM 2/3/4)

14:00 – 16:30 - Registration for EBRS Congress (Foyer)

16:45 – 17:00 - Congress Opening / Welcome (AM 1)

17:00 – 17:45 - Opening Keynote (AM 1)
Speaker: Frank Scheer (Boston, USA)
Talk title
Chair: Henrik Oster (Lübeck, Germany)

18:00 - Welcome Reception (Foyer)

Monday 25 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Monday Schedule
08:45 – 09:15 - Welcome Coffee (Foyer)

09:15 – 10:00 - Kappers Lecture (AM 1)
Chair: Christian Cajochen (Switzerland)
Speaker: Debra Skene (UK)
Talk title

10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 1: Clocks in the Brain
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 1)
Chair: Alena Sumová (Czech Republic)
10:30 - Suprachiasmatic circadian circuits
Speaker: Michael Hastings (UK)
10:55 - The SCN neuronal network in diurnal animals
Speaker: Johanna Meijer (Netherlands)
11:20 - Visualization of cellular and network rhythmicity in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in vivo
Speaker: Alec Davidson (USA)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 2: Metabolism
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 2)
Chair: Etienne Challet (France)
10:30 - Rhythms in the gut - a novel link between diet and metabolism?
Speaker: Silke Kiessling (Germany)
10:55 - The liver clock and its pervasive role in health and disease
Speaker: Atish Mukherji (France)
11:20 - Talk title
Speaker: Cheryl Isherwood (UK)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 3: Biological Timing Frontiers in Psychiatric Disorders & Mental Health
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 3)
Chair: Thomas Erren (Germany)
10:30 - The light-dark cycle during development and later life affective disorders
Philip Lewis (Germany)
10:55 - New approaches to studying mechanisms underlying sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in mental health
Stuart Peirson (UK)
11:20 - Delayed sleep timing and mental disorder: implications and interventions
Nicholas Meyer (UK)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 4: Short and Long Clocks
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 4)
Chairs: Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Austria) & Charlotte Förster (Germany)
10:30 - Lunar effects on the behavior of humans and other primates
Speaker: Horacio de la Iglesia (USA)
10:55 - Photoperiodism: insights from insects
Speaker: Sakiko Shiga (Japan)
11:20 - Timing in the deep sea: circatidal rhythms in a hot vent shrimp
Speaker: Jin Sun (China)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

12:30 – 12:40 - Group Photo of All Participants (Entrance Stairs)
12:40 – 14:00 - Lunch Break and Poster Session A

Symposium 5: Cell Biology
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 1)
Chair: Ganna Panasyuk (France)
14:00 - Talk
Speaker: Satchidananda Panda (USA)
14:25 - Talk
Speaker: Mimi Shirasu-Hiza (USA)
14:50 - Talk
Speaker: David Jacobi (France)
15:15 - Talk
Speaker: Marnie Blewitt (Australia)
15:40 - Selected abstract

Symposium 6: Neurocircuits
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 2)
Chair: Marco Brancaccio (UK)
14:00 - Glial control of circadian rhythms
Speaker: Marco Brancaccio (UK)
14:25 - Dissecting the Neural Network of Mammalian Circadian Clock
Speaker: Jun Yang (China)
14:50 - The role of the Salt-Inducible Kinases in coordinating SCN function
Speaker: Aarti Jagannath (UK)
15:15 - Selected abstract
15:30 - Selected abstract
15:45 - Selected abstract

Symposium 7: Circadian Medicine: Detecting the Clock
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 3)
Chair: Achim Kramer (Germany)
14:00 - Talk
Speaker: Derk-Jan Dijk (UK)
14:25 - Talk
Speaker: Felix Naef (Switzerland)
14:50 - Talk
Speaker: Luisa Klaus Pilz (Germany)
15:15 - Selected abstract
15:30 - Selected abstract
15:45 - Selected abstract

Symposium 8: Evolution
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 4)
Chair: Emi Nagoshi (Switzerland)
14:00 - Evolution of circadian clock genes
Speaker: David Doležel (Czech Republic)
14:25 - Mechanisms underlying circadian plasticity loss in an equatorial endemic species
Speaker: Michael Parviz Shahandeh (Switzerland)
14:50 - Punctual parasites: why are rhythms advantageous?
Speaker: Sarah Reece (Ireland)
15:15 - Selected abstract
15:30 - Selected abstract
15:45 - Selected abstract

16:00 – 16:30 - Coffee Break

President’s Symposium
16:30 – 18:00 (AM 1)
Chair: Charalambos Kyriacou (UK)
16:30 – 16:35 - Introduction by Chair
16:35 - Talk
Speaker: Christoph Scheiermann (Switzerland)
16:55 - Talk
Speaker: Charo Robles (Germany)
17:20 - Talk
Speaker: Hannah Durrington (UK)
17:40 - Talk
Speaker: John O’Neill (UK)

Evening Activity - TBD

Tuesday 26 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Tuesday Schedule
08:15 – 09:00 - EBRS Board Meeting (by invitation only) (AM S2)

08:45 – 09:15 - Welcome Coffee (Foyer)

09:15 – 10:00 - Axelrod Lecture (AM 1)
Chair: Ruud Buijs (Mexico)
Speaker: Andries Kalsbeek (Netherlands)
Talk title

10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 9: Molecular Sleep Circuits
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 1)
Chair: Henrik Bringmann (Germany)
10:30 - Talk
Speaker: Niels Niethard (Germany)
10:50 - Talk
Speaker: Hanna Zwaka (Germany)
11:10 - Talk
Speaker: David Owald (Germany)
11:30 - Talk
Speaker: Henrik Bringmann (Germany)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 10: Endocrine Function
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 2)
Chair: Charna Dibner (Switzerland)
10:30 - Talk
Speaker: Anna Krook (Sweden)
10:55 - Talk
Speaker: Henriette Uhlenhaut (Germany)
11:20 - Talk
Speaker: Joris Hoeks (Netherlands)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 11: Circadian Medicine: Targeting the Clock
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 3)
Chair: Sara Montagnese (Italy)
10:30 - Emerging links between the sleep and circadian system and cardiometabolic disease
Speaker: David Ray (UK)
10:55 - The Potential of Circadian Medicine in Preventing Acute and Chronic Outcomes of Critical Illness
Speakers: Lilian Engelhardt & Laura Hancke (Germany)
11:20 - Minding the Implementation Gap in Circadian Medicine: Lessons from ADHD
Speaker:Andrew Coogan (Ireland)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 12: Clocks in the Wild
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 4)
Chair: Till Roenneberg (Germany)
10:30 - The circadian clock in the deep sea
Speaker: Audrey Mat (Austria)
10:55 - Effects of environmental factors on rhythms in mosquito-host interactions
Speaker: Clément Vinauger (USA)
11:20 - Ultradian sleep cycle dynamics during human infancy
Speaker: Grégory Hammad (Belgium)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

12:30 – 14:00 - Lunch Break and Poster Session B

Joint Symposium with Japanese Society for Chronobiology: Post-translational Regulations in Clock and Sleep
14:00 – 16:10 (AM 2)
Chair: Sato Honma (Japan)
14:00 - Talk
Speaker: Hikari Yoshitane (Japan)
14:25 - Talk
Speaker: Hiroki Ueda (Japan)
14:50 - Talk
Speaker: Arisa Hirano (Japan)
15:15 - Selected abstract
15:30 - Selected abstract
15:45 - Selected abstract

Joint Symposium: European Sleep Research Society
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 3)
Chair: tba
14:00 - Talk
Speaker:tba
14:25 - Talk
Speaker: tba
14:50 - Talk
Speaker: tba
15:30 - Selected abstract
15:45 - Selected abstract
15:45 - Selected abstract
Symposium 21: Clock, Brain Behavior
14:00 – 16:00 (AM 4)
Chair: Johanna H. Meijer (Netherlands)
14:00 - Talk
Speaker: Masao Doi (Japan)
14:25 - Talk
Speaker: Alena Sumova (Czech Republic)
14:50 - Talk
Speaker: Martin Ralph (Canada)
15:30 - Selected abstract
15:45 - Selected abstract
15:45 - Selected abstract

16:00 – 16:30 - Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:15 - JSC Lecture (AM 1)
Chair: Ken-ichi Honma (Japan)
Speaker: Michihiro Mieda (Japan)
Talk title

Evening Activity - TBD

Wednesday 27 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Wednesday Schedule
08:45 – 09:15 - Welcome Coffee (Foyer)

09:15 – 10:00 - Gwinner Lecture (AM 1)
Chair: Luisa Klaus Pilz (Germany)
Speaker: Martha Merrow (Germany)
Talk title

10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 13: Systems Biology
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 1)
Chair: Felix Naef (Switzerland)
10:30 - Talk
Speaker: Achim Kramer (Germany)
10:55 - Talk
Speaker: Jacqueline Lane (USA)
11:20 - Talk
Speaker: Roelof Hut (Netherlands)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 14: Wherefore a TTFL?
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 2)
Chair: Martin Ralph (Canada)
10:30 - Preparation for food availability, and other important things
Speaker: Ralph Mistlberger (Canada)
10:55 - A dopamine regulated circadian resonator underlying sensorimotor integration
Speaker: Adam Stinchcombe (Canada)
11:20 - Ageing and circadian rhythm-dependent epigenomic regulation
Speaker: Arturus Petronis (Canada)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 15: Circadian Medicine in Patient Care
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 3)
Chair: Laura Kervezee (Netherlands)
10:30 - Light, circadian rhythms, and psychiatry
Speaker: Elise McGlashan (Australia)
10:55 - Sampling in the real world: What can ambulatory biosampling tell us about our rhythms?
Speaker: Thomas Upton (UK)
11:20 - Circadian Medicine in the Intensive Care Unit
Speaker: Laura Kervezee (Netherlands)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 16: Clocks in Diverse Species
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 4)
Chair: Cristiano Bertolucci (Italy)
10:30 - Living without “clock”: Exploring cnidarians endogenous rhythm
Speaker: Oren Levy (Israel)
10:55 - The sexy clock of the bee: The influence of sex and caste on circadian rhythms
Speaker:Guy Bloch (Israel)
11:20 - Clocks in the dark: Adaptations of circadian clocks in cave animals
Speaker:Nicholas Foulkes (Germany)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract


12:30 – 14:00 - EBRS Members’ Assembly (AM 1)

14:00 – 19:00 - Free Time or Social Activities

19:00 - Banquet in Schuppen 9
Presentation of the Kappers Medal Recipient
Ashoff’s Ruler

Thursday 28 August 2025
EBRS 2025 - Thursday Schedule
08:45 – 09:15 - Welcome Coffee (Foyer)

09:15 – 10:00 - Keynote Lecture (AM 1)
Chair: Francois Rouyer (France)
Speaker: Ralf Stanewsky (Germany)
Talk title

10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break

Symposium 17: Computation and Modeling
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 1)
Chair: Hanspeter Herzel (Germany)
10:30 - Mathematical modeling and controlling of spatiotemporal dynamics in Arabidopsis circadian clock
Speaker: Isao Tokuda (Japan)
10:55 - Talk
Speaker: Marta Del Olmo (Spain)
11:20 - Talk
Speaker: Shaon Chakrabarti (India)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 18: Circadian Regulation of Immunity
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 2)
Chair: Julie Gibbs (UK)
10:30 - Host immune responses and circadian rhythms in the context of malaria and leishmaniasis
Speaker: Nicolas Cermakian (Canada)
10:55 - The molecular circadian clock in asthma
Speaker: Eva Böhm (Austria)
11:20 - Exploring the role of circadian rhythms in Neurodevelopmental disorders
Speaker: Paola Tognini (Italy)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 19: Metabolic Disorders
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 3)
Chairs: Susanne la Fleur & Dirk Jan Stenvers (Netherlands)
10:30 - Talk
10:55 - Talk
11:20 - Talk
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

Symposium 20: Seasonality
10:30 – 12:30 (AM 4)
Chair: Takashi Yoshimura (Japan)
10:30 - Talk
Speaker: Shona Wood (Norway)
10:55 - Talk
Speaker: TBD
11:20 - Talk
Speaker: Luisa Jabbur (UK)
11:45 - Selected abstract
12:00 - Selected abstract
12:15 - Selected abstract

12:30 – 14:00 - Lunch Break and Poster Session C

14:00 – 14:30 - Awards
Congress Closing

Program Overview