Noga kronfeld-schor works at the Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University. Noga does research in Physiological ecology. Her current projects are: Light pollution, Ecology of chronotypes, Diurnality diebetes and depression in diurnal rodents.

Tel Aviv University

School of Zoology

Andries Kalsbeek is Professor of Experimental Neuroendocrinology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC) and head of the Hypothalamic Integration Mechanisms group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN). He studied Biology in Groningen and obtained his PhD at the NIN in 1989. In Strasbourg (France) he performed a post-doc on the role of the SCN in seasonal rhythms. Back at the NIN (1992) he continued working on the clock control of hormone rhythms and the autonomic nervous system, with a focus on glucose metabolism and circadian rhythms. In 2008 he joined the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Amsterdam UMC.

Assoc. Prof. Pharm Dr. Alena Sumova, DSc. is head of the Laboratory of Biological Rhythms at the Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is the Chair of the Council of the Institute of Physiology, CAS. In addition, she holds the position of scientific secretary in the European Society of Biological Rhythms. She is interested in chronobiology (i.e. cyclic events in living organisms), neurophysiology, and neuroendocrinology.

Czech Academy of Sciences

Laboratory of Biological Rhythms

Steven B. Brown studied biochemistry at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In 1997 he received his doctorate in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. From 1998 – 2005 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva in the laboratory of Prof. Ueli Schibler, and began his active work on circadian rhythms (Research Project: The identification of proteins and signalling mechanisms involved in the regulation of mammalian circadian rhythms). In 2006, as a Humboldt Fellow at the Charité in Berlin (Prof. Achim Kramer), he researched the topic “Molecular mechanisms regulating chronotype”. Since September 2006 he is Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich.

University of Zürich

Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology