William C. Dement Seminar Series
The Seminar Series takes place on the third Friday of each month at 12pm in the James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way (unless otherwise noted).
Using biochemistry to understand human circadian timekeeping and develop new therapeutic approaches
October 20th, 2023 at 12pm PST
Carrie Partch, PhD
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Title TBD
November 17th, 2023 at 12pm PST
Charles Morin, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, Laval University
Director, Centre d'étude des troubles du sommeil
Canada Research Chair in Sleeping Disorders
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Title TBD
January 19th, 2024 at 12pm PST
Paul Shaw, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Title TBD
February 16th, 2024 at 12pm PST
Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine
Chief of Sleep Medicine in the Department of Neurology
Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor of Neurology
Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Title TBD
March 15th, 2024 at 12pm PST
Azizi Seixas, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, The Media and Innovation Lab
Associate Director, Center for Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Title TBD
April 19th, 2024 at 12pm PST
Tiffany Schmidt, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology
Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
Director, Neurobiology MS Program
Northwestern University
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Title TBD
May 17th, 2024 at 12pm PST
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, PhD
Professor of Sleep Physiology
Director of Graduate Studies
University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Past Seminars
Hypersomnolence in Psychiatric Disorders
May 19th, 2023 at 12pm PST
David Plante, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Medical Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness
Location: Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Please have camera on if joining via Zoom
You are when you eat: Investigating intermittent fasting and lifespan extension in Drosophila
April 21st, 2023 at 12pm PST
Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics & Development, Columbia Univeristy
Location: Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Please have camera on if joining via Zoom
Molecular manipulations in skeletal muscle alter the ability to recover from sleep loss
March 17th, 2023 at 12pm PST
Ketema Paul, PhD
Professor, Integrative Biology And Physiology, University of California Los Angeles
Location: Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
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Improving brain cancer outcomes with circadian medicine
February 17th, 2023 at 12pm PST
Erik Herzog, PhD
Professor of Biology
Viktor Hamburger Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Please have camera on if joining via Zoom
Developmental insights into sleep biomarkers, phenotypes and disorders
January 20th, 2023 at 12pm PST
Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, PhD, CBSM, DBSM
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Associate Vice Chair for Faculty Development in Research Scholarship
Director, Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program
Sleep Research & Treatment Center
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Location: James Lin and Nisa Leung Seminar Room (E153), Stanford ChEM-H /Neuroscience Building, 290 Jane Stanford Way
Zoom Link (if unable to attend in person):
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99004753637?pwd=RWVUem1FbTNneFhlVFF1Z0l6Mi90UT09
Please have camera on if joining via Zoom
Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis
November 18th, 2022 at 12pm PST
Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Vice Chair for Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paradoxical (REM) sleep genesis and function
October 28, 2022 at 12pm PST
Pierre-Hervé Luppi, PhD
President of European Sleep Research Society
Head of Team “Sleep”
Faculté de Médecine
Université Lyon I, France
Sleepless in the Spectrum
May 20, 2022 at 12pm PST
Lucia Peixoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology
Sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Bi-directional relationship
April 15, 2022 at 12pm PST
David Holtzman, MD
Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor of Neurology
Charlotte and Paul Hagemann Professor of Neurology
Chairman, Department of Neurology
Professor, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
Neurologist-in-Chief, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis
Circadian system, circadian disruption and meal timing: Impact on human metabolism
March 18, 2022 at 12pm PST
Frank Scheer, MSc, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Sleep signatures of memory consolidation and resilience
February 18, 2022 at 12pm PST
Gina Poe, PhD
Professor
Director of Maximizing Access to Research Careers U*STAR Program
Eleanor Leslie Chair in Innovative Brain Research
UCLA, Integrative Biology and Physiology
Discovering Sleepiness at Sleep Camp: My Sleep Trek with Bill Dement
January 21, 2022 at 12pm PST
Mary Carskadon, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University