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The 2009, 21st annual meeting will be held in Berlin, Germany from June 24th to 27th, 2009.

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2009 Preliminary Program

Satellite of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) meeting, Paris, France, June 28th - July 2nd, 2009

Wednesday June 24th

4:30-6:30 pm

SLTBR Board meeting

7:00-10:00 pm

Registration and opening reception

Thursday June 25th

7:45-8:45 am

Registration, breakfast

8:45-9:00 am

President's Welcome

9:00-12:10 pm

CME Course (intended for psychiatrists, physicians, architects, light planners, etc.)
Chair: Dieter Kunz (Berlin, Germany)
9:00-9:40 am Basics in Chronobiology
Marijke Gordijn, Chronobiology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

9:40-10:20 am

Molecular Mechanisms in Chronobiology
Steven Brown, University of Zürich, Switzerland &  Achim Kramer, Charité Berlin, Germany

10:20-10:50 am

Break

10:50-11:30 am

Technical Issues of Light
Horst Rudolph, Trilux, Arnsberg, Germany

11:30-12:10 pm

Practical Light Therapy
Michael Terman, Columbia University, USA

12:10-1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30-3:35 pm

Symposium I: Lighting and Architecture - What can Chronobiology
offer Architects and Lighting Designers?
Chairs: Anna Wirz-Justice (Switzerland) & Phillip Mead (USA)

1:30-1:55 pm

Visual Neuroscience and architectural design
John Eberhard, USA (architect), Founder of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
1:55-2:20 pm The Built environment and the human response to (day-)light
Mirjam Münch, Switzerland (chronobiologist and sleep researcher), Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory, EPFL
2:20-2:45 pm What we know about the effects of lighting on performance, mood and health
Jennifer Veitch, Canada (psychologist), National Research Council of Canada Lighting Group
2:45-3:10 pm How can a lighting designer use light in buildings for well-being?
Jens Christoffersen, Denmark (lighting engineer), Danish Building Research Institute
3:10-3:35 pm The future of precision-controlled architectural light sources
Paul Kallmes, USA, Lighting Science Group Corporation
3:35-3:50 pm

Break
3:50-5:00 pm Forum: "Biological" Lighting and Architecture - What Do We Know,
What Do We Need to Know?
Chair:  COLIN FOURNIER, Architect (KUNSTMUSEUM GRAZ), Professor of Urban Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

Architecture and Lighting Experts participating in the Round Table discussion with SLTBR chronobiologists

Kristin Feireiss &
Hans-Jürgen Commerell		 Architecture Forum Aedes, Berlin, Germany
Bob Gysin Architect Zürich, winner of Velux Daylight Building Award, Switzerland
Craig Bernecker Lighting Institute Philadelphia, USA
Bob Venning ARUP Engineering, Lighting designer London, UK
Jean-Louis Scartezzini Solar physics, daylighting lab LESO, EPFLausanne, Switzerland
Joachim Stormly Hansen Adviser Optical Indoor Environment, Grontmij/Carl Bro, Denmark
Dieter Lang Physicist, scientific consultant, OSRAM, Germany
Luc Schlangen Scientific consultant, Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Toine Schoutens  The Light & Health Research Foundation, University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Peter Roos & Peter Dehoff  Biological lighting researchers, Zumtobel, Austria
Atto Harsta Foundation Living Daylights, The Netherlands
Andreas Horlitz Artist, lighting installations, Berlin, Germany
Philippe Rahm Architect, lighting installations, Paris, France
7:00-9:00 pm Poster session with discussion

Friday June 26th

7:45-8:45 am

Registration, breakfast

8:45-10:15 am

Symposium II: EUCLOCK: Entrainment in Humans and Animals
Chairs: Vikki Revell (UK) & Marijke Gordijn (Netherlands)

8:45-9:00 am

Entrainment of the human circadian clock
Till Roenneberg, MPI Munich, Germany

9:00-9:15 am

Circadian photoreception: from photic mechanism to clinical strategies
Claude Gronfier, Inserm, Lyon, France
9:15-9:30 am Insights into the mechanisms of entrainment using Phase Response Curves in mice (Mus musculus)
Marian Comas, Chronobiology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

9:30-9:45 am

A Molecular Look at Chronotype and Aging
Steve Brown, University of Zurich, Switzerland

9:45-10:05 am

ClockWatcher and LightWatcher, new techniques for ambulatory measurements in humans
Vitaliy Kolodyaznhiy, University of Basel, Switzerland &  Marijke Gordijn, Chronobiology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
10:05-10:15 am

General discussion: Where does EUCLOCK go from here?
10:15-10:45 am

Break
10:45-12:15 am

Oral presentations I
12:15-1:45 pm

Lunch
1:45-3:15 pm

Oral presentations II
3:15-3:45 pm

Break
3:45-4:00 pm

Junior Investigator Award presentation
4:00-5:00 pm

SLTBR Annual Business Meeting
7:00 pm Annual Banquet
Saturday June 27th

7:45-8:45 am

Registration, breakfast

8:45-10:20 am

Symposium III: Sleep Deprivation, Light Therapy, Phase Advance: Chronotherapeutic Adjuncts to Medications in Major Depression
 Chairs: Klaus Martiny (Denmark) & Michael Terman (USA)

8:45-9:10 am

Clinical efficacy and feasibility of chronotherapeutics in psychiatric care
Cristina Colombo, Instituto Scientifico Universitario Ospedale San Raffaele Milano, Italy

9:10-9:35 am

Chronotherapeutics for depression: a decision strategy for clinicians
Anna Wirz-Justice, Centre for Chronobiology, Basel, Switzerland

9:35-9:55 am

Results from a study in unipolar patients using sleep deprivation in combination with bright light therapy and sleep timing control
Klaus Martiny, Psychiatric Research Unit, Hillerød, Denmark

9:55-10:20 am

Results from a study in bipolar patients using sleep deprivation, sleep phase advance and bright light therapy
Joseph Wu, University of California, Irvine, USA

10:20-10:50 am

Break

10:50-12:20 am

Oral presentaions III

12:20-12:30 pm

Closing remarks

12:30-2:30 pm

Optional Event: Tour of the newly renovated (“chronobiological lighting”) Department of Psychiatry, in the Vivantes Klinik Berlin (headed by Professor Jürgen Staedt)

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