To mark World Sleep Day on Friday, 15 March 2019, the university of Leicester will host lunchtime talks from three of our academics - Dr Michael Okun, Dr Tamara Gheorghes and Dr Volko Straub. They will look at: - The function and stages of sleep - What happens when we don't get enough sleep, including …

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March 15th 2019 is World Sleep Day. It is an annual event, intended to celebrate sleep and lessen the burden of sleep problems on society through better prevention and management of sleep disorders. More details here. As part of this event the University of Leicester is hosting a talk by Professor Horne who will address …

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Check out the programme of the Chronobiology Research Conference 2019.The meeting will be held in Castlelldefels (SP), June 23-28, 2019.https://www.grc.org/chronobiology-conference/2019/ .

The 26th European Drosophila Research Conference will be in Lausanne Switzerland Sept 5-8 2019. Registration is open now. https://www.edrc2019.com/ 

Panagiota has joined our group! She's carrying out a 3 month project in our laboratory, as part of her year 1 training.She is a first year MIBPT (Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership) student in Warwick. Welcome to the group.

Abhijit will be joining our lab next week. He's part of the H2020 Marie Curie CINCHRON network and will be working on the temperature compensation of the D. melanogaster clock! Welcome to the group!

The next UK Clock Club meeting will be held at the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen on the 10th of January 2019 from 1100-1800. As usual, the meeting will conclude with the wine and cheese social. Here's the programme. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Tyler or Alex Johnstone (alex.johnstone@abdn.ac.uk). …

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Kalina, Joe, and Laura, in a team with Charlotte and Megan, won the final of the 2018 Biotechnology YES competition at the Royal Society in London last week. Their company Phytocolours reduces pollution from the fashion industry by providing structurally coloured cellulose fibres from microalgae. Their product RayonbowTM is used in the manufacture of eco-sustainable …

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