Search Results

Understanding the Circadian Rhythms of the African Sleeping Sickness Parasite

Dr. Filipa Rijo-Ferreira shows that Trypanosoma brucei, the African sleeping sickness parasite, has circadian rhythms. (Talk recorded in May 2018)

African sleeping sickness: Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

Audience:

General Public
Student
Researcher
Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 00:18:19

Understanding Circadian Rhythms: A Tale of Friendship, Behavior, Genetics, and Luck

Michael Rosbash tells the story of how a collaboration with friend Jeff Hall led to the discovery of the genetic mechanisms that regulate circadian rhythms. (Talk recorded in November 2015)

Audience:

Student
Researcher
Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad

Duration: 14:30

Genetics of Human Circadian Rhythms and Sleep

Louis Ptáček introduces the circadian clock and its relationship to sleep, and Ying-hui Fu talks about the pathways involved in regulating human circadian rhythms. (Talk recorded in April 2014)

Part 1: Connections between Clock and other Phenotypes
Audience:
- Researcher
Duration: 33:30
Part 2: Understanding our Sleep Behaviors
Audience:
- Researcher
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 24:22

Circadian Clocks: Clock Genes, Clock Cells and Clock Circuits

Joseph Takahashi begins his talk with a historic overview of how the genes controlling circadian clocks were first identified in Drosophila and mice. (Talk recorded in July 2013)

Part 1: Clock Genes, Clock Cells and Clock Circuits
Audience:
- Researcher
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 33:17
Part 2: Clock Genes, Clock Cells and Clock Circuits Continued
Audience:
- Researcher
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 30:23
Part 3: Genetics of Mammalian Clocks
Audience:
- Researcher
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 41:39
Part 4: Molecular Basis of a Clock
Audience:
- Researcher
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 34:27

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira received her bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Nova University of Lisbon. For her MSc she joined the laboratory of Dr. Charles Bangham at Imperial College London where she studied immunology and infection. As a graduate student at the University of Porto, she became fascinated with Molecular Parasitology and Circadian Rhythms,…

Announcing the 2018 Young Scientist Seminars Winners!

iBiology and our partners the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation and the Alda Center for Communicating Science are proud to announce the four winners of the 2018 Young Scientist Seminars’ competition! The winners will attend a workshop at the iBiology headquarters at UCSF…

Joe Takahashi

Joseph Takahashi received his BA in biology from Swarthmore College, his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Oregon, and he was a post-doctoral fellow with Martin Zatz at the National Institutes of Mental Health. He then spent 26 years at Northwestern University where he was a faculty member in the Department of Neurobiology and…

Steven Reppert

Steven Reppert received both his B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska. He did his clinical training in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and was a post-doctoral fellow at the NIH in the Section on Neuroendocrinology. He then joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School where he resided for…

Michael Rosbash

Michael Rosbash is Professor of Biology at Brandeis University and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash uses genetics to understand the underlying mechanisms of circadian rhythms. In 1984, Rosbash, along with collaborator Jeff Hall, cloned the period gene in Drosophila, which led them to discover the transcriptional negative feedback loop of circadian clocks…

Woody Hastings

J. Woodland “Woody” Hastings was the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University and a long time affiliate of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Hastings had life-long fascination with bioluminescence. Together with scientist Kenneth Nealson, Hastings discovered that bioluminescent bacteria…

Neurobiology of Monarch Butterfly Migration

In this talk about Monarch butterfly migration, Steven Reppert begins by describing the amazing long-distance migration of the Eastern North American Monarch butterfly. (Talk recorded in July 2014)

Part 1: Migration Overview
Audience:
- General Public
- Student
- Researcher
- Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 28:09
Part 2: A Time-Compensated Sun Compass
Audience:
- Researcher
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 46:53