Ravi Allada, MD, is the Professor
and Chair of the Department of
Neurobiology, Professor in the
Department of Pathology, and
Associate Director for the Center
for Sleep and Circadian Biology
at Northwestern University.
Dr. Allada received his medical
degree from the University of
Michigan and completed his residency in clinical pathology
from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During medical
school, he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-National
Institutes of Health Research Scholar and worked on the
molecular genetics of general anesthesia using the fruit
fly Drosophila as a model system. He received an HHMI
Physician Postdoctoral Fellowship with Michael Rosbash at
Brandeis University where he cloned the Drosophila Clock
gene, a master transcription factor for circadian rhythms. In
2000, he joined the faculty at Northwestern University.
The Allada laboratory has identified and characterized
novel components of the core circadian clock including the
discovery of a novel translational control pathway involving
the neurodegeneration geneAtaxin2 in Drosophila as well as
neuropeptide receptors and ion channels that are important
for conveying temporal information from the clock to regulate
behavior such as sleep and wake. His laboratory has also
exploited the Drosophila model for sleep, discovering links
between sleep homeostasis and memory processing as
well as protein degradation pathways. His recent work also
extends to mammalian systems including humans. His work
has been recognized by a Burroughs Wellcome Career
Award and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award.
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD, is
a Professor Emeritus and
Professor of Research in the
Departments of Psychiatry
and Medicine at the University
of California San Diego
(UCSD) School of Medicine,
Director of the Gillin Sleep and
Chronomedicine
Research
Center, and Director of
Education at the Sleep Medicine Center at UCSD. Dr.
Ancoli-Israel received her bachelor’s degree from the State
University of New York, Stony Brook, a master’s degree in
psychology from California State University, Long Beach
and a PhD in psychology from the University of California,
San Francisco. Dr. Ancoli-Israel’s expertise is in the field of
sleep disorders and sleep research in aging. Her current
interests include the longitudinal effect of sleep disorders on
aging, the effect of circadian rhythms on sleep, therapeutic
interventions for sleep problems in dementia and fatigue,
particularly the relationship between sleep, fatigue and
circadian rhythms in cancer and other chronic illnesses.
Dr. Ancoli-Israel is Past-President of the Sleep Research
Society, Past-President of the Society for Light Treatment
and Biological Rhythms, and was a founding member of
the Executive Board of the National Sleep Foundation.
She was honored in 2007 with the National Sleep
Foundation Life Time Achievement Award and the Sleep
Research Society Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding
Educator Award and in 2012 with Society of Behavioral
Sleep Medicine Distinguished Career Award. Dr. Ancoli-
Israel has been a guest on television and radio programs
including NPR’s Morning Edition and Fresh Air with Terry
Gross. Dr. Ancoli-Israel is published regularly in medical
and psychiatric journals with close to 400 publications in
the field.
RAVI ALLADA, MD
How Molecular Genetics Can Tell Us How
We Wake Up and Why We Sleep
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
8:00am – 9:00am
SONIA ANCOLI-ISRAEL, PHD
Sleep Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease
Monday, June 2, 2014
1:45pm – 2:45pm
Invited Lecturers
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