RaviAllada,MD, is theProfessor
and Chair of the Department of
Neurobiology, Professor in the
Department of Pathology, and
AssociateDirector for theCenter
for Sleep and Circadian Biology
at NorthwesternUniversity.
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, hewas aHowardHughesMedical 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
PhysicianPostdoctoral FellowshipwithMichael Rosbash at
Brandeis University where he cloned the Drosophila Clock
gene, amaster transcription factor for circadian rhythms. In
2000, he joined the faculty at NorthwesternUniversity.
The Allada laboratory has identified and characterized
novel components of the core circadian clock including the
discovery of a novel translational control pathway involving
theneurodegenerationgeneAtaxin2 inDrosophilaaswell as
neuropeptide receptors and ion channels that are important
for conveying temporal information from theclock 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 tomammalian systems includinghumans. Hiswork
has been recognized by a Burroughs Wellcome Career
Award andaNARSADYoung InvestigatorAward.
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 sleepdisorderson
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 isPast-President of theSleepResearch
Society, Past-President of theSociety for Light Treatment
andBiological Rhythms, andwas a foundingmember of
theExecutiveBoard of theNational SleepFoundation.
Shewas honored in 2007with theNational Sleep
Foundation LifeTimeAchievementAward and theSleep
ResearchSocietyMaryA. CarskadonOutstanding
EducatorAward and in 2012withSociety of Behavioral
SleepMedicineDistinguishedCareerAward. Dr.Ancoli-
Israel has been a guest on television and radio programs
includingNPR’sMorningEdition andFreshAir withTerry
Gross. Dr.Ancoli-Israel is published regularly inmedical
and psychiatric journalswith close to 400 publications in
the field.
RAVIALLADA, MD
HowMolecularGeneticsCanTell UsHow
WeWakeUp andWhyWeSleep
Tuesday, June3, 2014 | 8:00am – 9:00am
RoomL100H
SONIAANCOLI-ISRAEL, PHD
SleepDisorders inParkinson’s
Disease
Monday, June 2, 2014 | 1:45pm – 2:45pm
Room101E
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