7th Annual University of Colorado Sleep and Circadian Summer School

August 3 - August 7

We are pleased to offer virtual components of the 7th Annual University of Colorado Sleep and Circadian Summer School August 3-7, 2026 via free webinar.

Registration for the summer school webinar here

The agenda for portions of the summer school offered by webinar is provided below.

All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT), which is 6 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-6)

For more information on the annual summer school please refer to the summer school webpage.

Monday August 3, 2026

*Morning session*
0845–0900 0900–1015	Kenneth P. Wright Jr. PhD - Introduction to the summer school Plenary Claudia Moreno PhD – Chronobiology and Work
1015–1045	Coffee break
1045–1200	Plenary Jimmy Dooley PhD - Sleep and development - how REM and NREM sleep change and evolve across early development
*Afternoon session*
1345–1500	Plenary Hao Anh Duong PhD - Circadian gene expression
1500–1530	Coffee break
1530–1630	Ken Wright PhD – Recommendations for healthy light exposure

Tuesday August 4, 2026

*Morning session*
0900-1015	Plenary Jason DeBrune PhD – Sleep homeostasis and circadian behavior in Angelman Syndrome: From humans to mice
1015-1045	Coffee break
1045-1200	Josie Broussard PhD - Tissue-specific insulin signaling

Wednesday August 5, 2026

*Morning session*
0845-1000	Plenary Marie-Pierre St-Onge PhD - Bi-directional relations between diet and sleep
1000-1030	Coffee break
1030-1145	Charles Hoeffer PhD - Developing machine learning approaches to scoring sleep in mouse models
1145-1300	Stacey Simon PhD - Behavioral interventions for youth sleep problems

Thursday August 6, 2026

*Morning session*
0900-1015	Rachel Rowe PhD - Thermoregulation and sleep - immune interactions
1015-1045	Coffee break
1045-1200	Oscar Gonzalez PhD - Computational modeling in sleep research
1615-173	Afternoon workshop (provided in-person and virtual) Careers in sleep and circadian science Tina Burke, PhD Supervisory Research Scientist, Associate Director Behavioral Biology Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute Research Rachel Markwald, PhD Senior Physiologist and Research Supervisor, Sleep and Fatigue Technical Area Lead, Naval Health Research Center Cyrus Martin, PhD Senior Scientific Editor, Cell Press - Current Biology Michael Twery, PhD NIH program officer (retired) and science advocate Mark Rosekind, PhD Safety, sleep/fatigue, and policy leader; Prior Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, 15th Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Distinguished Policy Scholar Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox. Amanda J. Simonton, PhD, PMHNP-BC Senior Medical Science Liaison, Neuroscience, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, U.S.A, Inc. Renske Lok, PhD Assistant Professor, Director, cLOcK Lab, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder Oscar C. Gonzalez, PhD Assistant Professor, Director, Biophysics of Sleep and Brain State Transitions Laboratory, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder

Friday Aug 7th – University of Colorado Boulder

*Morning session*
0845-1000	Renske Lok PhD - Big data analytics, and the do's and don'ts
1000-1030	Coffee break
*Afternoon session*
1300-1700	R25 Sleep and Circadian Scholar Presentations
1300-1700	Akanksha Mathivanan Jacob Esneault Yireh Cho Emelyn Cook Matthew Kim Christian Morgan Benjamin Broadway Isabel Rivera-Correa Jaina Gandhi Emily Eager Areeg Al-Dayni Max Boyington Skyler Barton Andreq Wong
*1700*	Closing remarks

Details

Start:: August 3
End:: August 7
Website:: https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6EI837u3SiV1q3Y

Venue

: Online
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Organizer

: University of Colorado Boulder