by Jonathan Sobel, PhD | Sep 23, 2019 | Clocks in the Spotlight
In 1729, Jean-Jacques d'Ortus de Mairan (1678-1771) laid the foundations of modern chronobiology. A French interdisciplinary researcher, he designed an experiment that demonstrated the existence of a circadian rhythm in plants, potentially deriving from an endogenous...
by SRBR | Sep 18, 2019 | News
Congratulations to Maria Luisa Jabbur from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) for winning the SRBR 2020 Logo Competition! The logo is inspired by a model from a classic paper by Eric Peterson that was published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology in 1980, which...
by SRBR | Sep 3, 2019 | News
What do they talk about on those calls?! The SRBR Executive Committee teleconferences on the fourth Friday of each month. We discuss and vote on issues related to the Society, the journal, and the biannual meeting. We coordinate with the 6 major SRBR Committees to...
by Diego Golombek | Sep 3, 2019 | Clocks in the Spotlight
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. Elvis Presley "The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture." John McLaughlin Try this experiment: listen to Ravel’s Boléro from the...
by SRBR | Aug 13, 2019 | News
Joseph S. Takahashi of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is the recipient of the 2019 Gruber Neuroscience Prize. Takahashi, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, is perhaps best known for his group’s discovery of the Clock gene in mice,...
