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 clock. These observations and experiments led to the development of chronobiology. This research, performed by de Mairan and presented […]
Author Archive | Jonathan Sobel, PhD
Congratulations to the SRBR 2020 Logo Competition Winner
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 is often used to teach students about the concept of limit cycles […]
The latest from the SRBR Executive Committee
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 promote new efforts including the recent Position Paper on Daylight […]
CIRCADIAN ART Part 3 – The beats of circadian rhythms
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 beginning to the end. It does keep getting faster and […]
Joseph S. Takahashi Receives Gruber Neuroscience Prize
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, which is a master regulator of circadian rhythms in mammals. The prize, which includes a […]
