THE PROGRAMM OF THE SYMPOSIUM
From Chronobiology to Chronomics – The study of time structures
in and around us with emphasis on vascular variability disorders
Venue: Monday, July 27, 2009 – Hilton Garden Inn, Shoreview
Organizers:
Germaine Cornelissen, Francine Halberg, Julia Halberg, Miguel Revilla, Othild Schwartzkopff
09:00 – 09:40
Welcome addresses by:
Robert H Bruininks, President, University of Minnesota (to be read)
Frank B Cerra, Vice-President for Health Sciences
Sergey Chibisov and Radzhesh Agarval, Friendship University, Moscow, Russia in behalf of BIOCOS [with special presentation by these speakers on July 28 at the University of Minnesota’s Halberg Chronobiology Center]
Earl E Bakken, Founder, Medtronics (to be read)
Franz Halberg’s welcome
Chairpersons: Franz Halberg, Tomoshige Kino, Douglas Wilson
Discussants: Mark Engebretson, Alok Gupta, Francine Halberg
09:40 – 10:40
Germaine Cornelissen, Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota
Why screening for Vascular Variability Disorders?
10:40 – 11:00
RB Singh, Halberg Research Center, Moradabad, India, and Fabien De Meester, TsimTsoum Institute, Belgium
Dietary interventions for pre-habilitation regarding vascular variability disorders.
[The morning of Tuesday July 28 has been reserved for presentations by these speakers at the University of Minnesota’s Halberg Chronobiology Center]
11:00 – 11:15
Jarmila Siegelova et al. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Need for 7-day/24-hour ABPM interpreted chronobiologically: consensus
11:15 – 11:30
Jiri Dusek et al., Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Long-term blood pressure monitoring
11:30 – 11:45
Pavel Homolka et al., Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: health watch in Brno, Czech Republic
[The afternoon of Tuesday July 28 has been reserved for presentations by these speakers at the University of Minnesota’s Halberg Chronobiology Center]
Chairpersons: Fabien De Meester, Jong Lee, RB Singh
Discussants: Jiri Dusek, Pavel Homolka, Jarmila Siegelova
11:45 – 12:10
Alok K Gupta, Pennington Center Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Glycemia, Inflammation and Circadian Blood Pressure Variability
12:10 – 12:35
Tomoshige Kino, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Searching the Genes for Sensing Magnetic Field in Humans: Proposal for Genetic Genetic Analyses on one Family
12:35 – 13:45 Lunch
Chairpersons: Germaine Cornelissen, Jim Holte, Ellis Nolley
Discussants: Miguel Revilla, Jarmila Siegelova, Douglas Wilson
13:45 – 14:10
Chris Adams, Phoenix Group, IEEE
Phoenix ABPM systems architecture
14:10 – 14:35
Larry Beaty
Toward an inexpensive chronobiologic home ABPM
14:35 – 15:45
Phoenix demonstration (Larry Beaty)
Chairpersons: Radzhesh Agarval, Francine Halberg, Othild Schwartzkopff
Discussants: Franklin Barnwell, Julia Halberg, Philip Regal
15:45 – 16:10
Weihong Pan, Pennington Center Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Telemetry for metabolic studies
16:10- 16:35
Douglas Wilson, School of Medicine & Health, Durham University, Thornaby, UK
Chronobiologic perspectives in endocrine cancer
Chairpersons: Sergey Chibisov, Jarmila Siegelova, Douglas Wilson
Discussants: Germaine Cornelissen, Miguel Revilla, RB Singh
16:35 – 18:00 Quo Vadis - Professional and personal remembrances
Franklin Barnwell, University of Minnesota
Patrick Delmore, Medtronic Inc.
Jong Lee, University of Minnesota
Philip Regal, University of Minnesota
RB Singh, Halberg Research Center, Moradabad
Robert Sonkowsky, University of Minnesota
All invited
18:00
Franz Halberg, Halberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota
A unified transdisciplinary science – the next frontier
Dinner