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

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