Performance Around The Clock

Episode 42 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast comes from the European Biological Rhythms Society Congress in Lubeck, Germany.  We are joined by Professor Ueli Schibler, an icon in the circadian field whose foundational discoveries helped establish fundamental principles in the field of circadian rhythms.    This episode explores Professor Schibler’s scientific journey, marked by serendipi...

In this episode of the Performance Around The Clock podcast, recorded at the European Biological Rhythms Society Congress in Lubeck, Germany, we are joined by Professor Rae Silver from Columbia University. Professor Silver is an iconic figure in circadian biology whose foundational research helped characterize the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)—the brain's master circadian clock. We explore Pro...

In episode 40 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast, we are joined by Dr. Emily Manoogian, a leading clinical researcher focused on optimizing human health through the timing of food intake (time-restricted eating) and circadian rhythm regulation.  Dr. Manoogian was recently honored with the Young Investigator Award for her seminal studies on circadian disruption among shift workers and inte...

In episode 39 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast, we are joined by Professor Alex Webb from the University of Cambridge, a leading expert in plant cell signaling and circadian clocks.  The episode was recorded at the XVIII Congress of the European Biological Rhythms Society in Lubeck, Germany.  Professor Webb shares his journey from psychology to plant physiology, discussing how a shared...

Episode 38 of the Performance Around the Clock features another guest from the XVIII Congress of the European Biological Rhythms Society in Lubeck, Germany. We are joined by Professor Andrew Miller, a Professor at the University of Edinburgh and the Chair of the Systems Biology Center for Engineering Biology. Professor Miller is a seminal figure in plant biology whose early work served as the insp...

Episode 37 of the Performance Around the Clock comes from the XVIII Congress of the European Biological Rhythms Society in Lubeck, Germany.  We welcome Professor Anna Krook, a Professor of Integrative Physiology at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and chair of the Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes at Karolinska Institutet.  Professor Krook is an internationally recognized leade...

Episode 37 of the Performance Around the Clock comes from the XVIII Congress of the European Biological Rhythms Society in Lubeck, Germany.  We welcome Professor Anna Krook, a Professor of Integrative Physiology at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and chair of the Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes at Karolinska Institutet.  Professor Krook is an internationally recognized leade...

Welcome to episode 36 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast. In this episode, Dr. Panda hosts Professor Geoff Wahl who is a renowned cancer scientist who conducted foundational research at the Salk Institute for 46 years. His long history in cancer research has focused on understanding the fundamental cellular and genetic mechanisms driving cancer, with an emphasis on the role of stem cells...

Welcome to episode 35 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast. We’re joined by Dr. Hemal Patel, a distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a VA Research Career Scientist. Holding a Ph. D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dr. Patel's extensive research career has focused on caveolin and mitochond...

Welcome to episode 34 of the Performance Around the Clock.  In this episode, host Dr. Satchin Panda, welcomes his esteemed colleague, Dr. Pamela Maher from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.  Dr. Maher is a rare scientist who has taken drug discovery from basic science findings in cells all the way to compounds being tested in human clinical trials. In this episode, they discuss her journe...

Welcome to the Performance Around the Clock podcast.  In this episode, Dr. Satchin Panda welcomes one of his scientific heroes, Dr. Susan Golden.  Dr. Golden is a pillar in the circadian and cyanobacteria science community and the former director for the Center for Circadian Biology at UC San Diego. She shares her journey from studying gene regulation in cyanobacteria to understanding the circadia...

In our last episode from the 2024 Gerontology Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle, we are honored to host Dr. John Newman and Dr. Brianna Stubbs, both experts in ketone metabolism and aging.  Dr. Newman is a geriatrician and researcher at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF.  His research focuses on how ketone bodies, small m...

Coming from the 2024 Gerontology Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle, we are excited to welcome Dr. Nathan LaBrasseur for the 31st episode of the Performance Around the Clock podcast. Dr. LaBrasseur is the director of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging at the Mayo Clinic and an expert on senescence and aging. He's an author of the book "Mayo Clinic on He...

We continue our series from the 2024 Gerontology Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle.  Episode 30 of the Performance Around the Clock Podcast, features Dr. Courtney Peterson, a leading researcher in the field of intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating (TRE).  Dr. Peterson is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she was notably th...

Episode 29 of the Performance Around the Clock Podcast is our second episode from the 2024 Gerontology Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle.  We are privileged to host Dr. Steven Austad who is a leading expert in aging biology. Dr. Austad is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Director of UAB's Nathan Shock Center...

The Performance Around the Clock podcast episode 28 features  special guest Mukesh Bansal.  Bansal is a visionary entrepreneur in the fields of digital commerce, wellness and technology.  An IIT Kanpur graduate, Bansal's journey began with Myntra, an online fashion retailer that revolutionized apparel shopping in India.  His vision extended beyond e-commerce, leading him to co-found Cure.fit,...

Happy 2025! Episode 27 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast is our last from the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  We are excited to have Dr. Till Roenneberg on the podcast.  Dr. Roenneberg is emeritus professor of chronobiology at the Institute of Medical Psychology at Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany.  He has dedicate...

Episode 26 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast comes from the GSA (Gerontological Society of America) meeting in Seattle. We are delighted to host, Dr. Jamie Justice, who is the Executive Vice President of the Health Domain at XPRIZE Foundation and adjunct professor in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. We talk about her career in gerontolo...

We continue our series from the Society for Research on Biology Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  In episode 25 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Phyllis Zee, one of the world’s experts on sleep.  Dr. Zee is a Director of the Center of Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University...

Welcome to episode 24 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast.  We resume our series from the Society for Research on Biology Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Annie Curtis, a professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), who studies the intersection between circadian rhythms and the immune system.  We talk about ho...

Welcome to the Performance Around the Clock podcast. In episode 23, we are joined by Dr. Emily Manoogian, one of the foremost experts on Time-Restricted Eating (TRE), to discuss her latest research on TRE in adults with metabolic syndrome. We will explore how to implement TRE and its various benefits. Dr. Manoogian will also share insights on using the myCircadianClock app in her clinical trials t...

Episode 22 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast is another episode from the 2024 Society for Research on Biology Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  We are honored to host this week’s guest, Dr. Charlotte Förster, who epitomizes perseverance in her long scientific career studying circadian rhythms  We’ll talk about her work to understand  the circadian clock at the mo...

Episode 21 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast comes from the 2024 Society for Research on Biology Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  This week’s guest is Dr. Achim Kramer who developed an assay (BodyTime) to determine internal circadian time.  He talks about the development of the assay and how it can be used in circadian medicine.  Dr. Kramer is Head of Chronobiol...

Performance Around the Clock episode 20 comes from the 2024 Society for Research on Biology Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  We have the pleasure to talk with Dr. Christoph Scheiermann who studies the role of circadian rhythms in immune response and how this impacts health and disease.  In particular, he’s known for his research on the recruitment and localization of leuk...

Episode 19 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast comes from the 2024 Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  We have the honor to talk with one of the pillars of the circadian field - Dr. Joseph Takahashi.  Dr. Takahashi pioneered the use of forward genetics and positional cloning in mouse as a tool to discover genes that underlie neurobi...