Date : 3rd June 2011 (Friday); Venue : Room 403, Lecture Theatre, 4/F, Professorial Block, Queen Mary Hospital
All are welcome
Titles :
(1) 4:45 - 5:15 pm – The vast terrain of sleep and its disorder
(2) 5:30 - 6:00 pm – Narcolepsy and autoimminity: Lessons for other brain disorders
Speaker : Prof Emmanuel Mignot, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, USA
About the speaker:
Prof. E Mignot, is Director of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is internationally recognized as having discovered the cause of narcolepsy. His laboratory uses state of the art human genetics techniques, such as genome wide association, exome or whole genome sequencing in the study of human sleep and sleep disorders, with parallel studies in animal models. His laboratory is also interested in web-based assessments of sleep disorders, computer-based processing of polysomnography (PSG), and outcome research.
