Featured Papers from Australasian Chronobiology Society

Dear Colleagues,

The Australasian Chronobiology Society was founded in 2004, with yearly meetings since, bringing together both basic and clinical researchers across Australia, New Zealand, and the broader region. This includes researchers in both basic and clinical human work, and in a range of model organisms. We are broadly interested in the influence of the circadian clock, and nonimage forming light responses, on behaviour, cognition, sleep and health.

This year, the society met on the 15^th of October in Sydney. Our keynote speaker was Professor Paul Zimmet AO, and our international guest was Professor Ken Wright, on the role of the circadian system in metabolic syndrome, and the microbiome, respectively. The day was full of diverse chronobiology and sleep research ranging from ways to best manage shift work maladaptation and jetlag, to understanding home and office lighting, mathematical modelling of biological clocks, and cellular rhythms in the context of diseases such as cancers and HIV.  

With this Special Issue, we invite speakers from the meeting to submit their presented work for publication in Clocks and Sleep, to share work from our society with the broader sleep and chronobiology community.

Assoc. Prof. Sean Cain
Dr. Elise McGlashan
Guest Editors

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