Performance Around The Clock

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 Professor Silver’s scientific journ...

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 interventions to mitigate its effects. ...

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 inspiration from researcher Andrew ...

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 inspiration for host Dr. Satchin Panda ...

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 leader in metabolism, skeletal muscle an...

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 leader in metabolism, skeletal muscle an...

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 and the p53 tumor suppressor gene i...

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 mitochondrial biology. In this episode, he di...

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 journey through research on cell membrane...

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 circadian clock through this unique organis...

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 molecules that our bodies make for e...

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 Healthy Aging: An Easy and Comprehens...

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 the first to test early time-restrict...

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 of Excellence in the Basic Biology ...

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, a health and wellness platform.  Ba...

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 dedicated most of his career to investigati...

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 gerontology, expertise with biomarkers and X...

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.  She is also the Chief of Sleep M...

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 how the timing of infection affects t...