17th Annual Scientific Meeting

Our 17th Annual Scientific Meeting was held online on November 3rd. 

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Professor Anna Wirz-Justice delivered our keynote address in 2020. Professor Wirz-Justice has been a pioneer in the field of chronotherapy and light therapy for mood and sleep disorders. She is a former president of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, a winner of the Anna Monika Prize for Depression Research and the Scholar’s Prize of the City of Basel, awarded for outstanding achievement. Her talk was entitled:
“All you want to know about chronotherapy for affective and sleep disorders”

Research Excellence Awards:
Nicola Ludin – University of Auckland
Piyumi Kahawage – Swinburne University
Prerna Varma – Monash University
James Kim – University of Auckland
Alex Russel – Monash University
Elise McGlashan – Monash University
Julia Stone – Monash University
Victoria King – University of Auckland

Best Presentation:
Julia Stone – Monash University
Victoria King – Monash University

Scientific Committee:
Melinda Jackson
Greg Willis
Sally Ferguson
Julia Stone

2021 Sponsors:

The Bronowski Institute: The Bronowski Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience is an incorporated, non-government, charitable, academic and scientific research organisation. It is devoted to serving biomedical science, primary industry and the environment, with integrity and for the betterment of humankind.

Clocks & Sleep: Speakers at the 2019 meeting had the opportunity to published a full conference paper in the journal Clocks & Sleep. Clocks & Sleep (ISSN 2624-5175) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that investigates a wide range of biological rhythms and sleep-related topics and is published quarterly online by MDPI. Clocks & Sleep sponsored our student awards for 2021.