On April 14, 2025 the 3rd annual Chronobiology Symposium will take place in the auditorium of the historic ‘Timmerhuis‘ in Rotterdam. (This name refers to the old craft of carpenter who worked for the city council.) During this symposium, you can enjoy a full day of focusing on the research on circadian biology and biological rhythms in Society, Care, Nature and Biodiversity.

This full day symposium will be filled with a variety of presentations, covering the wide spectrum of chronobiology in nightshifts, therapies and responses in humans, animals, fish, insects, plants, etc. With this program we aim to offer a wide spectrum of all the chronobiology work that is done in the Netherlands and inspire others to advance chronobiology research and implementation of research results in society. The Final program can be found here

We are very pleased to present you with the following invited lectures: 

• • A keynote lecture by Prof. dr Astiz Cadenas, head of the Laboratory of Circadian Physiology at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience in Leioa, Spain, on ‘Circadian system development and the role of antenatal glucocorticoids’.

• • A second keynote lecture by Prof dr Dick Swaab. Professor emeritus of Neurobiology UvA and (former) director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam. ‘The human Suprachiasmatic nucleus, from fetus to Alzheimer’.

• • Prof. dr Yvonne de Kort. Chair of Environmental Psychology of Human-Technology Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). ‘Could there be more to light than lux and mEDI? Light and mood from an environmental psychology perspective’.

• • Dr Andrès Romanowski, group leader of the Timing of Environmental Signalling (TimES) lab, of Wageningen University will present ‘A rhythmic journey across continents’.

Admission to the Symposium:

To partly cover the costs of the event, we request an admission fee of 25 euros pp for all participants. However, since we value the participation of bachelor- and master-students, they will not be charged the fee. Tickets can be obtained via Eventbrite.

(For BioClockers, please note that on April 15, we will have our bi-annual Progress Meeting, which will take place at the Erasmus MC – New Education Center, Building Ec, in Rotterdam.)

Presentations and posters

Deadline for abstracts is closed. While preparing your presentation, please take into account that the participants have a broad spectrum of backgrounds and interests. 

An oral presentation includes 15 minutes of presenting and 5 minutes of questions. For a poster presentation: please use a portrait orientation at A0 size max.

The venue and how to get there:

Het Timmerhuis is located at the Halvemaan passage 90, Rotterdam. The location is very easy to reach from Rotterdam Central Station (railway) on foot: 1km/ 15 min, and via public transport (Metro, stop Stadhuis). The nearest parking garage is at a 5-minute walk: Q-park De Bijenkorf, at a parking fee of €25.00 per day.

Funding:

This symposium is organized and partly funded by NWO/ the BioClock consortium, a 6 year research project on the effects of the biological clock, light pollution, night shifts and therapies on  humans, animals, insects, fish and plants.

For questions, contact us at bioclock@lumc.nl.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Rotterdam for the 3rd edition of the Chronobiology Symposium,

Inês Machado Chaves (Erasmus MC), Heidi Lammers- Van der Holst (Erasmus MC), Joke Meijer (LUMC & BioClock), Joëlle Oosterman (Erasmus MC), Laura Kervezee (LUMC & BioClock), Jeroen van der Leijé (LUMC & BioClock)