About BioClock
Our biological clock is disrupted by the 24-hour society in which we now live. Within the BioClock consortium, researchers and societal partners from across the Netherlands will join forces to restore and preserve the health of the biological clock. The plans cover the whole of society: from human health and disease to the natural environment and the protection of biodiversity.
Topics such as shift work, optimal times for cancer immunotherapy and flu vaccinations, chronotherapy for depression, and the effects of light pollution on insects and other light-sensitive animals are all covered in our six-year research program.
On the news page of our website you will find updates on our projects and news articles about exciting findings and events within our projects.
The BioClock consortium is an interdisciplinary network of universities, societal partners, local governments, and other parties that all share a common goal: we want to investigate how to keep the biological clock healthy in our 24/7 society. Funded by NWO, 25 PhD students and postdocs will work on this project in the coming years, supervised by researchers from academic institutes across the Netherlands and in collaboration with the many co-financing and cooperation partners.
BioClock PhD candidate Gali Albalak won the Piet Visser Poster Prize at the @NSWO2012 meeting today for her research on the timing of physical activity on cardiovascular disease that was recently published by @ESC_Journals: https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac239/6814439 Congrats, Gali! Clocks ticking in each cell of our body? These are #molecular #clocks. How do they work? Dr. Ines Chaves from @ErasmusMC explains it all in our latest BioClock academy #seminar. @SRBR_Outreach @EbrsOfficial The BioClock consortium gathered together last week. Read here for a short update of all projects: 23 project in a nutshell - The BioClock meeting! - BioClock On Monday, November 7th, close to 70 members of the BioClock consortium gathered at (Scheltema) Leiden for a fun ... bioclockconsortium.org A new BioClock academy online seminar tomorrow: Molecular clocks, basic concepts explained by Ines Chaves from @ErasmusMC! How does this clock work in our cells? BioClock Academy - BioClock Bioclock Academy What is the bioclock academy? The BioClock Academy are monthly online seminars in which researchers ... bioclockconsortium.org The timing of exercise matters! A study by BioClock researchers with the UK Biobank shows a decreased risk for cardiovacular disease and stroke for those who prefer to exercise in the morning! Read it here: Setting your clock: associations between timing of objective physical activity and cardiovascular disease risk in the general population AbstractAims. Little is known about the impact of daily physical activity timing (here referred to as ‘chronoact... academic.oup.com #circadian #nomenclature The newest BioClock Academy seminar is online: Clocks in Ecology! How do clocks in nature work? Where can we find them? How do they influence wellbeing of animals? By @KamielSpoelstra of the @niooknaw
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The BioClock Consortium is funded by the NWA-ORC programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO; project number 1292.19.077).