Internet Resources on Chronobiology, Biological Clocks and Rhythms

Compiled by: Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD, Silvia Helena Cardoso, PhD, and Luiz Menna-Barreto, PhD

Chronobiology Organizations and Sites

• The NSF Centre for Biological Timing, USA
• Society for Research on Biological Rhythms
• Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms
• Centre for Circadian Biology and Medicine, Northwestern University.
• Official Circadian Rhythm Website
• Chronopharma Home Page
• Japanese Society for Chronobiology
• San Diego Sleep and Rhythms Society

Chronobiology Research Projects and Laboratories

• Michael Menaker, University of Virginia - Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of Vertebrate Circadian Rhythms.
• Jeff Hall and Michael Rosbash- Brandeis University, Drosophila, Courtship Genetics and Rhythms
• Johnson Lab Home Page - Cellular and Molecular Biology of Biological Clocks
• Simon Fraser University: Circadian Rhythms Lab
• Multidisciplinary Group on Development and Biological Rhythms - University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Brief History on Chronobiology in Brazil
• Research Projects
• Introduction to Chronobiology (in Portuguese)
• Classroom Activities (in Portuguese)
• Chronobiology in Brazil:
• Laboratory of Insect Chronobiology
• Brazilian Sleep Society
• Chronobiology: Principles and Applications (Book in Portuguese)

Books, Journals and Articles

• The Molecular Biology of Circadian Rhythms
• Biological Rhythm Research (Journal)
• Journal of Biological Rhythms (Journal)
• University of Virginia Course on Biological Clocks.
• How the Internal Clock Ticks, a Nature science update
• Cycles of Darkness and Light, a Nature science update
• A List of Circadian Research Links
• Society for Neuroscience's Brain Briefings: Biological Clocks
• University of Pennsylvania's Chronobiology Resources
• New Information on Bioclocks
• The Biological Clock
• Circadian Rhythms and Oscillating Reactions - From Biology to Chemical Physics, by James Baird
• Sleep and Rhythms Software

Symposia and Conferences

• IV Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology
• International Congress on Chronobiology

In: Clocks and Rhythms

By: L. Menna Barreto, PhD

From: Brain & Mind Magazine, December 1997/February 1998

Last updated: December 8, 1997