FEBS Letters is pleased to announce we will be hosting a free webinar on circadian rhythms to be held on Thursday 25th June 2026 at 18:00 CEST. The webinar will be hosted by Carrie Partch and Emery Usher (University of California Santa Cruz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute), and will feature three short talks by experts in the field.
This webinar is being organised to accompany our latest special issue on “Circadian clocks”, guest edited by Carrie Partch. This free special issue features 14 review articles by renowned experts in the field, focused on the latest advances in our understanding of the molecular basis of circadian rhythms, their pervasive and powerful control of biology, and new frontiers in the field, including approaches to modulate biological timekeeping to improve human health.
The programme will feature talks by:
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Emery Usher — is a postdoctoral fellow with joint mentorship from Carrie Partch at UC Santa Cruz and Alex Holehouse at Washington University in St. Louis. He leverages simulations and biophysical experiments to understand how post-translational modification affects the properties and functions of intrinsically disordered proteins, such as those found in the core circadian clock.
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Jerome S. Menet — is an associate professor of the biology department at Texas A&M University. Research in his lab aims at characterizing how circadian clocks and clock genes regulate gene expression to provide insights into how and why clock dysfunction leads to a wide spectrum of pathologies.
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Priya Crosby — hailing from Norwich originally, Priya has been studying circadian timekeeping throughout her whole career. She started as a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in 2024, and her lab uses a combination of cell biology, biophysics and structural biology to understand how these rhythms are regulated at the cellular level.
We hope that you will join us for this exciting webinar. Questions can be asked during the webinar, and we also invite attendees to send questions to the speakers in advance by emailing us at febsletters@febs.org.