From 29 February to 21 March, the Interfinity Festival 2024 took place in Basel under the direction of Lukas Loss. Researchers from the Centre for Chronobiology were also involved. Listen to a report on the festival in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur podcast "Tonart" here.
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Claritas. Obscuritas Performance
In "Claritas. Obscuritas" we dedicate ourselves to chronobiology and daylight research. The multidisciplinary performance deals with "light" and its effects on humans.
(more…)Light colour is less important for the internal clock than originally thought
Light in the evening is thought to be bad for sleep. However, does the colour of the light play a role? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich compared the influence of different light colours on the human body. The researchers’ findings contradict the results of a previous study in mice.
(more…)Protege Noctem (if darkness disappeared)
When Mattia Balsamini and Raffaele Panizza — authors of Protege Noctem — visited the Centre for Chronobiology in Basel to gain first-hand insights into our work in human research on light, chronobiology and sleep, we had no idea what the final artwork would look like.
(more…)Great success at SLTBR 2023
Congratulations to our PhD students Fatemeh Fazlali for winning a prize for her outstanding scientific poster and to Rafael Lazar for winning a travel grant for an excellent abstract submission at the SLTBR conference.
Encounters between Art and Chronobiology
Curated by Anna Wirz-Justice together with Sarah Kenderdine, Marilyne Andersen, and Giulia Bini, the new exhibition of EPFL Pavilions Lighten Up! On Biology and Time focuses on chronobiology.
(more…)Front Page Communications Biology
Our publication made it to the front page of Nature Communications Biology
Communications Biology (nature.com)
Top Cited Article
We are happy that our Paper "Changing color and intensity of LED lighting across the day impacts on circadian melatonin rhythms and sleep in healthy men" is a top cited paper in the Journal of Pineal Research.
Brain Awareness Week 2023
On 13th March 2023, we will be part of the 26th Brain Awareness Week, organised by Neuroscience Network Basel. We will be hosting a tour of our laboratories, as well as holding talks and a podium discussion on the topic "Living in the right light". For details of this event, which will be in German, please see the programme.
If you would like to join the lab tour, please register using this form.
Flyer (PDF)