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.

Our publication made it to the front page of Nature Communications Biology

Communications Biology (nature.com)

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.

In "Claritas. Obscuritas" we dedicate ourselves to chronobiology and daylight research. The multidisciplinary performance deals with "light" and its effects on humans.

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.

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.

We are extremely sad to hear that our long-term colleague from the Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine in Novosibirsk, Konstantin Danilenko M.D., died on 18 January 2023.

With great dismay, we have learned that Prof. Steven Brown died in a fatal accident on December 14, 2022. Steve worked for some time here at the Center for Chronobiology and with Prof. Anne Eckert, Neurobiology Laboratory of the University Psychiatric Clinics, before taking up his position in Zurich in 2006.

The Chronobiology team wishes you

If we were to claim that evening illuminance plays no role in sleep, we would certainly have gained some attention. In fact, our recently published meta-analysis shows that there is no direct correlation between illuminance and sleep.