We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Functions and Regulation of Sleep which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday December 8, and will conclude after lunch on Friday December 12, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Functions and Regulation of Sleep. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Sleep Regulation: Circuits and Homeostasis

2. Sleep Regulation: Molecules and Circadian Rhythms

3. Sleep Functions

4. Functions and Regulation of REM Sleep

5. Sleep-Related Disorders and Translational Research

Keynote Speakers:

Amita Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania

Gero Miesenböck, University of Oxford

Invited Speakers:

Antoine Adamantidis, University of Bern

Lior Appelbaum, Bar Ilan University

Hagai Bergman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shinjae Chuang, University of Pennsylvania

Yang Dan, University of California, Berkeley

Shumin Duan, Zhejiang University

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Cornell University

Nick Franks, Imperial College London

Patrick Fuller, University of California, Davis

Yu Hayashi, The University of Tokyo

Zhili Huang, Fudan University

Qinghua Liu, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

Pierre-Hervé Luppi, University Claude Bernard, Lyon 1

Thomas McHugh, RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Francesca Siclari, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Hiroki Ueda, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

William Wisden, Imperial College London

Min Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ying Xu, Soochow University

Masashi Yanagisawa, University of Tsukuba

Shirley Zhang, Emory University

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in December, 2025.