Invited Lectures

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: Clinical, genetic and biological featuresc
Sam Berkovic (Australia)

Alternative Hypotheses for the pathogenesis of Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep
Art Walters (USA)

Viewing Insomnia as a Disorder
Thomas Roth (USA)

Panel Discussion

Sleep Function: Current Perspectives And Future Directions

Marcos Frank (USA)
Jerome Siegel (USA)
Paul Shaw (USA)
Carol Everson (USA)
Allan Pack (USA)
Giulio Tononi (USA)
Craig Heller (USA)
Pierre Maquet (Belgium)

Symposium / Panel Discussion

Neuroimaging in Sleep Disorders

Caroline Rae (Australia)
Eric Nofzinger (USA)
Ellemarji Altena (Netherlands)
Michael Chee (Singapore)
Sean Drummond (USA)

Symposium

Commencement and follow-up of CPAP and Non-invasive ventilation in children

Gillian Nixon (Australia)
Valerie Kirk (Canada)
Colin Wallis (United Kingdom)
Liz Edwards (New Zealand)
Karen Waters (Australia)

Special Invited Lecture

Cerebral Blood Flow Regulation In Sleep In The Newborn: New Issues, Mechanisms, and Models
Adrian Walker (Australia)

Symposium

Sleep and cardio-respiratory control in experimental models and human patients: toward translational research

Philip Berger (Australia)
Alessandro Silvani (Italy)
Garun Hamilton (Australia)
Ronald M. Harper (USA)

Symposium

Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome – From mechanisms to management

Christopher O'Donnell (USA)
Paul Suratt (USA)
Amanda Piper (Australia)
Linda Schachter (Australia)

Symposium

Sleep and the HPA system

Mark Opp (USA)
Mayumi Kimura (Germany)
Axel Steiger (Germany)
Thomas Neylan (USA)

Symposium

Autonomic nervous system regulation during sleep in normal subjects and patients with sleep disorders

Helen Burgess (USA)
Luigi Ferrini-Strambi (Italy)
Peretz Lavie (Israel)
Paolo Lanfranchi (Canada)

Symposium

New Insights from adenosine and sleep studies in humans and animal models

Radhika Basheer (USA)
Hans-Peter Landolt (Switzerland)
Adreas Bauer (Germany)
Yoshihiro Urade (Japan)

Invited Lectures

Human Sleep-Wake Cycle and Circadian Pacemaker : An animal model for two oscillating systems
Ken-Ichi Honma (Japan)

Shift Work: A 'Somnocentric' View from Downunder
Philippa Gander (New Zealand)

Stress, sleep, fatigue and sickness absence
Torbjorn Åkerstedt (Sweden)

Symposium

REM sleep behaviour disorder and neural circuitry of REM atonia

Leszek Kubin (USA)
Jun Lu (USA)
Jacques Montplaisir (Canada)
Mark Mahowald (USA)

Symposium

The Value of Slow Wave Sleep: Reevaluated

Derk-Jan Dijk (United Kingdom)
Eve van Cauter (USA)
James Walsh (USA)
Giulio Tononi (USA)

Symposium

Paediatric Sleep: Development of cardiovascular control in infants and children - new methods of assessment and issues

Karen Waters (Australia)
Rosemary Horne Australia)
Barbara Galland (New Zealand)
Brad Thach (USA)

Symposium

Proteomic and Microarray Approaches to Sleep and Its Disorders

Nirinjiini Naidoo (USA)
David Gozal (USA)
Miroslaw Mackiewicz (USA)
Erna Sif Arnardottir (Iceland)

Symposium

Is Home diagnostic testing for sleep the best Initial Investigation Strategy for Suspected OSA?

Alister Neill (New Zealand)
Maree Barnes (Australia)
Doug McEvoy (Australia)
Nabil Ayas (Canada)
Stuart Quan (USA)
Conrad Iber (USA)

Symposium

The reproductive endocrinology of sleep, sleep disordered breathing and ageing

Johannes Veldhuis (USA)
Peter Liu (Australia)
Michael Vitiello (USA)
Olli Polo (Finland)

Symposium

Placebo effect and sleep: What do we learn from pain neurobiology

Gilles Lavigne (Canada)
Eric Nofzinger (USA)
Michael Smith (USA)
Pierre Rainville (Canada)
Danielle Laverdure-Dupont (Canada)

Symposium

Novel Model Organisms for the Study of Sleep

Irene Tobler (Switzerland)
David Raizen (USA)
Emmanuel Mignot (USA)
Chiara Cirelli (USA)

Panel Discussion

Sleepiness and sleep loss: in the lab and clinically

Michael Dodd (Australia)
Ken Wright (USA)
Naomi Rogers (Australia)
Thomas Roth (USA)

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Video

Turns at night

Sam Berkovic (Australia)
Mark Mahowald (USA)
Philip King (Australia)

Late Breaking Oral Presentations

Dieter Kunz (Germany)
Jasper Dingemanse (Switzerland)
Siobhan banks (USA)
Christian Baumann (USA)
Warren Ruehland (Australia)

Trainee Oral Presentations

Free Communications

Janne Gronli (Norway)
Julie Seibt (USA)
Sara Aton (USA)
Maria Czira (Hungary)
Beverley David (United Kingdom)
Jessica Paterson (Australia)

Debate

Does sleep apnea cause diabetes?

Pro:
Naresh Punjabi (USA)

Con:
Ron Grunstein (Australia)

Symposium

Human Sleep; Skin Deep? Implications for treatment

Roy Raymann (Netherlands)
Michael Gradisar (Australia)
Rolf Fronczek (Netherlands)
Cameron van den Heuvel (Australia)

Symposium

Future Perspectives in Insomnia Therapeutics - what treatment works best?

Charles Morin (Canada)
Anup Desai (Australia)
Leon Lack (Australia)
Borge Sivertsen (Norway)

Special Invited Lecture

What Causes the Cardio-respiratory Activation Response at an Arousal from Sleep?
John Trinder (Australia)

Symposium

Biomarkers of vascular risk in sleep apnea
Jan Hedner (Sweden)
Gianfranco Parati (Italy)
Lutger Grote (Sweden)

Panel Discussion

Developing Sleep Medicine in Emerging Economies

Xiao Yi (China)
Fang Han (China)
Anna Tessa Villaneuva (Philippines)
Nagarajan Ramakrishnan (India)
Doug McEvoy (Australia)

Panel Discussion

Complex Sleep Behaviours and Hypnotics

Mark Mahowald (USA)
Michel Cramer- Bornemann (USA)
Tom Roth (USA)
Ron Grunstein (Australia)