2nd Announcement

Worldsleep2011
New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet

Worldsleep2011● About Kyoto
The venue of Worldsleep2011, Kyoto, proudly reigned as capital ofJapan for 1200 years. The history and heritage of this city lives on in
the 1.5 million population modern city: Seventeen UNESCO World
Cultural Heritage Sites are situated in a cityscape dominated by 2000
temples and shrines. The city offers you endless opportunities to gain
meaningful hands-on experience of rich Kyoto culture through Tea
Ceremony, sake brewing, kimono wearing, swordsmanship, and more.
Japan is renowned for its beauty and the compactness of Kyoto
makes for wonderful strolling.

● Member Society P
Presidents

Patrick Strollo

Masako Okawa

Craig Hukins

Helen Driver

American Academy ofSleep Medicine (AASM)

Asian Sleep ResearchSociety (ASRS)

Australasian Sleep
Association (ASA)

Canadian Sleep
Society (CSS)Claudio Bassetti

Darwin Vizcarra

Clifford B. Saper

European Sleep
Research Society (ESRS)

Federation of Latin
American Sleep Societies(FLASS)

Sleep Research Society(SRS)

New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet

October 16 (sun) -20 (thu), 2011
Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto)

From the moment of arrival at Kansai International Airport - just 75mins
from the city centre - guests of this city are pampered with the finest
Kyoto service.

KYOTO, JAPAN● Access to Kyoto
Flight time to Kansai International Airport (KIX)● Local Organizing Committee
Masako Okawa (Chair/ASRS President)

Korea
China
Hong Kong

Hosts

2 hours
3 hours
4 hours

Singapore

Tetsuo Shimizu (Vice Chair)
Do-Un Jeong (Vice Chair/ASRS Vice President)
Ning-hung Chen (Vice Chair/ASRS Vice President)
Ken-ichi Honma (Secretary General/ASRS Secretary General)
Takashi Ohida (Vice Secretary General)
Toshiaki Shiomi (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
Soichiro Miyazaki (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
Koichi Hirata (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
H.N.Mallick (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)Japan

6 hours

Australia

9 hours

US West Coast

10 hours

Europe10 hours

New ZealandWorld Sleep Federation (WSF)
Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS)
Science Council of Japan (SCJ)

11 hours
12 hours

US East Coast

26 hours

BrazilMember Societies

Closest International Airport

Access Via Other Japanese Airports

Kansai International Airport (KIX)Tokyo (Narita International Airport)(NRT)JR Haruka Luxury Express Train

75 minLimousine Bus

95 minShuttle Taxi

95 minNaiphinich Kotchabhakdi (ASRS Treasurer)

NEX & Shinkansen

60 min & 2 hr 15 min

Nagoya (Central Japan International Airport)(NGO)
Meitetsu & Shinkansen

28 min & 36 min

Fukuoka (Fukuoka Airport)(FUK)Shinkansen

American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)

2 hr 44 min

Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS)
Australasian Sleep Association (ASA)
Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)
European Sleep Research Society (ESRS)
Federation of Latin American Sleep Societies (FLASS)
Sleep Research Society (United States) (SRS)

Attn. A. Nishida

Inquiry

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http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/

KYOTO, JAPANWorldsleep2011 New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet
Invitation● Presidential Lecturers

Ron Grunstein
President of World Sleep Federation

It is my pleasure as President of the World Sleep Federation to invite you to our 6th
Quadrennial Congress Kyoto in October, 2011. The Federation brings together all who
have a passion for sleep research and care of patients with sleep disorders into one venue
to network our ideas and opinions. Our member societies share many challenges inpromoting and funding sleep research or ensuring our governments and education
systems prioritise sleep medicine. The Congress in Kyoto will help us meet these challenges with fresh concepts,
shared experiences and future plans. As our Congress theme says we are aiming for new horizons in our field.

● Plenary Symposia (Tentative)● Opening Lecturer

Future Direction of Global Sleep Medicine
in collaboration with World Sleep Federation (WFS),
the Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR)
and World Health Organization (WHO)Ron Grunstein
President of World Sleep Federation

Masako Okawa

Juichi Yamagiwa

Chair of Local Organizing Committee

Kyoto University Graduate
School of Science, Japan● Plenary Lecturers

Sleep in Women: gender differences in sleep-wake control
Organizers: Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen, Finland
Mayumi Kimura, Germany
Regulation of muscular tonus during REM sleep through the
hypothalamus to the spinal cord
Organizers: Yoshimasa Koyama, Japan
Yuan-Yang Lai, USA

Jerome Siegel

Serge Daan

Clifford B. Saper

Sonia Ancoli-Israel

UCLA Brain ResearchInstitute, U.S.A.

Center for Life Sciences,
University of Groningen,
The Netherlands

Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, U.S.A.

University of California,
San Diego, U.S.A.

Masako Okawa

Firstly, 30 years have passed since the JSSR has hosted its first international meeting in
1979 in Tokyo (3rd International Congress of Sleep Research). Since then, the JSSR has dramatically advanced
sleep research and sleep medicine, with an increase of the number of sleep researchers. We believe that it is an
excellent opportunity to invite those who devoted their energies for the development of our societies, as well as
colleagues from all around the world, to Kyoto.
Secondly, it is a good opportunity to show our existence in an era where the World Sleep Federation isundergoing transformation into new structures. Within the framework of an ever-globalizing society in the 21st
century, human beings have been facing challenges to better ones life in facing those challenges, we found thatthe sleep has an important role in human lives, although many do not fully realize its importance. It is high time
for us, sleep researchers, to widely and loudly announce the importance of sleep, and the WFS carries its mission
to advocate it. The Worldsleep2011 is the first step to achieve this goal.
Given that, we aim to achieve the following at this Worldsleep2011, 1) to illustrate the social problems reside withthe sleep in scientific and medical aspects, 2) to educate and cultivate future researchers in this field, which is theforemost task required at this Congress, and 3) to widen and deepen the sphere that female researchers can be
active and energetic. Gender-related roles have been transforming its significance among our daily lives, and webelieve that such gender-based differences will play their roles within and outside of the academic fields,
including the JSSR. On this occasion as I take a role as one of the chairs of this Worldsleep2011, it would be agood opportunity to focus on this topic. I expect that this Worldsleep2011 to be the beginning for new academic
findings, as well as to bring up many female researchers and leaders.
We anticipate as many participants as possible from all around the world to join the Worldsleep2011.

Impact of insomnia on human life
Organizers: Makoto Uchiyama, Japan
Damien Leger, France
Genetic and physiological phenotyping of human clock system
and its sycho-sociological impact on modern human society
Organizers: Kazuo Mishima, Japan
Diane Bovin, Canada
Cross-cultural differences in sleep and sleep disturbances inyoung children
Organizers: Daniel Goh, Singapore
Jodi A. Mindell, USA

Sleep in neurodevelopmental disabilities
Organizers: Judith A. Owens, USA
Masako Taniike, JapanThe neural circuit of orexin: regulation of sleep and wakefulness
Organizers: Takeshi Sakurai, JapanThe Burden of Sleep-Disordered Breathing Across the Globe
Organizers: Naresh M. Punjabi, USA
Tsuneto Akashiba, Japan

Japanese Society for Chronobiology (JSC) Joint Symposium
Organizers: Ken-ichi Honma, Japan
Shizufumi Ebihara, Japan● Program at a Glance (Tentative)

Chair of Local Organizing Committee

We, the Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS) and the Japanese Society of Sleep
Research (JSSR), are looking forward to welcoming the sleep researchers in the world tothe Worldsleep2011 in Kyoto, 2011. We consider the Worldsleep2011 is important for the
ASRS and JSSR with several aspects.

Update on REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
Organizers: Jacques Montplaisir, Canada
Yuichi Inoue, Japan

Seasonality in sleep and circadian rhythms
Organizers: Sato Honma, Japan
Douglas G. McMahon, USA
New Perspectives on Declarative Memory Processing during Sleep
Organizers: Yuka Sasaki, USA
Kenichi Kuriyama, Japan

Kyoto is a spectacular setting for our congress and delegates will hopefully have time to appreciate the old capitalof Japan and its surrounding areas. Our hosts the Asian Sleep Research Society and the local organisingcommittee are hard at work creating the mix of science and social events to make your time in Kyoto a wonderfulexperience. As co-chair of the last Congress, I know how much effort is required and I thank them. This is our first
Congress in Asia and brings the Federation to the fastest growing region in sleep research and sleep medicine,
Our congresses are every 4 years only because they are special – a truly global meeting in a wonderful historicalvenue with a special atmosphere of a shared fascination with the world of sleep. See you in Kyoto !

Chronotherapy (sleep deprivation, light therapy, sleep-wakephase modulation) for depression
Organizers: Anna Wirz-Justice, Switzerland
Tetsuo Shimizu, JapanAMDavid P. White

Eve Van Cauter

Daniel J. Buysse

Neurocenter ofSouthern Switzerland;
Ospedale Civico, Switzerland

Harvard Medical School,
U.S.A.

University of Chigago,
U.S.A.

University of Pittsburgh,Western Psychiatric Instituteand Clinic, U.S.A.

PM

EV

JSSR※

Saturday
Oct. 15

Claudio L. Bassetti

Important Dates to Remember

Poster Session / Exhibition

JSSR※

SundayOct. 16

Opening Ceremony

Opnening Lecture

Welcome
Reception

Poster Session / Exhibition

MondayOct. 17

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopPlenary
LectureTuesday
Oct. 18

Mary A. Carskadon

Seung Bong Hong

Mary S.M. Ip

Medical Psychology, Germany

Alpert Medical School,
Brown University, U.S.A.

Sungkyunkwan University
School of Medicine, Korea

The University ofHong Kong, China

Institute for

Wednesday
Oct. 19

Plenary
LectureJanuary – March 2011

Deadline for Early Registration

June 2011

Notice of Abstract AcceptanceJune 2011

Deadline for Advance Registration

September 2011

(Register for bothWorldsleep2011 and36th Annual Meetingof JSSR)

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
Workshop(unitl Sep. 30, 2011)

JPY 45,000

JPY 50,000-※ A JPY 5,000 discount for those registering for Worldsleep2011

and the 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep
Research at the same time.

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture Presidential
LectureWorkshop

Congress
Party

Registration Fees for Worldsleep2011

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
Workshop

Early Bird Rate

Standard Rate

JPY 40,000

JPY 45,000(until Jun. 30, 2011) (unitl Sep. 30, 2011)

Poster Session / Exhibition

Thursday
Oct. 20

Standard Rate On-siteRate(until Jun. 30, 2011)

Special Rate Ticket

Plenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopPlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopJanuary – April 2011

Application for Travel Awards

Early Bird Rate

Poster Session / Exhibition

Till Roenneberg

January 2011

Call for Abstracts

Registration Fees for Worldsleep2011 and the 36th
Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research

Plenary Symposia
Presidential
Educational Lecture
LectureWorkshop

Poster Session / Exhibition
Plenary
LectureRegistration Opens

RegularClosing
Remarks

Poster Session / Exhibition※ JSSR=The 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep ResearchStudents

JPY 20,000

Accompanying
PersonJPY 10,000

Congress Party

JPY 6,000

On-siteRate
JPY 50,000
JPY 25,000● Call for Abstracts
Tetsuo Shimizu

Ken-ichi Honma

Akita University Graduate
School of Medicine, Japan

Hokkaido University
Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Online submission of abstracts will be available from January 2011.
Abstracts can only be submitted via the congress website (http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/).

● Travel Awards
The Conference will award travel grants to a limited member of students. These awards are intended to partially offset travel
costs to attend Worldsleep 2011.
To apply, forms and instructions will be available from January 2011 at http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/.

KYOTO, JAPANWorldsleep2011 New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet
Invitation● Presidential Lecturers

Ron Grunstein
President of World Sleep Federation

It is my pleasure as President of the World Sleep Federation to invite you to our 6th
Quadrennial Congress Kyoto in October, 2011. The Federation brings together all who
have a passion for sleep research and care of patients with sleep disorders into one venue
to network our ideas and opinions. Our member societies share many challenges inpromoting and funding sleep research or ensuring our governments and education
systems prioritise sleep medicine. The Congress in Kyoto will help us meet these challenges with fresh concepts,
shared experiences and future plans. As our Congress theme says we are aiming for new horizons in our field.

● Plenary Symposia (Tentative)● Opening Lecturer

Future Direction of Global Sleep Medicine
in collaboration with World Sleep Federation (WFS),
the Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR)
and World Health Organization (WHO)Ron Grunstein
President of World Sleep Federation

Masako Okawa

Juichi Yamagiwa

Chair of Local Organizing Committee

Kyoto University Graduate
School of Science, Japan● Plenary Lecturers

Sleep in Women: gender differences in sleep-wake control
Organizers: Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen, Finland
Mayumi Kimura, Germany
Regulation of muscular tonus during REM sleep through the
hypothalamus to the spinal cord
Organizers: Yoshimasa Koyama, Japan
Yuan-Yang Lai, USA

Jerome Siegel

Serge Daan

Clifford B. Saper

Sonia Ancoli-Israel

UCLA Brain ResearchInstitute, U.S.A.

Center for Life Sciences,
University of Groningen,
The Netherlands

Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, U.S.A.

University of California,
San Diego, U.S.A.

Masako Okawa

Firstly, 30 years have passed since the JSSR has hosted its first international meeting in
1979 in Tokyo (3rd International Congress of Sleep Research). Since then, the JSSR has dramatically advanced
sleep research and sleep medicine, with an increase of the number of sleep researchers. We believe that it is an
excellent opportunity to invite those who devoted their energies for the development of our societies, as well as
colleagues from all around the world, to Kyoto.
Secondly, it is a good opportunity to show our existence in an era where the World Sleep Federation isundergoing transformation into new structures. Within the framework of an ever-globalizing society in the 21st
century, human beings have been facing challenges to better ones life in facing those challenges, we found thatthe sleep has an important role in human lives, although many do not fully realize its importance. It is high time
for us, sleep researchers, to widely and loudly announce the importance of sleep, and the WFS carries its mission
to advocate it. The Worldsleep2011 is the first step to achieve this goal.
Given that, we aim to achieve the following at this Worldsleep2011, 1) to illustrate the social problems reside withthe sleep in scientific and medical aspects, 2) to educate and cultivate future researchers in this field, which is theforemost task required at this Congress, and 3) to widen and deepen the sphere that female researchers can be
active and energetic. Gender-related roles have been transforming its significance among our daily lives, and webelieve that such gender-based differences will play their roles within and outside of the academic fields,
including the JSSR. On this occasion as I take a role as one of the chairs of this Worldsleep2011, it would be agood opportunity to focus on this topic. I expect that this Worldsleep2011 to be the beginning for new academic
findings, as well as to bring up many female researchers and leaders.
We anticipate as many participants as possible from all around the world to join the Worldsleep2011.

Impact of insomnia on human life
Organizers: Makoto Uchiyama, Japan
Damien Leger, France
Genetic and physiological phenotyping of human clock system
and its sycho-sociological impact on modern human society
Organizers: Kazuo Mishima, Japan
Diane Bovin, Canada
Cross-cultural differences in sleep and sleep disturbances inyoung children
Organizers: Daniel Goh, Singapore
Jodi A. Mindell, USA

Sleep in neurodevelopmental disabilities
Organizers: Judith A. Owens, USA
Masako Taniike, JapanThe neural circuit of orexin: regulation of sleep and wakefulness
Organizers: Takeshi Sakurai, JapanThe Burden of Sleep-Disordered Breathing Across the Globe
Organizers: Naresh M. Punjabi, USA
Tsuneto Akashiba, Japan

Japanese Society for Chronobiology (JSC) Joint Symposium
Organizers: Ken-ichi Honma, Japan
Shizufumi Ebihara, Japan● Program at a Glance (Tentative)

Chair of Local Organizing Committee

We, the Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS) and the Japanese Society of Sleep
Research (JSSR), are looking forward to welcoming the sleep researchers in the world tothe Worldsleep2011 in Kyoto, 2011. We consider the Worldsleep2011 is important for the
ASRS and JSSR with several aspects.

Update on REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
Organizers: Jacques Montplaisir, Canada
Yuichi Inoue, Japan

Seasonality in sleep and circadian rhythms
Organizers: Sato Honma, Japan
Douglas G. McMahon, USA
New Perspectives on Declarative Memory Processing during Sleep
Organizers: Yuka Sasaki, USA
Kenichi Kuriyama, Japan

Kyoto is a spectacular setting for our congress and delegates will hopefully have time to appreciate the old capitalof Japan and its surrounding areas. Our hosts the Asian Sleep Research Society and the local organisingcommittee are hard at work creating the mix of science and social events to make your time in Kyoto a wonderfulexperience. As co-chair of the last Congress, I know how much effort is required and I thank them. This is our first
Congress in Asia and brings the Federation to the fastest growing region in sleep research and sleep medicine,
Our congresses are every 4 years only because they are special – a truly global meeting in a wonderful historicalvenue with a special atmosphere of a shared fascination with the world of sleep. See you in Kyoto !

Chronotherapy (sleep deprivation, light therapy, sleep-wakephase modulation) for depression
Organizers: Anna Wirz-Justice, Switzerland
Tetsuo Shimizu, JapanAMDavid P. White

Eve Van Cauter

Daniel J. Buysse

Neurocenter ofSouthern Switzerland;
Ospedale Civico, Switzerland

Harvard Medical School,
U.S.A.

University of Chigago,
U.S.A.

University of Pittsburgh,Western Psychiatric Instituteand Clinic, U.S.A.

PM

EV

JSSR※

Saturday
Oct. 15

Claudio L. Bassetti

Important Dates to Remember

Poster Session / Exhibition

JSSR※

SundayOct. 16

Opening Ceremony

Opnening Lecture

Welcome
Reception

Poster Session / Exhibition

MondayOct. 17

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopPlenary
LectureTuesday
Oct. 18

Mary A. Carskadon

Seung Bong Hong

Mary S.M. Ip

Medical Psychology, Germany

Alpert Medical School,
Brown University, U.S.A.

Sungkyunkwan University
School of Medicine, Korea

The University ofHong Kong, China

Institute for

Wednesday
Oct. 19

Plenary
LectureJanuary – March 2011

Deadline for Early Registration

June 2011

Notice of Abstract AcceptanceJune 2011

Deadline for Advance Registration

September 2011

(Register for bothWorldsleep2011 and36th Annual Meetingof JSSR)

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
Workshop(unitl Sep. 30, 2011)

JPY 45,000

JPY 50,000-※ A JPY 5,000 discount for those registering for Worldsleep2011

and the 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep
Research at the same time.

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture Presidential
LectureWorkshop

Congress
Party

Registration Fees for Worldsleep2011

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
Workshop

Early Bird Rate

Standard Rate

JPY 40,000

JPY 45,000(until Jun. 30, 2011) (unitl Sep. 30, 2011)

Poster Session / Exhibition

Thursday
Oct. 20

Standard Rate On-siteRate(until Jun. 30, 2011)

Special Rate Ticket

Plenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopPlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopJanuary – April 2011

Application for Travel Awards

Early Bird Rate

Poster Session / Exhibition

Till Roenneberg

January 2011

Call for Abstracts

Registration Fees for Worldsleep2011 and the 36th
Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research

Plenary Symposia
Presidential
Educational Lecture
LectureWorkshop

Poster Session / Exhibition
Plenary
LectureRegistration Opens

RegularClosing
Remarks

Poster Session / Exhibition※ JSSR=The 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep ResearchStudents

JPY 20,000

Accompanying
PersonJPY 10,000

Congress Party

JPY 6,000

On-siteRate
JPY 50,000
JPY 25,000● Call for Abstracts
Tetsuo Shimizu

Ken-ichi Honma

Akita University Graduate
School of Medicine, Japan

Hokkaido University
Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Online submission of abstracts will be available from January 2011.
Abstracts can only be submitted via the congress website (http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/).

● Travel Awards
The Conference will award travel grants to a limited member of students. These awards are intended to partially offset travel
costs to attend Worldsleep 2011.
To apply, forms and instructions will be available from January 2011 at http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/.

KYOTO, JAPANWorldsleep2011 New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet
Invitation● Presidential Lecturers

Ron Grunstein
President of World Sleep Federation

It is my pleasure as President of the World Sleep Federation to invite you to our 6th
Quadrennial Congress Kyoto in October, 2011. The Federation brings together all who
have a passion for sleep research and care of patients with sleep disorders into one venue
to network our ideas and opinions. Our member societies share many challenges inpromoting and funding sleep research or ensuring our governments and education
systems prioritise sleep medicine. The Congress in Kyoto will help us meet these challenges with fresh concepts,
shared experiences and future plans. As our Congress theme says we are aiming for new horizons in our field.

● Plenary Symposia (Tentative)● Opening Lecturer

Future Direction of Global Sleep Medicine
in collaboration with World Sleep Federation (WFS),
the Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR)
and World Health Organization (WHO)Ron Grunstein
President of World Sleep Federation

Masako Okawa

Juichi Yamagiwa

Chair of Local Organizing Committee

Kyoto University Graduate
School of Science, Japan● Plenary Lecturers

Sleep in Women: gender differences in sleep-wake control
Organizers: Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen, Finland
Mayumi Kimura, Germany
Regulation of muscular tonus during REM sleep through the
hypothalamus to the spinal cord
Organizers: Yoshimasa Koyama, Japan
Yuan-Yang Lai, USA

Jerome Siegel

Serge Daan

Clifford B. Saper

Sonia Ancoli-Israel

UCLA Brain ResearchInstitute, U.S.A.

Center for Life Sciences,
University of Groningen,
The Netherlands

Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, U.S.A.

University of California,
San Diego, U.S.A.

Masako Okawa

Firstly, 30 years have passed since the JSSR has hosted its first international meeting in
1979 in Tokyo (3rd International Congress of Sleep Research). Since then, the JSSR has dramatically advanced
sleep research and sleep medicine, with an increase of the number of sleep researchers. We believe that it is an
excellent opportunity to invite those who devoted their energies for the development of our societies, as well as
colleagues from all around the world, to Kyoto.
Secondly, it is a good opportunity to show our existence in an era where the World Sleep Federation isundergoing transformation into new structures. Within the framework of an ever-globalizing society in the 21st
century, human beings have been facing challenges to better ones life in facing those challenges, we found thatthe sleep has an important role in human lives, although many do not fully realize its importance. It is high time
for us, sleep researchers, to widely and loudly announce the importance of sleep, and the WFS carries its mission
to advocate it. The Worldsleep2011 is the first step to achieve this goal.
Given that, we aim to achieve the following at this Worldsleep2011, 1) to illustrate the social problems reside withthe sleep in scientific and medical aspects, 2) to educate and cultivate future researchers in this field, which is theforemost task required at this Congress, and 3) to widen and deepen the sphere that female researchers can be
active and energetic. Gender-related roles have been transforming its significance among our daily lives, and webelieve that such gender-based differences will play their roles within and outside of the academic fields,
including the JSSR. On this occasion as I take a role as one of the chairs of this Worldsleep2011, it would be agood opportunity to focus on this topic. I expect that this Worldsleep2011 to be the beginning for new academic
findings, as well as to bring up many female researchers and leaders.
We anticipate as many participants as possible from all around the world to join the Worldsleep2011.

Impact of insomnia on human life
Organizers: Makoto Uchiyama, Japan
Damien Leger, France
Genetic and physiological phenotyping of human clock system
and its sycho-sociological impact on modern human society
Organizers: Kazuo Mishima, Japan
Diane Bovin, Canada
Cross-cultural differences in sleep and sleep disturbances inyoung children
Organizers: Daniel Goh, Singapore
Jodi A. Mindell, USA

Sleep in neurodevelopmental disabilities
Organizers: Judith A. Owens, USA
Masako Taniike, JapanThe neural circuit of orexin: regulation of sleep and wakefulness
Organizers: Takeshi Sakurai, JapanThe Burden of Sleep-Disordered Breathing Across the Globe
Organizers: Naresh M. Punjabi, USA
Tsuneto Akashiba, Japan

Japanese Society for Chronobiology (JSC) Joint Symposium
Organizers: Ken-ichi Honma, Japan
Shizufumi Ebihara, Japan● Program at a Glance (Tentative)

Chair of Local Organizing Committee

We, the Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS) and the Japanese Society of Sleep
Research (JSSR), are looking forward to welcoming the sleep researchers in the world tothe Worldsleep2011 in Kyoto, 2011. We consider the Worldsleep2011 is important for the
ASRS and JSSR with several aspects.

Update on REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
Organizers: Jacques Montplaisir, Canada
Yuichi Inoue, Japan

Seasonality in sleep and circadian rhythms
Organizers: Sato Honma, Japan
Douglas G. McMahon, USA
New Perspectives on Declarative Memory Processing during Sleep
Organizers: Yuka Sasaki, USA
Kenichi Kuriyama, Japan

Kyoto is a spectacular setting for our congress and delegates will hopefully have time to appreciate the old capitalof Japan and its surrounding areas. Our hosts the Asian Sleep Research Society and the local organisingcommittee are hard at work creating the mix of science and social events to make your time in Kyoto a wonderfulexperience. As co-chair of the last Congress, I know how much effort is required and I thank them. This is our first
Congress in Asia and brings the Federation to the fastest growing region in sleep research and sleep medicine,
Our congresses are every 4 years only because they are special – a truly global meeting in a wonderful historicalvenue with a special atmosphere of a shared fascination with the world of sleep. See you in Kyoto !

Chronotherapy (sleep deprivation, light therapy, sleep-wakephase modulation) for depression
Organizers: Anna Wirz-Justice, Switzerland
Tetsuo Shimizu, JapanAMDavid P. White

Eve Van Cauter

Daniel J. Buysse

Neurocenter ofSouthern Switzerland;
Ospedale Civico, Switzerland

Harvard Medical School,
U.S.A.

University of Chigago,
U.S.A.

University of Pittsburgh,Western Psychiatric Instituteand Clinic, U.S.A.

PM

EV

JSSR※

Saturday
Oct. 15

Claudio L. Bassetti

Important Dates to Remember

Poster Session / Exhibition

JSSR※

SundayOct. 16

Opening Ceremony

Opnening Lecture

Welcome
Reception

Poster Session / Exhibition

MondayOct. 17

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopPlenary
LectureTuesday
Oct. 18

Mary A. Carskadon

Seung Bong Hong

Mary S.M. Ip

Medical Psychology, Germany

Alpert Medical School,
Brown University, U.S.A.

Sungkyunkwan University
School of Medicine, Korea

The University ofHong Kong, China

Institute for

Wednesday
Oct. 19

Plenary
LectureJanuary – March 2011

Deadline for Early Registration

June 2011

Notice of Abstract AcceptanceJune 2011

Deadline for Advance Registration

September 2011

(Register for bothWorldsleep2011 and36th Annual Meetingof JSSR)

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
Workshop(unitl Sep. 30, 2011)

JPY 45,000

JPY 50,000-※ A JPY 5,000 discount for those registering for Worldsleep2011

and the 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep
Research at the same time.

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture Presidential
LectureWorkshop

Congress
Party

Registration Fees for Worldsleep2011

Plenary
LecturePlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
Workshop

Early Bird Rate

Standard Rate

JPY 40,000

JPY 45,000(until Jun. 30, 2011) (unitl Sep. 30, 2011)

Poster Session / Exhibition

Thursday
Oct. 20

Standard Rate On-siteRate(until Jun. 30, 2011)

Special Rate Ticket

Plenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopPlenary Symposia
Educational Lecture
WorkshopJanuary – April 2011

Application for Travel Awards

Early Bird Rate

Poster Session / Exhibition

Till Roenneberg

January 2011

Call for Abstracts

Registration Fees for Worldsleep2011 and the 36th
Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research

Plenary Symposia
Presidential
Educational Lecture
LectureWorkshop

Poster Session / Exhibition
Plenary
LectureRegistration Opens

RegularClosing
Remarks

Poster Session / Exhibition※ JSSR=The 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep ResearchStudents

JPY 20,000

Accompanying
PersonJPY 10,000

Congress Party

JPY 6,000

On-siteRate
JPY 50,000
JPY 25,000● Call for Abstracts
Tetsuo Shimizu

Ken-ichi Honma

Akita University Graduate
School of Medicine, Japan

Hokkaido University
Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Online submission of abstracts will be available from January 2011.
Abstracts can only be submitted via the congress website (http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/).

● Travel Awards
The Conference will award travel grants to a limited member of students. These awards are intended to partially offset travel
costs to attend Worldsleep 2011.
To apply, forms and instructions will be available from January 2011 at http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/.

2nd Announcement

Worldsleep2011
New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet

Worldsleep2011● About Kyoto
The venue of Worldsleep2011, Kyoto, proudly reigned as capital ofJapan for 1200 years. The history and heritage of this city lives on in
the 1.5 million population modern city: Seventeen UNESCO World
Cultural Heritage Sites are situated in a cityscape dominated by 2000
temples and shrines. The city offers you endless opportunities to gain
meaningful hands-on experience of rich Kyoto culture through Tea
Ceremony, sake brewing, kimono wearing, swordsmanship, and more.
Japan is renowned for its beauty and the compactness of Kyoto
makes for wonderful strolling.

● Member Society P
Presidents

Patrick Strollo

Masako Okawa

Craig Hukins

Helen Driver

American Academy ofSleep Medicine (AASM)

Asian Sleep ResearchSociety (ASRS)

Australasian Sleep
Association (ASA)

Canadian Sleep
Society (CSS)Claudio Bassetti

Darwin Vizcarra

Clifford B. Saper

European Sleep
Research Society (ESRS)

Federation of Latin
American Sleep Societies(FLASS)

Sleep Research Society(SRS)

New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet

October 16 (sun) -20 (thu), 2011
Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto)

From the moment of arrival at Kansai International Airport - just 75mins
from the city centre - guests of this city are pampered with the finest
Kyoto service.

KYOTO, JAPAN● Access to Kyoto
Flight time to Kansai International Airport (KIX)● Local Organizing Committee
Masako Okawa (Chair/ASRS President)

Korea
China
Hong Kong

Hosts

2 hours
3 hours
4 hours

Singapore

Tetsuo Shimizu (Vice Chair)
Do-Un Jeong (Vice Chair/ASRS Vice President)
Ning-hung Chen (Vice Chair/ASRS Vice President)
Ken-ichi Honma (Secretary General/ASRS Secretary General)
Takashi Ohida (Vice Secretary General)
Toshiaki Shiomi (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
Soichiro Miyazaki (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
Koichi Hirata (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
H.N.Mallick (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)Japan

6 hours

Australia

9 hours

US West Coast

10 hours

Europe10 hours

New ZealandWorld Sleep Federation (WSF)
Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS)
Science Council of Japan (SCJ)

11 hours
12 hours

US East Coast

26 hours

BrazilMember Societies

Closest International Airport

Access Via Other Japanese Airports

Kansai International Airport (KIX)Tokyo (Narita International Airport)(NRT)JR Haruka Luxury Express Train

75 minLimousine Bus

95 minShuttle Taxi

95 minNaiphinich Kotchabhakdi (ASRS Treasurer)

NEX & Shinkansen

60 min & 2 hr 15 min

Nagoya (Central Japan International Airport)(NGO)
Meitetsu & Shinkansen

28 min & 36 min

Fukuoka (Fukuoka Airport)(FUK)Shinkansen

American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)

2 hr 44 min

Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS)
Australasian Sleep Association (ASA)
Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)
European Sleep Research Society (ESRS)
Federation of Latin American Sleep Societies (FLASS)
Sleep Research Society (United States) (SRS)

Attn. A. Nishida

Inquiry

c/o Convention Linkage, Inc.
PIAS TOWER 11F, 3-19-3 Toyosaki, Kita-ku, Osaka 531-0072, Japane-mail:ws2011@secretariat.ne.jp

http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/

2nd Announcement

Worldsleep2011
New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet

Worldsleep2011● About Kyoto
The venue of Worldsleep2011, Kyoto, proudly reigned as capital ofJapan for 1200 years. The history and heritage of this city lives on in
the 1.5 million population modern city: Seventeen UNESCO World
Cultural Heritage Sites are situated in a cityscape dominated by 2000
temples and shrines. The city offers you endless opportunities to gain
meaningful hands-on experience of rich Kyoto culture through Tea
Ceremony, sake brewing, kimono wearing, swordsmanship, and more.
Japan is renowned for its beauty and the compactness of Kyoto
makes for wonderful strolling.

● Member Society P
Presidents

Patrick Strollo

Masako Okawa

Craig Hukins

Helen Driver

American Academy ofSleep Medicine (AASM)

Asian Sleep ResearchSociety (ASRS)

Australasian Sleep
Association (ASA)

Canadian Sleep
Society (CSS)Claudio Bassetti

Darwin Vizcarra

Clifford B. Saper

European Sleep
Research Society (ESRS)

Federation of Latin
American Sleep Societies(FLASS)

Sleep Research Society(SRS)

New Horizons of Sleep Research for Our Planet

October 16 (sun) -20 (thu), 2011
Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto)

From the moment of arrival at Kansai International Airport - just 75mins
from the city centre - guests of this city are pampered with the finest
Kyoto service.

KYOTO, JAPAN● Access to Kyoto
Flight time to Kansai International Airport (KIX)● Local Organizing Committee
Masako Okawa (Chair/ASRS President)

Korea
China
Hong Kong

Hosts

2 hours
3 hours
4 hours

Singapore

Tetsuo Shimizu (Vice Chair)
Do-Un Jeong (Vice Chair/ASRS Vice President)
Ning-hung Chen (Vice Chair/ASRS Vice President)
Ken-ichi Honma (Secretary General/ASRS Secretary General)
Takashi Ohida (Vice Secretary General)
Toshiaki Shiomi (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
Soichiro Miyazaki (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
Koichi Hirata (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)
H.N.Mallick (ASRS Chair of Scientific Committee)Japan

6 hours

Australia

9 hours

US West Coast

10 hours

Europe10 hours

New ZealandWorld Sleep Federation (WSF)
Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS)
Science Council of Japan (SCJ)

11 hours
12 hours

US East Coast

26 hours

BrazilMember Societies

Closest International Airport

Access Via Other Japanese Airports

Kansai International Airport (KIX)Tokyo (Narita International Airport)(NRT)JR Haruka Luxury Express Train

75 minLimousine Bus

95 minShuttle Taxi

95 minNaiphinich Kotchabhakdi (ASRS Treasurer)

NEX & Shinkansen

60 min & 2 hr 15 min

Nagoya (Central Japan International Airport)(NGO)
Meitetsu & Shinkansen

28 min & 36 min

Fukuoka (Fukuoka Airport)(FUK)Shinkansen

American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)

2 hr 44 min

Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS)
Australasian Sleep Association (ASA)
Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)
European Sleep Research Society (ESRS)
Federation of Latin American Sleep Societies (FLASS)
Sleep Research Society (United States) (SRS)

Attn. A. Nishida

Inquiry

c/o Convention Linkage, Inc.
PIAS TOWER 11F, 3-19-3 Toyosaki, Kita-ku, Osaka 531-0072, Japane-mail:ws2011@secretariat.ne.jp

http://www.worldsleep2011.jp/