Frédéric Bruno Martin Gachon
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Frédéric Bruno Martin Gachon Institut for Biomedicin
Forskning og uddannelse Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 10
8000 Aarhus C
Danmark
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Professor of Medical Chronobiology at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University, I am leading a research group located at the Steno Diabetic Center Aarhus and collaborate with Clinician at Aarhus University Hospital.
Forskning
The rotation of the Earth around its own axis creates daily changes in the environment of all living species.
To anticipate these changes and be more adapted to this fluctuating environment, they have all adapted an evolutionary conserved circadian clock that controls most aspects of physiology.
The exposition to conditions that disturb this circadian rhythms such as shift work, disrupted light exposure or the use of screens or smartphones at night causes chronodisruption that can have a broad impact on health, including predispositions for pathologies like obesity, diabetes, cancer or neurological disorders.
Our goal is to understand and characterize the mechanisms of how chronodisruption can lead to the development of pathology.
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As a Professor of Medical Chronobiology, I conduct research aiming at deciphering the bidirectional relationship between disruption of circadian rhythms and human pathologies. In my work, I am responsible for supervising research in chronobiology as well as using this knowledge to train the next generation of scientists and improve patients’ health and wellbeing. I have a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology and have more than 20 years of experience in circadian rhythms research.