Paolo sassone corsi biography sample
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You are what you eat and when
-By Tanya Petersen, KAUST News
We've all heard the saying "you are what you eat," but an increasing body of cutting-edge research seems to be revealing that we are also "when we eat." This all comes down to our circadian rhythms and the clocks we have in every organ, tissue and cell in our bodies.
Dr. Paolo Sassone-Corsi, director at the Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism at the University of California, Irvine, opened KAUST's Winter Enrichment Program on January 13, taking the audience on a journey through evolutionary time. He explained that our clocks have developed over billions of years in sync with the hour rotation of our planet and cycles of day and night.
However, after around four billion years of evolution, which organized our physiology and circuits of biology to be a certain way, modern life introduced electric lights, television, airplanes and fast food.
Sassone-Corsi explained that th
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About the Authors
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- Rok Kosir,
- Peter Juvan,
- Martina Perse,
- Tomaz Budefeld,
- Gregor Majdic,
- Martina Fink,
- Paolo Sassone-Corsi,
- Damjana Rozman
- Rok Kosir,
- Peter Juvan,
- Martina Perse,
- Tomaz Budefeld,
- Gregor Majdic,
- Martina Fink,
- Paolo Sassone-Corsi,
- Damjana Rozman
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- Rok Kosir
Affiliations Center for Functional Genomics and Bio-Chips, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Diagenomi Ltd, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Peter Juvan
Affiliation Center for Functional Genomics and Bio-Chips, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Martina Perse
Affiliation Medical Experimental Centre, Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Tomaz Budefeld
Affiliation Center for Animal Genomics, Veterinary Faculty, Universit
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The Body’s Clock: Timekeeping With Food
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You Have a Ticking Clock in Your Body
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