Oral presentations - Rhythms of the body and the mind – how they change with our environment, our workplace and our age
Tracks
Track 4
Thursday, October 17, 2024 |
3:45 PM - 5:30 PM |
Room 6 |
Speaker
Dr Phuc Nguyen
Research Fellow
Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute / Flinders University
A novel method to demask non-circadian effects on core body temperature to enhance daily circadian timing and amplitude estimation
3:50 PM - 4:02 PMBiography
Dr. Nguyen is an early career researcher who is the co-lead of the Neuroscience and Novel Biomarkers research team at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute: Sleep Health, Flinders University. Dr. Nguyen's work focuses on innovative, physiology-guided machine learning to understand various sleep disorders, including sleep breathing disorders and circadian misalignments.
Miss Alisha Guyett
PhD Candidate
Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute
Distinguishing Circadian from Sleep Effects on Cognitive Performance During a Simulated Night Work Lighting Intervention
4:03 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Alisha Guyett is a PhD candidate at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute: Sleep Health. Her research explores circadian rhythms and performance in shift workers, with a focus on how tailored lighting interventions can promote circadian alignment at both individual and group levels.
Ms Malisa Burge
Phd Student
Monash University
Circadian photoreception impacts thoughts of self
4:16 PM - 4:28 PMBiography
Malisa is a PhD student nearing the end of her candidature. She focuses on natural language processing, computational modelling, and cognition, and the relevance of these to circadian photoreception. Her aim is to bring cutting-edge methods and technologies to circadian rhythms research. She is the Chair of the Monash University Psychology Student Committee, and in her spare time runs statistics consultancy workshops in R and Python for her peers. Malisa has had collaborations with the Australian Defence Force, Melius Consultancy, and SensiLab.
Miss Alicia Lander
Research Associate
Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute / Flinders University
Circadian Photoreception Influences Loss Aversion
4:29 PM - 4:41 PMBiography
Alicia has recently completed her PhD at Monash University and is currently a Research Associate at Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute. Her research focuses on the influence of light and light sensitivity on impulsivity.
Ms Laura Astbury
Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate
Monash University
Bidirectional associations between maternal and infant sleep and mental health across the perinatal period
4:42 PM - 4:54 PMBiography
Laura Astbury is a third-year Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate and Provisional Psychologist at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. She has been a member of the Bei Sleep and Mental Health Group at the Monash University since 2018 and she received a bachelor's degree in psychology (with honours) from Monash University in 2020. Laura's research focuses on maternal and infant sleep and maternal mental health across the pregnancy and postpartum periods. Laura is also a clinician who delivers cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia during the perinatal period.
Dr Jack Manners
Research Associate
Flinders University
Impact of Temporal Rhythms on Blood Pressure Variability: Daily, Weekly, and Seasonal Effects
4:55 PM - 5:07 PMBiography
Jack Manners is a Research Associate at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI): Sleep Health (formerly AISH) exploring the potential of novel methods and technology to enhance diagnostic, management and treatment pathways for sleep health disorders. His current focus is in leveraging consumer sleep technology for use in clinical decision making. Jack's expertise in consumer sleep technologies has fostered collaborations across diverse research areas. His wider research goal is to translate and simplify complex psychophysiological mechanisms, and ultimately improve sleep treatment capacity and efficacy worldwide.
Ms Yijun Ji
Phd Student
Monash University
Within-subject variation in circadian timing in shift workers repeating the same shift pattern
5:08 PM - 5:20 PMBiography
Yijun Ji is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University, specialising in circadian biology and the impact of shift work on sleep and health. Her research examines the relationship between sleep, light exposure, and circadian rhythms in shift workers. Passionate about translating research findings into practical solutions, Yijun aims to enhance sleep health and overall well-being in shift workers by exploring individual variability in circadian timing to develop personalised interventions for them.
Dr Bastien Lechat
Research Fellow
Flinders University
Chair
3:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Mr Josh Leota
Research Fellow
Monash University