Why can't teenagers get out of bed in the morning?. How do bees tell the time? Will our grandchildren live in a world that has banished sleep? How are drugs creating the 24/7 soldier? Why do people have more heart attacks in the early morning? For the answers to all this and more, join Russell Foster as he introduces us to the science of chronobiology. Hear how the world is filled with natural rhythms and ponder the potential damaging impact of modern life-style on our individual and social health. Discuss the choices available to us to continue living in the 24-hour society or to reject the trend and go back to listening to the biological rhythms of life.

Professor Russell Foster is Chairman of the Department of Integrative & Molecular Neuroscience, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine. His interests span circadian and visual neurobiology, but are mainly focused upon the molecular and physiological mechanisms that regulate and generate circadian rhythms. He has published over 140 scientific papers on this topic. Russell Foster is the co-author of “Rhythms of Life: The biological clocks that control the daily lives of every living thing” (2004).

On 19 January 2006, 5.00 p.m. at Wilde Pub in Tartu