We actually have trillions of 'body clocks,' not just one. Here's how they all work together.
We have trillions of body clocks — a central one in the brain and others in each cell of our body. Here's how they work with light to control our health.
Frederic Gachon
Associate Professor, Physiology of Circadian Rhythms, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Frédéric Gachon received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Montpellier (France). Between 2001 and 2006, he performed his post-doctoral training with Prof. Ueli Schibler at the department of Molecular Biology of the University of Geneva, where he started to work on the regulation of physiology by the circadian clock. In 2006, he worked at the Institute of Human Genetic in Montpellier as a junior group leader before continued his career in Switzerland as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Lausanne and as a group leader at the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne. He finally joined the Institute of Molecular Bioscience of the University of Queensland as an Associate Professor in 2019. During all these years, research of the Gachon group focussed on the understanding of the role of feeding and circadian rhythms on mouse and human physiology, contributing to the fundamental basis for chronopharmacology and chrononutrition.
