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Presentations

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2025 October - Current Topics in Sleep & Circadian Health

Monitoring real-world light exposure and its impact on sleep health

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2025 September - Research Roundtable & Symposium: Diversity in the circadian, neuroendocrine and neurobehavioral effects of light in humans

Considering socioeconomics, language, & social norms in real-world light exposure

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Talks

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• 10^th Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium (July 2024, Canakkale TÜRKİYE)

• 9^th International Bioengineering Student Congress, Ege University (May 2024, Izmir TÜRKİYE)

• US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Energy (DOE) discussion meeting - Human Physiological Responses to Light (November 2022) https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/ssl-physiology_2022rdmtg-080724.pdf

• Interdisciplinary thinking at the MICRA ‘Ageing and Older Age Conference’ https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/interdisciplinary-thinking-at-the-micra-ageing-and-older-age-conference/

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Scientific conferences

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• Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health, 36^th Annual Meeting (June 2025, Boston USA) https://www.mdpi.com/2624-5175/8/1/2

• European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS), Annual Meeting (August 2025, Lubeck GERMANY)

• Physiological Society, Breakthroughs in Understanding Natural Behaviour and its Neural Underpinnings (September 2024, Manchester UK)

• Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, 35^th Annual Meeting (June 2024, Prague CZECHIA) https://www.mdpi.com/2624-5175/6/4/47

• British Neuroscience Association, Festival of Neuroscience 2023 (April 2025, Liverpool UK)

• NUTRITION 2024, American Society for Nutrition (July 2024, Chicago USA) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.102783

• GRC Chronobiology, Clocks Across the Phylogenetic Tree, from Single Cell to Humans (May 2023, Maine USA)

• Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, 34^th Annual Meeting (May 2023, Lausanne SWITZERLAND) https://www.mdpi.com/2624-5175/5/3/31

• British Neuroscience Association, Festival of Neuroscience 2023 (April 2023, Brighton UK)

• Sleep Research Society, Advances in Sleep & Circadian Science (Feb 2023, Florida USA)

• Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, 33^rd Annual Meeting (July 2022, Manchester UK)

• Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, Annual Meeting (May 2022, Florida USA)

• Sleep Research Society, SLEEP 2021 (June 2021)

• British Neuroscience Association, Festival of Neuroscience (April 2021)

• British Geriatrics Society, Autumn Meeting (November 2020, Manchester UK) https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab030.10

• Society for Research on Biological Rhythms Meeting (May 2020)

• 2^nd Neuroepigenetics & Neuroepitranscriptomics Conference, (March 2020, BAHAMAS)

• British Society of Cell Biology, Dynamic Cell III (March 2018, Manchester UK)

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In the media

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Breakfast timing may hold the key to living longer, new research reveals

Fox News, 2025

Eating Breakfast Later and Later? That Could Be an ‘Early Warning Sign’ That Something’s Wrong

People, 2025

Meal timing in later life may matter for health and longevity

Eurekalert, 2025

Eating breakfast early reduces mortality in older adults, according to a 30-year study

National Geographic, 2025

This Is The Best Time Of Day To Eat Breakfast, According To New Research

Women’s Health, 2025

Shining a light on an overlooked animal welfare issue

UKRI Mary Lyon Centre, 2024

The Health News Is Good if You’re a Morning Person

Psychology Today, 2019

Why a good night’s sleep is important no matter our age

Research Hive, 2019

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Recent activities

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• Division reporter (2025-2026), CIE - International Commission on Illumination, Division Reporter DR6-50 ‘Optimal Spectral Weighting Functions for Biological and Ecological Effects of Environmental Light Pollution’ https://www.cie.co.at/reporter/dr-6-50

• ERASMUS+ programme researcher visit grant (2025 May), 1 week visit to the Translational Sensory & Circadian Neuroscience Unit led by Prof. Manuel Spitschan at the Max Plack Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and Technical University of Munich (TUM) https://www.tscnlab.org/news/didikoglu-visit

• Technical committee membership (2023-2026), CIE - International Commission on Illumination, Technical Committee JTC20 ‘Wearable alpha-opic dosimetry and light logging methods, limitations, device calibration and data schemes’ https://cie.co.at/technicalcommittees/wearable-alpha-opic-dosimetry-and-light-loggingmethods-limitations-device

• International workshop on Light Metrics for Biology: Light Pollution (March 2025), Manchester, UK https://cie.co.at/news/4th-manchester-workshop-light-metrics-biology-light-pollution

• International workshop on Measurement and Standardisation of Lighting for Laboratory Mammals (February 2023), Manchester, UK

• Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research workshop, a discussion meeting with sector leaders about light and circadian rhythm; exploring opportunities for interventions to improve health, wellbeing and productivity in occupational setting (March 2023), Manchester, UK

• Closing the Sleep Gap in Mental Health, a one-day event for clinicians to improve knowledge of treating sleep problems in people with mental health difficulties (January 2023), Manchester, UK https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/news/closing-the-sleep-gap-in-mental-health-a-oneday-event-for-clinicians-to-improve-knowledge-of-treating-sleep-problems-in-people-with-mental-health-difficulties-5955/

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