Research Into Hibernation
Ecology, ethology, evolution, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of hibernation. Biomedical applications of hibernating mechanisms, e.g. in medicine or space travel, and related disciplines such as biological rhythms, sleep, thermoregulation and hypometabolism.
IHS online research seminar
Neurophysiological Adaptations of Hibernation: The Solution to Environmental Challenges
Professor Elena Gracheva, Yale School of Medicine.
21st January 2025
News
Hibernation for humans? Here’s why you’ll want it too
What if you could temporarily pause your life? Where during that break, you wouldn’t age a minute, could lie in bed for months without losing an ounce of muscle, and also be protected from dangerous radiation and scary viruses. Sound unreal? Biologist Roelof Hut of the University of Groningen is trying to unravel the mechanism behind hibernation. If successful, it could have countless applications for humans.
Board of the society

Treasurer
Hjalmar Bouma
Interests: immunological aspects of hibernation for application in personalized acute medicine.

Secretary
Jessica Healy-LaPrice
Interests: ecophysiology of energy balance in ground squirrels.

IHS2024 organizer
Jim Staples
Interests: mitochondria in energy savings and oxidative damage during hibernation.

Member, content provider
Genshiro Sunagawa
Interests: every aspect of hibernation that may result in the clinical application of active hypometabolism.

Member, communication
Sylvain Giroud
Interests: ecophysiology of Metabolic Downstates. Adaptive Responses to Global Change. Biomimicry.

Member, training
Shona Wood
Interests: Torpor arousal cycling. Photoperiodism. Circannual rhythms. Neuroendocrine mechanisms.

Member, webmaster
Chun-Xia Yi
Interests: neuron-glia interaction in neuroendocrinology and chronobiology.
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