2019.12.08 拉塞尔-福斯特教授 睡眠专家

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Professor Russell Foster is head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, professor of circadian neuroscience and the director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology. An expert in sleep, he describes it as 'the single most important health behaviour we have'.

Born in 1959, as a child he loved his toy microscope and digging up fossils. Despite being labelled “entirely non-academic” by his headmaster and attending remedial classes for some years, he achieved three science A levels which won him a place at the University of Bristol.

There, he developed an early interest in photo-receptors - cells which convert light into signals that can stimulate biological processes. This eventually led to his post-doctoral discovery, in 1991, of a previously unknown type of cell – photosensitive retinal ganglion cells – in the eyes of mice. His proposition that these ganglion cells – which are not used for vision, but to detect brightness – exist in humans too initially met with scepticism from the ophthalmological community.

Russell’s research has made a significant impact, proving that our eyes provide us with both our sense of vision and our sense of time, which has changed the clinical definition of blindness and the treatment of eye disease. He has published several popular science books.

Russell is married to Elizabeth Downes, with whom he has three grown-up children.

DISC ONE: Ode to Joy from the 4th movement of Symphony No. 9, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Höngen, Hans Hopf, Otto Edelman and the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
DISC TWO: Die Walkϋre Act 3, Finale, from Der Ring des Nibelungen, sung by Hans Hotter and performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna State Opera Chorus
DISC THREE: Don Giovanni, K. 527: Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata by Kiri Te Kanawa
DISC FOUR: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics
DISC FIVE: (Nimrod): Adagio by BBC Symphony Orchestra
DISC SIX: Title: Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds by The Michael Nyman Band
DISC SEVEN: The Mikado, Act II: The Sun Whose Rays by The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
DISC EIGHT: Let’s Misbehave by Irving Aaronson

BOOK CHOICE: The collected works of Adrian John Desmond
LUXURY ITEM: A mask, snorkel, flippers and underwater camera
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Die Walkϋre Act 3, Finale, from Der Ring des Nibelungen, sung by Hans Hotter and performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna State Opera Chorus



拉塞尔-福斯特教授是牛津大学睡眠和昼夜神经科学研究所所长，昼夜神经科学教授和纳菲尔德眼科实验室主任。作为睡眠方面的专家，他将睡眠描述为 "我们拥有的唯一最重要的健康行为"。

他出生于1959年，小时候喜欢他的玩具显微镜和挖掘化石。尽管他被校长贴上了 "完全非学术 "的标签，并上了几年的补习班，但他还是取得了三个科学A级的成绩，为他赢得了布里斯托尔大学的录取。

在那里，他很早就对光感受器产生了兴趣--这些细胞将光转化为可以刺激生物过程的信号。这最终导致了他在1991年的博士后研究中发现了一种以前未知的细胞类型--小鼠眼睛中的光敏视网膜神经节细胞。他提出的这些神经节细胞--不是用于视觉，而是用于检测亮度--在人类中也存在，最初遭到眼科界的怀疑。

罗素的研究产生了重大影响，证明了我们的眼睛为我们提供了视觉和时间感，这改变了失明的临床定义和眼病的治疗。他已经出版了几本科普书籍。

罗素与伊丽莎白-唐斯结婚，与她有三个长大的孩子。

DISC ONE: 欢乐颂》选自《第九交响曲》第四乐章，由威廉-富特文格勒指挥，伊丽莎白-施瓦茨科夫、伊丽莎白-霍恩根、汉斯-霍普夫、奥托-埃德尔曼和拜罗伊特音乐节管弦乐团演奏。
DISC TWO: Die Walkϋre第三幕，终曲，选自Der Ring des Nibelungen，由Hans Hotter演唱，维也纳爱乐乐团和维也纳国家歌剧院合唱团演出
DISC THREE: Don Giovanni, K. 527: Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata by Kiri Te Kanawa
DISC 4：Eurythmics的Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)。
DISC 5：（Nimrod）。BBC交响乐团的Adagio
DISC SIX：标题。追逐羊群最好留给牧羊人 by The Michael Nyman Band
DISC Seven: The Mikado, Act II: The Sun Whose Rays by The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
DISC 8: 欧文-阿伦森的《让我们行为不端》。

书籍选择：《阿德里安-约翰-德斯蒙德作品集》。
奢侈物品：面罩、呼吸管、脚蹼和水下相机。
CASTAWAY的最爱：《尼伯龙根的指环》第三幕终曲，由Hans Hotter演唱，维也纳爱乐乐团和维也纳国家歌剧院合唱团演出。