The core aim of this proposal is to collect suitable clinical and molecular data from human subjects in order to investigate the relationship between individual circadian phase, eating habits, changes of weight and possible reversal of metabolic syndrome. To achieve this, we will integrate information from clinical data on the health/disease state of a cohort of volunteers in an ongoing chrononutrition study led by Dr. Collet at CHUV, which includes smartphone app recordings of subjects’ eating patterns. We will add to this a transcriptome analysis (RNA-seq) of monocytes isolated from blood samples to infer circadian phase.