SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Speaker |
| Caleb ("Tuck") Finch "The Nexus of Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, and Aging" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Evolution of Aging -theory |
| Chair - George Martin |
| Steven N. Austad "The evolution of intraspecific diversity in aging" |
| Daniel Promislow "An evolutionary perspective on gene networks, epistasis and aging" |
| Brian Charlesworth "Evolutionary models of late-life mortality levelling" |
11:00 am | Conference Photo |
| Tom Kirkwood "Title TBA" |
| James Carey "Evolutionary theory of life span" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolution of Aging -experiment |
| Chair - Rich Miller |
| Michael Rose "Evolution of Late Life" |
| Trudy Mackay "Identifying quantitative trait genes for Drosophila life span" |
| Gabrielle Boulianne "Title TBA" |
| Lou Kunkel "The Search for Longevity Genes in Centenarians" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Insulin-like Signaling and Life Span |
| Chair - Michal Jazwinski |
| Gary Ruvkun "Daf-16 genes and aging in C. elegans" |
| Leonard Guarente "Regulation of Aging by SIR2" |
| Donald Riddle "Neuroendocrine Control of Development and Longevity in C. elegans" |
| Marc Tatar "Insulin regulation of secondary endocrines and aging in Drosophila" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress |
| Chair - Huber Warner |
| Doug Wallace "Title TBA" |
| Pam Larsen "Development and fertility in C. elegans clk-1 mutants depends upon transport of dietary coenzyme Q8 to mitochondria" |
| Simon Melov "Pharmacological approaches to attenuate mitochondrial oxidative stress in mammals" |
| Ettore Bergamini "Membranes of the aging cells" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Aging Diseases and Healthspan |
| Chair- Anna McCormick |
| Sam Sisodia "Neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease" |
| Georg Wick "Vascular associated dendritic cells are a reservoir for prion proteins" |
| Phil Landfield "Calcium channel activity in aged hippocampal neurons and impaired synaptic plasticity" |
| Valerie Askanas "Muscle degeneration in the elderly" |
| Nancy M. Bonini "Title TBA" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Stem Cells and Tissue Repair |
| Chair - Jill Carringtony |
| Cynthia Kenyon "Regulation of aging by germline stem cells in C. elegans" |
| Calvin Harley "Stem cells, Cloning, and Cellular Life Span" |
| Steve Goldman "Use of neural precursor cells to repair damaged or dysfunctional brain and spinal cord" |
| Ron McKay "Use of embryonic stem cells for the treatment of age-related disorders" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Genomic Instability and Aging |
| Chair - Judy Campisi |
| Jan Vijg "Genome structural and expressional changes in aging" |
| W. Glenn McGregor "Gene-specific DNA repair and Aging" |
| Larry Donehower "Aging phenotypes in p53 mutant mice" |
| Additional Short Presentations from Selected Posters |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hormonal control of aging: from models to man |
| Co-Chairs - Gordon Lithgow, Julie Andersen, Thomas Von Zglinicki |
| Andre Bartke "Life extension in the dwarf mouse" |
| John Parks "GH/insulin deficiency in humans" |
| Adam Antebi "Screens for novel hormones involved in aging in C. elegans" |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |