SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Endocrinology of Aging |
| Discussion Leader: Marc Tatar (Brown University, Providence) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Holly Brown-Borg (University of North Dakota)
"Ames dwarf mouse and oxidative stress" |
8:20 pm - 9:00 pm | Andrew Dillin (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
"Specifying the DAF-16 longevity network through SMK-1, a potential cofactor of DAF-16" |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Heidi Scrable (University Of Virginia)
"p53 and IGF signaling" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Caloric Restriction |
| Discussion Leader: James Nelson (University of Texas San Antonio) |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | David Sinclair (Harvard Medical School) "Having your cake: Small molecules that provide the health benefits of
CR without the side-effects" |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Blanka Rogina (University of Connecticut Health Center)
"Longevity extension in calorie restricted flies is mediated by Sir2" |
10:30 am | Coffee Break / Photo |
11:00 am - 11:45 am | Richard Miller (University of Michigan)
"Gene expression and caloric restriction in the mouse" |
11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Barbara Horwitz (UC Davis) "Does Overexpression of Uncoupling Proteins Mimic
Caloric Restriction?" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Cells, Replicative Senescence and Aging |
| Discussion Leader: Gary van Zant (University of Kentucky) |
7:50 pm - 8:15 pm | Judith Campisi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"Good seed, bad seed -- effects of senescent cells on tissue homeostasis" |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Alison Lloyd (University College London)
"Signals to Cellular Senescence" |
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Shawn C. Ahmed (University of North Carolina)
"Germline immortality in C. elegans" |
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm | Majlinda Lako (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
"Stress free stem cell" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Maintenance of Protein Conformation with Age |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | Rodney Levine (National Institute of Health) "The Proteasome and Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases" |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
"Consequences of Declined Autophagy in Aging" |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:40 am | Marcus Fandrich (Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie)
"Of globular proteins and amyloid fibrils: the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of the polypeptide chain" |
11:40 am - 12:30 pm | Late Breaking Topic Talk:
Shino Nemoto
"Sirt1 transcription by Foxo proteins" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Heterogeneity and Aging |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas E. Johnson (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) |
7:50 pm - 8:15 pm | J. William O. Ballard (University of Iowa)
"Drosophila simulans as a novel model for aging research" |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Steven Wicks (Boston College) "Natural variation in C. elegans lifespan and aging" |
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Rudi G. Westendorp (Leiden University) "Trade offs that determine human longevity" |
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm | John M. Sedivy (Brown University, Providence) "Cellular Heterogeneity" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Telomeres and Human Aging |
| Discussion Leader: Jerry W. Shay (UT Southwestern Medical Center) |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | William C. Hahn (Dana Farber Cancer Institute) "Telomerase, DNA damage, and senescence" |
9:45 am - 10:20 am | Duncan M. Baird (University of Wales College of Medicine) "The dynamics of human telomeres" |
10:20 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Fabrizio d'adda di Fagagna (IFOM-FIRC Inst. for Molecular Oncology)
"The role of DNA damage response factors in cellular senescence" |
11:20 am - 11:55 am | Sandy Chang (MD Anderson Cancer Center) "Telomere dysfunction cooperates with Werner deficiency to promote
premature aging in mice" |
11:55 am - 12:30 pm | N.J. Samani (University of Leicester)
"Olovnikov's clock and coronary heart disease" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Business Meeting |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Speaker |
| Discussion Leader: George Martin |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | David Reznick (University of California, Riverside)
"The evolution of senescence in natural populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata)" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Modeling Age-Related Disease |
| Discussion Leader: Cynthia Kenyon (UC San Francisco) |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | Richard I. Morimoto (Northwestern University)
"The Stress of Misfolded Proteins" |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Gabrielle L. Boulianne (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
"Genetic Modifiers of Presenilins in Drosophila" |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:45 am | Rolf Bodmer (Burnham Institute)
"Control of cardiac aging in Drosophila" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Oral Presentations |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sarcopenia |
| Discussion Leaders: Monica Driscoll (Rutgers University) & Rodger J. McCarter (University of Texas Health Science Center) |
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Christiaan Leeuwenburgh (University of Florida)
"Muscle fiber specific apoptosis and TNF-a signaling in sarcopenia is
attenuated by life-long calorie restriction" |
8:00 pm - 8:45 pm | Esther E. Dupont-Versteegden (University of Arkansas Medical Sciences) "Atrophy and Apoptosis in Aging Skeletal Muscle" |
8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | K.S. Nair (Mayo Medical Institute) "Mechanism of aging muscle" |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |