3rd Bay Area Aging Meeting
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley
2601 Warring St., Berkeley, CA 94720
| 9:30-9:40 | Welcome, Danica Chen |
Session 1: Moderator: Danica Chen
| 9:40-10:00 | Genevieve Van de Bittner (Berkeley) – Chris Chang lab “Bioluminescence Imaging of Hydrogen Peroxide Production in a Murine Tumor Model” |
| 10:00-10:20 | Remi-Martin Laberge (Buck)-Judith Campisi lab ‘Suppressing senescence-associated inflammation: a novel role for the mTOR longevity pathway’ |
| 10:20-10:40 | Matt Barber (Stanford)- Katrin Chua lab “SIRT7 is a histone H3 lysine 18 deacetylase that regulates oncogenic transformation.” |
| 10:40- 11:00 | Xiaolei Qiu (Berkeley)- Danica Chen lab “Stem cell aging is regulated by SIRT3” |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
Session 2-Moderator: Stuart Kim
| 11:30-11:50 | Randy Ashton (Berkeley)- David Schaffer lab “Multivalency Enhances the Potency of Recombinant Sonic Hedgehog in Dopaminergic Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells” |
| 11:50-12:10 | Luis Batista (Stanford)- Steven Artandi lab “Telomere shortening and loss of self-renewal in iPS cells from patients with dyskeratosis congenita” |
| 12:10-12:30 | Arvind Ramanathan (Buck)-Arvind Ramanathan lab ‘Uncovering the Metabolic programs of cancer and differentiation’ |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
Session 3: Moderators: Danica Chen, Pankaj Kapahi
| 2:00-2:30: Discussion- Hot topics in aging research |
Session 4: Moderator: Stuart Kim
| 2:30-2:50 | Jacob Bollinger (UCSF)-Adam Gazzaley lab “An expectation-based memory deficit in aging” |
| 2:50-3:10 | Theodore Peters (Buck)- Robert Hughes lab “Nutrient Signaling, Autophagy and Protein Homeostasis in Aging Yeast” |
| 3:10-3:30 | Brett Robison (Buck)-Brian Kennedy lab “Elevated proteasome capacity improves protein homeostasis and promotes longevity in yeast” |
| 3:30-4:00: Coffee Break |
Session 5: Moderator: Pankaj Kapahi
| 4:00-4:20: Kwame Twumasi-Boateng (Berkeley)-Michael Shapiro lab “An age-dependent reversal in the protective capacities of JNK signaling shortens C. elegans lifespan” |
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| 4:20-4:40 | Di Chen (Buck)- Pankaj Kapahi lab “Synergistic lifespan extension by daf-2 rsks-1 in C. elegans” |
| 4:40-5:00 | Travis Maures (Stanford)- Anne Brunet lab “Regulators of Histone Methylation Affect Longevity in C. elegans” |
| 5:00-5:20 | Eric Van Nostrand (Stanford)- Stuart Kim lab “Regulation of Aging Gene Networks in C. elegans” |