7th Bay Area Aging Meeting
November 25, 2013
Huang Engineering Center, Stanford University
| 8:30-9:15 | Breakfast |
| 9:15-9:30 | Welcome – Stuart Kim |
Session 1: Aging and Stem Cells
Moderator: Stuart Kim
| 9:30-9:45 | Joseph Rodgers – Tom Rando Lab (Stanford) “Where did the early birds go? Selective forces on stem cell aging” |
| 9:45-10:00 | Tandis Vazin – David Schaffer Lab (Berkeley) “Stem cells for modeling and repair of neurodegenerative diseases” |
| 10:00-10:15 | Johanna Flach – Emmanuelle Passegué Lab (UCSF) “Replication stress is a potent driver of functional decline in aging hematopoietic stem cells” |
| 10:15-10:30 | Deepak Lamba – Deepak Lamba Lab (Buck Institute) “Modeling age-related Macular Degeneration using stem cells” |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:10pm–1:40pm | Lunch/Poster Session |
Session 2: Hormones and Pheromones in Aging
Moderator: Pankaj Kapahi
| 11:00-11:15 | Lauren Broestl – Dena Dubal Lab (UCSF) “Young ovaries: a window into the aging brain” |
| 11:15-11:30 | Travis Maures – Anne Brunet Lab (Stanford) “Males induce the untimely demise of the opposite sex in C. elegans” |
| 11:30-11:45 | Christian Elabd – Irina Conboy Lab (Berkeley) “A new age-specific circulating hormone necessary for muscle maintenance and regeneration” |
| 11:45-12:00 | Announcement from Mark Collins (Glenn Foundation for Medical Research) |
| 12:00-1:15 | Lunch |
Session 3: The Influence of Stress and the Environment on Aging
Moderator: Eric Verdin
| 1:15-1:30 | Mark Lucanic – Gordon Lithgow Lab (Buck Institute) “A high throughput chemical screen identifies a novel activator of dietary restriction in C. elegans” |
| 1:30-1:45 | Jenny Shin – Danica Chen Lab (Berkeley) “Epigenetic blockage of ER stress prevents fatty acid liver disease” |
| 1:45-2:00 | Chong He – Brian Kennedy Lab (Buck Institute) “Ibuprofen and its role in tryptophan metabolism and replicative lifespan in S. cerevisae” |
| 2:00-2:15 | Nate Baird – Andy Dillin Lab (Berkeley) “PAT-10 confers thermal stress resistance and longevity via cytoskeletal integrity” |
| 2:15-2:30 | Shankar Chinta – Julie Andersen Lab (Buck Institute) “Environmental stress, astrocyte senescence, and neural stem cell dysfunction: a novel link in Parkinson’s disease?” |
| 2:30-3:45 | Coffee and Poster Session |
Session 4-5: Genomic stability – Brain integrity
Moderator: Danica Chen
| 3:45-4:00 | Luisa Tasselli – Katrin Chua Lab (Stanford) “SIRT6 deacetylase: chromatin silencing of centromeric repeat transcripts is essential for mitotic fidelity” |
| 4:00-4:15 | Keiko Muraki – John Murnane Lab (UCSF) “The mechanism of inhibition of double-strand break repair near telomeres in mammalian cells” |
| 4:15-4:30 | Lucas Smith – Saul Villeda Lab (UCSF) “Beta2-Microglobulin regulates the decline in neurogenesis and cognitive function during aging” |
| 4:30-4:45 | Taeho Kim – Carla Shatz Lab (Stanford) “A new high affinity receptor for beta amyloid” |
| 4:45-5:00 | Concluding comments and Awards |
| 5pm | Happy Hour!! |