8th Bay Area Aging Meeting
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
105 Stanley Hall, University of California, Berkeley
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome – Danica Chen |
| 9:15-9:30 | Glenn Award Presentation – Mark Collins President, Glenn Foundation |
Session 1: Keynote Address
Moderator: Danica Chen (Berkeley)
| 9:30-10:30 | Randy Schekman Professor, UC Berkeley; Editor-in-Chief, eLife Genes and proteins that control secretion and autophagy |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
Session 2: Molecular Genetics of Aging
Moderator: Anne Brunet/Stuart Kim (Stanford)
| 10:45-11:00 | Antoine Roux – Cynthia Kenyon Lab (UCSF) C. elegans can erase markers of aging |
| 11:00-11:15 | Itamar Harel – Anne Brunet Lab (Stanford) Fishing for alternatives: manipulating aging and longevity genes in a naturally short-lived vertebrate |
| 11:15-11:30 | Mark McCormick – Brian Kennedy Lab (Buck) A systematic screen for replicatively long-lived gene deletions in S. cerevisiae reveals multiple new conserved pathways linked to aging |
| 11:30-11:45 | Ted Peters – Robert Hughes Lab (Buck) Dissecting natural variation in yeast to identify genetic modifiers of protein aggregation. |
| 11:45-12:00 | Adam Freund – Steven Artandi Lab (Stanford) An essential role for the cytosolic chaperonin TRiC in telomerase trafficking and telomere maintenance |
| 12:00- 2:00 | Lunch/Poster Session |
Session 3: Metabolism and Aging
Moderator: Pankaj Kapahi (Buck)
| 2:00-2:15 | Amit Khanna – Pankaj Kapahi Lab (Buck) The role of gut flora metabolite, trimethylamine, in food sensing, dauer formation and aging in C. elegans |
| 2:15-2:30 | Mihir Vohra – Kaveh Ashrafi Lab (UCSF) Metabolic regulation of learning and age-induced learning impairment |
| 2:30-2:45 | Brian Castellano – Roberto Zoncu Lab (Berkeley) The lysosome in nutrient sensing and growth control |
| 2:45-3:00 | Yuya Nishida – Eric Verdin Lab (Gladstone) Regulation of the cellular “malonylproteome” by SIRT5 |
| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee break |
Session 4: Aging-Associated Degeneration and Diseases
Moderator: Eric Verdin (Gladstone/UCSF)
| 3:30-3:45 | Wendy Cousin – Irina Conboy Lab (Berkeley) Beyond parabiosis: oxytocin, a systemic age-specific factor that controls muscle maintenance and regeneration |
| 3:45-4:00 | Alec Sexton – Kathy Collin/Dirk Hockemeyer Labs (Berkeley) Genetic dissection of telomere-telomerase interaction in human embryonic stem cells |
| 4:00-4:15 | Qian Qi – Jorg Goronzy lab (Stanford) Influence of age on richness and clonality of the human naïve T cell receptor repertoire |
| 4:15-4:30 | Virginie Olive – Lin He Lab (Berkeley) A polycistronic oncogenic microRNA acts as a double-edged sword |
| 4:30-4:45 | Zach O’Brown – Stuart Kim Lab (Stanford) The pro-inflammatory transcription factors STAT3 and NFkB drive aging of the human kidney |
| 4:45-5:00 | Speaker and Poster Award Presentation Joe Betts-Lacroix Entrepreneur; Executive Director, Health Extension Nancy Miceli/Walter Crompton Entrepreneurs |