4th Bay Area Aging Meeting
March 23, 2012
Buck Institute, 8001 Redwood Blvd., Novato, CA 94945
| 8:30-9:00am | Coffee | |
| 9:00 am–10: 00 a.m | Cellular senescence links inflammation to age-related pathology. | Dr. Judith Campisi |
| 10:00am–10: 15am | Discussion | |
| 10:15am–10: 30am | Mid-morning Break | |
| 10:30am–10:45am | Genome-wide interaction between FoxO3 and Ascl1 in adult neural system/progenitor cells. | Dr. Ashley Webb |
| 10:45am–11: 00am | The Regulation of microglial phenotypes by age-related changes in the systemic environment. | Dr. Kira Mosher |
| 11:00am–11: 15am | Stem cell DNA damage response and DNA repair: implications for aging. | Dr. Mary Mohrin |
| 11:15am–11:30am | Inhibition of RNA lariat debranching enzyme suppresses TDP-43 toxicity in ALS disease models. | Dr. Maria Armakola |
| 11:30am–11:45am | TOR and muscle differentiation. | Dr. Pooja Aggarwal |
| 11:45 m–12:00pm | Microbial translocation, inflammation, and mortality in treated HIV infection. | Dr. Peter Hunt |
| 12:00pm–2:00pm | Lunch/Poster Session | |
| 2:00pm–2:15pm | Native rates of superoxide production from specific mitochondrial sites–a method using endogenous reporters. | Dr. Casey Quinlan |
| 2:15pm–2:30pm | Metabolic and cardiovascular effects of rapamycin treatment in aged mice. | Dr. James Flynn |
| 2:30pm–2:45pm | Mechanisms of female longevity in aging. | Dr. Dena Dubai |
| 2:45pm–3:00pm | Pharmacogenomic investigation of fat and aging pathways. | Dr. George Lemieux |
| 3:15 pm–3:30pm | Regulation of autophagy by the class III PI3K. | Dr. Livia Wilz |
| 3:15pm–3:30pm | Afternoon Break | |
| 3:30pm–3:45pm | Genetics of objectively measured sleep traits in the elderly/Sleep and health in older humans: new genetic insights. | Dr. Dan Evans |
| 3:45pm–4:00pm | Tissue-Specific Translation State Array Analysis in Drosophila melanogaster. | Dr. Patrick Li |
| 4:00pm–4:15pm | Statial sequestration of misfolded proteins during quality control. | Dr. Stephanie Escus |
| 4:15 pm–4:30pm | Gene expression commons: absolute gene expression profiling platform for aging study. | Dr. Jun Seita |
| 4:30pm–4:45pm | Targeted apoptosis of senescent and cancer cells by interference with FOXO4 | Dr. Peter de Keizer |
| 4:45pm–5:00pm | Dr. Kathryn Page | Dr. Peter de Keizer |
| 5:00pm–6:00pm | Beer and Wine Social |