10th Bay Area Aging Meeting

Spring 2015 Organizers

  • Pankaj Kapahi, PhD, The Buck Institute
  • Eric Verdin, MD, Gladstone/UCSF
  • Danica Chen, PhD, UC Berkeley
  • Stuart Kim, PhD, Stanford University

Monday, May 11, 2015
Buck Institute, 8001 Redwood Blvd., Novato, CA 94945

8:30 am Arrival and Coffee/Tea Atrium
9:00 am Session 1: Interventions, Moderator: Pankaj Kapahi Drexler Auditorium
9:00 – 10:00am Gordon Lithgow and Simon Melov, “Challenges of Translational Geroscience”
10:00-10:20am Matt Laye (Kapahi lab), “Healthspan extension by beta- sitosterol across species”
10:20-10:40am Ida Klang (Lithgow Lab), “Metallostasis and proteostasis in aging C. elegans”
10:40-11:00am John Newman (Verdin Lab), “Ketones bodies and Alzheimer’s disease”
11:00am Coffee break Atrium
11:15am Session 2: Plenary talk Cynthia Kenyon (Calico) (Moderator: Eric Verdin) Drexler Auditorium
12:15pm Glenn Award Announcement, Mark Collins Drexler Auditorium
12:20pm Poster Session and Lunch Atrium
1:20pm Session 3:Genetic and Molecular  mechanisms of aging (Moderator: Danica Chen) Drexler Auditorium
1:20-1:40pm Lingbo Li (Shen lab), “The neuronal kinesin UNC-104/KIF1A is a key regulator of synaptic aging in C. elegans”
1:40-2:00pm Hyun-eui Kim (Dillin lab), “Induction of mitochondrial stress response relieves cytosolic protein aggregation by affecting cellular metabolism.”
2:00-2:20pm Alexey Tomilov (Cortopassi lab), “Inhibition of Shc is a novel strategy for healthy aging”
2:20-2:40pm George Lemiuex (Ahrafi lab), “Metabolic regulation of feeding behavior”
2:40-3:00pm Kristen Fortney (Kim lab), “Genetics of extreme human longevity”
3:00pm Coffee Break Atrium
3:20pm Session 4: Cell fates and aging (Moderator: Anne Brunet/Stuart Kim) Drexler Auditorium
3:20 – 3:40pm Fatouma Alimirah (Campisi lab), “Cellular Senescence and Skin Carcinogenesis”
3:40 – 4:00pm Jihyun Kim (Jasper lab), “Control of intestinal stem cell proliferation by a new ubiquitin ligase complex”
4:00 – 4:20pm Salah Mahmoudi (Brunet lab), “Aging and Reprogramming: a Two-way Street”
4:20 – 4:40pm Alina Garbuzov (Artandi lab), “Telomerase-positive cells are important for tissue regeneration throughout life”
4:40 – 5:00pm Mike Wosczyna (Rando lab), “Mesenchymal stem cell fate as a determinant of tissue aging”
5:00pm Speaker and Poster Award Presentation Drexler Auditorium
3:20pm Reception hosted by Jennifer Garrison Atrium

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