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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