12th Bay Area Aging Meeting
Thursday, May 26, 2016
245 Li Ka Shing Center
University of California, Berkeley
| 9:00-9:20 | Breakfast and registration |
| 9:20-9:30 | Welcome remarks |
Session 1: Neurodegenerative Diseases and Parabiosis
Moderator: Danica Chen
| 9:30-9:45 | Elena Minones-Moyano — Dubal lab (UCSF) The X Chromosome, Aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 9:45-10:00 | Ed Liao — Haghighi Lab (Buck) Regulation of endosomal dynamics: from synaptic homeostasis to age-dependent neurodegeneration |
| 10:00-10:15 | Lindsay Becker — Gitler lab (Stanford) Manipulating RNA-binding protein interactions as a therapy for two related age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases: FTD and ALS |
| 10:15-10:30 | Julia Marschallinger — Wyss-Coray Lab (Stanford) Age-related accumulation of cellular vesicles in microglia and reversal through heterochronic parabiosis |
| 10:30-10:45 | Sietske Bakker — Passegue Lab (UCSF) No evidence for rejuvenation of old HSCs upon exposure to a young systemic environment |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
Session 2: Keynote Addresses
Moderator:Eric Verdin
| 11:15-11:45 | Felipe Sierra (Director, Division of Aging Biology, NIA) Recent advances in geroscience |
| 11:45-12:15 | Hening Lin (Professor, Cornell/Investigator, HHMI) Sirtuin and novel PTMs: Possible new aging mechanisms? |
| 12:15-12:30 | Mark Collins (President, Glenn Foundation) |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
Session 3: Aging-associated Deterioration and Reversal
Moderator: Pankaj Kapahi
| 1:30-1:45 | Mike Harris — Ingolia lab (Berkeley) Integrated Transcriptome and Proteome Analyses Reveal Organ-Specific Proteome Deterioration in Old Rats |
| 1:45-2:00 | Chen-Yu Liao – Kennedy lab (Buck) Rapamycin reverses metabolic deficits in Lamin A/C-deficient mice |
| 2:00-2:15 | Joana Neves — Lamba & Jasper Labs (Buck) Immune modulation by MANF promotes tissue repair and regenerative success in the retina |
| 2:15-2:30 | Kunwoo Lee – Conboy lab (Berkeley) Genome editing in vivo with the delivery of Cas9 ribonucleoprotein and donor DNA complexed to gold nanoparticles |
| 2:30-2:45 | Sara Hagg – Hagg lab (Karolinska Institute/Stanford) Molecular epidemiological studies of aging in a longitudinal Swedish twin cohort |
| 2:45-3:00 | Nora Yucel – Blau lab (Stanford) Metabolic Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Acetylation Landscape during Regeneration |
| 3:00- 3:45 | Poster Session |
Session 4: Novel Aging Pathways
Moderator: Anne Brunet
| 3:45-4:00 | Eric Sawyer — Unal (Berkeley) Mitochondrial Network Remodeling Facilitates Organelle Inheritance in Yeast Gametogenesis |
| 4:00-4:15 | Su Liu — Kapahi lab (Buck) SILAC analysis reveals a role of senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in hemostasis |
| 4:15-4:30 | Claude Le Saux — Campisi lab (Buck) Are senescent cells a link between aging and fibrosis in the lungs? |
| 4:30-4:45 | Chi-Kuo Hu — Brunet Lab (Stanford) Diapause in vertebrate: a natural form of suspended animation that protects organisms from stress and aging |
| 4:45-5:00 | Yuehua Wei — Kenyon/Li labs (UCSF) A germ cell-regulated redox signaling for somatic longevity |
| 5:00-5:05 | Closing remarks |