Agenda

Session 1A

Ana Maria Cuervo

Pre-Conference June 27th

5:00 PM	Pre-conference - Aging: the Disease, the Cure, the Implications

Day 1 - June 28th

8:00 AM	Doors Open
9:00 AM	Welcome and opening remarks
9:00 AM	Session 1A: DNA damage, telomeres, cancer (9:00) Adam Arkin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "Appreciating the Designs of the Blind Watchmaker: How characterization and creation are creating a new biological engineering science." (9:30) Jan Vijg, Buck Institute for Age Research "Stochastic mechanisms of gene deregulation in aging" (10:00) Jerry Shay, U. Texas Southwestern "Telomerase Immortalized Cells Have Stem Cell Characteristics" (10:30) Laura Briggs, Sierra Sciences "The Struggle to Keep our Telomeres Long"
11:00 PM	Break
11:30 AM	Session 1B: DNA damage, telomeres, cancer (11:30) Claudia Gravekamp, Pacific Medical Center Research Institute "Improvement of cancer vaccination at older age" (12:00) Zheng Cui, Wake Forest University School of Medicine "Natural Cancer Resistance in Mice and in Humans: basis for a novel cancer therapy" (12:30) Rita Effros, UCLA "Telomerase-based therapy for retarding immune exhaustion"
1:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM	Informal interactions
3:30 PM	Session 2A: the cell niche (3:30) Irina Conboy, U. California Berkeley "Aging of signal transducton in stem cells" (4:00) Judith Campisi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Buck Institute "New tricks for dealing with old cells?" (4:30) Leanne Jones, Salk Institute "Aging-related changes to stem cells and the stem cell niche" (5:00) Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni, University of Washington "Skeletal muscle stem cells: origin, function and dysfunction in adult life" (5:15) David Larocca, Advanced Cell Technology Inc. "Targeted Nanoparticle Probes for Identifying, Tracking and Isolating Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Progenitor Cells"
5:30 PM	Break
6:00 PM	Session 2B: the cell niche (6:00) Catherine Clarke, UCLA "Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan is profoundly modulated by its diet of E. coli: What are the roles of E. coli metabolism and coenzyme Q?" (6:15) Mahtab Jafari, University of California, Irvine "Extension of Drosophila Lifespan by Rhodiola rosea Through an Anti-oxidant Independent Mechanism" (6:30) Michael West, BioTime Inc/U. California Berkeley (7:00) Ken Muneoka, Tulane University "The Blastema: Cells, Niches and Regeneration in Mammals" (7:30) Kevin Healy, U. California Berkeley "Synthetic Environments to control Human Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Fate Determination"
8:00 PM	Dinner
9:00 PM	Poster Session and Reception

Day 2 - June 29th

8:00 AM	Doors Open
9:00 AM	Session 3A: accumulation of damaged molecules (9:00) Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, University of Florida "Mitochondrial iron accumulation with age and functional consequences" (9:30) Marisol Corral-Debrinski, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie "Optimized allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes: a strategy for treating mitochondrial DNA diseases" (10:00) Bruce Ames, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute "Delaying the Degenerative Diseases of Aging"
10:30 PM	Break
11:00 AM	Session 3B: accumulation of damaged molecules (11:00) Bruce Rittmann, Arizona State University "Cleaning Out the Junk with Medical Bioremediation" (11:30) Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine "Selective Autophagy in the Fight Against Aging" (12:00) Nason Schooler, University of Louisville "Unfocused Pulsed Lasers Selectively Destroy Lipofuscin - Using An Established Technique To Repeatedly Postpone Aging" (12:15) Chris Vinci, UCLA "Accumulation and Storage of Age-Damaged (R,S)AdoMet in S. cerevisiae and its Subsequent Utilization by Two Methyltransferase Enzymes"
12:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Informal interactions
3:30 PM	Session 4A: tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (3:30) Stephen Badylak, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine "Regenerative Medicine and Aging" (4:00) Doris Taylor, University of Minnesota "Is Aging a Treatable Disease in the 21st Century?" (4:30) Matthias Stelzner, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System & UCLA "Bio-engineered Intestinal Replacement Therapy" (5:00) Trevor Marshall, Murdoch University "The VDR Nuclear Receptor is Key to Understanding 'Diseases of the Aging'" (5:15) Sonya Vasto, University of Palermo "Does parental longevity impact on the health ageing of their offspring? An immunological study."
5:30 PM	Break
6:00 PM	Session 4B: tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (6:00) Sam Schriner, University of California, Irvine "Rhodiola rosea (SHR-5) Protects Human Cells Against Oxidative Stress" (6:15) Gilad Lehmann, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev "Mitochondrial determinants of mammalian longevity" (6:30) David Schaffer, U. California Berkeley "Towards a Molecular Understanding and Engineering of Adult Neural Stem Cells" (7:00) Tony De Tomaso, Stanford University School of Medicine "Aging in the Primitive Chordate, Botryllus schosseri" (7:30) Amy Wagers, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard University "Aging stem cells"
8:00 PM	Dinner
9:00 PM	Poster Session and Reception