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Audio recordings of the talks at SENS3

Note: for those with high enough bandwidth, video versions are available here.

Thanks to the prodigious efforts of Richard Schueler (who supervised the recordings, provided the camera and edited the files), splendidly assisted by Irvin Bussel and Stuart Calimport (who did most of the actual filming), we are able to provide both audio and video recordings of most of the talks at SENS3. The links below are to audio recordings of each of the talks whose presenters did not ask us to keep them private.

Thursday 6th September
Session 1: Emerging pharmaceutical interventions in aging (Chair: Arne Akbar)
13:35 Patrizia D'Alessio
Paris, France
AISA ("Anti-Inflammatory Senescence Actives") 5203-L molecule to promote healthy aging and prolongation of lifespan
14:05 Laura Dugan
La Jolla, USA
Fullerene-based nanotechnology: developing strategies to study and treat oxidative stress in aging
14:35 Randy Strong
San Antonio, USA
Video not available
15:05 Pierre Moreau
Montreal, Canada
Can we influence the "normal" aging of arteries?
15:35 Steve Coles
Los Angeles, USA
Secrets of the oldest old
15:50Coffee
Session 2: Immunotherapy against cancer (Chair: Patrizia d'Alessio)
16:10 Zheng Cui
Winston-Salem, USA
From a newly discovered innate anticancer immune response in mice to a new treatment for human cancers
16:40 Robert Hawkins
Manchester, UK
Engineering anti-cancer T cells
17:10 Claudia Gravekamp
San Francisco, USA
Efficacy of cancer vaccines to prevent cancer in the elderly
17:40Coffee
Session 3: Persistent viruses in aging and Alzheimer's disease (Chair: Claudia Gravekamp)
18:00 Ruth Itzhaki
Manchester, UK
Herpes simplex virus type 1 in brain is a cause of the neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease
18:30 Edward Mocarski
Atlanta, USA
Virus modulation of cell death pathways
19:00 Noel Patton for Rita Effros
Los Angeles, USA
Nutraceutical telomerase stimulation with TA-65
19:30 Arne Akbar
London, UK
Retarding immune senescence and reducing infections in ageing
20:00 Dinner
21:00 Welcome reception and Poster session 1
Friday 7th September
7:30 Breakfast
Session 4: Combating neurodegeneration (Chair: Pedro Alvarez)
8:30 Elizabeth Corder
Durham, USA
Video not available
9:00 Jason Emsley (Macklis lab)
Cambridge, USA
Video not available
9:30 Rutledge Ellis-Behnke
Cambridge, USA
Using nanotchnology to repair the body
10:00 Cynthia Lemere
Cambridge, USA
Cerebral amyloid-beta protein accumulation with aging in cotton-top tamarins: a model of early Alzheimer's disease?
10:30 Coffee
Session 5: Damage to long-lived intracellular molecules (Chair: Cynthia Lemere)
10:50Sataro Goto
Chiba, Japan
Video not available
11:20Kim Janda
La Jolla, USA
Immunopharmacotherapy against weight gain
11:50Paola Scaffidi
Bethesda, USA
Nuclear architecture: building bulwarks against aging
12:20 Pedro Alvarez
Houston, USA
Video not available
12:50 Lunch
Session 6: short talks selected from submitted abstracts (Chairs: Giuseppina Colonna-Romano and Vadim Fraifeld)
13:50 Giuseppina Colonna-Romano
Palermo, Italy
B cell immunosenescence in the elderly
14:05 Christian Dumpitak
Duesseldorf, Germany
Accelerated protein aggregation and amyloid fibril formation of the prion protein in the presence of glycogen
14:20 John Schloendorn
Tempe, USA
Video not available
14:35 Anund Hallen
Uppsala, Sweden
Accumulating insoluble protein and rate of aging
14:50 Andrew Hessel
Edmonton, Canada
Synthetic viruses targeting cancer
15:05 Vadim Fraifeld
Beer-Sheva, Israel
Do mitochondrial DNA and metabolic rate complement each other in determination of the mammalian maximal life span?
15:20Coffee
Session 7: New directions in gene therapy (Chair: Marisol Corral-Debrinski)
15:40 Nicola Philpott
London, UK
Non-integrating lentiviral vectors for stable and efficient gene delivery to post-mitotic tissue
16:10 Michele Calos
Palo Alto, USA
Adding beneficial genes to the body with phage integrases
16:40 Michael Holmes
Richmond, USA
High efficiency human genome editing using designed zinc finger nucleases
17:10 Coffee
Session 8: Rescue of mitochondrial mutations (Chair: Michele Calos)
17:30 Volkmar Weissig
Boston, USA
Manipulating (rejuvenating?) the mitochondrial genome
18:00 Dimitra Kyriakouli
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Mutations of the mitochondrial genome: treatment
18:15 Mark Hamalainen for Ian Holt
Cambridge, UK
Allotopic expression: mitochondrial to nuclear gene transfer
18:45 Marisol Corral-Debrinski
Paris, France
Allotopic mRNA localization to the mitochondrial surface: a tool for rescuing respiration deficiencies
19:15 Tonio Enriquez
Zaragoza, Spain
Inteins and allotopic expression of mtDNA encoded proteins
19:30 Samit Adhya
Calcutta, India
Use of a parasite-derived protein complex to modulate the function of mitochondria in human cells
20:00 Dinner
21:00 Poster session 2
Saturday 8th September
7:30 Breakfast
Session 9: New approaches to eliminating beta-amyloid (Chair: Jan Vijg)
8:30 Ashley Bush
Cambridge, USA
Zinc, copper and amyloid in Alzheimer's disease
9:00 Beka Solomon
Tel Aviv, Israel
Immunological approaches for amyloid beta clearance toward Alzheimer's disease treatment
9:30 Yoh Matsumoto
Tokyo, Japan
Non-viral Abeta DNA vaccine therapy against Alzheimer disease - safety, long-term effects and mechanisms of Abeta reduction
10:00David Morgan
Tampa, USA
Gene therapy with amyloid degrading proteases in mouse models of amyloid deposition
10:30 Coffee
Session 10: Non-specific nuclear DNA damage in aging (Chair: David Morgan)
10:50 Jan Vijg
Novato, USA
Age-related stochastic dysfunction of the genome: a natural limit to life span?
11:20 Michael Siciliano
Houston, USA
Microsatellite instability increases with age in normal individuals as well in patients with inherited mismatch repair mutations
11:50 Aubrey de Grey
Cambridge, UK
Might the biogerontological impact of non-specific nDNA damage be slight?
12:20 Lunch
SENS Lecture (Chair: Aubrey de Grey)
13:20 Chris Phoenix
Brooklyn, USA
Getting ahead of aging
Session 11: short talks selected from submitted abstracts (Chair: Aubrey de Grey)
14:05 Natasha Vita-More
Austin, USA
Brave biological design -- how biotechnology, generative media, and other currents are changing creative inquiry in the arts & sciences
14:20 Anders Sandberg
Oxford, UK
When Nature isn't wise: evolutionary medicine and human enhancement
14:35 Steven Horrobin
Edinburgh, UK
The value of life to persons as conative processes
14:50 Coffee
Session 12: Engineering regeneration of complex structures (Chair: Miodrag Stojkovic)
15:10 David Steenblock
Mission Viejo, USA
Bone marrow stem cell therapy: a major breakthrough for chronic diseases and anti-aging
15:25 James Larrick
Mountain View, USA
Specific targeting of therapeutic stem cells for cardiovascular disease
15:40Alexandra Stolzing for Amit Patel
Leipzig, Germany
Cell fusion
16:10Stephen Minger
London, UK
Therapeutic applications of human stem cells - prospects and challenges
16:40Chris Mason
London, UK
Regenerative Medicine 2.0
17:10David Gardiner
Irvine, USA
Engineering a blastema: steps toward regenerating a limb
17:40Coffee
Session 13: Deriving autologous embryonic stem cells (Chair: Chris Mason)
18:00 Chang-Kyu Lee
Seoul, Korea
Interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer for establishing embryonic stem cells with desired genotype
18:30 Wolfgang Engel
Gottingen, Germany
Talk not given
19:00 Miodrag Stojkovic
Valencia, Spain
Timeless human embryonic stem cells
19:30 Marius Wernig (Jaenisch lab)
Cambridge, USA
Direct reprogramming of somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells
20:00 Dinner
21:00 Poster session 3
Sunday 9th September
7:30 Breakfast
Session 14: Telomeres and cell senescence (Chair: Mike Conboy)
8:30 Mary Perry
Frederick, USA
The p53 inhibitory protein Mdm2 does not prevent aging
9:00 Gillian Butler-Browne
Paris, France
Identification of biomarkers of human muscle aging and senescence
9:30 Lenhard Rudolph
Hannover, Germany
Telomere dysfunction induces cell intrinsic checkpoints and environmental alterations limiting stem cell function
10:00 Walter Berger
Wien, Austria
ALTernative ways to immortality. blessing or curse?
10:30 Coffee
Session 15: Maintenance of extracellular material and milieu (Chair: Gillian Butler-Browne)
10:50Robin Franklin for Julia Rist
Cambridge, UK
Ageing and myelin repair in the CNS
11:20 Mike Conboy
Berkeley, USA
Stem cells dividing, sister chromatids choose fate: old stays, young moves on
11:50Cato Laurencin
Charlottesville, USA
Video not available
12:20 Lunch
Session 16: short talks selected from submitted abstracts (Chairs: Matthew O'Connor and David Melzer)
13:20 Calogero Caruso
Palermo, Italy
Genetics of successful ageing: goals and future perspectives, a pharmacogenomics approach to prevent unsuccessful ageing
13:35 David Melzer
Exeter, UK
Genetic polymorphisms and human ageing: lessons for SENS
13:50 Andrew Mayes
Sharnbrook, UK
Repetitive mild heat shock as a mechanism to delay ageing in human dermal fibroblasts
14:05 Eugenio Mocchegiani
Ancona, Italy
Zinc, metallothioneins and longevity: effect of zinc supplementation. ZINCAGE study
14:20 Dawn Mazzatti
Sharnbrook, UK
Age-dependent effects of zinc on gene expression and zinc status in peripheral blood mononuclear cells
14:35 Alexander Michalow
Bourbonnais, USA
Searching for the fountain of youth: novel caloric restriction mimetics
14:50 Oren Froy
Rehovot, Israel
The relationship between calorie restriction and the biological clock: lessons from long-lived transgenic mice
15:05 Mikhail Shchepinov
Oxford, UK
Isotope effect and enhanced longevity
15:20 Sergiy Volovyk
Durham, USA
Talk not given
15:35 Matthew O'Connor
Berkeley, USA
Stem cells endogenous to aged skeletal muscle retain high telomerase activity
15:50Coffee
Session 17: Long-term goals for biomedical gerontology (Chair: Michael Rose)
16:10 Ben Best
Detroit, USA
Evidence that cryonics may work
16:40 Ray Kurzweil
Boston, USA
Accelerating change
17:40 Coffee
Session 18: Outreach to key stakeholder communities (Chair: Aubrey de Grey)
18:00 Linda Powers
Bethesda, USA
Pots of gold in anti-aging regenerative medicine?
18:30 Michael Rose
Irvine, USA
Slowing and then stopping aging
19:00 Huber Warner
Minneapolis, USA
Making the political case for biogerontology funding: a view from the trenches
19:30 Bernard Siegel
Wellington, USA
The inevitable legal battle over Engineered Negligible Senescence



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