May 16-18, 2007
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
May 16, 2007 Meeting Room: N/A
6:00pm - 6:45pm Opening Reception (no host bar)
6:45pm - 7:00pm Steve Cummings: Welcoming Remarks
7:00pm - 8:00pm Reception Dinners
PLENARY PRESENTATION
8:00pm - 8:45pm Steve Austad: Comparative biology of aging in the genomics era
8:45pm - 9:00pm Group Discussion
May 17, 2007 Meeting Room: N/A
7:00am - 8:00am Breakfast
SESSION ONE: BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF FRAILTY
8:00am - 8:40am Marco Pahor: Characteristics and determinants of human frailty
8:40am - 9:20am Tamara Harris: Muscle change with age as predictors of incipient mobility limitations in the elderly
9:20am - 10:00am Christiaan Leeuwenburgh: Skeletal muscle apoptosis, sarcopenia and frailty at old age
10:00am - 10:20am Coffee Break
10:20am - 11:00am Bret Goodpaster: The loss of function in aging: Adding a lipocentric perspective on a myocentric field
11:00am - 11:40am Catherine Wolkow: Sarcopenia and functional aging in c elegans
SESSION TWO: WHOLE GENOME ASSOCIATION PLANNING SESSION REPORT
11:40am - 12:00pm Gil Atzmon and Greg Tranah
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch (on your own)
12:00pm - 1:30pm Steering Committee Luncheon Meeting
SESSION THREE: SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITY FUND PRESENTATIONS - II
(Awardees Who Have Had Funding For at Least a Year)
1:30pm - 1:50pm J Brent Richards: Candidate SNP association study of telomere length in WBC’s
1:50pm - 2:10pm Lara Terry: Telomere shortening in long-lived humans
SESSION THREE: HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS, MOLECULAR CHAPERONES, AGING AND LONGEVITY
1:00pm - 1:40pm Cindy Voisine: Monitoring protein homeostasis in c elegans polyglutamine disease models
1:40pm - 2:20pm Gordon Lithgow: Heat shock proteins in aging and longevity in c elegans
SESSION FOUR: THE AGING BRAIN
2:10pm - 2:50pm Naftali Raz: Differential aging of the brain: Patterns, cognitive correlates and modifiers
2:50pm - 3:30pm Eric Klann: Aging-related alterations in synaptic plasticity and memory in SOD mutant mice
3:30pm - 3:50pm Coffee Break
SESSION FIVE: BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS AND AGING
3:50pm - 4:30pm Roman Kondratov: Circadian proteins and aging
4:30pm - 5:10pm Katie Stone: Sleep activity rhythms and mortality in aging women
SESSION SIX: CONSORTIUM INVESTIGATORS PROGRESS REPORTS - I
5:10pm - 5:40pm Richard Miller: Stress resistance, aging rates and life span
Dinner (on your own)
May 18, 2007 Meeting Room: N/A
7:00am - 8:00am Breakfast
SESSION SEVEN: CONSORTIUM INVESTIGATORS PROGRESS REPORTS - II
8:00am - 8:30am Michal Masternak: Expression of genes related to insulin signaling in long-lived mice
8:30am - 9:00am Alex Reiner: Inflammation, genes, stress and human longevity
9:00am - 9:30am Elad Ziv: Insulin/Igf-1 signaling pathway genes and human longevity
9:30am - 10:00am Hongzhe Li: Genetic analysis of complex phenotypes
10:00am - 10:30am Coffee/ Lunch Pick-Up Break (grab boxed lunch-to-go)
SESSION EIGHT: GENETICS OF AGING; STATE-OF-KNOWLEDGE IN MODEL ORGANISMS
10:30am - 11:10am Adam Antebi: Nuclear receptors and the regulation of aging and longevity in c elegans
11:10am - 11:50am Marta Gaglia: Sensory input and longevity in c elegans
11:50am - 12:30pm John Tower: Sex-specific regulation of aging and apoptosis
12:30pm - 1:10pm Rong Yuan: Aging phenotypes in the mouse