Dec 2-3, 2007
Georgetown Room, Hyatt Hotel
Bethesda, Maryland
Consortium Program and Research Activities
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Meeting Participants Arrive
December 3, 2007 - Georgetown Room
7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
SESSION ONE: THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LONGEVITY CONSORTIUM
8:30am - 8:35am Richard Hodes: Opening Remarks
8:35am - 8:45am Steve Cummings: Overview of Longevity Consortium Structure and Activities
SESSION TWO: REPORTS OF CONSORTIUM CORE INVESTIGATORS AND SOF PROJECT AWARDEES – PART 1
INSULIN/IGF-1 IN AGING AND LONGEVITY
8:45am - 9:05am Andrzej Bartke and Michal Masternak: Insulin/IGF-1 pathway, diminutive size and longevity in mice
9:05am - 9:35am Elad Ziv: Insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway genes in human aging and longevity. The challenges of candidate gene analysis in association studies
SESSION TWO: REPORTS OF CONSORTIUM CORE INVESTIGATORS AND SOF PROJECT AWARDEES – PART 2
LONGEVITY IN HUMANS: A NEW AGING GENE IDENTIFICATION STRATEGY IN MICE
10:00am - 10:20am Wen-Chi Hsueh and Richard Cawthon: Telomere length, aging and longevity
10:20am - 10:40am Tim Spector: Telomere shortening in human aging and longevity
10:40am - 11:00am Tom Johnson and Wallace Chick: Stress-resistant embryonic stem cells and the creation of long-lived mice
SESSION TWO: REPORTS OF CONSORTIUM CORE INVESTIGATORS AND SOF PROJECT AWARDEES – PART 3
STRESS RESISTANCE AND AGING
11:00am - 11:20am Alex Reiner: Stress and inflammation genes in human aging and longevity
11:20am - 11:40am Richard Miller: Stress resistance and longevity in mice
11:40am - 12:00pm Greg Tranah and Silvestre Alavez: Heat shock proteins, stress resistance and longevity PART I PART II
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch (On Our Own)
Lc Steering Committee & Osmb Meeting: Severn/Potomac Room
SESSION THREE: LONGEVITY ASSOCIATION CORES
1:30pm - 1:50pm Nicholas Schork: The Biostatistics And Bioinformatics Core
1:50pm - 2:10pm Pui Kwok and Ludmila Pawlikowska: The Genomics Core
SESSION FOUR: GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION WORK-IN-PROGRESS - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
2:10pm - 2:30pm Teri Manolio: Genome wide association studies at the NIH
2:30pm - 2:50pm Jim Ostell: DbGAP, and NIH database for genome wide association study data
2:50pm - 3:10pm Coffee Break
3:10pm - 3:30pm Joanne Murabito: A Genome-wide association study Of longevity and age-related phenotypes in the Framingham Heart Study
3:30pm - 3:50pm Brad Willcox: Genetic basis for exceptional longevity in Okinawa
3:50pm - 4:10pm Tom Perls: GWA and specific candidate gene studies in centenarians
4:10pm - 4:30pm Gil Atzmon: Longevity Associated Genes In Centenarians
4:30pm - 4:50pm Warren Browner: Coordinating analyses on the genetics of longevity