February 27 - March 1, 2005
Cathedral Hill Hotel
San Francisco, CA
6:00 - 6:45 Welcoming Reception (no host bar).
6:45 - 7:00 Steve Cummings: Welcoming remarks
7:00 - 8:00 GROUP DINNER
8:00 - 8:45 After-Dinner Presentation
8:45 - 9:00 Group Discussion
Day One, February 28
Session One: The Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease
8:15 - 9:00 Lars Betram: Alzheimer's disease: one disorder, too many genes?
9:00 - 10:45 Cornelia van Duijn: Familial clustering and genetic risk for dementia (in a genetically isolated Dutch population).
10:45-11:00 AM Break
11:00 - 11:45 Andrey Rzhetsky: Molecular triangulation: Bridging linkage and molecular-network information for identifying candidate genes in Alzheimer's disease
11:45 - 12:00 Discussion - Alzheimer's disease: Can it serve as a paradigm for studies of the genetics of human physiological aging?
12:00- 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
Session Two: The Genetics of Human Aging
1:30 - 2:45 Stuart Kim: Functional genomics of human aging
2:45 - 3:30 Joao P de Magalhaes: How genomes regulate aging: a systems-level approach to the genetics of aging.
3:39 - 3:45 Coffee Break
Session Three: DNA Damage, Repair and the Aging Process
3:45 - 4:30 Judy Campisi: DNA damage responses and normal and premature aging phenotypes
4:30 - 5:15 TBA
5:15 - 5:30Steve Cummings: STATUS REPORT ON THE LONGEVITY CONSORTIUM
Day Two, March 1
Session Four: Pilot Projects
8:15 - 8:45 Lara Terry: Telomere shortening in long-lived Humans
8:45 - 9:15 Cornelia Van Duijn: Genetic variation in HSPs and human longevity
9:45 - 10:15 Yousin Suh: SNP Screening in aging
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 Peggy Cawthon: Histone deacetylases and human aging
11:00 - Noon Other proposals
Noon Meeting Closes/ Final Remarks