July 15, 16 and 17, 2001
Hotel Loftleidir
Reykjavik, Iceland
"What worms can teach us about aging" Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, Herbert Boyer Professor of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco.
Introductions of all participants, led by Warren Browner; each participant briefly introduced himself/ herself
"Expression of cell death genes and human longevity," Eugenia Wang, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Louisville, Kentucky
"Long-lived fruit flies" John Tower, PhD, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
"Murine aging and its retardation by caloric restriction: Analysis with high density oligonucleotide arrays" Tomas Prolla, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics & Medical Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Simian aging" Richard Weindruch, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"Prospects for genetic mapping of senescence in a nonhuman primate" Marc Tatar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Program in Medical Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Boston
Introduction of longevity consortium cohorts - representatives from each cohort presented information about their study.
"Is human longevity inherited?" Winnifred Rossi, MA, Program Administrator, Genetic Epidemiology and Translational Research, Geriatrics Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda
"Human longevity: disease absence or fundamental phenomenon?" Warren Browner, MD, MPH, Vice President, Academic Affairs,Scientific Director, Research Institute, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
"Phenotypes and biomarkers of aging" Steven R. Cummings, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco; Director, UCSF Coordinating Center
"Genetic association studies" Elad Ziv, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
"Centenarians - how do they inform the study of genetics of longevity?" Thomas T. Perls MD, MPH, Director, New England Centenarian Study, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Gerontology Division, Boston
"Genetics of Icelandic longevity" Kari Stefansson, MD, President, CEO, DeCODE Genetics, Inc., Reykjavik
Discussion of possible experiments: are we ready for association studies in
humans? Elad Ziv and Steve Cummings.
Who/What is missing from this meeting? What's next?
Tour of DeCODE Inc. (optional)