Invited Speakers:
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Talks include:
Aging Viewed from the Arterial Wall, The Long and Winding Road of Arterial Stiffness: Dr Majd AlGhatrif,MD, IPA appointee, Human Cardiovascular Studies Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA Cortical and spinal adjustments to control balance in the ageing neuromuscular system: Dr Stéphane Baudry,Faculty for Motor Sciences, Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Belgium
The role of chromatin state transformations in ageing: Dr Yuriy Shckorbatov, Head of Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology V.N.Karazin, Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
Hypertension, Telomere Length and Arteriosclerosis in Non-Diseased Human Kidneys: Professor. Dr. Maarten Naesens, MD, PhD, Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Immune cells: their part in brain ageing: Dr Jennifer Pocock, Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator, Department of Neuroinflammation, University College London Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Stress and adaptaion in the elderly: Professor Blahos, President of the Czech Medical Association, Czech Republic
Longevity and beta-2 microglobulin: Professor Bernard Cheung, Sun Chieh Yeh Heart Foundation Professor in Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong The role of the telomerase protein TERT in brain ageing and neurodegeneration: Dr. Gabriele Saretzki, Lecturer in Ageing Research, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK The extracellular senescence metabolome in ageing and cancer: Professor Ken Parkinson, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Extrinsic versus Intrinsic mechanisms of stem cell aging and rejuvenation: Dr Irina M. Conboy, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA Human Ageing at the Individual Level is a Unique Experience and Chronic Degenerative Diseases are Variants of that Ageing Process: Dr Michael Singer; Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Aging, Neurogenesis, and neuroinflammatory linkage in brain self-repair ability related to Parkinson's disease: Professor Bianca Marchetti, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Dept. of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine Pharmacology Section, University of Catania Medical School, Italy The changing patterns of neurological [incuding Alzheimer deaths] in the ten major developed countries: Professor Colin Pritchard, Ph.D.,M.A.,AAPSW.,AcSS.,FRSA.,Professor in Psychiatric Social Work, School of Health & Social Care, Bournemouth, UK Chronic Inflammation, Proteases and Extracellular Matrix Degradation in Extrinsic Aging: Professor David Granville, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Director, GEM Facility, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation,St. Paul's Hospital Co-Director, CIHR STIHR IMPACT Program, Founder and CSO, viDA Therapeutics, Inc.Vancouver, BC, Canada Hormones and Aging: Dr Cheryl Anne Frye, USARCSI developing healthcare leaders who make a difference worldwide: Dr Claire Donnellan PhD, MA, Reg. Psychol., RGN, PG Dip Stats Senior Lecturer in Psychologym RCSI Bahrain, Adliya, Kingdom of Bahrain Expression of phosphorylated H2AX histone in the aging mouse brain and its relation with slowly cycling neurons: Professor Adalberto Merighi, Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, GRUGLIASCO (Torino), Italy Ageing induced changes of the thermosensor plasma membrane may result in a downregulated expression of stress protein molecular chaperones; Professor Laszlo Vigh, HAS, Biological Research Centre (BRC), Head of the Molecular Stress Biology Group Institute of Biochemistry Hungary Immunosenescence on the fly: unraveling the age-specific genetic regulation of innate immune function: Dr Jeff Leips, Associate Professor, Co-Director of UBM@UMBC, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore, Maryland, USA Can we currently slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease?: Dr Naji Tabet BS, MSc (Immunol), MSc (Psych), PGCert (Med Ed), MD (Lon), MRCPsych, Senior Lecturer & Consultant, Old Age Psychiatry, Course Leader, MSc Dementia Studies Clinical Lead, Cognitive Treatment & Research Unit, Medical Lead for Research, R&D Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Postgraduate Medicine, DME & Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, UK Ageing and rejuvenation in relation to reproduction strategy: Dr Helen Nilsson Sköld, Universitet of Gothenburg, Sweden Biocomplexity, chaos, and fractality in the search of biomarkers of aging and pathology: Dr Annamaria Zaia,INRCA, Italian National Research Centres on Aging, Italy The aging effects on mitochondria function in brain as measured using PET and 18F-BCPP-EF: Dr Hideo Tsukada, Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K, JAPAN The Effect of Physical Activity on Mobility Disability: The LIFE Study: Professor Marco Pahor, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, College of Medicine Director Institute on Aging University of Florida, Florida, USA
Genetics of Healthy Ageing: What do genes tell us about Ageing Better?: Dr Irene Maeve Rea, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician Geriatric Medicine School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Queens University Belfast and Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Ireland Renal functional changes in ageing- what is the boundary between normal ageing and pathology?: Prof. Mitchell Rosner, MD, Henry B. Mulholland Professor of Medicine Chairman, Department of Medicine University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville, Virginia, US Targeting age-related hearing loss: Prof. Isabel Varela Nieto, Neurobiology of Hearing Group, Hearing Evaluation Service, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols". CSIC-UAM, Arturo Duperier 4. 28029 Madrid, Spain Interventions in Ageing: Lessons from Studies of Rhesus Macaques: Dr. Joseph W. Kemnitz University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Vascular aging and risk as imaged by intima and intima/media thickness ratio superior to conventional carotid imaging (CCA-IMT): Prof. Tord Naessen, MD, PhD, Department of Women's and Children's health, Section for Obstetrics & Gynecology, Uppsala University, SE-751 85, Uppsala, Sweden Anti-ageing effects of spermine on mammals: Associate Professor Kuniyasu Soda, Cardiovascular Research Institute Graduate School, Doctor Course of Medical Science Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University 1-847 Amanuma, Omiya, Saitama-city, Saitama, Japan Additional Speakers include Dr. Amit Arora, Consultant Physician/Geriatrician and Honorary Clinical Lecturer Chairman, England Council, British Geriatrics Society West Buildings University Hospital of North Staffordshire Stoke On Trent, UK Dr Marios Kyriazis, Italy
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