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Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases

  
  December 29, 2008
Neurology / Neuroscience
  
     
 


Abcam, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
March 3-6, 2009

Full program available online. www.abcam.com/neuro2009 		 
 
Organized by: Abcam, Inc.
Invited Speakers:
  • Jeff Kelly (The Scripps Research Institute)
    Proteostasis in health and disease
  • Reuben Shaw (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
    AMPK and mTOR, central players controlling metabolism, cell growth, and aging
  • Gerald Shadel (Yale University School of Medicine)
    Regulation of mitochondrial function and life span by the TOR pathway
  • Jan Karlseder (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
    C. elegans as a model for telomere length regulation during organismal aging
  • Gerald Evan (University of California, San Francisco)
    Triggering tumor suppression
  • Scott Lowe (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
    Roles and regulation of cellular senescence
  • Rick Morimoto (Northwestern University)
    Protein misfolding and the collapse of proteostasis
  • Stuart Kim (Stanford University Medical Center)
    Developmental drift guides aging in C. elegans
  • Linda Buck (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
    A high throughput screen for chemicals that delay aging in Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Rolf Bodmer (The Burnham Institute)
    Autonomy of cardiac aging in drosophila
  • James Mitchell (Harvard School of Public Health)
    Dietary restriction, fasting and acute stress resistance
  • Dan Gottschling (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
    Cellular aging and nuclear genome instability: New clues from yeast
  • Richard Weindruch (Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, University of Wisconsin)
    Caloric restriction, fasting and acute stress resistance
  • Thomas Nyström (Department of Cell and Molecular Biology-Microbiology,Göteborg University, Sweden)
    The Sir2p genetic interaction network reveals new players required for the segregation of protein damage
  • Leanne Jones (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
    Aging-related changes to stem cells and the stem cell niche
  • Tom Rando (Stanford School of Medicine)
    Molecular and functional changes of muscle stem cells with age
  • Arnie Levine (The Simons Center for Systems Biology, UMDNJ)
    The role of the p53 pathway in aging and age related
  • Andrew Dillin (The Salk Institute)
    A conserved pathway for diet restriction induced longevity
 
Deadline for Abstracts: December 31, 2008
 
Registration: Register online by December 31, 2008 to receive a discounted registration price. Standar registration fees available until January 16, 2009.
E-mail: katie.sedat@abcam.com
 
   
 
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