Program Overview
Saturday, November 9, 2019
12:00 – 1:30 pm Welcome Lunch
1:30 – 1:45 pm Opening Remarks (Alan Cohen, Tamàs Fülöp, Nathalie Rivard, Pierrette Gaudreau, and José A. Morais)
1:45 – 3:00 pm Session 1: Comparative Biology of Aging
1:45 - 2:10 pm Jean-François Lemaitre
Sex differences in lifespan and ageing: what can we learn from comparative studies?
2:10 - 2:35 pm Anne Bronikowski
Insights into mechanisms of aging from comparative studies of reptiles
2:35 - 3:00 pm Vera Gorbunov
Mechanisms of longevity in long-lived mammals
3:00 – 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:45 pm Session 2: Nutrition and Aging
3:30 - 3:55 pm José A. Morais
Leucine is not required in conjunction with resistance training and optimized protein intake to reverse frailty
3:55 - 4:20 pm Alistair Senior
Dietary Macronutrients, Age-Specific Mortality and Variation in Age at Death
4:20 - 4:45 pm Philipp Gut
Targeted Nutrition for Disease Management
4:45 – 6:00 pm Session 3: Mechanisms of Biological Aging
4:45 - 5:10 pm Jacek Witkowski
Proteodynamics and aging of cells and organisms
5:10 - 5:35 pm Pierrette Gaudreau
Metabolomic and lipidomic signatures of MetS in older adults of the NuAge cohort
5:35 - 6:00 pm Ganghui Liu
Programming and reprogramming of aging
6:00 – 7:00 pm Debate: Do we know what aging is?
Pro: Brian Kennedy
Con: Alan Cohen
7:00 – 8:00 pm Dinner/Cocktail
8:00 – 8:45 pm Keynote 1: Claudio Franceschi
Causes and implications of the heterogeneity of the aging phenotype
Sunday, November 10, 2019
7:30 – 8:15 am Breakfast
8:15 – 9:30 am Session 4: Aging, Frailty, and Complexity
8:15 - 8:40 am Andrea Maier
Determinants of recovery from acute disease at older age: the RESORT cohort
8:40 - 9:05 am Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert
Getting Grip on Resilience in Aging Adults
9:05 - 9:30 am Arnold Mitnitski
Systems approach to aging and frailty
9:30 – 10:45 am Coffee Break and Posters
10:45 am – 12:00 pm Session 5: Big Data, Artiticial Intelligence, and Aging
10:45 - 11:10 am Alexander Zhavoronkov
Title to come
11:10 - 11:35 am João Pedro de Magalhaes
Title to come
11:35 am - 12:00 pm Johannes Hertel
Frameworks of constructing metrics of biological age via data-driven procedures
12:00 – 12:50 pm Keynote 2: Luigi Ferrucci
Paving the road to new generation of studies of aging: the GESTALT study
12:50 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 – 3:15 pm Session 6: Cellular Senescence
2:00 - 2:25 pm Bertrand Friguet
Proteome oxidative modifications and impairment of metabolic pathways during cellular senescence and aging
2:25 - 2:50 pm Gerardo Ferbeyre
Senescence, aging and the nucleolus
2:50 - 3:15 pm Valery Krizhanovsky
Senescent cells as drivers of ageing and age-related diseases
3:15 – 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:50 pm Session 7: Immunosenescence and Inflammaging
3:30 - 3:50 pm Graham Pawelec
Impact of immunosenescence on cancer immunotherapy
3:50 - 4:10 pm Janko Nicolich-Zugich
Aging of lymph nodes sets a critical stage for age-related immune dysfunction
4:10 - 4:30 pm Daniela Frasca
Obesity and B cell immunosenescence
4:30 - 4:50 pm Julian Falutz
Title to come
4:50 – 6:05 pm Session 8: Geroscience
4:50 - 5:15 pm Brian Kennedy
Title to come
5:15 - 5:40 pm Vadim N. Gladyshev
From longevity signatures to longevity interventions
5:40 - 6:05 pm Alexey Moskalev
Title to come
Monday, November 11, 2019
7:30 – 8:15 am Breakfast
8:15 – 9:00 am Keynote 3: Dominique Gravel
Aging in multiple dimensions
9:00 – 10:15 am Session 9: Systems Biology of Aging
9:00 - 9:25 am Jackie Jing-dong Han
Title to come
9:25 - 9:50 am Steve Horvath
Comparative epigenetic aging studies in mammals
9:50 - 10:15 am Anatoliy Yashin
Genetic connection among aging, health, and longevity related traits: The results of recent analyses
10:15 – 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45 am – 12:00 pm Session 10: Age-Related Diseases
10:45 - 11:10 am Andrei Seluanov
The role of transposable elements in inflammaging
11:10 - 11:35 am Andreas Simm
Title to come
11:35 am - 12:00 pm André Carpentier
Adipose tissue metabolic dysfunction in cardiometabolic diseases
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 pm Session 11: Longitudinal Studies
1:00 - 1:25 pm Parminder Raina
Title to come
1:25 - 1:50 pm Joris Deelen
The genetic and metabolomic signatures of human longevity and lifespan
1:50 - 2:15 pm Anis Larbi
T cell aging in aging
2:15 – 2:45 pm Coffee Break
2:45 – 4:00 pm Session 12: Complexity and Aging
2:45 - 3:10 pm Svetlana Ukraintseva
Mechanisms of the decline in resilience during aging: Role of genes regulating cell responses to damage
3:10 - 3:35 pm Adam Freund
Untangling Aging Using Dynamic, Organism-Level Phenotypic Networks
3:35 - 4:00 pm Janet Thornton
Computational approaches to unravel the complexities of Ageing and repurpose drugs for geroprotection
4:00 – 5:15 pm Session 13: Interventions
4:00 - 4:25 pm Stephen Cunnane
Brain energy rescue with ketones in Alzheimer’s disease: progress with clinical trials
4:25 - 4:50 pm Katsuiku Hirokawa
Immune status of cancer patients and the effect of DC therapy with WT-1 peptide on immunity and prognosis
4:50 - 5:15 pm Jing Qu
Gene therapy alleviates osteoarthritis by preventing stem cell senescence