On Molecular and Cellular Biology

New Insights into Healthspan and Diseases of Aging: From Molecular to Functional Senescence. January 31-February 5, 2010 Tahoe City, California The Aging meeting was one of 52 in 2010 organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology, a nonprofit that has been convening open, international conferences in the biomedical and life...

A Paul F. Glenn Symposium on the Biology of Aging
Four Seasons Biltmore
Santa Barbara, California
June 13 – 15

A Conversation with Amy Wagers

• Aging,
• Disease,
• Regenerative Medicine,
• Stem Cells,
• iPS Cells,
• metabolism

Amy Wagers is Principal Investigator in the section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Assistant Professor in the...

Changing life as we know it

• Aging,
• Awards,
• Biology,
• Disease,
• Economy,
• Global Health,
• Public Policy,
• Robotics,
• Science in Media,
• Social Interaction,
• Stem Cells,
• Technology,
• Women,
• language,
• science

A discussion about the consequences of prolonging life and the enhanced human brain/ computer interface. Books by Patricia Churchland: ...

Southern Illinois University

• Aging,
• Alzheimer's,
• Biological Mechanisms,
• Cancer,
• Diet,
• Lifespan,
• Longevity,
• Mouse,
• Symptoms

Andy Barke is Professor of Physiology and Director of the Department of Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and a board...

A conversation with Paul F. Glenn

• Aging,
• Alzheimer's,
• Epigenetics,
• Funding,
• Glenn Foundation,
• genetics,
• politics

Paul F. Glenn is a philanthropist and founder of The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, which began The Glenn Consortium for Research in Aging,...

A conversation with Shelley Berger

• Aging,
• Chromatin,
• Epigenetics,
• Evolution,
• Inheritance,
• Mutation,
• Natural Selection,
• genetics

Shelley Berger is the Daniel S. Och University Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School...

A conversation with Caleb "Tuck" Finch

• Aging,
• Disease,
• Environment,
• Gerontology,
• Life expectancy,
• Morbidity,
• Mortality,
• Pollution,
• Senescence

Caleb "Tuck" Finch is ARCO/Keischnick Professor of Gerontology and Biological Science at the University of Southern California. He was the...

A conversation with David Sinclair

• Aging,
• Diet,
• Disease,
• Elderly,
• Longevity,
• Mechanisms,
• Red Wine,
• SIRT1,
• health,
• metabolism

David Sinclair is a Professor of Pathology and Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging at Harvard...

A conversation with Cynthia Kenyon

• Aging,
• C. Elegans,
• Diet,
• Environmental Conditions,
• Evolution,
• Fitness,
• Lifespan,
• Reproduction,
• genetics,
• metabolism

Cynthia Kenyon is an American Cancer Society Professor and Director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at the University of California,...

Newcastle University

• Aging,
• Damaged Cells,
• Death,
• Life expectancy,
• Maintenance,
• Mechanisms,
• Medical Advances,
• Mortality,
• Nature,
• Repair,
• Stem Cells,
• Systems Biology,
• genetics

Tom Kirkwood is the Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University. His research is focused on evolution and genetics of...

Harvard Medical School

• Aging,
• Cancer,
• Clinical Trials,
• Developmental Biology,
• Epigenetics,
• Lifespan,
• Methuselah Foundation,
• Mutation,
• genetics,
• politics

Gary Ruvkun is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and his lab uses molecular genetics, genomics and C. elegans to study and understand...

University of Georgia

• Aging,
• Evolution,
• Fitness,
• Gene Expression,
• Huntington's Disease,
• Mutation,
• Natural Selection,
• Systems Biology,
• genetics

Daniel Promislow is a Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia and a Fellow of the American Association for the...

NERE, University of California, Irvine

• Aging,
• Biology,
• Elderly,
• Evolution,
• Mortality,
• Natural Selection,
• genetics

Michael Rose is the Director of NERE and a Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the Unversity of...

Methuselah Foundation

• Aging,
• Disease,
• Environment,
• Evolution,
• Lifespan,
• Methuselah Foundation,
• Methuselah Mouse Prize,
• Pathology,
• SENS,
• metabolism

Aubrey de Grey is a biogerontologist, creator of the Methuselah Mouse Prize and Chief Science Officer of the Methuselah Foundation. His research is...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Aging,
• Diabetes,
• Disease,
• Evolution,
• Immune system,
• Lifespan,
• Natural Selection,
• Sirtuin,
• genetics,
• metabolism

Leonard Guarente is the Novartis Professor of Biology and Director of the Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging at the Massachusetts Institute of...

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• Aging,
• Development,
• Environment,
• Evolution,
• Repair Mechanism,
• Systems Biology,
• genetics

Aviv Bergman is is the founding Professor and University Chairman of the Department of Systems and Computational Biology at Albert Einstein College...

University of Louisville School of Medicine

• Aging,
• Canalization,
• Cell Channel,
• Decanalization,
• Development,
• Differentiation,
• Systems Biology

Eugenia Wang is a professor in the Department of Biochemstiry and Molecular Biology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and the...

Growth Hormone: Elixer of Youth or Dangerous Snake Oil?

• Aging,
• Benefit,
• Diabetes,
• Diet,
• Growth Hormone,
• Longevity,
• Senescence,
• Weight Gain

Andy Bartke is Professor of Physiology and Director of the Department of Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and a board...

Sleep Aging

• Aging,
• Calorie Restriction,
• Drosophila,
• Functional Senescence,
• Immune system,
• Life span,
• Restoration,
• Stem Cells,
• sleep

Paul Shaw is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His research is...

Sirtuins Aging and Disease

• Aging,
• Alzheimer,
• Degenerative Diseases,
• Huntington's,
• Mice,
• Parkinson's,
• SIRT1,
• Sirtuin

Leonard Guarente in the Novartis Professor of Biology and Director of the Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging at the Massachusetts Institute of...

The Double-Edged Sword of Cellular Senescence

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Cancer,
• Disease,
• Epigenetics,
• Media,
• Mutation,
• Technology

Judith Campisi is a Professor at the Buck Institute and holds a position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is focused on...

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Diet,
• Drosophila,
• Obesity,
• Stem Cells,
• TOR,
• Technology,
• sleep

Marc Tatar is a Professor of Biology at Brown University. His research is focused on understanding the genetics, mechanisms and the evolution of...

Autophagy and Aging

• Aging,
• Autophagy,
• Cell Death,
• Chaperone,
• Garbage,
• Lysosome,
• Mitochondria,
• Stem Cell

Ana Maria Cuervo is a Professor in the Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her research is...

Muscle Aging

• Aging,
• C. Elegans,
• Caloric restriction,
• Diet,
• Health span,
• Muscle mass,
• genetics

Monica Driscoll is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers University. Her research is focused on...

The Molecular and Structural Basis of Age Related Synaptic Alterations in the Central Nervous System

• Aging,
• Brain,
• Caloric restriction,
• Communication,
• Diet,
• Funding,
• Media,
• Research,
• Retina

Melanie Samuel is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. Her research is focused on...

Regulation of Wnt Signaling in Adult and Aged Stem Cells by Co-Activators and Epigenetic Modifications

• Aging,
• Bone Density,
• Caloric restriction,
• Disease,
• Funding,
• Life span,
• Media,
• Muscle

Thomas Rando is a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Chief...

University of California, Berkeley

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Disease,
• Media,
• Nutritional Science,
• Sirtuins,
• metabolism

Danica Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is...

• Aging,
• Biochemistry,
• C. Elegans,
• Caloric restriction,
• Central Nervous System,
• Development,
• Fasting,
• Stem Cells

Shilpi Khare is a Ph.D. student in the lab of Steven Clarke. She is studying the effects of oxidative stress of protein- repair deficient worms and...

The Aging-Disease Relationship

• Aging,
• Cancer,
• Disease,
• Evolution,
• Healthcare,
• Life span,
• Natural Selection,
• Protein

George Martin is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of the...

University of Brighton

• Aging,
• Gerontology,
• Hormones,
• Lifespan,
• Senescence,
• politics

Richard Faragher is Professor of Biological Gerontology at the University of Brighton and is Chair of both the British Society for Research on Ageing...

University College London

• Aging,
• Disease,
• Evolution,
• Insulin,
• Intervention,
• Pathways,
• Prevention,
• Reproduction

Linda Partridge has used the model organism Drosophila to investigate the evolution of a wide variety of physiological traits involved in adaptation....

University of Birmingham

• Aging,
• Apoptosis,
• Cortisol,
• DHEA,
• Degeneration,
• Hormones,
• Rheumatoid Arthritis,
• Stress

Janet Lord is a Principal Investigator in the MRC Centre for Immune Regulation at Birmingham University Medical School. Her primary research focus is...

University College London

• Aging,
• Evolution,
• Lifespan,
• Mitchondria,
• Molecular Damage,
• Oxidative Damage,
• Theory

David is a Reader in the Biology of Ageing, and a Deputy Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing. Much of his work uses C. elegans to understand...

The Salk Institute

• Aging,
• Alzheimer's,
• Calorie Restriction,
• Diet,
• Disease,
• Evolution,
• Fertility,
• Lifespan,
• Pathway,
• Reproduction

Andrew Dillin is an Associate Professor and Pioneer Developmental Chair in the Molecular and Cell BIology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for...

University of Washington

• Aging,
• Apoptosis,
• Calorie Restriction,
• Disease,
• Pathway,
• Sirtuin,
• Yeast,
• metabolism

Brian Kennedy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington. his lab uses a variety of model organisms...

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• Aging,
• Environment,
• Heritability,
• Longevity,
• Personality,
• Quality of Life,
• Rate

Nir Barzilai is the Director of the Institute for Aging Research and Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics at Albert Einstein College of...

The Buck Institute

• Aging,
• C. Elegans,
• Disease,
• Evolution,
• Longevity,
• Stress,
• Variation,
• genetics

Gordon Lithgow is a Professor and the head of the Lithgow Lab at the Buck Institute for Age Research. His research is focused on the relationship...

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• Aging,
• Breast Cancer,
• Centenarian,
• DNA,
• Disease,
• Longevity,
• Mutations,
• Telemeres,
• genetics

Yousin Suh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Genetics at the Albert Einstien College of Medicine. Her...

Harvard Medical School

• Aging,
• Bacteria,
• C. Elegans,
• Development,
• Drosophila,
• E. coli,
• Ethics,
• Longevity,
• Nausea Project,
• Poison,
• Stress,
• genetics

Gary Ruvkun is Professor of Genetics, Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard Medical School. His lab uses molecular genetics, genomics and C....

Bruce Yankner, Monica Driscoll, Brian Kennedy, Heidi Tissenbaum

• Aging,
• Longevity,
• Model Organisms,
• Mutations,
• Translation,
• genetics

Bruce Yankner is a Professor of Pathology and Neurology at Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on investigating the systems biology of...

University of Colorado

• Aging,
• Fertility,
• Fitness,
• Longevity,
• Mutation,
• Nematode,
• Pleiotropy,
• genetics

Tom Johnson is a Professor of Behavioral Genetics and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at...

Tamas Horvath

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• life extension

Tamas Horvath explains his research into chronic diseases and their timelines as well as the research on life extension. He discuss the current...

Gerry Shadel

• Aging,
• Mitochondria

Gerry Shadel describes the basics of mitochondrial function and mitochondrial interaction with aging through signaling pathways.Gerry Shadel studies...

Mahtab Jafari

• Aging,
• life span expansion

Mahtab Jafari discusses therapeutic intervention on aging pathways and her work determining the mechanism of botanicals which her group has shown to...

Eros Lazzerini Denchi, Panel I: Stem Cells and Aging

• Aging,
• Stem Cells,
• telomeres

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute

Irina Conboy, Panel I: Stem Cells and Aging

• Aging,
• Stem Cells

Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley 

Lawrence Goldstein, Panel I: Stem Cells and Aging

• Aging,
• Alzheimer's Disease,
• Stem Cells

Distinguished Professor, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Neurosciences; Director, UC San Diego Stem Cell Program; Scientific...

Adam Engler, Panel I: Stem Cells and Aging

• Aging,
• Stem Cells,
• muscular dystrophy

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego

Adam Engler, Irina Conboy, Eros Lazzerini Denchi, Lawrence Goldstein

• Aging,
• Stem Cells