Registration Deadline: March 13, 2023
The San Diego Nathan Shock Center is pleased to announce its inaugural Symposium on The Heterogeneity of Aging.
The exciting day will feature exceptional scientists in the aging field, presentations from previous Pilot Grant Awardees, and opportunities to learn more about the SD-NSC Research Resource Cores, Research Development Core, and the upcoming 2023 Pilot Grant Call.
Speakers
Rafael de Cabo, Ph.D.
Chief of the Translational Gerontology Branch
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
Bérénice Benayoun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Gerontology, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
USC Leonard Davis
Rozalyn Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor
Medicine & Director of Metabolism of Aging Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yu Xin (Will) Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Development, Aging and Regeneration Program
Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research
Sanford Burnham Prebys
Michael Snyder, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics
Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Stanford
2023 Symposium on the Heterogeneity of Aging – Hybrid Event
| 9:00 AM | Opening remarks and Center updates |
|---|---|
| 9:20 AM | Rafael de Cabo, NIH / National Institute on Aging The Longitudinal Study on Aging in Mice; A Look into Heterogeneity |
| 9:55 AM | Berenice Benayoun, University of Southern California Sex-specific remodeling of murine macrophages during aging |
| 10:30 AM | Morning break |
| 10:45 AM | Rozalyn Anderson, University of Wisconsin Metabolism of Aging in Monkeys and Mice |
| 11:20 AM | Leena Bharath, Assistant Professor, Merrimack College SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee – Human T Cell Inflammation in Aging |
| 11:40 AM | Chiara Nicoletti, Postdoctoral fellow, Sanford Burnham Prebys, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee Extracellular vesicles as target for interventions toward countering disease-associated features of aging in a mouse model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch break |
| 1:00 PM | Xu Zhang, Research Associate, Mayo Clinic, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee The dynamics and heterogeneity of cell fates during cellular senescence |
| 1:20 PM | Gargi Mahapatra, Postdoctoral fellow, Wake Forest School of Medicine, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee Identifying Mediators of Bioenergetic Decline in Peripheral Cells of Older Adults Across a Spectrum of Cognitive Abilities |
| 1:40 PM | Will Wang, Sanford Burnham Prebys Spatial-omic revelations in skeletal muscle regeneration and aging |
| 2:15 PM | Afternoon break |
| 2:25 PM | Michael Snyder, Stanford University Remote health monitoring using microsampling and wearables |
| 3:00 PM | Pilot grant program consultation session Ongoing SD-NSC pilot projects consultation – in person, 2022 awardees only |
| 3:30 PM | Mentorship meetings – in person, 2022 awardees and mentors only |
| 4:00 PM | Networking happy hour – in person only |
