There are two exciting opportunities in March for individuals interested in learning more about aging research conducted in San Diego and across the country.
San Diego Nathan Shock Center Symposium
On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, the San Diego Nathan Shock Center will hold its annual symposium on “The Heterogeneity of Aging” at the Salk Institute in the Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium and on Zoom. Speakers and topics for the event include:
- Hongkui Zeng, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Science – “Dynamic changes of cell types in the aging brain”
- Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, Stanford University – “Young blood for old brains and the quest to slow aging”
- Adam Salmon, PhD, Barshop Institute at UT Health San Antonio – “Understanding the translational potential of geroscience from cells to primates”
- Lingyan Shi, PhD, University of California San Diego – “Optical Metabolic Nanoscopy for Studying Aging and Diseases”
More information is available on the symposium website.
Register online to attend by Monday, March 17, 2025.
La Jolla Aging Meeting
The La Jolla Aging Meeting follows the next day on Thursday, March 27, 2025. It also will be held at the Salk Institute in the Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium. The event will include scientific presentations and networking with a focus on postdoctoral researchers and students.
Nathan Le Brasseur, PhD, director of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging at the Mayo Clinic, will present the keynote address.
More information is available on the meeting website.
Register online to attend by Monday, March 17, 2025.
Alessandra Sacco, PhD, professor in the Center for Cardiovascular and Muscular Diseases at Sanford Burnham Prebys, and dean of the institute’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, is a cohost for both events. Peter D. Adams, PhD, director and professor in the Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys, is a cohost for the La Jolla Aging Meeting.
About the San Diego Nathan Shock Center
The San Diego Nathan Shock Center (SD-NSC), led by Gerald Shadel, PhD, Audrey Geisel Chair in Biomedical Science and professor in the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, was established in the fall of 2020 with the overall goal of understanding the heterogeneity of aging in order to allow development of personalized interventions to increase the number of years of healthy life.
To this end, the center provides three novel scientific Research Resource Cores to develop new human cell models of aging and enable the integrated analysis of molecular, cellular and tissue heterogeneity. The SD-NSC also supports and advocates basic biology of aging research in general through the development, training and mentoring activities of a Research Development Core and robust outreach efforts. All of these activities are accomplished via a consortium of three premier research institutions on the La Jolla Research Mesa: the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Sanford Burnham Prebys and the University of California San Diego.
Alessandra Sacco serves as director of the SD-NSC Research Development Core and Peter Adams serves as codirector of the SD-NSC Heterogeneity of Aging Core.