Invited speakers list

(provisional titles)

Murat Acar (Yale)

Systems biology of single-cell aging

Serge Adnot (INSERM Paris)

Cell senescence as a target for lung diseases

Andreas Beyer (Cologne)

Ageing-associated decline of RNA biosynthesis

Thomas Bosch (Kiel, Germany)

Insights from non-senescent Hydra

Emmanuelle Cambois (INED, France)

Integrating social and biological mechanisms to understand the heterogeneity in population ageing

Francois Criscuolo (CNRS)

Telomeres as predictors of individual ageing trajectory : is everything written at the end of growth?

Vincent Geli (CRCM Marseille)

The p21-mtert knock-in mouse : an in vivo model of senescence by-pass and much more

Eric Gilson (Nice, France)

Impact of telomere alterations on organismal fitness and adaptation

Steve Horvath (UCLA)

DNA methylation age studies of mammals

Sandrine Humbert (Grenoble)

Huntingtin participates in the stress response on adult hippocampal neurogenesis

Lida Katsimpardi (Institut Pasteur)

Systemic regulation of the balance between aging and rejuvenation

Eli Keshet (Hebrew University, Israel)

Vascular theory of aging

Julie Law (Salk Institute, USA)

Mechanisms governing DNA methylation during plant development

Han Liang (Univ Texas)

Comparative analysis of primate genomes reveals an evolutionary origin of aging-related diseases

Julia von Maltzahn (Jena)

Muscle stem cells during aging and in aging-related diseases

Christof Niehrs (Mainz)

The role of Gadd45 in DNA methylation and ageing

Sven Petterson (Singapore)

Gut microbe interactions & age related organ function ; A special focus on brain

Florence Solari (CNRS)

Deciphering muscle aging in C. elegans

Björn Schumacher (Max Planck Cologne)

DNA damage responses in aging and disease : an organismal perspective

Dario Valenzano (Jena, Germany)

African killifishes shed light on evolution and modulation of vertebrate lifespan

Rudi Westendorp (Copenhagen)

Harnessing the power of big data to challenge human ageing

Maxima Yun (Dresden)

Limits to senescence in super-regenerators : insights from the salamander