Speakers
(partial list as of
January 8, 2008):
- Dorothee P. Auer, Nottingham, UK:
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"Brain imaging in Alzheimer and Parkinson's diseases"
- Nir Barzilai, Bronx, NY, USA:
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"Central regulation of peripheral insulin action"
(abstract)
- Elizabeth Blackburn, San Francisco, CA, USA:
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"Telomeres and telomerase: their implication in human age-related diseases"
(abstract)
- Holly Brown-Borg, Grand Forks, ND, USA:
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"Long-living growth hormone receptor knock out mice:
Potential mechanisms of altered stress resistance" (abstract)
- José M. Carrascosa, Madrid, Spain:
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"Changes in the neuroendocrine control of energy homeostasis by
adiposity signals during aging"
(abstract)
- Terry Combs, Chapel Hill, NC, USA:
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"Neuroendocrine Inhibition of Glucose Production and Resistance to Cancer
in Dwarf Mice"
(abstract)
- Alejandro F. De Nicola, Buenos Aires, Argentina:
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"Steroid protection" (abstract)
- Ettore Ferrari, Pavia, Italy:
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"Pineal, adrenocortical and thyroid function in autonomous
centenarians"
(abstract)
- Luigi Fontana, St. Louis, MO, USA & Rome, Italy:
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"Neuroendocrine Factors in the Regulation of Inflammation:
Excessive Adiposity and Calorie Restriction"
(abstract)
- Laura Fratiglioni, Stockholm, Sweden:
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"Prevention of common neurodegenerative disorders in the elderly"
(abstract)
- Lance J. Kriegsfeld, Berkeley, CA, USA:
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"Reproductive aging"
- Günter Lepperdinger, Innsbruck, Austria:
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"Leptin receptor/CD295 is upregulated on primary
human mesenchymal stem cells of advancing biological
age and distinctly marks the subpopulation of dying cells"
(abstract)
- Paweł Liberski, Łódź, Poland:
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"Kuru: its ramifications after fifty years"
(abstract)
- Valter D. Longo, Los Angeles, CA, USA:
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"Linking Sirtuins, IGF-I signaling, and Starvation"
(abstract)
- K. Lenhard Rudolph, Ulm, Germany:
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"Cell intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of stem cell aging depend
on telomere status"
(abstract)
- Thomas Samaras, San Diego, CA, USA:
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"The Role of Height in Human Longevity"
(abstract)
- Heidi Scrable, Charlottesville, VA, USA:
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"Running on empty: how p53 controls INS/IGF signaling and affects lifespan"
(abstract)
- Natalie Sampson, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria:
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"Integrated networks of sex steroid hormone metabolism and cytokine
signalling in the
pathogenesis of age-related prostatic disease" (abstract)
- LaDora Thompson, Minneapolis, MN, USA:
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"Mechanisms of sarcopenia during mammalian aging" (abstract)
- Aleksandra Trifunovic, Stockholm, Sweden:
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"Somatic mtDNA mutations and ageing – facts and fancies" (abstract)
- Rudi Westendorp, Leiden, The Netherlands:
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"The influence of age on the association between cholesterol and
cognitive function" (abstract)