Speakers

Greti Aguilera, Bethesda, MD, USA
"HPA axis responsiveness to stress: Implications for ageing and well-being"
 
Craig Atwood, Madison, WI, USA
"Testing the Reproductive-Cell Cycle Theory of Aging"
 
Andrzej Bartke, Springfield, IL, USA
"Insulin signaling, calorie restriction & aging"
 
Christian Benedict, Uppsala, Sweden
"Intranasal Insulin: A future therapy to improve cognition in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease?"
 
Rochelle Buffenstein, San Antonio, TX, USA
"Attenuated aging in the long-living naked mole-rat; endocrine and neurobiological changes"
 
Rafael de Cabo, Bethesda, MD, USA
"Calorie Restriction: Is It All About Appetite?"
 
Monica Driscoll, Piscataway, NJ, USA
"Healthspan Genetics and Tissue-specific Aspects of Age-Associated Decline: Worm Secrets for Healthy Aging"
 
Ehud Cohen, Jerusalem, Israel
"The insulin/IGF1 signaling pathway couples aging and neurodegeneration: from worms to mice"
 
Rita Effros, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Telomere/telomerase dynamics in the immune system: effects of chronic infection and stress"
 
Thomas Flatt, Vienna, Austria
"Endocrine Regulation of the Trade-Off between Lifespan and Reproduction in Drosophila"
 
Don Ingram, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
"Glycolytic Inhibition as a Strategy for Developing Calorie Restriction Mimetics"
 
Brian Kennedy, Seattle, WA, USA
"Longevity pathways and Age-related disease"
 
Gordon Lithgow, Novato, CA, USA
"Common mechanisms of neurodegeneration and aging suggested by genes and chemical manipulation of lifespan"
 
Bernd Moosmann, Mainz, Germany
"Evolutionary proteomic adaptations towards longevity and stress resistance in animals"
 
Maria Christine Pardon, Nottingham, UK
"Retardation of Alzheimer's-like pathology by mild stressors"
 
Clemens Steegborn, Bochum, Germany
"Molecular mechanisms that modulate mitochondrial lifespan regulator proteins"
 
Dick Swaab, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Aging and dementia in hypothalamic systems: functional consequences"
 
Ignacio Torres-Aleman, Madrid, Spain
"IGF-1 in the aging brain"
 
Eleni Tzima, UNC, USA
"The role of hemodynamic forces in endothelial dysfunction and vascular aging"
 
Alexander Vaiserman, Kiev, Ukraine
"Early-life etiology of age-related diseases: epidemiological evidence"
 
Holly Van Remmen, San Antonio, TX, USA
"Oxidative stress induced alterations in skeletal muscle and neuromuscular junctions during aging"
 
Barbara Viviani, Milan, Italy
"Cytokines and neuronal channels: a molecular basis for age-related decline of neuronal function?"