Speakers (partial list as of January 8, 2008):

Dorothee P. Auer, Nottingham, UK:

"Brain imaging in Alzheimer and Parkinson's diseases"
 

Nir Barzilai, Bronx, NY, USA:

"Central regulation of peripheral insulin action" (abstract)
 

Elizabeth Blackburn, San Francisco, CA, USA:

"Telomeres and telomerase: their implication in human age-related diseases" (abstract)
 

Holly Brown-Borg, Grand Forks, ND, USA:

"Long-living growth hormone receptor knock out mice: Potential mechanisms of altered stress resistance" (abstract)
 

José M. Carrascosa, Madrid, Spain:

"Changes in the neuroendocrine control of energy homeostasis by adiposity signals during aging" (abstract)
 

Terry Combs, Chapel Hill, NC, USA:

"Neuroendocrine Inhibition of Glucose Production and Resistance to Cancer in Dwarf Mice" (abstract)
 

Alejandro F. De Nicola, Buenos Aires, Argentina:

"Steroid protection" (abstract)
 

Ettore Ferrari, Pavia, Italy:

"Pineal, adrenocortical and thyroid function in autonomous centenarians" (abstract)
 

Luigi Fontana, St. Louis, MO, USA & Rome, Italy:

"Neuroendocrine Factors in the Regulation of Inflammation: Excessive Adiposity and Calorie Restriction" (abstract)
 

Laura Fratiglioni, Stockholm, Sweden:

"Prevention of common neurodegenerative disorders in the elderly" (abstract)
 

Lance J. Kriegsfeld, Berkeley, CA, USA:

"Reproductive aging"
 

Günter Lepperdinger, Innsbruck, Austria:

"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:

"Kuru: its ramifications after fifty years" (abstract)
 

Valter D. Longo, Los Angeles, CA, USA:

"Linking Sirtuins, IGF-I signaling, and Starvation" (abstract)
 

K. Lenhard Rudolph, Ulm, Germany:

"Cell intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of stem cell aging depend on telomere status" (abstract)
 

Thomas Samaras, San Diego, CA, USA:

"The Role of Height in Human Longevity" (abstract)
 

Heidi Scrable, Charlottesville, VA, USA:

"Running on empty: how p53 controls INS/IGF signaling and affects lifespan" (abstract)
 

Natalie Sampson, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria:

"Integrated networks of sex steroid hormone metabolism and cytokine signalling in the pathogenesis of age-related prostatic disease" (abstract)
 

LaDora Thompson, Minneapolis, MN, USA:

"Mechanisms of sarcopenia during mammalian aging" (abstract)
 

Aleksandra Trifunovic, Stockholm, Sweden:

"Somatic mtDNA mutations and ageing – facts and fancies" (abstract)
 

Rudi Westendorp, Leiden, The Netherlands:

"The influence of age on the association between cholesterol and cognitive function" (abstract)