Keynote Speakers: Doug Kell (Chief Executive, BBSRC), Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College, New York), Tom Johnson (University of Colorado)

Mitochondria, ROS & Ageing: Dan Gottschling (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Seattle), Joao Passos (Newcastle), Kim Krishnan (Newcastle)

Dietary Restriction: David Gems, (Institute of Healthy Ageing, London), Colin Selman (Aberdeen), Pankaj Kapahi, (Buck Institute, USA)

DNA damage: Jan Hoejmakers, (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam), Lynne Cox (Oxford), Alex Buerkle, (Konstanz).

Stem Cells & Ageing: Lenhard Rudolph (Ulm), Illaria Bellantuono (Sheffield).

Regulation and recycling in ageing: Andrew Dillin, (Salk Institute), Doug Gray (Newcastle)

Selected Oral Presentations: All abstracts will be published in a Special Issue of our Society Journal Biogerontology (Current Impact Factor 3.7). The researcher presenting the best abstract will win a bursary to present their work at the 2011 Meeting of our partner society, the American Aging Association.

Registration: includes access to all sessions, lunches, tea/coffee and a wine reception. Early Registration: BSRA members: £180, non-members: £220. Students: £100 (£90 if BSRA members). The deadline for early registration is 1^st May 2010. A limited number of student bursaries are available. Contact the Society for details.

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Location: The Royal Station Hotel, Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

Accommodation may be booked at https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/NGIBSRA2010

The meeting is preceded by a satellite symposium (14^th July 2010) entitled "Systems Modelling of Ageing", organised by Prof. Tom Kirkwood (Newcastle) More Information  Register

 

Conference Programme

 

Day 0: Wednesday, 14^th July: Satellite symposium “Systems Modelling of Ageing", organised by Prof. Tom Kirkwood (Newcastle), University Beehive, room L2.21, 9am-5pm

Day 1: Thursday 15^th July

09.30 - 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.10 Introduction and welcome: Richard Faragher, Chair of BSRA
10.10 - 11.00 Keynote talk: Doug Kell. “Tales of the Iron Age - the role of poorly liganded iron in ageing and degenerative disease”

Session I: EnergyI (Mitochondria, ROS)

Chair: Thomas von Zglinicki

11.00 - 11.30 Dan Gottschling "Age-associated phenotypes: How cellular subsystems breakdown"
11.30 - 11.50 Joao Passos, TBA
11.50 - 12.10 Kim Krishnan, TBA

 

12.10 - 13.30 Lunch and informal poster viewing

Session II: Energy II (in vivo systems, signalling, Dietary Restriction)

Chair: Tom Kirkwood

13.30 - 14.00 David Gems, "Dietary restriction and ageing in C. elegans: Nutrient sensing pathways, dietary restriction mimetics and intestinal microbiota."
14.00 - 14.30 Colin Selman, TBA
14.30 - 15.00 Pankaj Kapahi 'The role of conserved nutrient sensing TOR pathway in mediating the effects of dietary restriction

 

15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Tea

Session III: DNA Damage

Chair: Joao Passos

15.30 - 16.00 Jan Hoeijmakers, “An integral approach to the problem of aging: The role of damage to DNA”
16.00 - 16.30 Alex Buerkle, TBA
16.30 -17.30 Lynn Cox “Investigating the activity of progeroid WRN protein in protecting against DNA instability and ageing”

 

19.00 - 20.00 Wine reception and formal poster viewing

20.00 - Late Conference Dinner

Day 2: Friday 16^th July

09.00 - 10.00 Keynote talk: Ana Maria Cuervo "Selective autophagy in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis in aging organisms"

 

Session IV: Stem cells and Ageing

Chair: Gabi Saretzki

10.00 - 10.30 L. Rudolph, TBA
10.30 – 11.00 I. Bellantuono "Stem cell ageing: can we intervene?"
11.00 - 11.20 Coffee

Session V: Regulatory systems

Chair: Carol Proctor

11.20 – 12.00 A. Dillin, TBA
12.00 - 12.40 Doug Gray, A vicious cycle of signalling and proteasome impairment in neurodegenerative disease

12.40 - 14.10 Lunch and informal poster viewing

Session VI: Selected Oral Presentations

Chair: Lynne Cox

14.10 - 14.30 Oral 1
14.30 - 14.50 Oral 2
14.50 - 15.10 Oral 3
15.10 - 15.30 Oral 4

15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Tea

 

Closing Session: Challenges for the future

Chair: Tom Kirkwood

16.00 - 17.00 Tom Johnson, "Senescence and Aging: Program or Stochastic?"

17.00 - 17.15 Prize giving and closing remarks: