BSRA ASM - Programme 2008
Day 1: Thursday 17th July
09.30 - 10.00 Registration and coffee 10.00 - 10.10 Introduction and welcome: Anne McArdle, Chair of BSRA 10.10 - 11.00 Plenary: Janet Lord, University of Birmingham. Dealing with Immune Frailty
Session I Ageing Tissues Chair: Joseph Kwan 11.00 - 11.30 Steve Allen. The Royal Bournemouth Hospital and University of Bournemouth. Age-related changes in respiratory sensory function; implications for clinical practice 11.30 - 11.50 Richard Ferguson (SPARC Speaker). Loughborough University. Age-related changes in muscle performance 11.50 - 12.10 Michael Wormstone (SPARC Speaker). University of East Anglia. Age-related signalling capacities of the human lens
12.10 - 13.30 Lunch and informal poster viewing
Session II Cellular Senescence Chair: Richard Faragher 13.30 - 14.00 Calvin Harley, Geron Corporation, USA. Cellular Senescence, Telomerase and Ageing 14.00 - 14.30 Thomas von Zglinicki. University of Newcastle Mitochondria and telomeres: strange bedfellows in cell senescence 14.30 - 15.00 Update on BBSRC-NIA Funding Initiative, Richard Faragher 15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Tea
Session III Model Systems Chair: Aphrodite Vasilaki 15.30 - 16.00 Ian Kill, Brunel University. Hutchinson Guilford Progeria. 16.00 - 16.30 David Gems, University College London. Disparate effects of five superoxide dismutases on development, stress resistance and ageing in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
16.30 -17.30 Cohen Medal Award and Lecture Arlan Richardson, South Texas Veterans Health Care and University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA Is the Oxidative Stress Theory of Aging Dead?
19.00 - 20.00 Wine reception and formal poster viewing 20.00 - Late Conference Dinner
Day 2: Friday 18th July
09.00 - 10.00 Plenary: Robert Arking. Wayne State University. Multiple Mechanisms of Health Span Extension in Drosophila.
Session IV Molecular Aspects of Ageing: Cardiovascular fitness Chair: Janet Lord 10.00 - 10.20 Matthew Lancaster (SPARC Speaker). University of Leeds. Ageing, exercise and gender 10.20 - 10.40 Andrew Trafford (SPARC Speaker). University of Manchester. Cardiovascular Ageing - a conundrum of muscle and vessel biology 10.40 - 11.10 Coffee
Session V Molecular Aspects of Ageing: Analysis of damage Chair: Lizzy Ostler
11.10 - 11.40 Enrique Cadenas. University of Southern California, USA. Mitochondrial bioenergetics and free radicals in aging and neurodegeneration 11.40 - 12.10 Paul Thornalley. University of Warwick. Chemical analysis of glycation 12.10 - 12.40 Kelvin Davies. University of Southern California, USA. Oxidative damage and the proteasome 12.40 - 14.10 Lunch and informal poster viewing
Session VI Selected Oral Presentations Chair: Sian Henson 14.10 - 14.30 Jos Bosch, University of Birmingham UK and Mannheim Institute for Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Adverse working conditions are associated with CD8+ T cell differentiation indicative of immunosenescence 14.30 - 14.50 Diana Jurk. Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, UK. Role of fibrosis and senescence in ageing mice liver
14.50 - 15.10 N. Minois. Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria and Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria. New genes extending longevity by RNAi in adult Drosophila melanogaster 15.10 - 15.30 David Melzer. Genetics of Ageing Group, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter UK. Genes for successful ageing in humans 15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Tea
Closing Session Psychological Aspects of Ageing Chair: Anne McArdle
16.00 - 17.00 Chris Moulin, University of Leeds. Memory and Ageing: Selves and Brains 17.00 - 17.15 Prize giving and closing remarks: Anne McArdle |
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