Division of Biology and Medicine
Center on the Biology of Aging
MBoA Retreat
Past Retreats
Molecular Biology of Aging Graduate Program Retreat
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Schedule of Events
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Introductory Comments |
| 9:15-10:15 AM | Keynote Lecture: Saul Villeda, Mechanisms of Brain Rejuvenation |
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 PM | Morning Talks |
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Rob Reenan, Genetic Models of Disease: What they can tell us about cause and cure |
| 11:00-11:20 AM | Jeremy Horrell, A proposal: using Oligopaints and super-resolution microscopy to interrogate genomic loci in senescent cells |
| 11:20-11:50 AM | Jill Kreiling, Dysregulation of miRNA expression in aging |
| 11:50 AM -12:10 PM | Sun Maybury-Lewis, Chromatin dynamics in neural stem cell activation |
| 12:10-1:10 PM | Lunch and Posters |
| 1:10-2:20 PM | Afternoon Talks |
| 1:10-1:40 PM | Gerwald Jogl, Biophysical and biochemical studies of LINE-1 proteins |
| 1:40-2:00 PM | Jackie Howells, Innate immunity as a mechanism of tau-mediated neurodegeneration |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | Alvin Huang, The Pluri-potential in Alzheimer’s Disease: iPS Modeling for Risk and Opportunity |
| 2:30 PM | Posters continued |
Brown Center on the Biology of Aging Graduate Program Retreat 2018
Schedule of Events
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Introductory Comments |
| 9:15-10:15 AM | Keynote Lecture: Laura Niedernhofer, University of Minnesota Endogenous DNA damage as a driver of senescence and aging |
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 PM | Morning Talks |
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Jason Wood (Helfand Lab), Sirt4 is a mitochondrial regulator of metabolism and lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster |
| 11:00-11:20 AM | Anna Petrashen (Sedivy Lab), Translational regulation of insulin-like growth factor 1 by MYC |
| 11:20-11:50 AM | Qian Chen, Cartilage: A model system to study aging and aging-associated disease |
| 11:50 AM -12:10 PM | Yee Voan Teo (Neretti Lab), Secondary and a subset of primary senescent cells result from Notch signaling |
| 12:10-1:10 PM | Lunch and Posters |
| 1:10-2:20 PM | Afternoon Talks |
| 1:10-1:40 PM | John Sedivy, What are mobile genetic elements and why do they promote aging? |
| 1:40-2:00 PM | Shawn Williams (Rand Lab), It takes two to make a thing go right: How mitochondrial and nuclear genomes interact to regulate metabolism |
| 2:00-2:20 PM | Brett Baggett (Koren Lab), The role of myofibroblast senescence in arrhythmogenesis of the aged infarcted heart |
| 2:30 PM | Posters continued (with refreshments) |
2017 MBoA Retreat
Saturday, November 4, 2017
The 2017 MBoA Retreat was held on Saturday, November 4, 2017. The Keynote Speaker was Rozalyn Andersen from the University of Wisconsin who presented “Caloric restriction: Reprogramming nonhuman primate aging”. In addition, there were research talks by faculty, postdocs and students and student posters.
Schedule of Events
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Introductory Comments |
| 9:15-10:15 AM | Keynote Lecture Rozalyn Anderson, University of Wisconsin. Caloric restriction: Reprogramming nonhuman primate aging |
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 PM | Morning Talks |
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Robert Reenan |
| 11:00-11:20 AM | Megan Gura |
| 11:20-11:50 AM | Leila Rieder |
| 11:50 AM-12:10 PM | John Santiago |
| 12:10-1:10 PM | Lunch and Posters |
| 1:10-2:30 PM | Afternoon Talks |
| 1:10-1:40 PM | Michelle Dawson |
| 1:40-2:00 PM | Stephanie Post |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | Marco DeCecco |
| 2:30-4:00 PM | Posters continued (with refreshments) |