The Paul F. Glenn/AFAR Conference on the Biology of Aging
The 28th Annual AFAR Grantee Conference
June 1 – 3, 2015
Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel
Santa Barbara, CA
DRAFT – May 13, 2015
Monday, June 1, 2015
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Alto
Registration/reception
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
El Mar
Welcome
Stephanie Lederman
Executive Director
American Federation for Aging Research
Harvey Jay Cohen, M.D.
President, American Federation for Aging Research and
Walter Kempner Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for the Study of Aging
Duke University Medical Center
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
"Chromatin folding, age dependent memory decline and age
induced haploinsufficiency."
Giovanni Bosco, Ph.D. (2013 BIG recipient)
Associate Professor, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
5:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
“Rapamycin: The first longevity drug?”
Arlan Richardson, Ph.D.
Donald W Reynolds Endowed Chair of Aging Research
Professor of Geriatric Medicine
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center
5:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
break
Monday, June 1, 2015 (continued)
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Felipe Sierra, Ph.D.
Director of the Division of Aging Biology
National Institute on Aging, NIH
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
El Mar
Dinner
8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Alto
Social gathering, with dessert, coffee and wine
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Glenn Workshop and AFAR Grantee Conference
Joint meeting
The Glenn Medical Foundation – 50th Anniversary
Fifty years of aging research: What have we learned, where do we go from here?
Moderator: Kevin Lee
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
La Marina
Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
La Veranda
Welcome and opening remarks
Mark Collins
President, Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Meeting overview and goals
Kevin Lee, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific & Programmatic Advisor,
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Session One: Fifty Years of Aging Research: Past, Present, Future
Moderator: Edward Lakatta, M.D., NIA
Speakers: Steven Austad, Ph.D., UAB
George Martin, M.D., University of Washington
Session will provide a backdrop, discussing major areas of inquiry over
the past fifty years, lessons learned, which areas are still being
investigated, emerging and promising areas, how is technology shaping
research.
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Break
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 (continued)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session Two: How to Optimize your Message
Moderator: Erika Check Hayden, reporter for Nature
Panelists: Richard Faragher, M.D., University of Brighton
James Kirkland, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic
Christopher Scott, Ph.D., Stanford University
Credibility of our messages hinges on the quality of scientific
explanations. Findings that emerge from the aging research field
are often extrapolated by the media and/or repackaged into
messages promising fountains of youth. Terms such as “anti-aging,
immortality, ending aging” harm the field more than they do good.
This session will discuss how we can best communicate our
messages - can the aging community agree on common language?
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Palmera Garden
Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Session Three: Resistance to Aging - Optimizing damage response
pathways
Moderator: Kevin Lee, Ph.D., Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
Speakers: Judith Campisi, Ph.D., Buck Institute for Research
on Aging
Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
Research, and MIT
Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D., Harvard University
Pathways that identify damaged molecules, organelles, and tissues
and repair this damage underlie the ability to resist the effects of
aging and maintain healthy function. At the same time,
dysregulated or chronically activated repair pathways contribute to
aging-associated pathogenesis. This session will provide an
overview of our current understanding of surveillance and stress
response pathways, and consider how these pathways can be
optimized to strike a balance between beneficial and detrimental
responses to stress and toxic insults.
3:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Loggia Ballroom
AFAR Grantee Poster Session
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
La Pacifica Terrace
Reception
7:00 – 9:00p.m.
La Pacifica
Dinner
Speaker: Stuart Firestein, Ph.D., Columbia University
Kindly remove your poster at the conclusion of the session.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
La Marina
Breakfast
Adjourn
Grantees with a twitter account are encouraged to tweet at least once during the conference using the
#Iamascientistbecause tag + @AFARorg
2014 Major Sponsors of AFAR Grant Programs
The AFAR Board of Directors
Anonymous
AFAR 2014 Regional Dinner Funds
The Lawrence Ellison Foundation
The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
David W. Gore
Diana Jacobs Kalman
F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.
Diane Nixon
Pfizer Inc
The Irving S. Wright Endowment