The Paul F. Glenn/AFAR Conference on the Biology of Aging
The 27th Annual AFAR Grantee Conference
June 2 – 4, 2014
Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel
Santa Barbara, CA
DRAFT – May 12, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
La Salita
Registration
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. – 5:30 p.m.
“How and why to communicate your research to the media and lay
public”
Steven Austad, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, American Federation for Aging Research and
Chair, Department of Biology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
5:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Alto
Break
Monday, June 2, 2014 (continued)
5:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
El Mar
“It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. NIA in these times.”
Robin A. Barr, D.Phil.
Director of the Division of Extramural Activities
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
El Mar
Dinner
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Alto
Social gathering, with dessert, coffee and wine
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
La Marina
Breakfast Buffet
8:30 a.m. –9:45 a.m.
La Veranda
Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG)
awardee presentations
“A novel tool for uncovering how senescent cells cause age-related
dysfunction”
James L. Kirkland, M.D., Ph.D. (2012 BIG)
Noaber Foundation Professor in Aging Research
Mayo Clinic
“Understanding and exploring a novel chaperone to overcome
protein aggregation”
Shu-o Shan, Ph.D. (2012 BIG)
Professor
California Institute of Technology
9:45 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
“The Cancer/Aging interface; challenges and opportunities”
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
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 (continued)
10:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.
Break
10:40 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
“Potential role of Inflammation and autophagy in brain aging and
delirium”
Laura Dugan, M.D.
Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
“Minding the gap (gulf) between aging biology discovery and clinical
practice”
Jeremy Walston, M.D.
Raymond and Anna Lublin Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Palmera Garden
Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Andrew Dillin, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Investigator and Thomas and Stacey Siebel
Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Biology and
Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
University of California, Berkeley
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Loggia Ballroom
Small Group Poster Session
(Kindly remove your poster at the conclusion of the session.)
People will assemble around their poster session assignment in a small group.
Each poster presenter will stand in front of their poster and present a 1 to 1 ½
minute overview, with a focus on the “take home” points rather than the methods.
After the brief overview, other poster presenters assigned to the session block,
as well as the assigned discussant and other interested attendees, can ask
questions while the presenter stands in front of his/her poster. Once a presenter
is finished, the group moves on to the next poster in line and the same
procedures follow. Once all of the posters in the small assigned group have been
briefly summarized, the assigned discussant makes some relevant points about
the various pieces of work and a discussion opens among the presentation group
and interested attendees.
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Free time
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
La Pacifica Terrace
Reception with participants of the Glenn Workshop
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
La Pacifica Ballroom
Dinner with participants of the Glenn Workshop
All grantees are expected to attend.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
La Marina
Breakfast
Adjourn
2013 Major Sponsors of AFAR Grant Programs
Anonymous
The AFAR Board of Directors
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
The Ellison Medical Foundation
Dorothy Dillon Eweson Endowment
The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation
The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
David W. Gore
F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.
Neurosciences Education and Research Foundation (NERF)
Pfizer Inc
The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation
The Irving S. Wright Endowment
Career Development Resources
Science Careers MyIDP, Individual Development Plan - http://myidp.sciencecareers.org/
“myIDP will help you identify the career goals that are right for you and develop a step-by-step
plan to reach those goals.”
NIH Office of Extramural Research blog, Rock Talk, with Dr. Sally Rockey, NIH's Deputy
Director for Extramural Research, http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/category/blog/
AAAS Center for Careers in Science and Technology:
http://php.aaas.org/programs/centers/careers/index.php
National Postdoctoral Association: http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Tools: http://www.bwfund.org/pages/55/Career-Tools/
Career Development Guides:
Hints for Obtaining Tenure http://www.bwfund.org/page.php?mode=privateview&pageID=255
Communicating Science:Giving Talks http://www.bwfund.org/pages/361/Career-DevelopmentGuide---Communicating-Science:--Giving-Talks/
Moving On:Managing Career Transitions http://www.bwfund.org/pages/453/Career-DevelopmentGuide---Moving-On/
Staffing the Lab:Perspectives from Both Sides of the Bench
http://www.bwfund.org/pages/419/Career-Development-Guide---Staffing-the-Lab/
FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Career Centers:
http://tinyurl.com/cq8fk59