24th Annual AFAR Grantee Conference
June 12 – 14, 2011
Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel
Santa Barbara, CA
DRAFT as of 6/03/11
Sunday, June 12, 2011
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
La Salita
Registration
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
El Mar Terrace
Reception
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
El Mar
Welcome
Roger McCarter, Ph.D.
President
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
"Aging-related changes to stem cells and the stem cell niche"
Leanne Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Laboratory of Genetics,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
El Mar
Dinner
Introduction
Stephanie Lederman
Executive Director
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
"Aging then, aging now."
Steven N. Austad, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Monday, June 13, 2011
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
“Metabolic and molecular effects of long-term calorie restriction in
humans”
Luigi Fontana, M.D., Ph.D. (09 BIG)
Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Washington University
School of Medicine
“Stress Resistance In The Long-Lived Naked Mole-Rat; The Bare
Essentials.”
Rochelle Buffenstein, Ph.D. (09 BIG)
Professor, UTHSCSA
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Break
10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
La Veranda
Julie Martin Mid-career awardee presentations
“Staying connected: Role of the neuromuscular junction with age”
Holly Van Remmen, Ph.D. (08 Mid-career)
Associate Professor, UTHSCSA
“Regulation of Growth by the mTOR pathway”
David Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D. (09 Mid-career)
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT
“Divergent macrophage-pathogen interactions in old age”
Joanne Turner, Ph.D. (10 Mid-career)
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
La Veranda
AFAR-GE Healthcare Junior Investigator Award for
Excellence in Imaging and Aging Research awardee presentations
Sholom M. Ackelsberg
Executive Leader, Academic Research Portfolio, GE Healthcare
 Mark L. Andermann, PhD, Harvard Medical School
 Fabio Demontis, PhD, Harvard Medical School (not present)
 Rahul S. Desikan, MD, PhD, UCSD
 Duygu Tosun, PhD, UCSF
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Palmera Garden
Lunch
Monday, June 13, 2011 (continued)
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
La Veranda
Funding Session
“Tapping Private Funding Sources for Aging Research”
Kevin Lee, Ph.D.
Deputy Executive Director, The Ellison Medical Foundation
“A view from NIH: Funding Mechanisms and Research Initiatives”
Felipe Sierra, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Aging Biology
National Institute on Aging, NIH
2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Free time/Poster set-up
4:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Loggia Ballroom
Poster Session and Reception
4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
La Pacifica Ballroom
Group A (odd numbers) attend poster
Group B (even numbers) attend poster
Dinner with participants of the Glenn Workshop
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
La Marina
Breakfast
Adjourn
New Investigators in Alzheimer’s Disease Grantee Meeting
(For Gilbert/AFAR grant recipients and invited guests)
Major Sponsors of AFAR Grant Programs
Anonymous
The AFAR Board of Directors
The Ellison Medical Foundation
Dorothy Dillon Eweson Endowment
GE Healthcare
The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation
The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
The Partners of Goldman Sachs & Company
David W. Gore
F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.
Neurosciences Education and Research Foundation (NERF)
Diane Nixon
Pfizer Inc
The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation
Joseph L.K. Snyder Trust
The Starr Foundation
The Irving S. Wright Endowment