Michal Jazwinski Welcome & Introduction

• Leah Keshet-Edelstein "Mathematical models of aging-related processes"
• Mark Azbel "Population phases and phase transitions in survival evolution"
• BREAK
• Geoffrey West "The origin of universal scaling laws in biology from cells to whales and speculations on a quantitative theory of aging and longevity"

• Siegfried Hekimi "Slow physiological rates increase life span: genetic and molecular evidence"
• Wayne Vanvoorhies "Metabolism and aging in C. elegans: causes and correlations"
• Robert Shmookler Reis "Nematode metabolism and longevity: it's more than just oxygen"
• COFFEE BREAK & GROUP PHOTO
• Chi-Yung Lai "The role of mitochondria in yeast longevity"
• Ronald Butow "Cellular responses to mitochondrial dysfunction in yeast"

• Gordon Lithgow "Life extension by enhanced stress response in C. elegans"
• Seymour Benzer "Stressful living in Drosophila"
• BREAK
• Marc Tatar "Drosophila mutant insulin-like receptor retards senescence and neuroendocrine function"
• James Curtsinger "Lifespan QTLs in Drosophila: pleiotropy, stress, and gerontogenes"

• Ritchie Feuers "Influences of age and dietary restriction on mitochondrial electron transport function"
• Tomas Prolla "Gene expression profile of aging and its retardation by caloric restriction"
• Roger McCarter "Dietary restriction and plasma glucose - studies in transgenic mice"
• COFFEE BREAK
• Noni Bodkin "Dietary restriction in primates: disease-specific intervention toward healthy aging"
• Robert O'Doherty "Metabolic engineering using recombinant adenoviruses"

• Judith Campisi "Cancer, aging, and human telomere-associated proteins"
• Estela Medrano "Molecular mechanisms of melanocyte senescence and immortalization"
• BREAK
• Pidder Jansen-Duerr "Modulation of metabolic enzymes by viral oncoproteins and in replicative senescence"
• Short talk(s)

• Avraham Reznick "Muscle adaptation to conditions of aging, immobilization, and recovery"
• John Holloszy "The rate of living and skeletal muscle aging"
• COFFEE BREAK
• Judd Aiken "Caloric restriction attenuates age-associated mitochondrial abnormalities in skeletal muscle"
• Andrzej Bartke "Longevity genes in mammals: growth hormone, body size, and aging"
• Short talk(s)

• Rudolph Tanzi "Models and mechanisms for the genetics of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease"

• Eva Sykova "Diffusion constraints and neuron-glia interaction during aging"
• Caleb Finch "Glial activation during aging and the gero-inflammatory manifold"
• BREAK
• Inez Vincent "Degenerating neurons in Alzheimer's disease: cycling to the finish?"
• Short talk(s)

• Heinz Osiewacz "Mitochondrial oxidative stress and aging in Podospora anserina"
• Vilhelm Bohr "DNA repair in human premature aging diseases"
• COFFEE BREAK
• John Phillips "Extending lifespan through targeted expression of SOD and CAT in Drosophila"
• Arlan Richardson "The Mn-SOD heterozygous knockout mouse as a model to study the role of oxidative damage, mitochondria, and apoptosis in aging"
• Georg Wick "An evolutionary/Darwinian concept for the autoimmune pathogenesis of atherosclerosis"

• Rajindar Sohal "Mitochondrial oxidant generation and protein oxidative damage during aging"
• Gino Cortopassi "Mitochondria, aging and cell death"
• BREAK
• Pier Giuseppe Pelicci "Regulation of the oxidative stress response by p66shc"
• Eugenia Wang "In search of human longevity association genes"