2022 Schedule
Monthly Seminars - Wednesdays
*unless otherwise indicated
The Biology of Aging Seminar Series
Hosted by Dr. Yousin Suh and Dr. Gerard Karsenty
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Genetics and Development
*Special Seminar Monday, August 22
Location: Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center 1130 St. Nicholas Avenue-1st floor auditorium
Time: 3:00 pm
Jan Hoeijmakers, PhD
Professor of Molecular Genetics at Erasmus University
MC & Group leader, Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric, Oncology, Holland
Title: "DNA damage repair: understanding the process of aging and nutritional applications for medicine"
Fall 2022 Schedule
September 24 - Amita Sehgal, PhD
John Herr Musser Professor of Neuroscience at University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Title: Aging of the circadian system
October 26 - Manuel Serrano, PhD
ICREA Professor
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, IRB Barcelona
Title: Understanding and manipulating cellular reprogramming for tissue rejuvenation
December 14 - Peter D. Adams, PhD
Co-Director of Aging
Cancer and Immuno-oncology Program
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Title: The dynamic epigenome – challenges and opportunities for healthy aging and suppression of cancer
Spring 2022 - Virtual Seminars
January 19 - Vera Gorbunova, PhD
Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology and Medicine
Co-director Rochester Aging Research Center
Department of Biology, University of Rochester
Title: Mechanisms of longevity and cancer resistance: from naked mole rats to whales
February 16 - Saul A. Villeda, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy
Endowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences
Associate Director, Bakar Aging Research Institute
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Title: Systemic Mechanisms of Brain Rejuvenation
March 16 - Rozalyn . Anderson, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director of the Metabolism of Aging program
University of Wisconsin
Title: Delayed aging by caloric restriction – monkeys, mice, and metabolism
April 20 - Pinchas Cohen, MD
Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
Executive Director, Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center
Holder, William & Sylvia Kugel Gerontology Dean's
Title: The New Biology of Mitochondrial Microproteins
June 15 - Bérénice A. Benayoun, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Gerontology, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
USC Stem Cell initiative
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Title: Sex dimorphism in Immune Aging: are we missing half of the picture?