The Biology of Aging Seminar Series
WEDNESDAYS @12pm
Location: Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1130 St. Nicholas Ave.-1st Floor Auditorium
Hosted by Dr. Yousin Suh & Dr. Gerard Karsenty
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Department of Genetics & Development
Fall 2023 Schedule
September 6th - David Glass, MD
Vice President, Research, Aging/Age-Related Disorders
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Title: Molecular mechanisms perturbed by Aging; implications for age-related disorders
October 11th - Toren Finkel, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Director of Aging Institute
G. Nicholas Beckwith III and Dorothy B. Beckwith Endowed Chair of Translational Medicine
University of Pittsburgh/UPMC
Title: Lysosomes and aging: Underlying mechanisms and therapeutic potential
November 29th - Vadim Gladyshev, PhD
Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Redox Medicine, Brigham, and Women's Hospital
Title: TBD
Spring 2023 Schedule
Wednesday, January 11th @ 12pm -Dr. Shelley Berger
Daniel S. Och Professor in Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology Department
Genetics and Founding Director, Epigenetics Program, Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM), University of Pennsylvania (Penn)Metabolic-epigenetic pathways in brain aging
Metabolic-epigenetic pathways in brain aging
Wednesday, February 22nd @11:00am - Dr. Vishwa Deep Dixit
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz, Professor of Pathology and Professor of Immunobiology
Director, Yale Center for Research on Aging (Y-Age), Pathology
"Immunometabolic checkpoints of aging"
Wednesday, March 22nd @11am - Dr. Shin-ichiro Imai
M. and T. Tanaka Family Distinguished Professor in Aging Research, Department of Developmental Biology
Department of Medicine (Joint), Washington University School of Medicine
"Achieving Productive Aging: The Intertissue Communication for Mammalian Aging and Longevity Control and Anti-Aging Intervention"
Wednesday, April 19th @12pm - Dr. Malene Hansen
Chief Scientific Officer and Professor at Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Adjunct Professor, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical & University of Southern California
Cellular recycling: Role of autophagy in aging and disease
Wednesday, May 24th @12pm- Dr. Steven N. Austad
Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging Research
Distinguished Professor
Co-Director, UAB Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
Chair, Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Five eminent breakthroughs in geroscience leading to longer, healthier lives for all
The 2nd CUIMC Symposium on The Biology of Aging
Wednesday, June 14th - 9:00am-2:45pm EST
Florence Irving Auditorium: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave., 1st Floor
9:00a - Keynote Lecture: Andrew Dillin, PhD
Mitochondrial control of aging originates in the nervous system
10:15a-10:25a- Katrina Armstrong, MD
Introduction: Columbia initiative on the biology of aging
SESSION 1: BIOLOGY OF AGING I
10:25a-10:50a-Yousin Suh, PhD
Human Genetics and Functional Genomics of Aging
10:50a-11:15a- Daniel Belsky, PhD
DunedinPACE: a New Biomarker of the Pace of Aging for Geroscience
11:30a-11:55a- Donna Farber, PhD
Asynchronous Aging of the Immune System
11:55a-12:20p- Sabrina Diano, PhD
Mechanisms Driving Calorie Restriction-Associated Neuronal Function
12:20p-12:45p- Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD
Mechanisms Underlying Lifespan Extension by Intermittent Fasting
SESSION 2: BIOLOGY OF AGING II
1:30p-1:55p- Matthew Yousefzadeh, PhD
DNA Damage as a Driver of Cellular Senescence and Organismal Aging
1:55p-2:20p- Stavroula Kousteni, PhD
Bone marrow stroma cell influence on hematopoiesis: implications for aging
2:20p-2:45p-Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD
When Does Aging Begin?