Fall 2021 Schedule
Monthly Seminars - Wednesdays @12pm
Hosted by Dr. Yousin Suh and Dr. Gerard Karsenty
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Genetics and Development
September 8, 2021- Judith Campisi, PhD
Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Cellular Senescence and Aging: Quo Vadis?
October 27, 2021 - John Sedivy, PhD
Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology, Associate Dean and Director, Center for the Biology of Aging, Brown University
Title: Somatic Retrotransposition in Cellular Senescence and Aging
December 1, 2021 - Dr. Laura J. Niedernhofer, MD, PhD
Director, Institute of the Biology of Aging and Metabolism
Medical Discovery Team Biology of Aging
Professor Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
University of Minnesota, School of Medicine
Title: Therapeutically targeting senescent cells to treat age-related diseases
December 15 - David Sinclair, PhD, AOV
Professor, Department of Genetics
Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research
Harvard Medical School
Title: Advances in controlling aging
Spring 2021 Schedule
January 13, 2021- Inaugural Seminar
Professor Damme Linda Partridge
The University of College London, Institute of Healthy Ageing, UK
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany
February 24, 2021 -Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray
D.H. Chen Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University, CA
March 24, 2021 - Dr. Coleen T. Murphy
Professor, LSI Genomics and Molecular Biology
HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar
Director, Glenn Center for Aging Research at Princeton University
April 28, 2021 - Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
Professor & Director, Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute
Director, Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
Director, Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program
Co-Director, Dog Aging Project, University of Washington
May 26, 2021 - Dr. Marcia Haigis
Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston,
MA, a member of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging, and the Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School
June 23, 2021 - Dr. Jan Vijg
Professor in the Department of Genetics
Professor of the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Chair Department of Genetics
Lola and Saul Kramer Chair in Molecular Genetics
For additional information please contact: flr2113@cumc.columbia.edu