This 2-day live, virtual meeting will break down silos of specialization and will coalesce leading scientists from three disciplines (immunology, aging and computational biology) with shared interests in understanding aging at the systems level and in curing aging-related diseases. Topics that will be covered will include senescence, immune system aging, cognitive decline with aging, and clinical and genomic biomarkers of aging. In addition, there will be talks on recent advances in genomic technologies such as single cell profiling technologies and microbiome profiling. Participants will have access to recordings and meeting content for two weeks after the meeting ends.
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Sep 09 - 10
2021
Aging is a complex and multi-dimensional phenotype that affects all tissues of all organisms. In humans, aging–related diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer and type 2 diabetes, pose a huge health and economic burden, which will continue to increase as the aging population is expected to double by 2030. Disruption of immune cell functions and responses plays a significant role in the etiology of many aging-related diseases. Recent advances in genomic technologies (e.g., single cell transcriptomics and epigenomics) enable precise description of molecular and cellular changes associated with aging in human cells as well as in model organisms, including the mouse. However, uncovering the functional and clinical significance of these genomic and cellular changes is a significant computational challenge.
This 2-day virtual meeting integrates three disciplines (immunology, aging and computational biology) in order to understand aging at the systems level and to address curing of aging-related diseases. Highlighted topics include senescence, immune system aging, cognitive decline with aging, recent advances in genomic technologies, and clinical and genomic biomarkers of aging.
Give a talk during the event!
Attendees are encouraged to submit an abstract to be considered for a short talk.
Submit an abstract during registration until August 20, 2021.
Participants will have access to meeting content and recordings for two weeks after the meeting ends.
1:30 PM |
Day 1 Thursday, September 9th 9:30 am EDT Session 1: Sex and genetics in immune responses/diseases 9:40 am EDT 10:20 am EDT 11:00 am EDT 11:20 am EDT 12:20 pm EDT Session 2: Epigenetics in immune responses and diseases 1:00 pm EDT 1:40 pm EDT 2:20 pm EDT 2:40 pm EDT Session 3: Metabolic dysfunctions Session Moderator: Berenice Benayoun, Ph.D., USC Leonard Davis
3:00 pm EDT
3:40 pm EDT
4:20 pm EDT
5:00 pm EDT Changhan David Lee, Ph.D., University of Southern California 5:40 pm EDT |
1:30 PM |
Day 2 Friday, September 10th Session 4: Biomarkers of aging Session Moderator: Duygu Ucar, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine 9:30 am EDT 10:10 am EDT 10:50 am EDT 11:40 am EDT 12:00 pm EDT Session 5: Infectious diseases Session Moderator: Djamel Nehar-Belaid, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory 12:40 pm EDT
1:20 pm EDT 2:00 pm EDT 2:40 pm EDT 3:00 pm EDT |
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Levi Family Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor, Director Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute
Assistant Professor, Pathology
Assistant Professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Professor
Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Head of Research and Development
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Associate Professor
Professor of Medicine