Thursday, October 10

11:00-2:00 PM

Registration

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2:00-2:15 PM

Opening remarks - Welcome note by Gerald de Haan

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2:15-3:30 PM 

Session 1. Nutrient Sensing

Chair: Cor Calkhoven

• 2:15-2:45 PM > Eline Slagboom,
  Leiden University, The Netherlands

• 2:45-3:15 PM > Stephen Simpson,
  The University of Sydney, Australia

• 3:15-3:30 PM > Christine Muller,
  ERIBA, The Netherlands

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3:30-4:00 PM

Coffee-break

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4:00-5:45 PM

Session 2. Telomeres and Genome Stability

Chair: Michael Chang

• 4:00-4:30 PM > Maria Teresa Teixeira, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, CNRS

• 4:30-5:00 PM > Jan Vijg,

      Albert Einstein College of Medicine 

• 5:00-5:15 PM > Francis Rodier, CRCHUM , Canada

• 5:15-5:30 PM > Floris Foijer,

      ERIBA, The Netherlands 

• 5:30-5:45 PM > Marie Noelle Simon, CNRS, France

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5:45-7:00 PM

Dinner in UMCG

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7:00-8:00 PM

Keynote lecture

Introduction by Gerald de Haan

Titia de Lange, The Rockefeller University

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8:30 PM

Networking over drinks at 't Feithhuis

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Friday, October 11

9:00-10:45 AM

Session 3. Organelles and Ageing

Chair: Liesbeth Veenhoff

• 9:00-9:30 AM > Toren Finkel, University of Pittsburgh 

• 9:30-10:00 AM > Patricia Boya, CSIC, Madrid 

• 10:00-10.30 AM > Riekelt Houtkooper, University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• 10.30-10.45 AM > Natascia Ventura, Heinrich Heine University, Germany

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10:45-11:15 AM

Coffee break

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11:15-12:30 PM

Session 4. Epigenetics

Chair: Floris Foijer

• 11:15-11:45 AM > Peter Adams, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute  

• 11:45-12:15 PM > Christof Niehrs, IMB, Mainz 

• 12:15-12:30 PM > Tamir Chandra, The University of Edinburgh

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12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch

PhD student’s interaction session with the speakers

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1:30-3:15 PM

Session 5. Senescence, interventions and evolution

Chair: Marco Demaria

• 1:30-2:00 PM > Jan van Deursen, Mayo Clinic

• 2:00-2:30 PM > Manuel Collado, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS)

• 2:30-2:45 PM > Ines Sturmlechner, Mayo Clinic

• 2:45-3:00 PM > Edward Fielder, University of Florida

• 3:00-3:15 PM > Richard Cawthon, University of Utah

3:15-5:30 PM

Poster Session/Coffee break

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5:30-6:30 PM

Keynote Lecture

Introduction by Liesbeth Veenhoff

Yves Barral, Institute of Biochemistry | ETH Zurich

6:45-8:45 PM

Dinner at DOT

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8:45 PM

Party at DOT

Saturday, October 12

9:00-10:30 AM

Session 6.  Protein Homeostasis

Chair: Ellen Nollen

• 9:00-9:30 AM > Simon Alberti, MPI-CBG 

• 9:30-9.45 AM > Mandy Koopman, ERIBA

• 9:45-10:00 AM > Sebastian Iben, University of Ulm

• 10:00-10:15 AM > Martin Denzel, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany

• 10:15-10:30 AM > Patrick van der Wel, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, The Netherlands

10:30-11:00 AM

Coffee break

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11:00-2:00 PM

Session 7.  Stem Cells

Chair: Gerald de Haan

• 11:00-11:30 AM > Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Stanford University

• 11:30-12:00 PM > Claudia Waskow, Leibniz-Institute on Aging, Fritz-Lipmann-Institute (FLI)

• 12:00-12:15 PM > Ruzhica Bogeska, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

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12:15-1:15 PM

Lunch

PhD student’s interaction session with the speakers 

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Session 7. Stem Cells

Chair: Gerald de Haan

• 1:15-1:30 PM > Kristina Kirschner, University of Glasgow

• 1:30-1:45 PM > Arthur Svendsen, European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, The Netherlands

• 1:45-2:00 PM > Lenhard Rudolph, Leibniz Institute on Aging-FLI, Germany

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2:00-3:00 PM

Keynote Lecture

Introduction by Cor Calkhoven

Matt Kaeberlein, University of Washington 

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3:00 PM

Closure

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