Molecular Biology of Aging Graduate Program

2016 Mini-Retreat

Saturday, September 17 Sidney Frank Hall Atrium

185 Meeting Street

8:30 – 2:30 PM

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Molecular Biology of Aging Graduate Program Retreat

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Schedule of Events

8:30 AM Breakfast 9:15 AM Introductory Comments

9:30 – 10:30 AM Student Talks 9:30 AM Kevin Murphy (Koren lab) Myocardial Infarction in the Aging Heart: The Role of Myofibroblast Senescence in Arrhythmogenesis

9:50 AM Jennifer Urban (Larschan lab) Context Specific Roles for a Single Transcription Factor to Establish Chromatin Domains Within the Nucleus 10:10 AM Steven Criscione (Neretti lab) The Shifting Sands of the Aging Genome 10:30 – 11:00 AM Town Hall Meeting

11:00 AM Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:15 PM Faculty Talks

11:15 AM Ashley Webb Transcriptional and Epigenetic Networks in Aging Stem Cells

11:45 AM Louis Lapierre Blocking Lipid Secretion Promotes Lipophagy and Longevity

12:15 – 1:30 PM Lunch and Posters

1:30 – 2:30 PM Faculty Talks

1:30 PM Jennifer Sanders Role of mTOR in the Cellular Response to Nutrients

2:00 PM Marc Tatar REPTOR in Gut Enteroendocrine Cells Regulates Longevity Conferred by Dietary Restriction in Drosophila All events will be held in Room 220, Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences, 185 Meeting Street, and in the adjoining Meeting Street Atrium.