This all-day event will feature a variety of talks on aging research.

10:00-10:20    Silvia Sörensen, Warner School of Education and Human Development, “Increasing Wellness For Latino Older Adults With Vision Loss”

10:20-10:40    Xi Lin, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, “Transdifferentiation of Synovial Extracellular Matrix Producing Fibroblast to Inflammatory Fibroblast in Osteoarthritis During Natural Aging”

10:40-11:00    Karl Glastad, Department of Biology, “Lifespan plasticity in ants: Hormones, MYC, and the Unfolded Protein Response”

11:20-11:40    Sina Ghaemmaghami, Department of Biology, “The age-selectivity of protein ubiquitination”

11:40-12:00    Floria Uy, Department of Biology, “Molecular mechanisms underlying parasite-induced longevity”

12:00-12:20    Danielle Wallace, Department of Medicine and Division of Hematology & Oncology, “The Impact of Age on the Phenotype and Function of CAR-T Cells in Patients with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma”

12:30-2:00      Lunch and Poster Session

2:00-2:30        Longevity Panel:

2:30-3:30        Keynote talk: Dr. Luigi Ferrucci, NIH/NIA

“Aging: A duel with entropy”