Session 1: Expanding the aging research framework?
9:00-9:05: AM A few welcome words. Dr. E. Bapteste (CNRS, CQSB, Paris, France)
9:06-9:31 AM: Pr. Annette Baudisch (University of Southern Denmark, DK) « Inclusive definitions of aging across scales of organization»
9:32-9:57 AM: Pr. Peter Lidsky (City U. of Hong-Kong, China) « Adaptive programmed aging can evolve in the context of epidemics »
9:58-10:23 AM: Pr. Mark Mc Auley (School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford Manchester, Salford): Emerging ideas about the evolution of aging
Session 2: Aging in stages ?
10:30-10:55 AM: Dr. Marina Shkreli (Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), France) « Aging and regeneration»
10:56-11:21 PM: Dr. Michael Rera (Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France) « Rethinking ageing as a discontinuous process»
11:22-11:47 PM: Dr. Elena Sergeeva (Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts UniversityUSA): Aging as a Default State
11:48-12:13 PM: Pr. Joao Pedro de Magalhaes – distancial- (University of Birmingham, UK) « Do we need (unifying) evolutionary theories of aging and what for?»
Session 3: Open issues & alternative models
14:00-14:25 PM: Pr. Marc Lecuit (Biology of Infection Unit | Inserm U1117, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) “Current working hypotheses and ongoing investigations on aging and susceptiblility to infections”
14:26-14:51PM : Dr. Claudio Franceschi (University of Bologna, Italy) «What we still ignore about aging despite decades of research ? »
15:18-15:43 PM: Dr. Sergi Munné-Bosch (Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Spain) « Aging and senescence in plants »
15:50-16:15 PM: Pr. Hanna Salman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh,USA) & Pr. Zoltan Oltvai (Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, USA) -remote talk- « Bacterial ageing. »
16:16-16:41 PM : Dr. Giovanni Levi (MNHN, Paris, France) « Inactivation of Dlx genes in GABAergic neurons increases sociality and longevity: Implications for a broader socio/evolutionary outlook on lifespan. »
Session 4: Epigenetics & aging
16:42-17:07 PM: Pr. Bjoern Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease,University of Cologne, Germany) « Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation »
17:08-17:33 PM: Pr. Vadim Gladyshev (Harvard Medical School, USA) « Epigenetic, aging and rejuvenation »