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Friday September 18th 2009
18:00 Opening
Andreas Simm
Address
D. Szabados, mayor of the City Halle
M. Gekle, Vice Dean of Research Medical Faculty
I. Hansmann, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
T. Klöss, Medical Director of the University Clinics
M. Gogol, German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics
R.-E. Silber, Director of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Keynote lecture and Schober award
Laudation Thomas
E. Johnson:
by Thomas Rando, Palo, Alto, USA
Keynote lecture:
Thomas
E. Johnson, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA:
"Life Span as a Biomarker of Aging: What Does It Tell Us?"
20:00 Come Together
Saturday September 19th 2009
08:00 - 10:00 Session 1 - "Biomarkers of
Ageing"
Chair: Thomas E. Johnson, Andreas Simm
| Towards identification of
biomarkers of human ageing: The EU FP7 Project MARK-AGE |
Alexander Bürkle |
Konstanz, D |
| Biomarkers as surrogates of
the ageing process and of age-related chronic disease outcomes:
biostatistical and epidemiological remarks and experiences from the
CARLA cohort study |
Johannes Haerting |
Halle (Saale), D |
| Immunological phenotype of
subjects genetically enriched for longevity. The Leiden Longevity Study |
Andrea Maier |
Leiden, NL |
| Biomarkers of Ageing in the
Newcastle 85+ Study |
Thomas von Zglinicki |
Newcastel, UK |
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 Session 2 - "Protein Based
Biomarkers"
Chair: Helen Griffiths, Stathis Gonos
| Protein oxidation as a
biomarker of oxidative stress |
Tilman Grune |
Hohenheim, D |
| Protein glycation dependent
skin fluorescence: possible biomarker of ageing |
Andreas Simm |
Halle (Saale), D |
| On the hunt for biological
relevant biomarkers of ageing using antibody technology |
Peter Kristensen |
Aarhus, DK |
| Alteration of N-glycomics
in ageing and chronic disease |
Chitty C. Chen |
Gent, B |
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30
- 15:30 Session 3 - "Biomarkers of Age-Related
Diseases I"
Chair: Judith
Haendeler, Thomas von Zglinicki
| Fall prevention:
translating research into practise |
Clemens Becker |
Stuttgart, D |
| Common biomarkers of skin
and CNS ageing |
Christos Zouboulis |
Dessau, D |
| Telomere erosion a
biomarker for skin aging and cancer |
Petra Boukamp |
Heidelberg, D |
| Mechanisms, detection and
therapeutic utilization of cellular senescence in cancer |
Clemens Schmitt |
Berlin, D |
15:30 - 16:30 Poster Session / Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30 Session 4 - "Ethical Issues"
Chair: Holger
Hoehn, George Martin
| Ethical questions about
biomarkers of ageing – the view of geriatrics |
Manfred Gogol |
Coppenbrügge, D |
| Justice, Insurance and
biomarkers of Aging |
John K. Davis |
Fullerton, USA |
| Biomarkers of Aging (Ethical
and Social Problems) |
Peter Kampits |
Wien, A |
| Substitution of the social
by a biological determinism: Ageing and Biomarkers in the “Society of
Prevention” |
n.n. |
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20:00 Gala-Dinner (Moritzburg)
Sunday
September 20th 2009
08:30 - 10:30 Session 5 - "Biomarkers of Age-Related
Diseases II"
Chair: Chitty C. Chen, Thomas A. Rando
| Post-translational LDL
modification is increased in vascular dementia and is inversely
associated with cognitive performance |
Helen Griffiths |
Birmingham, UK |
| Premature cardiovascular
disease in chronic renal failure: a model for an advanced ageing process |
Matthias Girndt |
Halle (Saale), D |
| Glycation as biomarker and
therapeutic target in Alzheimer´s disease |
Gerald Muench |
Sydney, AUS |
| The role of telomere
dysfunction in stem cell aging, organ maintenance, and regeneration |
Lenhard Rudolph |
Ulm, D |
10:30 - 11:30 Poster Session / Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Session 6 - "Maintenance, Repair
and Regeneration"
Chair: Christos
Zouboulis, Peter Kristensen
| Epigenetic Gambling and
Epigenetic Drift as an Antagonistic Pleitropic Mechanism of Aging:
Outline of a New Theory of Aging & Some of its Predicitons |
George Martin |
Seattle, USA |
| The quality of genome
maintenance and the connection with aging, cancer and longevity |
Jan Hoeijmakers |
Rotterdam, NL |
| Longevity Assurance
Molecular Pathways in Human Cells |
Stathis Gonos |
Athen, G |
| The role of Wnt signalling
in stem cell aging |
Thomas A. Rando |
Palo Alto, USA |
13:30 - 14:00 Farewell
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