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Friday September 16th 2011

18:00 Opening
          Andreas Simm

Address
          M. Gekle, Dean of the Medical Faculty
          M. Gogol, German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics
          R.-E. Silber, Director of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Keynote lecture and Schober award

          Laudation Kaisu Pitkälä by Thomas E. Johnson, Boulder, USA
          Keynote lecture: Kaisu Pitkälä, Helsinki, Finland
          "Effectivness of Preventive Interventions on Older Populations"

20:00 Come Together


Saturday September 17th 2011

08:00 - 10:00 Session 1: "What are our goals - and how can we measure them?"
Chair: Kaisu Pikälä, Andreas Simm

The view of a basic Scientist Tilman Grune Jena, D
The view of a sports scientist Nadja Schott Stuttgart, D
The view of a medical scientist Ursula Müller-Werdan Halle, D
The view of a geriatrics Angelo Scuteri Rome, I

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break, Poster Session

10:30 - 12:30 Session 2: "Malnutrition or caloric restriction: positive or negative?"
Chair: Tilman Grune, Angelo Scuteri

Nopsi: a novel RNA methyl-transferase extending life span in worm and fly and its cross-talk to nutrition Johannes Grillari Wien, A
The obesity paradox in heart failure: Benefits of being overweight? Stephan von Haehling Berlin, D
Genetic Studies on Caloric Restriction in the Worm and in the Mouse: What Does It Tell Us? Thomas E. Johnson Boulder, USA
Diets in the (oldest) old: Why? Cornel Sieber Nürnberg, D

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:30 Session 3: "Sports or activity: what is effective in an aged population?"
Chair: Manfred Gogol, Franklin Rosenfeldt

Can you run away from aortic valve stenosis and an abdominal aortic aneurysm? Volker Adams Leipzig, D
Does moderate activity positively influence biological age? Alexander Navarrete Santos Halle, D
Aging and Inactivity:  Strategies for Reversal LaDora Thompson Minnesota, USA
Effects of a standardised physical training in frail older patients with dementia: can frailty be treated?  Klaus Hauer Heidelberg, D

15:30 - 16:30 Poster Session / Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:30 Session 4: "Oxidative stress and antioxidants: re-evaluation of an old theory"
Chair: George Martin, Suresh Rattan

Growth hormone, methionine and aging Holly Brown-Borg Grand-Forks, USA
Epithelial stress and aging in the evolution of Lung Fibrosis Andreas Günther Giessen, D
The effects of antioxidants on lifespan and disease Flint Beal New York, USA
Mitochondrial theory of Aging: From mtDNA mutations to protein turnover Alexandra Trifonovic Köln, D

20:00 Gala-Dinner (Moritzburg)


Sunday September 18th 2011

08:30 - 10:30 Session 5: "Preventive interventions in clinical settings"
Chair: Rolf-Edgar Silber, Ursula Müller-Werdan

Perspectives of preconditioning prior cardiac surgery – an overview Ivar Friedrich Trier, D
Preventive Implications in Cardiac Surgery of the Elderly under Gender-Specific View Sandra Eifert Leipzig, D
Metabolic therapy and oxidative stress in cardiac surgery and cardiovascular disease Franklin Rosenfeldt Melbourne, AUS
Ageing at heart: Too frail for intervals? Øyvind Ellingsen Trondheim, N

10:30 - 11:30 Poster Session / Coffee Break

11:30 - 11:45 Posterprice

11:45 - 13:45 Session 6: "Mild stress can help: the hormesis concept"
Chair: Cornel Sieber, Flint Beal

Hormesis: Its Significance for Toxicology, Pharmacology and Risk Assessment Edward Calabrese Amherst, USA
On the Quasi-Stochastic Distributions of Major Geriatric Pathologies George Martin Seattle, USA
Applying hormesis in ageing research and interventions Suresh Rattan Aarhus, DK
Promoting lifespan and metabolic health by increasing oxidative stress: mitochondrial hormesis Michael Ristow Jena, D

13:45 – 14:15 Farewell