Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing
A new age of long term health and longevity
Location
B-1000 Brussels
Program
Day 1 (Thursday, September 29)
08:30-09:30 Registration
09:30-09:45 Welcome remarks
09:45-10:05 Giuseppe Passarino (University of Calabria, Italy)
Epigenetics and Ageing. Correlations with demographic and genetic data.
10:05-10:25 David Melzer
Parental longevity and the multiple protective factor model of human ageing
10:25-10:45 Coffee
10:45-11:05 Helen Birch (University College London, UK)
11:05-11:25 Sylvie Ricard-Blum (University Lyon 1, France)
An integrative view of extracellular matrix aging
11:25-11:45 Casper Schalkwijk (Maastricht University Medical Center, The Nederlands)
Advanced glycation endproducts and vascular AGEing
11:45-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:15 Keynote – Alexander Seifalian (University College London, UK)
14:15-14:35 Philippe Gillery
Protein carbamylation: hallmark of aging
14:35-14:55 Ivan Bautmans
The effects and dose-response relationships of resistance training on circulating BDNF and inflammatory cytokines in older persons
14:55-15:15 Coffee
15:15-15:35 Claudio Fransceschi
15:35-15:55 Diana Jurk (Newcastle University, UK)
16:00-17:00 Panel session
19.00- 22.00 Informal meeting: Café A La Mort Subite, rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7
Day 2 (Friday, September 30)
09:00-09:20 Rosie Freer (University of Cambridge, UK)
09:20-09:40 Salvador Ventura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Repositioning tolcapone as a potent inhibitor of transthyretin amyloidogenesis
09:40-10:00 TBA
10:00-10:20 Alberto Sanz (Newcastle University, UK)
10:20-10:40 Coffee and Group Picture
10:40-11:00 Alexandra Stolzing
11:00-11:20 Masashi Narita (University of Cambridge, UK)
Cell-cell communication in senescence
11:20-11:40 Anton Kulaga
Introduction to Kappa, a rule-based language for modeling protein-protein and gene-protein networks based on the DNA repair model
11:40-12:00 Quentin Vanhaelen (Insilico Medicine)
Using Deep Neural Networks trained on massive multi-modal inputs for aging research
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Keynote – David Gems (University College London, UK)
New discoveries about ageing in C. elegans
14:30-14:50 Gorlé Nina (VIB Ghent University, Belgium)
The role of type I IFN signaling at the choroid plexus during aging
14:50-15:10 Coffee
15:10-15:30 Jan Hoeijmakers (Erasmus Medical Center, The Nederlands)
The impact of DNA damage and repair on ageing and sustained health
15:30-15:50 Sven Bulterijs (Heales vzw)
The aging biotech market
16:00-17:00 Panel session
19.00- 22.00 Informal meeting: Café A La Mort Subite, rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7
Day 3 (Saturday, October 1)
09:00-09:40 David Wood
Scenarios for the future of healthy life extension
09:40-10:10 Victor Bjork (Heales vzw)
What supercentenarians tell us about aging, ageism and negligible senescence
09:40-10:00 Marc Roux
A world with less senescence and fewer children
10:00-10:20 Coffee
10:20 – 10:40 Didier Coeurnelle (Heales vzw)
Longevity and Artificial Intelligence
10:40-11:00 Alexander Tietz (Heales vzw)
Ecological aspects of sustainable longevity
11:00-11:20 Avi Roy (BGRF, UK)
Fighting ageing from Oxford to Astana
11:20-11:40 Daria Khaltourina
Fighting ageing in the World Health Organization
11:40-12:00 A representative of a public institution
Ageing in Belgium. What can we do?
12:00-13:30 Press lunch. International Day of Longevity.
14:00-15:00 Panel session “Aging as a disease”
Edouard Debonneuil, Daria Khaltourina, Victor Björk, and Didier Coeurnelle
15.00 – 15.30 General discussion with adoption of a Declaration For Longevity
15.30 – 16.00 Closing ceremony
Program, abstracts and video recordings from the previous EHA conferences can be seen here