Aging Seminar Series Archive

2022 - 2023

  • Thursday, October 5, 2023 - Dr. Jennifer Simkin of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center presented a lecture titled "Of Regeneration and Fibrosis"
  • Thursday, September 28, 2023 - Dr. Tony Ip of UMass Chan Medical School presented a lecture titled "Genomic Repression of Transposable Elements in Intestine Stem Cell-mediated Tissue Homeostasis"
  • Thursday, April 27, 2023 - Dr. Robert Tower of the University of Texas Southwestern presented a lecture titled "Spatial transcriptomic profiling reveals local and domain-establishing regulatory signaling networks within the bone marrow"
  • Thursday, March 9, 2023 - Dr. Kenneth Poss of Duke University presented a lecture titled "Signal control during tissue regeneration"
  • Thursday, March 2, 2023 - Dr. Stefano Tarantini of the University of Oklahoma presented a lecture titled "Cerebromicrovascular mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline"
  • Thursday, January 19, 2023 - Dr. Thomas Perls from Boston University Chobanian and Avedesium School of Medicine presented a distinguished lecture titled "Studying centenarians and their families: Every turn we take there is something new around the corner!"
  • Thursday, January 12, 2023 - Dr. Courtney Karner of the University of Texas Southwestern presented a lecture titled "Metabolic regulation of bone mass"

2021 - 2022

  • Thursday, October 20, 2022 - Dr. Yuanyuan Zhang of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine presented a lecture titled "Biological Characterization of Urine-derived Stem Cells and the Potential Clinical Application"

2020 - 2021

  • Thursday, September 3, 2020  -  Dr. Douglas C. Wallace of University of Pennsylvania Department of Pediactrics presented a lecture titled, ""
     
  • Thursday, October 8, 2020  -  Dr. Judith Campisi of Buck Institute for Research on Aging presented a lecture titled, ""
     
  • Thursday, October 22, 2020  -  Dr. Farsh Guilak of Washington University Department of Orthopedic Surgery Developmental Biology presented a lecture titled, ""

 

  • Thursday, November 19, 2020  -  Dr. Corrinna Ross of the Texas A&M University presented  a lecture titled, "Marmosets as Translational Models of Aging"

 

  • Thursday, December 3, 2020  -  Dr. Timothy M Griffin of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation presented a lecture titled, "Cellular Stress and Osteoarthritis: An Integrative Metabolic Perspective on Obesity and Aging"
     
  • Thursday, January 7, 2021  -  Dr. Fanxin Long of University of Pennsylvania Department of Orthopaedic Surgery presented a lecture titled, "Osteoblast Metabolism and Bone Loss in Diabetes and Aging"
     
  • Thursday, March 18, 2021  -  Dr. Brianne Connizzo of Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering presented a lecture titled, "Examining Aging and the Regulation of Tendon Health Through the Use of Novel Explant Culture Models."

 

  • Thursday, March 25, 2021  -  Dr. Farida Sohrabji of Texas A&M SOM Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics present a lecture titled, "Ischemic Stroke and the Aging Brain: Lessons Learned from the Middle-Aged Female Rat"

 

  • Thursday, April 22, 2021  -  Dr. Qiang Tong of Baylor College of Medicine present a lecture titled, "A Tale of Two Sirtuins - The Regulation of Metabolism and Aging"

2019 - 2020

  • Thursday, September 5, 2019 - Dr. James Nelson of University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio presented a lecture titled "
  • Thursday, November 14, 2019 -  Dr. Nelly Andarawis-Puri of Cornell University, presented a lecture titled "
  • Thursday, December 5, 2019 - Dr. Anyonya Guntur of Maine Medical Center Research Institute presented a lecture titled "
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    Thursday, March 26, 2020 - Dr. Corinna Ross of Texas A&M San Antonio presented a lecture titled "

2018 - 2019

2015 - 2016

  • Thursday, September 17, 2015  -  Dr. Jeff Gimble of Tulane University School of Medicine presented a lecture titled, "Age and Adipose-derived Cells."
     
  • Thursday, October 22, 2015  -  Dr. James Alwine of University of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology presented  a lecture titled, "Human Cytomegalovirus, the master manipulator: coordinated effects on cellular stress responses, signaling and metabolism."
     
  • Thursday, November 19, 2015  -  Dr. Jennifer L. Bizon of the University of Florida Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry presented  a lecture titled, "Excitatory-inhibitory imbalance and age-related decline of prefrontal-cortical dependent cognition"
     
  • Thursday, December 3, 2015  -  Dr. Alan Parrish of the School of Medicine, University of Missouri Health Systems presented a lecture titled, "Loss of Alpha-Catenin in the Aging Kidney: Role in Acute Kidney Injury."
     
  • Thursday, January 7, 2016  -  Dr. Rafael deCabo of the National Institute on Aging presented a lecture titled, "Dietary Interventions for Healthy Aging and Longitudinal Assessments of Healthspan in Mice."
     
  • Thursday, January 14, 2016  -  Dr. Amanda Leblanc of the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute presented a lecture titled, "Reversing Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Aging: role of Thrombospodin-1"
     
  • Thursday, February 4, 2016  -  Dr. Christian Vaisse of the University of California San Francisco, Nutrition & Obesity Research Center will present a lecture titled, "Human Genetics of Obesity: Is Obesity a Celiopathy" *NEW TIME* 3:30 PM

2014 - 2015 

  • Thursday, September 25, 2014  -  Dr. Charles "Chip" Lavie of Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, New Orleans, presented a lecture title, "Obesity paradox, aging and contributions of physical activity and fitness."
     
  • Thursday, October 30, 2014  -  Dr. Fabio Demontis of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital presented a lecture titled, "Skeletal muscle aging and its influence on systemic aging and lifespan."
     
  • Thursday, November 20, 2014  -  Dr. Joomyeong Kim of Louisiana State University presented a lecture titled, "Genomic imprinting and protein functions of Peg3 (Paternally Expressed Gene 3)."
     
  • Thursday, December 11, 2014  -  Dr. Cynthia Reinhart-King of Cornell University presented a lecture titled, "Matrix mechanics in vascular structure, growth and integrity."
     
  • Thursday, January 29, 2015  -  Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler of University of Virginia presented a lecture titled, "On the tissue regeneration/degeneration teeter-totter: how computational modeling and new experimental approaches yield therapies that tip the balance."
     
  • Thursday, February 19, 2015  -  Dr. Jay Olshansky of the School of Public Health at the University of Chicago presented the Distinguished Lecture in Aging, "The dawn of a new era in aging."
     
  • Thursday, March 12, 2015  -  Dr. John Morrison of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented a lecture titled, "Synaptic Health: Implications for Cognitive Aging."
     
  • Thursday, April 23, 2015  -  Dr. Craig Stark of University of California, Irvine presented a lecture title, "Pattern separation and the aging brain."

2013 - 2014 

  • Thursday, November 7, 2013  -  Anatoli Yashin, PhD of Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy presented a lecture titled "Genetics Analyses of Aging, Health and Longevity: New Insights from Using Biodemographic Ideas, Models, and Methods".
     
  • Thursday, November 19, 2013  -  Dr. Lum, PhD of University of Hong Kong presented a lecture.
     
  • Thursday, February 13, 2014  -  Jean Peccoud, PhD of Virginia Bioinformatics Institute presented "DNA as a language to develop vaccines and understand the cell cycle."
     
  • Thursday, February 20, 2014  -  Robert Dickson, PhD of University of Kentucky presented a lecture.
     
  • Thursday, March 6, 2014  -  Peter Hornsby, PhD of University of Texas presented a lecture.
     
  • Thursday, March 13, 2014  -  Arthur Wingfield, D. Phil of Brandeis University presented a lecture.
     
  • Thursday, March 20, 2014  -  Dr. Caleb E. Finch of the University of Southern California School of Gerontology presented the Distinguished Lecture in Aging, "The evolution of human longevity: does the past predict the future?"
     
  • Thursday, April 3, 2014  -  Jadwiga Giebultowicz, PhD  of Oregon State University Health Sciences Center  presented a lecture.
     
  • Thursday, April 10, 2014  -  Mauricio Rojas, MD of McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh presented a lecture.
     
  • Thursday, May 8, 2014  -  Mary Delp, PhD of University of Florida presented a lecture.

2012 - 2013

  • Tuesday, October 16th, 2012  -  Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi of Harvard Medical School presented the lecture, "What Have Genes Taught Us About Alzheimer's Disease?"
     
  • Thursday, November 8, 2012  -  Anatoliy A. Gashev, MD, PhD, D.MSci of Texas A&M University presented a lecture titled "Aging of Mesenteric Lymphatic Vessels".
     
  • Thursday, February 28, 2013  -  Audrey Duarte, PhD of Georgia Tech University presented a lecture titled "How does Aging Influence the Prospective and Retrospective Attentional Control of Memory".
     
  • Thursday, March 14, 2013 - James Faber, PhD of University of North Carolina presented a lecture titled "The Effects of Aging on Collateral Vessel Formation during Response to Ischemic injury".
     
  • Thursday, March 28, 2013  -  Paola Sebastiani, PhD of Boston University presented a lecture titled "The Genetics of Extreme Longevity: Lesson from the New England Centenarian Study".
     
  • Thursday, April 11, 2013 -  Braxton, Mitchell, PhD of University of Maryland School of Medicine presented a lecture titled "The Amish Complex Disease Genetics Program: Insights into Genetics of Cardiovascular Health".
     
  • Thursday, April 25, 2013  -  Henri Jasper, PhD of Buck Institute of Aging presented a lecture titled "Stress, Insulin Signaling and Stem Cells: Regulating Homeostasis in the Aging Fly".
     
  • Thursday, May 16, 2013  -  Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD of Albert Einstein College of Medicine presented a lecture titled "Selective Autophaghy: The Importance of Recycing".

2011 - 2012

  • Thursday, September 15, 2011 -  Peter Martin, PhD of Iowa State University presented a lecture titled "Exceptional Longevity: Living Long and Living Well".
     
  • Thursday, October 20, 2011 -  Stephan N. Witt, PhD of LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport presented a lecture titled "Alpha-Synuclein Blocks Stress Signaling in Yeast and Human Cells by Inhibiting a Polo-Like Kinase."
     
  • Thursday, November 10, 2011  -  Sangkyu Kim, PhD of Tulane University Health Sciences Center presented a lecture titled "Genetics of Healthy Aging in Longevous Families."
     
  • Thursday, December 8, 2011 -  Marc N. Elliot, PhD of Rand Corporation presented a lecture titled "Using Indirect Estimations of Race/Ethnicity and Disparities in the Absence of Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity."
     
  • Thursday, January 19, 2012  -  Mariusz Z. Ratajczak, MD, PhD, DSci of University of Louisville presented a lecture titled "Very Small Embryonic-Like Stem Cells (VSELs): Our Key to Longevity and Passkey to Cancer?"
     
  • Thursday, February 2, 2012  -   LaDora V. Thompson, PhD, BS, PT of University of Minnesota presented a lecture titled "Preventing Frailty:  Understanding the Etiology and Developing Interventions."
     
  • Thursday, March 22, 2012  -  Lewis Lipsitz, MD of Institute of Aging Research of Harvard Medical School presented a lecture titled "Loss of Complexity in Aging:  The Physiologic Basis of Frailty."
     
  • Thursday, April 19, 2012  -   Woodring Wright, MD, PhD of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
     
  • Thursday, May 17, 2012  -  Jill Macoska, PhD - University of Michigan.

2010 - 2011

  • Thursday, September 9, 2010  Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, PhD of the Institute on Aging at the University of Florida presented a lecture titled "Mitochondrial dynamics at the center of life".
     
  • Thursday, October 28, 2010  -  Victoria Perepelitsa Belancio, PhD of the Department of Structural and Cellular Biology at Tulane presented a lecture titled "Transposable elements as endogenous DNA damaging agents".
     
  • Thursday, December 2, 2010  -  Zongbing You, MD, PhD of the Department of Structural and Cellular Biology at Tulane presented a lecture titled "Doublecortin and articular cartilage".
     
  • Thursday, January 27, 2011  -  Leonard Poon, PhD of the University of Georgia presented a lecture titled "Design and potential confounding issues in the study of exceptional longevity".
     
  • Thursday, February 24, 2011  -  May Reed, MD of the University of Washington presented a lecture titled "Tissue repair and the extracellular matrix in aging".
     
  • Thursday, March 31, 2011  -  Katie Cherry, PhD of Lousiana State University presented a lecture titled "Episodic memory in late life".
     
  • Monday, April 11, 2011 -  Arnold Starr, MD and  Bonnie Olsen, PhD of University of California at Irvine presented a lecture titled "When normal aging is not normal".
     
  • Thursday, April 21, 2011  -  Sundeep Khosla, MD of Mayo Clinic presented the Distinguished Lecture in Aging titled "Sex steroids and the aging skeleton".
     

2009 - 2010

  • Thursday, November 19, 2009  -  The Director of Geriatric Research at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine at Springfield, Andrzej Bartke, PhD spoke on "Growth hormone, insulin and aging".
     
  • Thursday, March 11, 2010  -  The Director of the Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Arlan G. Richardson, PhD presented a lecture titled "Is the oxidative stress theory dead?"
     
  • Thursday, March 25, 2010  -  Yong-Yu Liu, MD, PhD of the College of Pharmacy of University of Louisiana at Monroe presented a lecture titled "Discovering the role of ceramide on anti-aging: restoration of the p53 gene expression".
     
  • Thursday, April 15, 2010  - Nir Barzilai, MD of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University presented a lecture titled "The role of mitochondrial derived peptides in metabolism and aging".
     
  • Thursday, May 27, 2010 -  Julie Glowacki, PhD of Brigham and Woman's Hospital and Harvard Medical School presented a lecture titled "Mechanisms of skeletal aging: insights from human bone marrow".
     
  • Thursday, June 17, 2010  -  Gordon Lithgow, PhD of the Buck Institute for Age Research presented a lecture titled "Protein homeostasis: the mechanistic link between aging and neurological disease".

2008 - 2009

  • Friday, February 27, 2009  -  Donald K. Ingram, PhD of the Nutritional Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory of  the Pennington Biomedical Research Center spoke on "Diet restriction versus diet selection:  a convergence of concepts".
     
  • Thursday, May 7, 2009  -  Estela Medrano, PhD, Associate Professor in the Molecular and Cellular Biology and Dermatology Departments at the Baylor College of Medicine and Associate Faculty of the Huffington Center on Aging, spoke on "Epigenetic regulation of senescence and aging".
     
  • Thursday, June 11, 2009  -  John Douglas Mountz, PhD, MD, Professor of Medicine and J. W. and Virginia Goodwin-Warren D. Blackburn, Jr. Research Chair in Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Co-Director of both the UAB Center for Aging, Basic Biology of Aging and the UAB Bone Center, and a Senior Scientist at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center spoke on "Trials and tribulations of T cells:  thymic involution and T cell senescence".