8:00-8:45 – Registration

8:45-9:00 – Opening of the conference

Session 1a: Aging and Obesity

09:00-09:45 – Stanley Ulijaszek, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Networks and obesity

09:45-10:30 – Eva Bober, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research Bad Nauheim, Germany, Sirt7 gene plays an important role in stress resistance and maintenance of metabolic homeostasis

10:30-11:00 – coffee and refreshments

Session 1b: Aging and Obesity

11:00-11:45 – Andrzej Bartke, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Springfield, Springfield, USA, Altered insulin signaling mediates effects of growth hormone on longevity

11:45-12:30 – Bogusława Baranowska, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland, Neuroendocrine and metabolic aspects of longevity

12:30-13:15 – lunch

Session 2: Aging and Cancer

13:15-14:00 – Stefano Salvioli, Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Role of TP53 codon 72 polymorphism in non-neoplastic age-related diseases

14:00-14:45 – Grazyna Mosieniak, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland, Tumor cells escape DNA damage-induced senescence

14:45-15:30 – Jan Konrad Siwicki, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland, Spontaneously immortalized human T cell lines as a model for studies on the development of lymphomas

15:30-16.00 – coffee

Session 3: Varia

16:00-16.30 – Cezary Szary, Postgraduate Medical Centre, Warsaw, Poland, Neuroimaging in dementia

16:00-16.30 – Daniel Remondini, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, _Complexity in human Tcell aging: a systems biology approach to life-span
gene expression data _

17:30-18:30 – Closing lecture and general discussion: Suresh Rattan, Danish Centrefor Molecular Gerontology, Aarhus, Denmark, Ageing intervention, prevention and therapy

18:30 – Closing of the conference

Organizer: Nencki Institute ( Ewa Sikora)
Co-organizer: TNW – Warsaw Scientific Society ( Krystyna Skwarło-Sońta)
REGISTRATION at http://bmni.nencki.gov.pl

Deadline: 16.09.2008

For more information please contact:

Marta Rucinska
Email: m.rucinska@nencki.gov.pl
Phone: +48 22 589 23 30

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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