III. Biogerontological Meetings at the Nencki Institute

Ageing and Age-Related Diseases

23 September 2008

Programme

venue: 1 Miecznikowa St.

Faculty of Biology, Warsaw University
(Ochota Research Campus)

http://www.biol.uw.edu.pl/www_eng/index.php

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          

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          

11:45-12:30

Bogusława Baranowska, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland,

12:30-13:15

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 

 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