International Conference on Aging & Longevity Studies

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference on Aging & Longevity Studies, which brings together researchers from Russia and the United States at Moscow State University, this month.

This unusual, brain-storming Conference is organized by Professor Vladimir Skulachev , the member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Director of the A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology at Moscow State University, Moscow.

Note that the term "phenoptosis" used in this conference program is a code word for "programmed death," and that the title of the conference (see below) may cause an excitement in the transhumanism movement. Frankly speaking, the conference is centered around this 'crazy' scientific idea:

Is aging an atavistic program that can be 'simply' switched off?

Scientific Conference
"From Homo sapiens to Homo sapiens discatenatus"

August 27-28, 2007, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Vorobievy Hills, Laboratory Korpus B, room 221


August 27
A. Introductory Lecture
Chairman: A.M. Olovnikov
10.00-11.00 a.m. -- Skulachev Vladimir P.
Are there genetic programs, beneficial for survival, diversity and expansion of genome, but deleterious for individual?
11.00-11.30 a.m. -- Discussion

B. Acute phenoptosis

1. 11.30-12.00 a.m. -- Lewis Kim
Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Phenoptosis in Bacteria

12.00-12.30 a.m. -- Break

Chairman: K. Lewis
2. 12.30-13.00 -- Severin F.
Phenoptosis in Yeast

3. 13.00-13.30 -- Moshkin M.
Phenoptosis in Animals: death of males of marsupial mice after reproduction and other examples.

4. 13.30-14.00 -- Zorov D.
Anti-phenoptotic activity of SkQ in kidney ischemia and stroke.

14.00-16.00 -- Break


C. Aging as slow phenoptosis
Chairman: V.N. Anisimov
1. 16.00-16.30 -- Olovnikov A.M.
Is it possible to create a long living mouse? Genome and Paragenome. Paragenome -- the material substrate for a lifespan program.

2. 16.30-17.00 -- Golub B.
Winter hibernation and the rate of individual development.

3. 17.00-17.30 -- Gavrilova Natalia S.
Center on Aging, NORC at the University of Chicago, USA
Hibernation, Aging and Longevity

4. 17.30-18.00 -- Ryazanov Alexey G.
Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, USA.
eEF2-kinase: aging accelerating enzyme.

5. 18.00-18.30 -- Khrapko Konstantin
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Mitochondrial hypotheses of aging.


August 28
D. Pro and contra
Chairman: Chernyak B.V.

1. 10.00-10.30 -- Gavrilov Leonid A.
Center on Aging, NORC at the University of Chicago, USA
Aging: Reliability theory and the concept of phenoptosis

2. 10.30-11.00 -- Popov I.
The benefits and costs of evolution.

3. 11.00-11.30 -- Ryazanov Alexey G.
Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, USA.
Aging and apoptosis.

4. 11.30-12.00 -- Chumakov P.
Anti- and pro- oxidant properties of the P53 protein and its role in aging.

12.00 -12.30 -- Break

Chairman: Ryazanov A. G.
5. 12.30-13.00 -- Khohlov A.N.
Pro and contra for the programmed aging hypothesis.

6. 13.00-13.30 -- Anisimov V.N.
Hot topics of modern gerontology.

7. 13.30-14.00 -- Kondrashov Alexey S.
Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
(kondrash(at)umich.edu)
Could evolution create genetic programs deleterious for individual?

8. 14.00-15.00. General Discussion


The original text of the Conference Program in Russian language is available here.

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