Welcome to the webpage about the Cologne Aging Conference 2024!
This page includes all the important information about the conference.
| 8:30 | Coffee | |
| SESSION I | CHAIR: Henning Fenselau | |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome | |
| 9:05 – 9:50 | KEYNOTE: Susanne Mandrup | "Transcriptional control of adipogenesis – regulating the master switch" (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) |
| 9:50 – 10:20 | Sophie Steculorum | "Sensory programming of metabolism" (CECAD Cologne, MPI for Metabolism Research, Germany) |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Kazuhiro Nakamura | "Age-related ciliopathy: a mechanism of middle-aged obesity" (Nagoya University Grad. School of Medicine, Japan) |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee Break | |
| SESSION II | CHAIR: Thorsten Hoppe | |
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Andrew Dillin | "The extracellular matrix integrates mitochondrial homeostasis" (University of California Berkeley, USA) |
| 11:50 – 12:20 | Della David | "Strategies to mitigate age-dependent protein aggregation" (The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| 12:20 – 12:50 | David Vilchez | "Cold temperature delays aging and proteostasis collapse" (CECAD Cologne, Germany) |
| 12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch & Poster Session | |
| SESSION III | CHAIR: Jane Reznick | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Salvador Aznar Benitah (HYBRID) | "Systemic communication during homeostasis and aging: role of circadian rhythms" (IRB, Barcelona, Spain) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Eunjung (Alice) Lee | "Somatic mutation in aging and neurodegeneration" (Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Ana Martin-Villalba | "The molecular secrets of stemness" (DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| SESSION IV | CHAIR: Christina Ising | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Anne Schäfer | "The operational principles of neuron-microglia circuits" (CECAD Cologne, MPI for Biology of Ageing, Germany) |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | KEYNOTE: Pekka Katajisto | "Aging of the stem cell niche" (University of Helsinki, Finland and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) |
| From 17:15 | Poster session, Pitch your Project & Get-Together at MPI Age |
| 8:30 | Coffee | |
| SESSION I | CHAIR: Gilles Storelli | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | KEYNOTE: Ines Thiele | "Advancing computational medicine with whole-body metabolic modelling"(National University of Ireland, Galway) |
| 9:45 – 10:15 | Filipe Cabreiro | "A quirky observation - 15 years of Microbial metabolism and Metformin" (CECAD Cologne, Germany) |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara | "Mitochondrial progeria: nuclear DNA instability in stem cells"(University of Helsinki, Finland) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee break | |
| SESSION II | CHAIR: Stephanie Panier | |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Jan Vijg | "Somatic mutations in aging and disease" (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA) |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Jan Hoeijmakers | "DNA damage and aging, from insight to intervention" (Erasmus University Medical Center and Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, The Netherlands, CECAD Cologne, Germany) |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Ron Jachimowicz | "Human genome instability syndromes: Shedding light on DNA repair defects, ageing and cancer" (CECAD Cologne, MPI for Biology of Ageing, Germany) |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch AND/OR Postdoc/PhD Event | |
| SESSION III | CHAIR: Mauro Corrado | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Jan Karlseder | "Telomere to mitochondria signaling regulates replicative crisis and prevents cancer initiation" (Salk institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Sara Hägg | "Longitudinal studies of human biological aging" (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Ana García-Sáez | "Molecular architecture of the apoptotic pore" (CECAD Cologne, Germany) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| SESSION IV | CHAIR: Björn Schumacher | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Sara Wickström | "Regulation of cell states by mechanical force" (MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany) |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | KEYNOTE: Emma Teeling | "The long and short of bat’s extended longevity?" (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland) |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Final conclusions and Goodbye | |
| From 18:30 | Speakers' Dinner: Hotel Maritim – Rooftop Restaurant Bellevue | (Separate registration [closed] - Only for CECAD PIs and Speakers) |
The conference is open and has no registration fee, however registration is mandatory.
The registration closed on December 22nd, 2023.
The access to the waiting list closed on January 11th, 2024.
During the event, there will be two occasions in which PhD students and Postdocs will have the chance to showcase their work on an international platform and tell their scientific story, engage in discussions, and foster collaborations!
More detailed info in the file below.
On Tuesday, January 30th, 2024, there will be a separate event fully organized by PhD students and Postdocs, where young scientists (separate registration) will have the opportunity to meet internationally renowned speakers in a privileged setting, and share a meal with them in round tables.
The people who organized this event are:
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9B
50931 Cologne
Download here a map of the University Hospital campus.
(32) Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
(69) CECAD Research Center
ACCOMODATION
The city of Cologne with all its touristic attractions offers a wide range of accommodation possibilities. A comprehensive list of hotels is available on the official website of the city of Cologne (in German).
For any further information please contact Sibylle or Tanio:
Dr. Sibylle Grandel
Administrative Coordinator
CECAD Cologne / Central Office
CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln
Dr. Gaetano Calabrese | Tanio
Events, Media and Marketing
gaetano.calabrese[at]uni-koeln.de
CECAD Central Office
Room: 1.039
CECAD Research Center
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln
Download here the "Declaration of Consent for the taking, processing, and use of photographs and recordings" regarding this event.
Website, Graphics, Photos, Info Material and Registration Tool
by Dr. Gaetano Calabrese | Tanio
