Dr. Luigi Fontana, Professor of Medicine and Nutrition, Leonard P Ullman Chair in Translational Metabolic Health, Director of the Healthy Longevity Research and Clinical Program, University of Sydney, “When a calorie is not a calorie: lessons from dietary restriction trials”.
Li Qiang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, “The transcriptional selectivity of PPARg and fat remodeling”.
Nicholas Giangreco, Nicholas Tatonetti Lab, “Mind the developmental gap: Identifying adverse drug effects across childhood to evaluate biological mechanisms from growth and development”.
Hans Clevers, MD, PhD, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Utrech University, Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands, “Organoids to model human diseases”.
Aleksandar Obradovic, Andrea Califano Lab, “Discovering master regulators of single-cell transcriptional states in the tumor immune microenvironment to reveal immuno-therapeutic targets and synergistic treatments”.
John M Sedivy, PhD, Hermon C Bumpus Professor of Biology, Associate Dean and Director, Center for the Biology of Aging, Brown University, “Somatic retrotransposition in cellular senescence and aging”.
Jet MJ Vonk, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, “The epidemiology of language impairment and cognitive decline in aging”.
