9:00 AM to 4:30 PM | May 8, 2023

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2023

Kahn Auditorium, Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB)

Audience This is a public event.

Aging and Age-Related Diseases

Aging is a universal phenomenon across all organisms. This year's Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will explore the aging process and age-related disease models in a variety of model organisms, as well as the insights they can offer about human health and disease.

Speakers

Johan Auwerx, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Laboratory of Integrative Systems Physiology

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Nir Barzilai, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Genetics

Director, Institute for Aging Resarch

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Rochelle Buffenstein, Ph.D.

Research Professor

University of Illinois at Chicago

Claude Desplan, D.Sc., Ph.D.

Silver Professor; Professor of Biology and Neural Science

New York University

Andrew Dillin, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley,

Linda Partridge, D.Phil.

Professorial Research Fellow, Genetics, Evolution & Environment

University College London

Hosts

U-M Life Sciences Institute

Michigan Medicine Geriatrics Center