Comparative Biology of Aging

Due to the current health situation, the conference is postponed
(in 2022, date to be determined)

 

Chairperson: Thomas C.G. Bosch
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 1-9, 24118 Kiel, Germany

Phone: +49 431 880 4169
Email: tbosch@zoologie.uni-kiel.de

Vice-chairpersons: Oliver Bischof
Institut Pasteur, Unité "Organisation Nucléaire et Oncogenèse" - Inserm U993, 28, rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France

Phone: +33(0)140613307
Email: oliver.bischof@pasteur.fr

The conference

The second Jacques Monod conference on « Comparative Biology of Aging » promotes advances in basic and applied aging research. The conference brings together both established leaders in the fields of aging with promising young researchers and is focused on holistic approaches to understand better the mechanisms, the physiology and the « raison d’être » of aging in the tree of life.  The conference is expected to foster interactions between workers from different disciplines working on various model and non-model organisms. Björn SCHUMACHER of the CECAD Research Center (Cologne, Germany) will deliver the inaugural lecture entitled « DNA damage responses in aging and disease: an organismal perspective ». Rudi Westendoorp of the University of Copenhagen will deliver the closing lecture «Harnessing the power of big data to challenge human ageing». The mission of the Jacques Monod conference is to contribute to a novel and integrated understanding of aging by providing new insights into the evolution of life cycle, mechanisms of homeostasis, social behavior, ecology and the development of new technologies to prevent and treat age-associated diseases and environmental stresses.

Invited speakers (provisional titles)

Murat Acar (Yale University, USA)
Systems biology of single-cell aging

 

Serge Adnot (Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB), France)
Cell senescence as a target for lung diseases

 

Abraham Aviv (The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, USA)
The Evolution of Telomere Length in Humans

 

Andreas Beyer (CECAD Research Center, Germany)
Ageing-associated decline of RNA biosynthesis

 

Oliver Bischof (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Morphing and reversing the senescence trajectory

 

Thomas Bosch (University of Kiel, Germany)
Insights from non-senescent Hydra

 

Francois Criscuolo (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert CURIEN (IPHC), France)
Telomeres as predictors of individual ageing trajectory : is everything written at the end of growth ?

 

Aubrey de Grey (SENS Foundation and Vice President of New Technology Discovery at AgeX Therapeutics, UK)
Rejuvenation biotechnology : why age may soon cease to mean aging

 

Peter de Keizer (University Medical Center (UMC), Utrecht, Netherlands)
Targeting senescence heterogeneity against cancer and aging

 

Vincent Geli (Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM), France)
The p21-mtert knock-in mouse : an in vivo model of senescence by-pass and much more

 

Eric Gilson (Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging (IRCAN), France)
Impact of telomere alterations on organismal fitness and adaptation

 

Jackie Han, J.D. (CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
Heterogeneity of aging in human populations

 

Liang Han (Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA)
Comparative analysis of primate genomes reveals an evolutionary origin of aging-related diseases

 

Steven Horvath (UCLA Brain Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA)
DNA methylation age studies of mammals

 

Sandrine Humbert (University Grenoble Alpes, France)
Huntingtin participates in the stress response on adult hippocampal neurogenesis

 

Lida Katsimpardi (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Systemic regulation of the balance between aging and rejuvenation

 

Julie Law (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)
Mechanisms governing DNA methylation during plant development

 

Valter Longo (Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California – Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, USA)
Genes, starvation and longevity : from bacteria to humans

 

Julia Maltzahn (Leibniz Institute On Aging/Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Germany)
Muscle stem cells during aging and in aging-related diseases

 

Céline Masclaux-Daubresse (Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA Centre de Versailles-Grignon, France)
The positive effects of ageing and senescence in plants

 

Christoph Niehrs (Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Germany)
The role of Gadd45 in DNA methylation and ageing

 

Ellen Nollen (European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands)
Defying protein toxicity in ageing and age-related disease

 

Franck Oury (Institut Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris (INEM), France)
Autophagy mediates the effects of youthfulsystemic factors on cognition and brain plasticity

 

Sven Pettersson (Karolinska Institutet (KI) , Sweden and  Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore)
Gut microbe interactions & age related organ function ; A special focus on brain

 

Björn Schumacher (CECAD Research Center, Germany)
DNA damage responses in aging and disease : an organismal perspective

 

Florence Solari (Institut NeuroMyoGène (INMG), France)
Deciphering muscle aging in C. elegans

 

Emma Teeling (University College Dublin, Ireland)
The molecular basis of extended healthspan in bats

 

Dario R Valenzano (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany)
African killifishes shed light on evolution and modulation of vertebrate lifespan

 

Rudi Westendoorp (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Harnessing the power of big data to challenge human ageing

 

Maximinia Yun (TU Dresden - CRTD/Center for Regenerative Therapies, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)
Limits to senescence in super-regenerators : insights from the salamander

 

Registration

Deadline for application: April 3rd, 2020

Registration fee (including board and lodging)
460 € for PhD students
750 € for other participants

Application for registration
The total number of participants is limited to 115 and all participants are expected to attend for the whole duration of the conference. Selection is made on the basis of the affinity of potential participants with the topics of the conference. Scientists and PhD Students interested in the meeting should deposit online before the deadline: https://cjm2-2020.sciencesconf.org/

  • their curriculum vitae
  • the list of their main publications for the 3 last years
  • the abstract of their presentation:

The abstract must respect the following template: TemplateResumeFile

  • First line: title
  • Second line: list of authors. Presenting author underlined
  • Third line: author's addresses
  • Fourth line: e-mail of the presenting author

Abstracts should be no longer than an A4 page and preferably be submitted in Times New Roman, font size 10 pts. No figures. ".docx" file format.

After the deadline, the organizers will select the participants. Except in some particular cases approved by the Chairperson, it is recommended that all selected participants present their work during the conference, either in poster form or by a brief in- session talk. The organizers choose the form in which the presentations are made. No payment will be sent with application. Information on how and when to pay will be mailed in due time to those selected.