08:30 – 09:00 Registration with coffee and tea
09:00 – 09:30 Nathalie van der Velden (VU Centre for ageing research) – ‘Aging & Later Life onderzoeksprogramma van het Amsterdam Public Health Institute’
09:30 – 09:45 Niels van den Berg (LUMC) – Longevity defined as top 10% survivors is transmitted as a quantitative genetic trait: results from large three-generation datasets’
09:45 – 10:00 Johannes Lehmann (UMCU) – ‘WNT signaling antagonizes paracrine senescence in human stromal cells’
10:00 – 10:15 Marte Molenaars (AMC/UVA) – ‘Mitochondrial translational activity regulates cytoplasmic translation linking two longevity pathways’
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee and tea
10:45 – 11:00 Kelly ‘t Hart (AMC) – ‘The role of lncRNAs in cardiac metabolism during aging’
11:00 – 11:30 Gerwin Huls (UMCG) – ‘Ageing and hematopoiesis’
11:30 – 12:00 Eline Slagboom (LUMC) – ‘VOILA initiatief concept consortium’
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch and postermarket
13:45 – 14:15 David Gems (UCL) – ‘New discoveries about ageing in C. elegans’
14:15 – 14:30 Joost van den Heuvel (WUR) – ‘Large effect loci for lifespan segregate in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster ‘
14:30 – 14:45 Irina Empel (UMCG) – ‘The challenge of making and maintaining large complexes – Nuclear pores in mitotic ageing’
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee and tea
15:15 – 15:45 Clara Belzer (WUR) – ‘Healthy aging involves the microbiome’
15:45 – 16:15 André Uitterlinden (EUMC) – ‘Genetics of Menopause; linking Aging and DNA Repair in Humans’
16:15 – 16:45 Bas Zwaan (WUR) – ‘DuSRA now and in the future’
16:45 – 17:30 Drinks
