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