PROGRAM 
Venue : Muntpunt (Library) 1st floor, Litterair Salon. Entrance via the Muntpunt Grand Café, Rue Léopold 2, 1000 Brussels.
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Pre-conference cocktail
19 - 22. Muntpunt Grand Café (next to the Venue) Rue Léopold 2, 1000 Brussels Wednesday November 7, 7 PM - 10 PM 

Day 1 (Thursday, November 8)
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09:00 - 09:45 Registration
​09:45 - 10:00 Welcome remarks: Victor Björk (Heales vzw, Belgium)

1. Extracellular matrix aging 
10:00 - 10:20 Sven Bulterijs
The mortar between the bricks: Damage to the ECM causes aged phenotypes 

2. Cell senescence 
10:20 - 10:40 Marco Demaria 
Modulation of the senescence response to delay accelerated aging in cancer therapy
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee pause and networking
11:00 - 11:20 Andrea Ablasser
Targeting STING in senescence with small-molecule inhibitors
11:20 - 11:40 Peter de Keizer
Unraveling Heterogeneity in Cellular Senescence to Target Signs of Aging and Cancer
11:40 - 12:00 Daniel Munoz-Espin
A versatile drug delivery system targeting senescent cells
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

3. Keynote
13:30 - 14:30 Thomas von Zglinicki 
Anti-senescence interventions to improve healthspan in mice

4. Bioinformatics
14:30 - 14:50 Joao Pedro de Magalhães 
Drugs, genes and databases for healthy ageing
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee pause and networking

5. Stem cell aging
15:10 - 15:30 Julia von Maltzahn 
Muscle stem cell function is impaired during aging 

6. Short talks
15:30 - 15:45 Eleni-Dimitra Papanagnou
A research pipeline for the discovery of bioactive small molecules with healthy ageing-promoting activity from the marine mesophotic zone 
​15:45 - 16:00 Aimilia Sklirou 
6-bromo-indirubin-3’-oxime (6BIO), a Glycogen synthase kinase-3β inhibitor, activates cytoprotective cellular modules and suppresses cellular senescence-mediated biomolecular damage in human fibroblasts
16:00 - 16:15 Guihem Velve Casquillas
Why measuring your aging will help you live longer
16:15 - 16:30 Anton Kulaga
Comparative transcriptomics of longevity: methods of interspecies RNA-seq analysis
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7. Natural products
16:30 - 16:50 Patrizia D'Alessio
AISA can control the inflammatory facet of SASP
16:50 - 17:10 Aleksandra Mladenovic Djordjevic
Frailty in 6XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease: The influence of age and proteasome activation 
 
8. Inflammation  
17:10 - 17:30 Mario D. Cordero 
New implications of the inflammasomes in aging and age-related diseases​
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19.00 - 22.00 Informal meeting: Café A La Mort Subite (second floor), rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7
(organized by Heales, EHA participants are welcome)
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Day 2 (Friday, November 9)

1. Bioinformatics 
09:30 - 09:50 Georg Fuellen
Pathways and Terms for Health, Aging, Senescence and Rejuvenation

2. Proteostasis 
09:50 - 10:10 Efstathios Gonos
Proteasome activation delays aging and progression of age-related diseases
​10:10 - 10:30 Georges Janssens
A conserved mito-cytoplasmic translational balance links two longevity pathways
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10 Sudhir Paul 
Nature-Made Catalytic Antibody Platform: From Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle to the Brink of Medical Interventions

3. Metabolism 
11:10 - 11:30 Michael Ristow

4. Rejuvenation strategies
11:30 - 11:50 Roos Vandenbroucke

5. Short talks
11:50 - 12:00 Attila Csordas
AgeCurve and age-associated protein patterns
12:00
Group picture
12:05 - 13:30 Lunch
 
6. Keynote 
13:30 - 14:30 Andrea Maier
Functional and biological characterisation to maximise prevention and treatment of age-related diseases
 
7. Rejuvenation strategies
14:30 - 14:50 Aubrey de Grey
​An overview of recent progress in projects performed or funded by SENS Research Foundation
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee break

8. DNA damage and repair 
15:10 - 15:30 Alexey Moskalev  
Insilico  biomarkers and interventions in aging
15:30 - 15:50 Morten Scheibye-Knudsen
Exploring the Phenotypical Landscape of Aging
15:50 - 16:10 Stuart Maudsley 
Genomic deletion of GIT2 induces a premature age-related thymic dysfunction and systemic immune system disruption
​16:10 - 16:30 Björn Schumacher 
​Systemic DNA damage responses in aging and disease
16:10 - 16:30 Sven Bulterijs
Preventive medicine: Hope versus hype
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8. Panel session
16:30 - 17:30 Preventive Medicine
Panel members: Kris Verburgh, Jian Fransén, Andrea Maier, Laurens Eeckhout 
​Moderator: Sven Bulterijs
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19.00 - 22.00 Informal meeting: Café A La Mort Subite (second floor), rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7
(organized by Heales, EHA participants are welcome)
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Day 3 (Saturday, November 10)

09:30 - 09:50 Michael Greve
Accelerating the availability of rejuvenation theraphy
09:50 - 10:10 Anastasia Egorova
The Open Longevity project
10:10 - 10:30 Daria Khaltourina
Aging Fits the Disease Criteria of the International Classification of Diseases
10:30 - 10:50 Nicola Bagalà
Why are so few people in favor of life extension, and what can we do to change that?
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee pause and networking
11:10 - 11:30 Attila Csordas 
Preparing to live (way) beyond current lifespan
11:30 - 11:50 Victor Björk
Prospects of practically shattering the ceiling of human longevity 
11:50 - 12:10 Elena Milova
Lifespan.io's Outreach Experience: How to Reach Millions Instead of Hundreds?
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
Panel session 
13:30 - 14:30 Investing in longevity
Panel members: Alexandra Sharon Bause, Michael Greve, Elena Milova
Moderator: Peter Wickx.
14:30 - 14:50 Jose Cordeiro
An European campaign for longevity/amortality/immortality
14:50 - 15:10 Didier Coeurnelle
How to organize clinical tests on longevity
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee pause and networking
Panel session 
15:30 - 16:30 How to favor clinical tests on longevity. Legal, scientific, technical, and political aspects.
Panel members: Guilhem Velve Casquillas, Sebastian "Caliban" (TBC), Edouard Debonneuil
Moderator: Didier Coeurnelle
16:30 - 16:50 General discussion and conclusion of the conference. Moderator: Alexander Tietz
16:50 - 17:10 Closing ceremony / Goodbye speech. Sven Bulterijs and Didier Coeurnelle  (Heales vzw, Belgium)
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17.00 - 19.00 Debriefing and perspectives meeting in the Café A La Mort Subite (second floor), rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7 (organized by Heales, EHA participants are welcome)


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