Events

For more information about the Aging Institute’s Research Meetings and Events, contact Joy Hart at joy.hart@pitt.edu.

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Aging Research Seminar Series

5th Floor Conference Room, Bridgeside Point 1

 
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Thursdays, 4:00-5:00PM

August 30

 

Dr. Björn Schumacher

Systemic DNA damage responses in aging and disease

September 6

 

Mark Gladwin, MD

Hemolysis as a mechanism for human disease: From sickle cell disease to precision transfusion medicine

October 11

 

Jeff Brodsky, PhD

Protein Conformational Diseases and Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD): Model Systems and Therapeutic Strategies

November 15

 

Tim Greenamyre, MD, PhD

Intersections of genetic and environmental mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease

December 13

 

Fabrisia Ambrosio, PhD, MPT

Biophysical Alterations of the Extracellular Matrix Drive Muscle Stem Cell Dysfunction in Aging

January 10, 2019

 

Nam Vo, PhD

Aging of the spine: from mechanism to therapeutic interventions

February 14

 

Ben Van Houten, PhD

Watching ‘first responders’: Interrogating human DNA repair protiens in real-time at the single molecule level

March 14

 

Anne Newman, MD

Defining healthy aging as a treatment target

April 4

Bruce Freeman, PhD

Addressing aging-related disease by targeted regulation of the redox-sensitive cysteine protome

May 9

 

Mark Schlomchik, MD, PhD

Thanks for the Memory B Cells

June 13

 

Bill Chen, PhD

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