Program
2025 Symposium on the Heterogeneity of Aging
| 9:15 a.m. | Breakfast and registration Mentorship meetings, 2024 awardees and mentors only |
| 10:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks and Center updates |
| 10:20 a.m. | Luis Prieto, Mayo Clinic, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee Building a holistic framework to explore cancer in aging |
| 10:40 a.m. | Hongkui Zheng, Allen Institute for Brain Science Dynamic changes of cell types in the aging brain |
| 11:15 a.m. | Laith Samara, Princeton University, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee Spatial assessment of cellular heterogeneity in aging |
| 11:35 a.m. | Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University Young blood for old brains and the quest to slow aging |
| 12:10 p.m. | Ines Sturmlechner, Mayo Clinic, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee Aging trajectories of memory CD8+ T cells differ by their antigen specificity |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 1:45 p.m. | Sonia Vazquez-Sanchez, UC San Diego, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee Somatic repeat expansion and HTT aggregation in Huntington’s disease human brain using multimodal spatial transcriptomics specificity |
| 2:05 p.m. | Adam Salmon, Barshop Institute at UT Health San Antonio Understanding the translational potential of geroscience from cells to primates |
| 2:40 p.m. | Daniel Whittaker, UC San Diego, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee Contributions of circadian disruption to the heterogeneity of brain aging |
| 3:00 p.m. | Lingyan Shi, UC San Diego Optical metabolic nanoscopy for studying aging and diseases |
| 3:35 p.m. | Shanshan Yin, Sanford Burnham Prebys, SD-NSC Pilot grant awardee Investigating the transcriptional and epigenetic heterogeneity in mammary glands during healthy aging and tumorigenesis |
| 3:55 p.m. | Closing remarks |
| 4:10 p.m. | Networking happy hour (in person only) |