Discussing WIPs and recent papers in aging biology and age-associated disease
If you have questions or would like to be added to the mailing list, please contact Virginia Hsu or Cecilia Lei. All are welcome to attend!
When: 12pm, Thursdays bi-weekly
Where: Farrell LTC 304 (Medical Campus)
Organizers: Virginia Hsu (Graduate student, Neuroscience Program), Cecilia Lei (Graduate student, Molecular Genetics & Genomics Program)
Note individual events are listed on the ONR Calendar.
2023 Fall Schedule
We need presenters for the upcoming fall semester!
If you have a WiP or paper you’d like to share, please sign up on the spreadsheet here. There is also a list of interesting papers covering a wide range of topics in the field of aging / age-associated diseases that you are welcome to choose from.
September 21, 2023
Wangchao Xu (Kipnis lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology)
WiP: “A novel immune modulator IM33 mediates a glia-gut-neuronal axis that controls lifespan”
October 5, 2023
Prashant Kuntala (Wang lab, WashU Genetics)
October 19, 2023
November 2, 2023
Ena Haseljic (Vagelos DBBS Molecular Genetics & Genomics Program)
QE practice: “Investigating neuronal activity-dependent DNA repair”
November 16, 2023
November 30, 2023
December 14, 2023
March 9, 2023
Brian Lananna (Imai lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology)
“Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging” Cell 2023
March 23, 2023
Christian Suarez (Weihl lab, WashU Neurology)
“Epigenetic regulation of proteasome activity” (QE practice)
April 6, 2023
Reed Trende (Boon lab, WashU Immunology)
“Stromal niche inflammation mediated by IL-1 signalling is a targetable driver of haematopoietic ageing” Nature Cell Biology 2023
April 20, 2023
Virginia Hsu (Imai lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
“Ageing-associated changes in transcriptional elongation influence longevity” (Science 2023)
May 4, 2023
Kyohei Tokizane (Imai lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
“Hypothalamic Menin regulates systemic aging and cognitive decline” PLoS Biology (2023)
May 18, 2023
Prashant Kuntala (Wang lab, WashU Genetics)
QE Practice
“Understanding the Role of DNA methylation of Transposable Elements in Exceptional Longevity”
June 1, 2023
Jason Colasanti (Apte lab, WashU Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences)
“The role of miR-34a in age-related macular degeneration”
June 29, 2023
Thomas Mahan (Yoo lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
“Patient-specific Alzheimer-like pathology in trisomy 21 cerebral organoids reveals BACE2 as a gene dose-sensitive AD suppressor in human brain” Molecular Psychiatry (2021)
July 13, 2023
Kentaro Mori (Imai lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
WiP: “Anti-aging effects of novel myokine via inter-tissue communication”
July 27, 2023
Yudong Ren (Yoo lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
WiP (QE): “Elucidating the mechanism of neuroprotective role of Lamivudine (3TC) on late-onset Alzheimer’s reprogrammed cortical neuronsAnti-aging effects of novel myokine via inter-tissue communication”
