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.
2024 Spring Schedule
We need presenters for the spring 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.
January 25, 2024
Virginia Hsu (Imai lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
“Dietary restriction of isoleucine increases healthspan and lifespan of genetically heterogeneous mice” Cell Metabolism (2023)
CANCELLED February 8, 2024
February 22, 2024 – NOTE location: Couch 4001B
Prashant Kuntala (Wang lab, WashU Genetics)
Thesis Proposal brainstorming: “Epigenetic Determinants of Exceptional Longevity in Humans“
March 7, 2024
Logan Thrasher Collins (Curiel lab, WashU Radiation Oncology)
WiP: “Encapsulation of AAVs into protein vault nanoparticles as a novel solution to gene therapy’s neutralizing antibody problem”
March 21, 2024
Thomas Mahan (Yoo lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
“Developing human cell based models of Alzheimer disease in Trisomy 21”
CANCELLED – April 4, 2024
April 18, 2024
Pavla Bohacova (Artyomov lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology)
Talk practice: “Dissecting age-related cellular, compositional, and functional remodeling of naive T cells in humans”
May 2, 2024
Yudong Ren (Yoo lab, WashU Developmental Biology)
May 16, 2024
Ruiyi Tian (Vagelos DBBS Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Program)
Practice Talk: “Accelerated aging and early-onset GI cancer”
If you have a WiP or paper you’d like to share, please sign up on the spreadsheet here.