Keynote Speaker:

Malene Hansen, Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Conference Organizers:

Ryo Sanabria, University of Southern California
Rob Dowen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Danielle Garsin, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

2024 Invited Speakers:

Aaron Reinke, University of Toronto
Adam Antebi, Max Planck Institute
Aditi Gurkar, University of Pittsburgh
Alejandro Aballay, Oregon Health & Science University
Alex Soukas, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Amy Pasquinelli, University of California, San Diego
Amy Walker, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Andrew Dillin, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Brunet, Stanford University
Arjumaund Ghazi, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Ben Weaver, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Cole Haynes, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Coleen Murphy, Princeton University
Danielle Garsin, University of Texas Health Science Center
David Vilchez, University of Cologne, Germany
Denke Ma, University of California, San Francisco
Dennis Kim, Boston Children’s Hospital
Emily Troemel, University of California, San Diego
Erik Anderson, Johns Hopkins University
Frank Schroeder, Cornell University
Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Heng-Chi Lee, University of Chicago
Javier Irazoqui, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

 

Jennifer Watts, Washington State University
Jingru Sun, Washington State University
John Kim, Johns Hopkins University
Julie Claycomb, University of Toronto
Katherine McJunkin, National Institute of Health
Keith Blackwell, Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School
Liu Ying, Peking University
Malene Hansen, The Buck Institute
Marc Pilon, University of Gothenburg
Marian Walhout, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Mark Pellegrino, University of Texas, Arlington
Natasha Kirienko, Rice University
Nicolas Lehrbach, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Ryan Baugh, Duke University
Scott Leiser, University of Michigan
Scott Kennedy, Harvard Medical School
Sean Curran, University of Southern California
Stephen Taubert, University of British Columbia
Supriya Srinivasan, The Scripps Research Institute
Sylvia Lee, Cornell University
Tai Montgomery, Colorado State University
Veena Prahlad, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Will Mair, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Important dates:

Registration Open: Friday, January 16, 2026
Abstract Submission Open: Friday, January 16, 2026
Early Bird Deadline: Friday, February 20, 2026
Oral Abstract Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2026
Oral Notification Emails: Friday, May 1, 2026
Poster Abstract Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2026
Poster Notification Emails: Friday, May 8, 2026
Housing Deadline: Friday, May 15, 2026

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