meeting_organization
2026
November 4th 2026, 9:00–18:15, Académie des sciences (salle Bonnefous, 23 quai de Conti, 75006 Paris). Free, hybrid (in person — about 50 seats, reserved for registered attendees — or online); registration required by email to epbapteste@gmail.com before October 25th, stating whether you will attend in person or online.
Scientific program for the day
- 9:00–9:05 – Dr. Eric Bapteste (SU, CNRS, Paris, France): ‘A few welcome words’
- Session 1: Aging across scales
- 9:05–9:30 – Dr. Annette Baudisch (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark): ‘An exponentially rising hazard of fertility mirrors Gompertz' law of mortality’
- 9:30–9:55 – Pr. Emma Teeling (University College Dublin, Ireland): ‘The unexpected lessons from bat studies about aging’
- 9:55–10:20 – Pr. Susanne Foitzik (Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH, Mainz, Germany): ‘Parasite manipulation of host aging’
- 10:20–10:45 – Dr. Katarzyna Siudeja (I2BC, U. Paris-Saclay, France): ‘Endogenous retroelements and aging’
- 5-minute break
- Session 2: Processes of aging
- 10:50–11:15 – Dr. Jane Reznick (CECAD Excellence Cluster in Aging Research, University of Cologne, Germany): ‘Unexpected lessons of aging studies on naked mole rats’
- 11:15–11:40 – Pr. Vera Gorbunova (University of Rochester, USA): ‘DNA repair, aging and longevity across the Tree of Life’
- 11:40–12:05 – Pr. Claudio Franceschi (University of Bologna, Italy): ‘The social microbiome of older people’
- Lunch break
- Session 3: Flexibility in animal aging
- 14:15–14:40 – Pr. Guido Kroemer (Gustave Roussy, Grand-Paris, France): ‘A phylogenetically conserved pro-aging pathway involving ACBP/DBI’
- 14:40–15:05 – Dr. Jean-François Lemaître (UMR CNRS 5558 – LBBE, UCB Lyon 1, France): ‘Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals’
- 15:05–15:30 – Pr. Eric Gilson (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France): ‘Comparative biology of coral longevity’
- 15:30–15:55 – Dr. Thomas Tully (SU, Paris, France): ‘The shape and plasticity of ageing trajectories’
- 5-minute break
- Session 4: Modeling systemic aspects of aging
- 16:00–16:25 – Pr. Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute, Israel): ‘Open issues in the aging of (biological) systems’
- 16:25–16:50 – Dr. Andreas Beyer (CECAD Excellence Cluster in Aging Research, University of Cologne, Germany): ‘Systems biology and aging’
- 16:50–17:15 – Pr. Steve Horvath (UCLA, USA): ‘Epigenetic clocks across the Tree of Life: limits and successes’
- 17:15–17:40 – Dr. Johannes Martens (SU, Paris, France): ‘Aging and ontology’
- 17:40–18:05 – Pr. Agustin Ibanez (Senior Atlantic Fellow, Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI.org), UCSF San Francisco, US & TCD Dublin, Ireland): ‘The exposome of healthy and accelerated aging across 40 countries’
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