September 22, 2000 (Friday)
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Morning Session:
8:30am -12:30pm
Introduction: Caleb Finch (USC; see Finch, 1990, 1998; Finch and Sapolsky,
1999)
Criteria for aging: 90 min
Variation in rates of demographic aging in captive populations of vertebrates:
Robert Ricklefs (U Missouri-St Louis; see Ricklefs, 1998, in press)
Biochemical markers for oxidative damage:
Robert Floyd (Oklahoma Biomedical Res. Fnd; see Floyd et al., 1999)
In vitro cell models: Judith Campisi (Lawrence Berkeley Labs;
see Kim et al., 1999; Dimri et al., 2000)
Plants 90 min
Alternate life histories of bristlecone pines: Ronald Lanner (Placerville, CA)
see Conner and Lanner 1991; Lanner, 1999
The paradox of great longevity in short_lived tree species:
Douglas Larson (U Guelph, Ontario; see Larson, 1999)
Patterns of mortality in natural and protected populations of perennial plants
Deborah Roach (U Virginia; see Roach 1993, in press)
Lunch Session: 12:30pm
- 1:30pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Insects: 90 min
T he interactions of age, gender, caste, and behavior in the honey bee:
Robert Page (UC Davis; see Calderon and Page, 1996)
Evolution of extended longevity in social insects:
James Carey (UCDavis; Carey, 1997)
Retarded aging during insect diapause:
Marc Tater (Brown U; ee Tater, 1999, in press)
Fish: 120 min
Age determination and validation of long-lived fish:
Gregor Cailliet (UC Santa Cruz; see Nurton et al., 1999);
Evolutionary Ecology of Longevity and Aging in Fish:
Marc Mangel (U Cal Santa Cruz; see Mangel, 1996; Partridge and Mangel,
1999)
Biochemical changes, telomere lengths in long-lived fish (four labs are active in pilot studies; depending on data, one or more may give talks, as well as posters)
Posters (volunteer): 5:15-6:15 PM
Day 2:
September 23, 2000 (Saturday)
Morning Session:
9:00am -12:30pm
Reptiles; 60 min:
Field studies on mortality and reproduction in Blanding’s turtle:
Justin Congdon (Savannah River , South Carolina; see Congdon et al., 1993,
1994)
Other speaker, pending
Birds: 120 min
Avian genes involved in retarded aging:
Steve Austad (U Idaho; see Austad, 1993; Ogburn et al., 1998; Miller et
al., 1999)
A comparative perspective on avian aging - the long and the short
of it:
Donna Holmes (U Idaho; see Holmes and Austad 1996)
Quail and other Short_lived Birds:
Maryanne Ottinger(U Maryland; see Ottinerger et al., 1997; Nisbet et al.,
1999)
Other speaker, pending
Afternoon Session: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Mammals (60 min)
Whales and other long-lived mammals: new racemized amino acid data; speaker pending
Demography of human life spans and morbidity:
Eileen Crimmins (USC; see Crimmins et al., 1994, 1999)
Life history theory: 60 min
L inda Partridge (London; see Sgro and Partridge, 1999; Rogina et al 1998;
Partridge and Mangel, 1999)
David Reznick (UCal Riverside; see Reznick et al., 1997)
Discussion of database (30 Min): Robert Ricklefs
Closing remarks by Finch