116 - Epigenetics and aging: can we turn back the clock?

Session Chair(s)

• Orna Issler

  Presenting Author
  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Sonia Flores

  Univ of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

This session will focus on how early-life adversity and stress at the genomic level influence susceptibility to diseases such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome and mental health that augment health disparities later in life. The sessions also will cover molecular resilience and how the genome is sufficiently dynamic to overcome these epigenetic roadblocks. Who should attend: anyone interested in learning how genomic and subgenomic stresses early in life lead to adversity and health disparities later in life and how the genome is dynamic and can overcome some of these roadblocks.

Presentations:

• 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

  A sex-specific role for long noncoding RNA in depression susceptibility and resilience
  

  Presenting Author: Orna Issler – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

  Rethinking the stress paradigm: exploring new connections between epigenetic adaption and cellular stress
  

  Presenting Author: Kaushik Ragunathan – University of Michigan Medical School
• 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

  Extracellular vesicles as stress signals: identifying novel systemic mechanisms of trauma programming
  

  Presenting Author: Tracy Bale – University of Maryland School of Medicine
• 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

  Sex-dimorphism in aging: are we missing half of the picture?
  

  Presenting Author: Bérénice Benayoun – University of Southern California