Oklahoma GeroScience Symposium 2021 
April 22, 2022

The 2022 Oklahoma Geroscience Symposium is designed to cover the proteostasis network from protein synthesis to the degradation of oligomers/aggregates and to discuss how changes in proteostasis can lead to aging and age-related diseases.

Keynote Speaker

Peter Walter, Ph.D.

Professor

Biochemistry and Biophysics Howard Hughes Investigator

University of California San Francisco

The Role of the Unfolded Protein Response in Maintaining Cellular Homeostasis in Age-Related Diseases

Featured Speakers

Richard Morimoto, Ph.D.

Professor

Northwestern University

The Biology of Proteostasis in Aging and Disease

Ana Maria Cuervo, Ph.D.

Professor 

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Selective Autophagy as a Potential Target for Age-Related Disorders

Rong Li, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell Biology and Director of Center for Cell Dynamics, Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The Role of Metochondrial-Mediated Proteostasis in the Dissolution of Misfolded Cytosolic Proteins

Andrew Dillin, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California Berkeley

Brain Cells Protect the Muscle from Protein Aggregation

Darcie Moore, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
University of Wisconsin

How do Stem Cells Handle Damaged Proteins

Benjamin Miller, Ph.D.

Member

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Protein Synthesis and Breakdown as Energetically Sensitive Modulators of Proteostasis

Peter Arvan, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes

University of Michigan

The Unfolding Story of Proinsulin

Jian Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Member

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Germline-Specific Roles of HSF1 and its Regulation in Reproductive Longevity