Event by Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Cluster

    Copenhagen Bioscience Symposium - The Complexity of Ageing

    Please join us for a day of science, oriented around the complexity of ageing! The students of the Copenhagen Bioscience PhD program are organising a symposium targeting a broad audience of scientists. They are inviting 6 international and local speakers to tell us about ageing according to different perspectives. The day will end with a panel discussion about the new challenges in research on ageing and an open talk by a guest speaker.

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    26 October 2018

    Speakers

    Dario Riccardo Valenzano Max Plank Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany
    Eva Hoffmann University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Sussex, UK
    Peter de Keizer UMC Utrecht
    Kumar Somyajit University of Copenhagen
    Maiken Nedergaard University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
    Brian K. Kennedy National University Singapore, Republic of Singapore and Buck Institute for Research on Ageing, USA

    Programme

    8:00 am Chair: Morten Scheibye-Knudsen

    Registration
    8:55 am Welcome and introduction by the Copenhagen Bioscience PhD students
    9:00 am Dario Riccardo Valenzano, Max Plank Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany
    9:45 am Eva Hoffmann, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Sussex, UK
    10:30 am Break
    11:00 am Peter de Keizer, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
    11:45 am Kumar Somyajit, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    12:30 pm Lunch
    2:00 pm Maiken Nedergaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
    2:45 pm Brian K. Kennedy, National University Singapore, Republic of Singapore and Buck Institute for Research on Ageing, USA
    3:30 pm Break
    4:00 pm Panel discussion
    5:15 pm Break
    5:30 pm Guest speaker
    6:00 pm Tapas and social drinks
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