Ceremonial Hall
Ceremonial Hall and Munk Cellar
Munk Cellar
Munk Cellar
August 26-30
August 26-28
August 26
August 27

Emerging Science &
Technologies Workshop

Munk Cellar
Monday, August 26
09:30 - 09:40 (CET)
Opening ceremony
Maximilian Unfried, NUS, VitaDAO

AI for Aging Biology
09:40 - 10:00 (CET)
Ethnic-Related Aging Rate Modification
Jing-Dong Jackie Han, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, China
10:00 - 10:20 (CET)
Deep Learning of Cellular Senescence to Predict Cancer Risk
Indra John Heckenbach, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
10:20 - 10:40 (CET)
Validation Requirements for AI-based Intervention-Evaluation in Aging and Longevity Research and Practice
Georg Fuellen, Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research in Rostock, Germany
10:40 - 11:00 (CET)
Break
Neurotech, Mental Health, and Brain Aging
11:00 - 11:20 (CET)
Brain Emulation
Anders Sandberg, Institute of Futures Studies
11:20 - 11:40 (CET)
Advancing neural replacement using stem cell-derived organoids
Neal Amin, Stanford University, USA
11:40 - 12:00 (CET)
Single cell and spatial omics in translational research
Konstantin Khodosevich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
12:00 - 13:00 (CET)
Lunch
Emerging Technologies 1
13:00 - 13:20 (CET)
Winter is coming: Cryopreservation as an emerging longevity technology
João Pedro de Magalhães, University of Birmingham, UK
13:20 - 13:40 (CET)
Mechanobiology of ageing and emergence of microfluidic organs-on-chips technologies
Emad Moeendarbary, University College London, UK
13:40 - 14:00 (CET)
Synthetic Ex Utero Embryogenesis: from Naive Stem Cells to bona fide Embryo Models
Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
14:00 - 14:20 (CET)
Break
Emerging Technologies 2
14:20 - 14:40 (CET)
Tools for Analyzing, Controlling, and Simulating Biological Systems
Ed Boyden, MIT, USA
14:40 - 15:00 (CET)
Metabolic nanoscopy for studying aging and diseases
Lingyan Shi, University of California, San Diego, USA
15:00 - 15:20 (CET)
Systems and synthetic biology: constructing smart and programmable microbes and microbiota to address global problems
Tae Seok Moon, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
15:20 - 15:40 (CET)
Upgrading to Animal Models 2.0
Shahaf Peleg, Group Leader FBN Dummerstorf
15:40 - 16:00 (CET)
Break
16:00 - 16:45 (CET)
Panel: What new technologies are needed for progress in Aging Biology?
Lisa Melton, Senior News Editor, Nature Biotechnology
Lingyan Shi, University of California, San Diego, USA
Tae Seok Moon, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
Ed Boyden, MIT, USA
Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
16:45 - 17:00 (CET)
Closing
Maximilian Unfried, NUS, VitaDAO