Eurhealth summerschool on Lifecourse and Ageing

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Description

There is growing evidence that developmental and biological disruptions during the early years of life can lead to age-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Our EU-funded project is investigating how pre- and peri-natal factors may cause disease in adulthood. This one-off summer school is a spin - off from the project to let people see how our research is progressing and to look at the ways studies into lifecourse and the new fields of epigenetics and the microbiome are impacting on the scientific world. ********************************************************************************** PROGRAMME 09.30 -09.40 Opening of School: Ana Valdes 09.40 - 11.30 Session I:Can Life Course Studies unravel age-related disease? Session chairs: Ana Valdes & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin 09.40 – 10.20 Plenary Session Diana Kuh (Medical Research Centre) Healthy Aging across the Life Course 10.20 – 10.30 Discussion 10.30 – 10.50 Marika Kaakinen (Imperial College London) Measuring Life Course 10.50 – 11.00 Discussion 11.00 – 11.20 Jess Buxton (University College London) Telomere length and healthy aging 11.20 – 11.30 Discussion 11.30 – 12.00 Tea Break 12.00 – 13.00 Session II: Linking Early Growth with aging via omics Session chairs: Jess Buxton and Marjo-Riita Jarvelin 12.00 – 12.20 Ana Valdes (University of Nottingham) Integrating –omics to investigate life course in twins 12.20 – 12.30 Discussion 12.30 – 12.50 Michelle Beaumont (Kings College London) Microbiome Impact on Early Life 12.50 – 13.00 Discussion 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 - 17.00 Session III: Epigenetic studies shed light on Life course Session chairs: Ana Valdes and Marika Kaakinen 14.00 – 14.20 Hannah Elliott (University of Bristol) The ARIES project 14.20 – 14.30 Discussion 14.30 – 14.50 Marie Loh (Imperial College London) Analysing epigenetics for complex traits 14.50 – 15.00 Discussion 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break 15.30 – 15.50 Jordana Bell (Kings College London) Epigenetic Studies of Twins 15.50 – 16.00 Discussion 16.00 – 16.30 Marjo-Riita Jarvelin (Imperial College London) The benefits of studying Life Course 16.30 – 16.45 Discussion of Life Course Projects 16.45 – 17.00 Ending of the School
Period8 Sept 2014
Event titleEurhealth summerschool on lifecourse and ageing
Event typeConference
LocationLondon, United KingdomShow on map

Keywords

  • lifecourse
  • ageing
  • omics