Schedule

9:00-9:15 Rhian Touyz - Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, RI-MUHC Welcoming Remarks 9:15-9:55 Ronald Kohanski - Director, Division of Aging Biology, NIA (USA) Geroscience: What is it? Where are we? 9:55-10:25 Susan Howlett - Dalhousie University (Canada) Deficit Accumulation Index 10:25-10:55 Sofie Hindkjær Lautrup - University of Oslo (Norway) Mitophagy and Neuroprotection 10:55-11:25 Pierrette Gaudreau - University of Montreal (Canada) Using the NuAge Cohort to study geroscience 11:25-11:45 Coffee break - networking 11:45-12:30 Short presentations by young investigators - Biomedical sciences

13:30-14:10 George Kuchel - University of Connecticut (USA) Applied Clinical Geroscience 14:10-14:40 Philipe de Souto Barretto - Gerontopôle of Toulouse, CHU-Toulouse (France) Challenges in developing geroscience trials 14:40-15:10 Mylène Aubertin-Leheudre - UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) Integrating exercise in geroscience trials 15:10-15:40 José Morais - McGill University (Canada) Integrating nutrition in geroscience trials 15:40-16:10 Mahdi Imani - University of Melbourne (Australia) Artificial intelligence and machine learning - is this the future of geroscience? 16:10-16:25 Coffee break - networking 16:30-17:00 Short presentations by young investigators - Clinical/social sciences