Faculty

Rozalyn Anderson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, SMPH, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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Johan Auwerx, MD, PhD (keynote)
Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Laboratory of Integrative and Systems Physiology, Lausanne, Switzerland


Barbara Bakker, PhD
Professor of Medical Systems Biology, Department of Pediatrics and Systems Biology Center for Energy Metabolism and Ageing, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands


Vilhelm A. Bohr, MD, PhD
Senior investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, USA



Cornelis F. Calkhoven, PhD
Principle investigator at the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
 

Danica Chen, PhD
Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology, Berkeley University of California, USA


Eduardo Chini, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging and Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, Minnesota, USA


Gerald de Haan, PhD
Scientific Director of the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
 
Matthias Heinemann, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands


Hilde Jalving, MD, PhD 
Medical Oncologist, Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands


Marian Joëls, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience, Dean/Board of Directors University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands


Diana Jurk, PhD
Principal Investigator, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing (NUIA), Institute for Cell & Molecular Biosciences (ICaMB), Newcastle Universitair, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
 

James L. Kirkland, MD, PhD 
Noaber Foundation Professor of Aging Research, Director Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
 

Ursula Klingmüller, PhD
Division Head, Division Systems Biology of Signal Transduction, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany



Viktor Korolchuk, PhD 
Associate Professor, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, Newcastle University, UK



Folkert Kuipers, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, head Laboratory of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
 



Majlinda Lako, PhD 
Professor of Stem Cell Science, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, UK



Nathan LeBrasseur, PT, PhD
Consultant, Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
 

John Newman, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Geriatrics, UCSF, San Francisco USA; Visiting Scientist, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato USA
 

Laura Niedernhofer, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine and the Center on Aging at The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, USA
 

Ellen Nollen, PhD
Principle investigator at the European Research Institute for the Biology of Aging (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
 



João Passos, PhD 
Associate Professor, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, UK
 
Sibrandes Poppema, MD, PhD 
President of the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands





Y.S. Prakash, MD, PhD 
Chair of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Rochester, Minnesota, USA


Paul D. Robbins, PhD
Professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in Jupiter, Florida and Director of the TSRI Center on Aging, USA
 



Marianne G. Rots, PhD 
Professor of Molecular Epigenetics, Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands



K. Lenhard Rudolph, MD 
Head of the research group on 'Stem cell aging' and Scientific Director Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany
 


Gabriele Saretzki, PhD
Lecturer, University Ageing Biology Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
 




Daryl Shanley, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Institute for Cell and Molecular Bioscience, Newcastle University, UK



Tamara Tchkonia, PhD 
Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
 



Kathrin Thedieck, PhD 
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Department of Paediatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands




Eugenia Trushina, PhD 
Associate Professor, Mitochondrial Neurobiology and Therapeutics Laboratory Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
 


Thomas von Zglinicki, PhD 
Professor of Cell Gerontology, Director The ABC-Newcastle, University Ageing Biology Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom




Mathias Ziegler, MD, PhD 
Professor at the University of Bergen, Head of the Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bergen, Norway