UCL Lunch Hour Lecture | Solving ageing
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UCL Lunch Hour Lecture | Solving ageing
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Overview
In this lecture, David Gem will describe recent advances towards understanding the underlying biological mechanisms that cause aging.
About the lecture
Ageing is now the number one cause of disease and death worldwide. Yet among scientists who study it there remains a lack of consensus about the underlying biological mechanisms that cause it. David Gems has spent 30 years conducting experimental research to test and develop theories of ageing. In his talk, he will describe recent advances towards answering this question, which is perhaps the greatest puzzle in medical research. Solving it is key to the development of interventions that slow ageing and delay the arrival of its ghastly attendants, including heart disease, cancer, dementia, arthritis and many, many more.
About the speaker
David Gems is Professor of Biogerontology (the study of the biology of ageing) at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, where he is Research Director. He began working on ageing at the University of Missouri-Columbia USA in 1993. He established his own research group at UCL in 1997 with the aim of understanding ageing, now the main cause of disease worldwide, using the tiny nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. His work is helping to reveal the general principles that govern the aging process, and how it causes late-life disease. His book "On Aging" will be published shortly (Columbia University Press).
About the chair
Dr Labbadia obtained his PhD from Kings College London (2007-2011), before completing his postdoctoral training at Northwestern University, USA (2012-2017). In 2017, Dr Labbadia moved to the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL, where he established his own lab with support from a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship. His group currently uses the small nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, to understand why proteome integrity declines with age. By addressing this question, he hopes to identify molecular process that can be targeted to promote healthy ageing in humans.
In this lecture, David Gem will describe recent advances towards understanding the underlying biological mechanisms that cause aging.
About the lecture
Ageing is now the number one cause of disease and death worldwide. Yet among scientists who study it there remains a lack of consensus about the underlying biological mechanisms that cause it. David Gems has spent 30 years conducting experimental research to test and develop theories of ageing. In his talk, he will describe recent advances towards answering this question, which is perhaps the greatest puzzle in medical research. Solving it is key to the development of interventions that slow ageing and delay the arrival of its ghastly attendants, including heart disease, cancer, dementia, arthritis and many, many more.
About the speaker
David Gems is Professor of Biogerontology (the study of the biology of ageing) at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, where he is Research Director. He began working on ageing at the University of Missouri-Columbia USA in 1993. He established his own research group at UCL in 1997 with the aim of understanding ageing, now the main cause of disease worldwide, using the tiny nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. His work is helping to reveal the general principles that govern the aging process, and how it causes late-life disease. His book "On Aging" will be published shortly (Columbia University Press).
About the chair
Dr Labbadia obtained his PhD from Kings College London (2007-2011), before completing his postdoctoral training at Northwestern University, USA (2012-2017). In 2017, Dr Labbadia moved to the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL, where he established his own lab with support from a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship. His group currently uses the small nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, to understand why proteome integrity declines with age. By addressing this question, he hopes to identify molecular process that can be targeted to promote healthy ageing in humans.
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