INVITED SPEAKERS FOR 2003:

03-1. January 13, 2003

"Academic Training Programs in the UCLA Geriatrics Division"

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Prof. Janet C. Frank, DrPH
Assistant Director for Academic Programs in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
UCLA School of Medicine and Public Health
Los Angeles, California
Voice: 310-312-0531
FAX: 310-312-0546
E-mail: jcfrank@ucla.edu
URL: geronet.ucla.edu

03-2. February 10, 2003

"Reasoning with Fuzz and Noise"

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Prof. Bart Kosko, Ph.D.
Signal and Image Processing Institute
Electrical Engineering Department
3740 McClintock Avenue, EEB400
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564
Voice: 213-7406242
FAX: 213-7404651
E-mail: kosko@sipi.usc.edu
URL: sipi.usc.edu

03-3. March 17, 2003

"Proteomics, Protein Oxidation, and Age-Related Neurodegeneration"

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Prof. Julian Whitelegge, Ph.D.
The Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Chemistry and Biochemistry, and The Neuropsychiatric Institute
University of California at Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Voice: 310-794-5156
FAX: 310-206-2161
E-mail: jpw@chem.ucla.edu

03-4 April 21, 2003

"Aging, Age-Related Diseases, and the Determination of Longevity"

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Prof. Leonard Hayflick, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
University of California at San Francisco
36991 Greencroft Close
P. O. Box 89
The Sea Ranch, CA 95497
E-mail: len@gene.com

03-5 May 19, 2003

"Molecular Genetic Testing for Familial and Sporadic Cancers: Technical and Ethical Differences between Germline and Somatic Mutations"

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Prof. Wayne W. Grody, M.D., Ph.D.
Divisions of Medical Genetics and Molecular Pathology
Director, Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Laboratory
Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Pediatrics, and Human Genetics
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1732
Voice: 310-825-5648
E-mail: wgrody@mednet.ucla.edu

03-6 June 9, 2003

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"Mitochondrial Variants in Degenerative Disease and Aging"

Prof. Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D.
Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics
2014 Hewitt Hall
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3940
Voice: 949-824-3490
FAX: 949-824-6388
E-mail: dwallace@uci.edu
URL: http://www.mitomap.org

03-7 July 29, 2003

"Aging, Infertility, and the Problem of 'Seed vs. Soil'"

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Prof. Richard J. Paulson, M.D., Division Chief
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Southern California
1127 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Voice: 213-975-9990
E-mail: rpaulson@usc.edu

03-8 August 11, 2003

"Crosslinking and Aggregation in Aging and Disease: A Review"

by

John D. Furber, CEO
Legendary Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
P.O. Box 14200
Gainesville, FL 32604-2200
Voice: 352-271-8711
Cell: 505-417-9814
E-mail: johnfurber@LegendaryPharma.com
URL: LegendaryPharma.com

03-9 September 8, 2003

"DNA Methylation, Methyltransferase, and Genetic Clocks of Aging"

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Prof. Steven Smith, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Kaplan Clinical Research Laboratory
City of Hope National Medical Center
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, CA 91010
Voice: 323-913-0428
FAX: 323-301-8972
E-mail: ssmith@coh.org
URL: www.coh.org

03-10 October 13, 2003

"Stem Cells in the Elderly: New Neurons from Old Muscles"

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Prof. Marie-Francoise Chesselet, M.D., Ph.D.,
Charles H. Markam Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California
710 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769
Voice: 310-267-1781
FAX: 310-267-1786
E-mail: mchessel@ucla.edu

03-11 November 10, 2003

"Mechanisms Regulating Muscle Wasting during Muscle Disuse or Aging"

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Prof. James Tidball, Ph.D.
Departments of Physiological Science and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Voice: 310-206-3395; 310-206-8389
E-mail: jtidball@physci.ucla.edu

03-12 December 8, 2003

"NanoSystems Biology"

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Prof. James R. Heath, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Voice: 626-395-6079
Voice2: 310-825-2836
FAX: 310-206-4038
E-mail: heath@caltech.edu