The Indispensable Soma Hypothesis
Marios Kyriazis
THE THIRD CYPRUS SYMPOSIUM - PATHWAYS TO INDEFINITE LIFESPANS 2015
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Focus on human and societal evolution. Environmental challenges originating from a cognitive environment affect the epigenetics of ageing.
Programme
09.00 Registration
09.15 Introduction Marios Kyriazis, Yiannis Laouris
10.00 John Stewart, Melbourne, Australia: Intentional evolutionaries and the direction of evolution, (remote presentation)
10.20 Ilia Stambler, Bar Ilan University, Israel: The relation of Longevity Research and General Medicine - an Historical Overview
10.50 Alessandra Swiny, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Nicosia: Emergency Architecture. Design for ageing populations.
11.20 Manolis Stavrou, University of Cyprus: on Epigenetic regulation
11.50 Paul Mason, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Australia: Another stage of development: the vital role of degeneracy in healthy ageing (remote presentation)
12.10 Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30 Fofi Constantinidou, Center for Applied Neurosciences, University of Cyprus: Clinical cognitive neuroscience in ageing humans
14.00 Ioannis Lestas University of Cambridge: Control of large scale systems, gene regulatory networks
14.30 Luis Ramos, University of St Catarina, Brazil: Internet use improves survival in older adults (remote presentation)
15.00 Chariklia Tziraki, Eco Culture Medicine, Israel: Social Genomics
15.30 Discussion panel
16.00 conclusion