The Indispensable Soma Hypothesis
Marios Kyriazis
THE FOURTH CYPRUS SYMPOSIUM - PATHWAYS TO INDEFINITE LIFESPANS 2016
Fine tuning of the mechanisms that can lead to radical life extension. The concept is now reaching deeper levels and it is becoming clearer that human evolution, if subjected to an increasingly technological environment, will lead to the abolition of the process of ageing.
The program
09.15 registration
09.30 Introduction, Marios Kyriazis and Yiannis Laouris
09.35 Mechanisms of cancer metastasis, Panos Papageorgis, Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences, European University Cyprus
10.00 Telomeres in vascular ageing, Andrie Panagiotou, Cyprus University of Technology
10.30 Modular exaptation, Pierpaoplo Adriani, Associate Professor in Complexity and Innovation Management, Euromed Management (remote presentation)
11.00 The Ageing process, Stathis Gonos, National Hellenic Research Foundation
11.30 Evolutionary computation, Christos Dimopoulos, Dean, Computer Science & Engineering 2.00 Literacy and Identity Performance in Video Games, Elisavet Kiourti, University of Cyprus
12.30 Discussion and lunch
14.00 Histone H4 modifications as regulators of cellular lifespan, Diego Molina-Serrano, Dept. Biological Sciences, UCY
14.30 Whole body induced cell turnover, Franco Cortese and Giovanni Santostasi, ELPIs Foundation (remote presentation)
15.00 Do we age mentally when we stop being surprised? Loizos Michael, Computational Cognition Lab, Open University of Cyprus
15.30 Skype Q+A, discussion
16.00 Close