You are kindly invited to the first Workshop on **Bioinformatics in Ageing Research** on 4.5./5.5.2010 in Rostock,

Tuesday 16h - Wednesday 19h. Workshop website:

http://www.ibima.med.uni-rostock.de/workshop_2010
Flyer: http://www.ibima.med.uni-rostock.de/workshop_2010_flyer_v4.pdf

The workshop includes the 'official' inauguration of the restructured and renamed
Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research -- IBIMA in the Department of Medicine, Univ. Rostock.

Registration fee:
Late registration (after April 19, until May 3):	* For at most 9 Rostock Scientists: 0 EUR. Call 0381 494 7361 (8-11, 12-14h) to reserve your place, on a first-come, first-served basis. * 75 EUR for graduate students. * 150 EUR for academia & industry. Late registration is expensive because the room had to be selected by size and the food be ordered until April 19. Onsite registration is NOT possible.
	Registration is simply by email: just send the following information to bioinfo@med.uni-rostock.de. + Name and Institution (as it shall appear on the badge) + Status: [ ] Academia/Industry, or [ ] Graduate Student, or [ ] Member of an Academic Institution in Rostock ("Rostock Scientist"). + Whether you plan to attend [ ] Tuesday, [ ] Wednesday, [ ] Both days. Confirmation will be sent by email within 3 working days. ** You will then be given information about the mode of payment; registration is not completed without payment (Rostock Scientists just need to wait for confirmation of their registration). Do NOT book travel / accomodation without confirmation and payment. **
Venue:	Yachthafen Hohe Düne, www.hohe-duene.de.
Background:	Evidence is accumulating that the first genuine anti-ageing interventions (e.g. approved pharmaceutical, nutriceutical & stem-cell-based therapies) may become available within the next decade. Model organism data, next-generation sequencing & other advances trigger a need for large-scale data analysis. The workshop convenes leading experts to present the state-of-the art & to talk about upcoming tasks & challenges in the bioinformatics & systems biology of ageing-related data.
Program Tuesday May 4
16:00-16:10	Opening
16:10-17:00	Günter Lepperdinger: Age-dependent and age-independent measures of fitness: what to learn from human primary mesenchymal stem cells
17:00-17:30	Alexandra Stolzing, Jörg Galle: Mesenchymal stem cell heterogeneity and aging
17:30-18:15	James Adjaye: Stem cells, tissue homeostasis and ageing
18:30-19:00	Niels Grabe: A Systems Biological Approach for Researching Stromal Aging
19:00-19:20	Michael Greeff: Semantic text mining in the analysis of neurodegenerative diseases
19:20-19:40	Daniel A. Levitis: The declining opportunity for mutational action with increasing age
19:40-19:50	Attila Altiner: Anti-ageing medicine from a General Practitioners perspective: The prevention of cardiovascular disease
Wednesday May 5
9:20- 9:30	Announcements
9:30-10:15	Joao Pedro de Magalhaes: Bioinformatics, systems biology and aging: navigating the new oceans of data to discover the Fountain of Youth
10:15-10:45	Julio Vera: Investigating the molecular basis of the Cancer/Aging link through Systems Biology
10:45-11:05	Andreas Höflich: Mouse models for the study of longevity: complex trait or monogenetic origin?
11:30-12:15	Almut Nebel, David Ellinghaus: High-throughput studies and bioinformatic analysis to tackle the genetics of human longevity
12:15-12:45	Axel Kowald: The use of quantitative as well as qualitative models for investigating the aging process
12:45-13:05	Robi Tacutu: The Longevity and Disease Networks: searching for new pro-longevity targets
14:30-15:15	Aubrey de Grey: Design for a knowledge base of causal interactions between aspects of aging and therapies to combat it
15:15-15:45	Georg Fuellen: The human preventome and the need to condense lots of information into simple hypotheses
15:45-16:05	Stefan Schuster: Use of Metabolic Pathway Analysis in Biochemical Research Related to Ageing
16:30-17:15	Anil Wipat: The Centre for the Integrative and Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition (CISBAN) and In-silico approaches to ageing research
17:15-17:45	Jürgen Sühnel: JenAge - The Jena Centre for Systems Biology of Ageing
17:45-18:05	Greg Tyrelle: DNage- A Systems Biology Approach to Translation of Aging Research into Medicine for Premature Aging Disease
18:05-19:00	(Panel) Discussion
More information about the speakers:
Dr. James Adjaye	Molecular Embryology and Aging group, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany. http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~molemb/ Title: "Stem cells, tissue homeostasis and ageing"
Dr. Attila Altiner	http://allgemeinmedizin.med.uni-rostock.de/ Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Rostock Title: "Anti-ageing medicine from a General Practitioners perspective: The prevention of cardiovascular disease"
Dr. Georg Fuellen	http://www.ibima.med.uni-rostock.de/ Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research Department of Medicine, Rostock University Title: "The human preventome and the need to condense lots of information into simple hypotheses"
Dr. Niels Grabe	http://tiga.uni-hd.de Hamamatsu TIGA Center (BIOQUANT) and Medical Systems Biology Group Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University Hospital Heidelberg Title: "A Systems Biological Approach for Researching Stromal Aging"
Dr. Michael Greeff	http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/mips/ Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany Title: "Semantic text mining in the analysis of neurodegenerative diseases"
Dr. Aubrey de Grey	http://www.sens.org/ SENS Foundation, UK Title: "Design for a knowledge base of causal interactions between aspects of aging and therapies to combat it"
Dr. Andreas Höflich	http://www1.fbn-dummerstorf.de/en/Forschung/Tierbasis/Maushaus/index.htm Research Division Genetics and Biometry, Leibnitz-Institute of Farm Animal Biology, Rostock Title: "Mouse models for the study of longevity: complex trait or monogenetic origin?"
Dr. Axel Kowald	http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~kowald/ Theoretical Biophysics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Title: "The use of quantitative as well as qualitative models for investigating the aging process."
Dr. Günter Lepperdinger	http://www.iba.oeaw.ac.at/index.php Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Innsbruck, Austria Title: "Age-dependent and age-independent measures of fitness: what to learn from human primary mesenchymal stem cells"
Dr. Daniel A. Levitis	http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/staff/levitis/default.htm Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Laboratory of Evolutionary Biodemography Title: "The declining opportunity for mutational action with increasing age"
Dr. Joao Pedro de Magalhaes	http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aging/ Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group School of Biological Sciences University of Liverpool, UK Title: "Bioinformatics, systems biology and aging: navigating the new oceans of data to discover the Fountain of Youth"
Dr. Almut Nebel	http://www.zmb.uni-kiel.de/institute/ikmb/nebelkontakt Research Group for Healthy Ageing Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel Title: "High-throughput studies and bioinformatic analysis to tackle the genetics of human longevity"
Dr. Stefan Schuster	http://pinguin.biologie.uni-jena.de/bioinformatik/en/ Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Title: "Use of Metabolic Pathway Analysis in Biochemical Research Related to Ageing"
Dr. Alexandra Stolzing	http://www.izi.fraunhofer.de/izi_stammzellbiologie.html?&L=1 Stem Cell Biology and Regeneration Group Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany Title: "Mesenchymal stem cell heterogeneity and aging"
Dr. Jürgen Sühnel	http://www.fli-leibniz.de/groups/suehnel_en.php Research Group Biocomputing Leibniz-Institute for Ageing Research - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut e.V. (FLI), Jena Title: "JenAge - The Jena Centre for Systems Biology of Ageing"
Robi Tacutu	http://netage-project.org/?page_id=31 The Shraga Segal Dep. of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Title: "The Longevity and Disease Networks: searching for new pro-longevity targets"
Dr. Greg Tyrelle	http://www.dnage.nl DNage B.V (at ErasmusMC), Rotterdam Title: "DNage- A Systems Biology Approach to Translation of Aging Research into Medicine for Premature Aging Disease"
Dr. Julio Vera	http://www.sbi.uni-rostock.de/people_gonzales.html Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group, University of Rostock, Germany Title: "Investigating the molecular basis of the Cancer/Aging link through Systems Biology"
Dr. Anil Wipat	http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/anil.wipat Newcastle Centre for the Integrative and Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition (CISBAN) School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK Title: "The Centre for the Integrative and Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition (CISBAN) and In-silico approaches to ageing research"