Speakers and chairmen's profiles & abstracts

• Lars Bäckman Aging and Memory: How to Foster Successful Functioning in Old Age
• Francesco Billari Chair
• Elizabeth Blackburn Chromosome Ends, Cancer and other Diseases of Aging
• Agar Brugiavini Economics of aeging
• Mark Cropley Over 65 and working: the impact of working beyond retirement age on health and wellbeing
• Mariella Enoc ROUND TABLE - Longevity: resource for society
• Carlo Ambrogio Favero The Economic Consequences of Longevity
• Angelo Ferro ROUND TABLE - The experience of the Civitas Vitae centre of Padua: longevity as a resource for social cohesion , The experience of the Civitas Vitae centre of Padua: longevity as a resource for social cohesion
• Luigi Fontana Seeking the Fountain of Youth: Is Dietary Restriction the Key to a Longer and Healthier Life?
• Howard Friedman The Longevity Project: Life-long Paths to Long Life
• Seth Grant Madness, Genius and Origin of the Brain
• Hillard S. Kaplan Lifespan extension in human evolution: Intelligence, Inter-generational Transfers, and Health in Old Age
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Chair
• Tom Kirkwood The Evolutionary Foundation for Ageing and Longevity
• Samuel Klein Metabolically normal and abnormal obesity and aging
• Marcella Logli Chair
• Michela Matteoli Chair
• Sergio Pecorelli Active and Healthy Ageing: the European Innovation Partnership
• Pier Giuseppe Pelicci Molecular genetics of Longevity
• Gabriella Pravettoni Chair
• Giovanni Scapagnini ROUND TABLE - The Okinawa Centenarian Study: health, diet and ageing research
• J. David Sweatt Epigenetic mechanisms in learning and memory
• Chiara Tonelli Chair
• James W. Vaupel The Biodemography of Longevity