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Join us Wed, Nov 19 @ 4pm CT for our Fall #BarshopSeminarSeries!

We’re hosting Gary Churchill, PhD (The Jackson Laboratory) presenting: “Dietary Restriction Extends Lifespan in Genetically Diverse Mice.”

📍 Barshop Institute, Room 2.2005
💻 Virtual option: Zoom

👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🧬 Join us Wed, Nov 5 @ 4pm CT for our #BarshopSeminarSeries!

Wenjie Luo, PhD, (Weill Cornell Medicine) presents: "How Microglial Lipid Shapes Tau pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease."

📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005
💻 Zoom available

👉bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#Alzheimers
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Join us Wed, Oct 29 @ 4pm CT for our Fall #BarshopSeminarSeries!

Amina Qutub, PhD (UTSA), presents “Innovations in AI and Their Relevancy to Longevity and Aging.”

📍 Barshop Institute, Room 2.2005
💻 Virtual option available: Zoom

👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#AI #agingresearch #longevity
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🎉 Congrats to Ziying Xu on her first-authored paper in Nature Communications!

“Microglia-specific regulation of lipid metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease revealed by microglial depletion in 5xFAD mice,” reveals how brain immune cells influence fat metabolism in #Alzheimer’s. 🧠🧬

👉 bit.ly/4o295Hf
October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Oct 15

🧬 Biology of Aging student presentations:
Xin Li and Lidia Cervantes

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom
🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#BarshopSeminarSeries #AgingResearch #AlzheimersResearch #Microbiome
October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Oct 1

🧠 Erik Musiek, MD, PhD, presents: “Circadian clocks, glia, and Alzheimer’s Disease”

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom

🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#BarshopSeminarSeries #AlzheimersResearch #AgingResearch
September 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Sept 24

🧬 Da-Zhi Wang, PhD (USF) presents: “Molecular Mechanisms of Heart Development, Function and Regeneration”

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom

🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#BarshopSeminarSeries #AgingResearch
September 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Sept 17

🧬 Agustin Ruiz, MD, PhD presents: “#Proteogenomic Analysis of Human Cerebrospinal Fluid Across the #Alzheimer’s Disease Continuum”

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom

🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#BarshopSeminarSeries
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
📢 Join us Sept 10 for the Barshop Institute Fall Seminar Series!

🧬 Teresa A. Zimmers, PhD (OHSU) presents: “Whac-a-mole or Occam’s Razor: Understanding muscle loss in cancer cachexia”

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom

🔗 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#BarshopSeminarSeries
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨📣Registration and abstract submission closes today at 5pm. Don't delay and register now!

2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging
📅 Oct 9–12 | 📍Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX

Theme: "Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention"

🔗: bit.ly/3UG2bew
September 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
📣🗓️Join us Wed, Sept 3 @ 4PM CT for our Fall Seminar Series! Jenny Hsieh, PhD, presents: "Stem cell approaches to understand acquired and genetic epilepsies."

🔗Details: bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#BarshopSeminarSeries
September 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
👏 Congrats to Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini on earning a Rising UT STAR Award! 🌟

The $150K grant will boost his research capacity at @uthealthsa.bsky.social's Barshop Institute, supporting advances in aging and longevity science. 🧬⏳

#AgingResearch #ResearchExcellence

🔗for more: bit.ly/3Vn2kmL
August 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New study from Dr. David Gius shows the keto diet affects males and females differently.

Males developed aging cell buildup and stress, while females were protected—effects in males were reversed with estrogen or antioxidants. 🧬

#Keto #AgingResearch #Healthspan

🔗Read more: bit.ly/4lIGsNn
August 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
👏 Congrats to Nisi Jiang, PhD, first author of the first national review of anti-aging compounds!

The study identified 13 promising agents, with rapamycin showing the strongest effect—extending lifespan by up to 28%. 🧬⏳

#AgingResearch #Longevity #Rapamycin

bit.ly/45Vlntg
August 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🎉 Congrats to Laurence Maeyens for winning the AGE Poster Pitch Award at #AGE2025!

This work shows midlife castration extends lifespan more than early intervention in UM-HET3 mice—highlighting timing’s role in aging. 🧬⏳

#AgingResearch #Longevity #UMHET3

bit.ly/4m88Wkr
July 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
📢 Registration is open for the 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging!
🗓️ Oct 9–12 | 📍 Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX

Theme: “Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention”

🔗 More info: bit.ly/3UG2bew
#Geroscience #AgingResearch #BarshopConference
May 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Join us on Wed, May 28 at 4 PM CT for our Spring Seminar Series!
Stephen Harridge, PhD, will present:
“The Biology of Human Aging: Differentiating Ageing from Inactivity”

📍 Don’t miss this insight into aging science.
🔗 More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw
#BarshopSeminarSeries
May 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Join us Wednesday, May 7th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Kevin Bieniek, PhD, presents: "3D brain modeling and #neuropathology: tools for brain aging and #neurodegenerative disease research."

More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw
#barshopseminarseries
May 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Join us Wed. April 30th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Rebeca Wong, PhD, presents: "Insights and remaining gaps from a 23-year longitudinal population study on Mexican aging."

More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw
#barshopseminarseries
April 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Join us Wed. April 23rd at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Robert Williams, PhD, presents: "Genetic Modulation of Life Span: Dynamic Effects, Sex Differences, and Body Weight Trade-offs in UM-HET3 Mice."

More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw
#barshopseminarseries
April 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Join us Wed. April 16th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. David Cohen, MD, PhD presents: "Leveraging Energy Expenditure in the Management of #Obesity-Associated Disorders."

More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw
#barshopseminarseries
April 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Join us Wed. April 9th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Perry Bickel, MD presents: "#Perilipin 5 keeps #mitochondria in shape."

More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw
#barshopseminarseries
April 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A new publication from Daniel Adekunbi, PhD, shows that aging is associated with a significant decline in mitochondrial bioenergetics in the brain in a non-human primate model of aging.

bit.ly/4iROgMm
March 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Join us Wed. April 2nd at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Roger Shi, PhD presents: "In Search of the Holy Grail: #ALCAT1 Controls the #Mitochondrial Free Radical Aging Clock."

More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw
#barshopseminarseries
March 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Congratulations to Kevin Koronowski, PhD on his award from the American Heart Association! He is the recipient of a three-year American Heart Association Career Development Award for his project titled “Lifting the Circadian Brake on PPAR Alpha.”

bit.ly/425OQih
March 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM