Friday 5th March 2004

Opening Ceremony

9:00am
Cockle Bay Aboriginal Elder Fire Ceremony
'Thullii Dreaming' Aboriginal Dance Ceremony
Welcoming Address

9:20am
Dr. Alexandre Sidorenko, MD, PhD. Chief, United Nations Focal Point on Ageing, Division for Social Policy & Development, New York, NY, USA.

PLENARY SESSIONS

Living Longer
Session chair: Dr. Alexandre Kalache

9:30am Active Ageing: WHO Perspectives
Dr. Alexandre Kalache, MD, PhD. Coordinator, Ageing and Life Course Programme, Department of Health Promotion, Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Surveillance, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.

10:10am Biodemography of Human Longevity
Dr. Leonid A. Gavrilov, PhD. Research Associate, NORC Center on Aging, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

10:50am Morning Tea Break

Cellular Ageing and Clinical Interventions
Session chair: Dr. Michael Fossel

11:20am The Near-Term Prospects for Intervention in Human Ageing and Age-Related Disease
Dr. Michael Fossel, MD, PhD. Editor in chief, Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University, USA.

12:00pm Gerontomodulation Through Hormesis: Molecular Basis of Slowing Down Cellular Ageing.
Prof. Suresh Rattan, DSc, PhD. Research Professor, Danish Centre for Molecular Gerontology, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

12:40pm Lunch Break

2:10pm Werner's Syndrome: Understanding and Intervening in an Accelerated Ageing Disease
Dr. Richard Faragher, PhD. Treasurer, British Society for Research on Ageing. Principal School Fellow, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Science, University of Brighton, United Kingdom.

2:50pm The Role of Microglial Senescence in the Ageing and Alzheimer's Diseased Brain
Mr. Barry Flanary, MS. Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, USA.

3:30pm Afternoon Tea Break

Friday 5th Plenary Sessions | Concurrent Sessions | Evening Presentation
Saturday 6thPlenary Sessions | Concurrent Sessions | Evening Presentation
Sunday 7th Plenary Sessions | Concurrent Sessions | Evening Presentation