• 8:00am               Introduction to the Symposium

                                    Steve Cummings

    8:10am                Entropy 101

                                    Alan Cohen

    OVERVIEW - ENTROPY IN THE CONTEXT OF BIOLOGY

    8:30am               Entropy and the biology of aging

                                    Luigi Ferrucci

    8:50am               Entropy, deleteriome and life

                                    Vadim Gladyshev

    9:10am               Dissipative entropy: Jekyll and Hyde

                                    Steve Cummings

    9:30am               Intrinsic extrinsic entropy

                                    Monty Montano

    9:50am              Break

    10:10am Discussion: The roles of entropy in living and aging

    ‍ ‍Panel: Luigi Ferrucci, David Meyer, Vadim Gladyshev, Alan Cohen

    Moderator & provocateur: Monty Montano

    METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING ENTROPY

    10:40am             Shannon entropy

                                    Paul Laurienti

    11:00am              Entropy, heterogeneity, and dysregulation: DISCO and Mahalanobis distance

                                    Alan Cohen

    11:20am:            Evaluating Individual and Population-Level Entropy Using Covariance Matrices

                                    Nicholas J. Schork

    11:40am              Questions and answers about entropy

    Alan Cohen (Moderator), Paul Laurienti, Tyler Mansfield

    12:10pm      Lunch

    EXAMPLES OF ENTROPY AND AGING

    1:00pm               Stochastic mechanisms of aging

                                    Jan Vijg

    1:20pm               Mutations and epimutations as stochastic mechanisms of aging

                                    Xiao Dong

    1:40pm               Entropy and DNA repair

                                    Björn Schumacher

    2:00pm              Transcriptome entropy: Mitochondria to clinical measures

                                    Greg Tranah

    2:20pm               Proteomic entropy and clinical outcomes

                                    Tyler Mansfield

    2:40pm Entropy at Molecular and Clinical Levels

    Janith Don

    3:00pm               Break

    3:30pm               Cellular Senescence and Entropy

                                    Nathan LeBrasseur

    3:50pm               Dietary entropy and longevity

                                    Paola Sebastiani

    4:10pm               Entropy in ECGs and clinical biomarkers

                                    Namki Hong

    4:30pm               Entropy in Imaging Modalities

                                    Sang Wouk Cho

    4:50pm               Discussion: All speakers, Moderator & provocateur: Steve Cummings

  • 9:00am               Introduction to Day 2

                                    Steve Cummings

    MORE EXAMPLES OF ENTROPY AND AGING

    9:10                     Entropy in brain networks and mobility

                                    Paul Laurienti

    9:30                     New research: 10 minute presentations

                                    To be selected from abstract submissions in August

    INTEGRATIONS ACROSS SPECIES AND WITHIN INDIVIDUALS

    10:00                  Entropy across species

                                    Evan Hadley

    10:20                  Entropy across systems and organ-specific entropy

                                    Alan Cohen

    11:00                   Break

    INTERVENTIONS TO SLOW AND REVERSE ENTROPY

    11:20                  Slowing the accumulation of entropy

                                  Steve Cummings

    11:40                  Thermodynamic biological age (tBA), and age-reversal

                                    Andrei Tarkhov

    12:00 Entropy and rejuvenation

                                    Vittorio Sebastiano

    12:20                  Discussion: Andrei Tarkhov, Vittorio Sebastiano, Björn Schumacher

    Moderator & provocateur: Luigi Ferrucci

    1:00pm            Research opportunities

                                    Alan Cohen, Steve Cummings, Luigi Ferrucci

    1:30pm               Adjourn

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