University Seminar
Co-chaired by Elizabeth Bradshaw, Jennifer Manly and Kavita Sivaramakrishnan and directed by Caitlin Hawke, "The Future of Aging Research" is the Columbia Aging Center's University Seminar that convenes researchers from across Columbia's three Manhattan campuses as well as from neighboring institutions. Its purpose is to spur interdisciplinary approaches to novel aging research.
University Seminar
The University Seminars of Columbia University are a time-honored tradition for interdisciplinarity. One of the unique opportunities to convene
Columbia's aging science community is our University Seminar #775 'The Future of Aging Research,' where members of the research community regularly gather to work together on problems that cross the boundaries between academic departments. The topic of aging is ideally suited to University Seminars' mission.
In closed quarterly meetings, we convene our 50+ seminar members who are tenure-track academics from across Columbia University's three Manhattan campuses. The mission of The Future of Aging Research Seminar is to provide an interactive interdisciplinary forum for scientists to engage with one another, to generate new ideas and new methods, and to stimulate new approaches to the science of aging. The format emphasizes dynamic exchanges and dialogue, catalyzed by brief presentations of new work by CU/CUMC researchers. Discussions are sparked by leaders in complimentary areas spanning context, individual, and organismal/biological perspectives.
A sampling of recent sessions:
- MULTI: Investigating Human Aging and Disease at Scale - Despina Kontos, Department of Radiology and Junhao Wen, Department of Radiology Center for Innovation in Imaging Biomarkers and Integrated Diagnostics
- Using Spatial Genomics to Study the Central Nervous System in Healthy Aging and Disease - Hemali Phatnani, Department of Neurology & NY Genome Center
- Is there a role of cerebrovascular disease in our conceptualization of Alzheimer’s disease? - Adam Brickman, Department of Neurology, Taub Institute
- Non-atherosclerotic brain arterial aging as a catalyst of brain aging - José Gutierrez, Department of Neurology
- Policy Makers Confusion Between Workability and Longevity - Teresa Ghilarducci, Department of Economics, The New School
Core Members
Paris “AJ“ Adkins-Jackson, Department of Epidemiology & Sociomedical Sciences
Allison Aiello, Columbia Aging Center
Gregory Alexander, School of Nursing
Miguel Arce-Renteria, Taub Institute, Department of Neurology
Justina Avila-Rieger, Taub Institute, Department of Neurology
John Beard, Columbia Aging Center
Daniel Belsky, Columbia Aging Center
Maura Boldrini, Department of Psychiatry
Elizabeth Bradshaw, Department of Neurology
Adam Brickman, Taub Institute, Department of Neurology
Alan Cohen, Columbia Aging Center
Joel Cohen, Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Populations
Philip De Jager, Department of Neurology
Christine Denny, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Integrative Neuroscience
Mitchell Elkind, American Heart Association
Pam Factor-Litvak, Department of Epidemiology
Linda Fried, Columbia Aging Center
Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School, Department of Economics
Caitlin Hawke, Columbia Aging Center
Julie Herbstman, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Gerard Karsenty, Department of Genetics & Development
Patrick Lao, Taub Institute, Department of Neurology
José Luchsinger, Department of Medicine, General Medicine
Anna MacKay-Brandt, Nathan Kline Institute
Jasmine Manalel, Brookdale Center, Hunter College
Jennifer Manly, Taub Institute, Department of Neurology
Vilas Menon, Department of Neurology
Thelma Mielenz, Department of Epidemiology
Jae-eun Miller, Department of Psychiatry
Emmanuelle Passegué, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Dept. of Genetics & Development
Hemali Phatnani, Department of Neurology & New York Genome Center
Martin Picard, Columbia Aging Center
Lusine Poghosyan, School of Nursing
Thalia Porteny, Department of Health Policy and Management
Monica Rivera-Mindt, Fordham University
John Rowe, Columbia Aging Center
Arindam RoyChoudury, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell
Warren Sanderson, Department of Economics, SUNY Stonybrook
Eric Schon, Department of Neurology
Joseph Schwartz, Center for Behavioral and Cardiovascular Health
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Columbia Aging Center
Richard Sloan, Department of Psychiatry, Behavioral Medicine
Seymour Spilerman, Department of Sociology
Yaakov Stern, Taub Institute, Department of Neurology
Yousin Suh, Department of Genetics and Development, OB/GYN
Junhao Wen, Department of Radiology
Matthew Yousefzadeh, Department of Medicine, Immunology
Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Columbia Aging Center
Yuan Zhang, Columbia Aging Center