Joao Pedro de Magalhaes is Professor and Chair of Molecular Biogerontology at University of Birmingham, UK. He and his team employ genomics and bioinformatics to study ageing, in particular gene networks of ageing and sequencing and analyzing genomes from long-lived species.
His tentaive talk title is Tackling the complexity of ageing with systems approaches
Hanna Kokko is Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Mainz, Germany. She is evolutionary ecologist, aiming to understand diversity in evolved solutions to life’s problems. She likes to combine her mathematical and computational expertise with empirically-driven projects.
Her talk will address life history aspects of ageing.