Our team is deeply committed to active engagement with the scientific community, regularly presenting at a variety of domestic and international conferences. Below are a list of presentations related to both IISAGE research and outreach.
2025.
Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG32). January 13th-15th, 2025; San Diego, CA.
Nicole Riddle. Transcriptome Responses to Exercise and Aging. PAG32
Yifei Fang. Cross-Species Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs). PAG32
Samantha Bock. Sex- and Age-Associated Transcriptional Patterns in a Turtle with Female-Biased Longevity. PAG32
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). January 5th – 7th, 2025; Atlanta, Georgia.
Denise Horner. Superoxide Dismutase 1 Knockdown Affects Lifespan and Healthspan in Drosophila melanogaster. SICB
Addesyn Aderogba. Optimizing the isolation and storage of Medaka brain cells. SICB
Noor Yousuf. Growth and sex differences in biological aging in Danio rerio. SICB
Eric Randolph. Identifying common sex-specific aging markers across species in RNA-seq data. SICB
Samantha Bock. Sex- and Age-Associated Transcriptional Patterns in a Turtle with TSD and Female-Biased Longevity. SICB
Anne Bronikowski. Viewing Aging through a Comparative Lens: Where evolutionary time and life time meet. American Society of Naturalists (ASN). January 6th, 2025; Pacific Grove, CA
2024.
Kate Gonda. Heterochromatin deficiency and DNA repair efficiency in aging Drosophila melanogaster. Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS). November 14th, 2024; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Jillian Kaiser. Urinary neopterin reveals sex differences in immune activity in greater spear-nosed bats. North American Symposium for Bat Research (NASBR). October 23rd, 2024; Guadalajara, Mexico
Ashley Webb. Sex dimorphism in hypothalamic aging. Fusion 4th Epigenetics Conference. October 10th, 2024; St. Julians, Malta
Paul Decena. Chromatin accesibility in reptilian cells, a pilot study. American Genetic Association (AGA) 2024 Conference. October 8th, 2024; Tahoe City, California.
Aquatic Models for Human Disease Conference (AQMHD). October 6th, 2024; San Antonio, TX
Addesyn Aderogba. Optimizing the Isolation and Storage of Medaka Brain Cells. AQMHD.
Noor Yousuf. Growth and Sex Differences in Biological Aging in Danio rerio. AQMHD.
Peggy Biga. Sex differences in metabolic and transcriptomic regulation during aging in the zebrafish, Danio rerio. AQMHD.
Ashley Webb. Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegeneration. FASEB Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Aging. September 18th, 2024; Niagara Falls, New York
Ashley Webb. Molecular mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegeneration. SenNET Annual Meeting. September 10th, 2024; San Diego, CA.
Ashley Webb. Molecular mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegeneration. Albert Einstein University Department of Neuroscience Seminar Series. September 4th, 2024.
Kaitlyn Cortez. Investigating how GA-binding Transcription Factors mediate 3D loop contacts and gene expression in D. melanogaster. EMBL Conference: Transcription and Conference. August 24th, 2024
Peggy Biga. Methionine availability during in vitro muscle growth alters circadian-regulating gene expression in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) – and some aging work!. Texas A&M Corpus Christi. June 7th, 2024; Corpus Christi, TX, USA.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Spring Expo. April 23rd-24th; Birmingham, AL, USA.
Rachel Ferris. The Role of Polycomb Group Proteins in Animal Activity. UAB Spring Expo.
Abigail Fox. An experimental design for the cross-species study of sex-specific aging in Drosophila. UAB Spring Expo.
Anne Bronikowski. Viewing sex-specific aging through a comparative lens: NSF IISAGE. AGE 52nd Annual Meeting: Integrative Approaches to Geroscience. June 2nd-5th; Madison, WI, USA.
Doudou Yu. CellBiAge: Improved Single-Cell Age Classification Using Data Binarization. 24th Bay Area Aging Meeting. May 24th, 2024; Berkeley, CA, USA.
Erica Larschan. Dosage compensation regulation of sex differences in aging. Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression. March 13th-16th, 2024; Cold Spring Harbor, NY., USA
Gerald Wilkinson. Evolution of longevity and aging in bats. National Institute of Aging Workshop
The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC). March 6th-10th, 2024; Washington, D.C., USA
Anne Bronikowski. Comparative genomics provide insights in the evolution of aging. TAGC
Gerald Wilkinson. Sex and age influence immunity-related gene expression in greater spear-nosed bats. TAGC
Tristan Young. Effects of B Chromosomal Dosage on Longevity Outcomes in Drosophila melanogaster. TAGC
Eric Randolph. Early-life exercise in Drosophila alleviates the sex-specific divergence of aging-associated gene expression in thorax muscle tissue. TAGC
Anne Bronikowski. Comparative genomics provide insights in the evolution of aging. TAGC
Gerald Wilkinson. Sex and age influence immunity-related gene expression in greater spear-nosed bats. TAGC
Tristan Young. Effects of B Chromosomal Dosage on Longevity Outcomes in Drosophila melanogaster. TAGC
Eric Randolph. Early-life exercise in Drosophila alleviates the sex-specific divergence of aging-associated gene expression in thorax muscle tissue. TAGC
Yifei Fang. Cross-Species Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs). TAGC
Guangsheng Li. Diversity of cow transposable elements and developmental expression in early embryos. TAGC
Nicole Riddle. Understanding the long-term impacts of early-life exercise. TAGC
Yesbol Manat. A chromosome scale reference genome of house fly Musca domestica. TAGC
Martina Dalikova. Assembly and characterization of W chromosome in monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). TAGC
Jamie Marks. Enrichment of sex-biased genes associates with the originsof multiple neo-sex chromosomes in Danaini butterflies. TAGC
Jack Rayner. Combining transcriptomic and epigenetic data to understand the sources of sex-specific ageing in bats. TAGC
Sohana Al Sanjee. Genotype vs environment effect on housefly (Musca domestica) microbiome. TAGC
Erica Larschan. Dosage compensation regulation of sex differences in aging. TAGC
Ashley Webb. Transcriptional mechanisms of hypothalamic aging. 2024 Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity. February 17th-24th, 2024; Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
NSF Biology Integration Institutes 2024 Awardees Meeting. January 22nd-23rd, 2024; Alexandria, VA, USA
Peggy Biga. IISAGE: Engaging the public through traveling outreach and community science to enhance understanding of sex-specific aging across the animal kingdom. NSF BII Awardees Meeting
Jamie Marks. Mitochondrial function exhibits sex-specific aging among painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) populations. NSF BII Awardees Meeting
Jack Rayner. Gene expression changes in bats with extreme sex-biased longevity. NSF BII Awardees Meeting
Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG31). January 12th–17th, 2024; San Diego, CA, USA
Nicole Riddle. Genomics and Epigenomics of Aging – Challenges and Opportunities. PAG31
Ellie Duan. Cross-Species Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Pluripotent Stem Cells (PSCs). PAG31
Doudou Yu. CellBiAge: Improved Single-Cell Age Classification Using Data Binarization. PAG31
Eric Randolph. Challenges in cross-species comparisons of RNA-seq data. PAG31
Peggy Biga. IISAGE: Integration Initiative: Sex, Aging, Genomics & Evolution – Outreach. PAG31
Jamie Marks. Mitochondrial function exhibits sex-specific aging among three painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) populations. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). January 2nd-6th, 2024; Seattle, WA, USA.
2023.
Ashley Webb. Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of brain aging. Fox Chase Cancer Center Symposium on Cancer and Aging
Gerald Wilkinson. Sex and age influence immune function in greater spear-nosed bats. North American Symposium on Bat Research (NASBR)
Anne Bronikowski. Leveraging Evolution’s Solutions: Wild animals provide insights & advances in the biology of aging. Midwest Aging Consortium Conference, Iowa State University
Anne Bronikowski. Leveraging Evolution’s Solutions: Wild animals provide insights & advances in the biology of aging. Center for Aging Biology, Brown University.
