11th National Convention and Annual Virtual Meeting
11th National Convention and Annual Virtual Meeting
When Cells Age: The Cellular Basis of Senescence
via Zoom (Facebook / YouTube Livestream)
PLENARY Sessions: October 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2020 (every Saturday of October)
YOUNG SCIENTIST Sessions: October 9, 16, and 23, 2020 (every Friday of October)
The Philippine Society for Cell Biology goes virtual!
Join us as we present a live and interactive webinar series for the 4th International and 11th Annual Convention, featuring a variety of lectures presented by international and local experts, as well as by a number of young scientists. This online event is FREE for lifetime members and for people who will tune in via Facebook or YouTube Livestream. Certificates and souvenir programs would also be given to participants with a lifetime membership and those who had recently applied.
So what are you waiting for? Register and be a PSCB member by clicking here.
SPEAKERS
Patricio Reyes, M.D.
(Plenary Speaker)
Director, Alzheimers and Cognitive Disorders Program,
Karsten Solheim Dementia Research Chair
Barrow Neurological Institute Phoenix, Arizona, USA
"Senescence and COVID-19 in Advancing Years"
Brian Kennedy, Ph.D.
(Plenary Speaker)
Director, Centre for Healthy Ageing
Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
"Aging Interventions Get Human"
Jan Gruber, Ph.D.
(Plenary Speaker)
Associate Professor, Division of Science, Yale-National University of Singapore College, Singapore
"Better Living Through Chemistry, Increasing Healthy Lifespan Through Drug Repurposing"
Rafael Espiritu, Ph.D.
(Plenary Speaker)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
"Paying the Iron Price: Membrane Damage During Ferroptosis"
Francisco Heralde III, Ph.D.
(Plenary Speaker)
Professor, Deparment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines
"Dendritic Cell Vaccine for Cancer: Cranking-up for COVID-19, the Personal Way"
Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial, M.D.
(Plenary Speaker)
Head, Molecular Laboratories, The Philippine Red Cross, Manila, Philippines
"The Philippine Red Cross Molecular Laboratories and our Contribution to Fighting COVID-19"
Marco Demaria, Ph.D.
(Plenary Speaker)
Associate Professor in Cellular Ageing
Group Leader of the Laboratory of Cellular Senescence and Age-related Pathologies, European Research Institute for the Biology of Aging (ERIBA), University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, Netherlands
"Heterogeneity in Cellular Senescence: From Mechanisms to Interventions"
Eric Gilson, Ph.D.
(Plenary Speaker)
Director, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), Nice, France
"The Role of the Telomeric Protein TRF2 in Cancer and Aging"
YOUNG SCIENTIST FORUM
Gerard Agbayani, Ph.D.
Research Associate, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
"Modulation of Immune Responses using Archaeosome-based Vaccine Formulations"
Abigail Loren Uy, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Plant Metabolomic Regulation, Division of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
"Metabolomic Analysis of Primary Metabolic Pathways during Xylem Vessel Cell Differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Remben Talaban
Senior Researcher, GlaxoSmithKline plc, London, United Kingdom
"The Role of Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cells in the Pharmaceutical Industry"
Rosa Mistica Ignacio, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Children's Cancer Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"Roles of Inflammation-Driven Chemokines in the Pathogenesis of Ovarian Cancer"
Joanne Marie Del Rosario, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Virology and Vaccinology), DIOSynVax, Cambridge, UK
"Protection from Influenza by Intramuscular Gene Vector Delivery of a Nanobody"
Erica Españo, M.Sc.
Ph.D. Candidate (Life Science in Pharmacy), Korea University, Sejong Campus, Sejong, Republic of Korea
"Statins as Potential Antivirals"