Teacher Program Seminar Series 2023-2024
Whitehead Institute’s 2023-2024 Seminar Series for High School Teachers: Insights into regeneration, rejuvenation, and aging
Researchers are studying the developmental time clocks behind our cellular processes in order to understand how we age and how these processes are recapitulated in regeneration. Their work helps us understand what it means to age, and may contribute to therapies for diseases of aging, such as cancer.
Whitehead Institute's 2023-2024 Seminar Series for High School Teachers, Insights into Regeneration, Rejuvenation, and Aging explored the progress being made by researchers to understand how aging leads to changes at the molecular and cellular levels, and the potential of this knowledge to transform human health.
KICK-OFF SESSION: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The Molecular and Cellular Basis for Aging
Iain Cheeseman, Whitehead Institute Member and Professor of Biology at MIT
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2023
Evolution of Aging
Christopher Rodriguez, Graduate Student, Reddien Lab at Whitehead Institute
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MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2024
Technologies Used to Study Aging, Development, and Other Fields
Stella Markoulaki, Director, Genetically Engineered Models Center; Whitney Chandler, Technical Assistant, Genetically Engineered Models Center at Whitehead Institute.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Why Do We Age, but Germline Lineage Doesn't?
Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute Member and Professor of Biology at MIT
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MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2024
Is Aging Inevitable?
William Mair, Associate Professor of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard School of Public Health
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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2024
Mechanisms of regeneration in the nervous system
Deniz Atabay, Postdoctoral Associate, Reddien Lab, Whitehead Institute
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MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024
Using Perturb-seq Technology to Understand Factors That Control The Age of a Cell
Jonathan Weissman, Member and Landon T. Clay Professor at Whitehead Institute, and Professor of Biology at MIT
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MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2024
Biology of Torpor and Hibernation
Siniša Hrvatin, Whitehead Institute Member and Assistant Professor of Biology at MIT