Biological Mechanisms of Aging

Aging Is Inevitable

Aging is inevitable. But why does our body begin to 'break down' at all? Can these mechanisms be blocked, or is old age an unavoidable price of a complex life?

In this lecture we'll look inside the cell and examine how the biological mechanisms of aging work at the molecular level. We'll talk about telomeres and cellular senescence, the accumulation of mutations and damage, and why at some point a cell stops dividing. But the human body is by no means the only possible scenario: we'll also look at how aging works in other animals — from the “immortal” jellyfish to naked mole-rats — and try to understand why some organisms age very differently from us.

Most importantly, we'll sort out where science fiction ends and modern science begins: which methods for slowing or extending life are already being studied in laboratories, what of that actually works, and how far we can go today in attempts to cheat the biological clock.

Lecturer — Lec Borman, biology lecturer, formerly a researcher at the Research Institute of Molecular Biology of Armenia and the Microbiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory at Skolkovo, bioinformatician.

Event details

• Date and time: September 10 (Thursday) at 7:30 PM
• Price: 1000 RSD with pre-registration (1500 RSD without pre-registration)
• Location: Vojvode Dobrnjca 48, Belgrade
• Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/e9z8stFHUZdGM7u88