Sam & Ann Barshop Institute

📢 Join us Wed, Apr 1 @ 4pm CT for the #BarshopSeminarSeries! Guanshi Zhang, PhD (UT Health San Antonio) will present: “CerS6 in Podocytes: Driving Renal Aging and Glomerular Dysfunction” 📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Webinar 👉bit.ly/4jjeaJw

📢 Join us Wed, Mar 25 @ 4pm CT for the #BarshopSeminarSeries! Philipp Scherer, PhD, (UTSW) presents: “Sticky Drops and Stiff Tissues: How Lipid Droplets and Fibrosis Shape Metabolic Disease” 📍 Barshop Institute, rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Webinar 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

🎧 Listen to Dr. Elena Volpi’s appearance on TPR’s The Source, where she discusses research on aging and healthy longevity. 🔗 bit.ly/4bmMz8g #HealthyLongevity #AgingResearch

Can 3 existing drugs slow aging? UT Health San Antonio prepares major study to find out. sanantonioreport.org/study-drugs-sl…

The U.S. is investing $144M through the ARPA-H PROSPR program to develop therapies that slow aging & extend healthy lifespan. The Barshop Institute at UT Health San Antonio is helping lead clinical trials to test drugs that may delay age-related decline. bit.ly/47IusqZ

🎉 Congrats to Laurence Maeyens, a PhD student in Biology of Aging, on his first-author publication in Nature Aging! His review, “Visceral adiposity, metabolic health and aging,” examines whether visceral fat drives age-related metabolic decline. 🧬 👉bit.ly/4kVHjLY

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Elena Volpi & Barshop team on receiving up to $38M from ARPA-H! This transformative award advances the VITAL-H clinical trial & strengthens San Antonio’s leadership in healthy longevity research. 👏🧬 #Longevity #AgingResearch #ARPAH 👉 bit.ly/4qYCEdH

📢Join us Wed, Feb 25 @ 4pm CT for the #BarshopSeminarSeries! Joshua Mendell, MD, PhD (UT Southwestern) presents: “New Regulators of Coding and Noncoding RNAs in Mammals.” 📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Webinar 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

📢Join us Wed, Feb 18 @ 4pm CT for the #BarshopSeminarSeries! Hongyuan (Robert) Yang, PhD, presents: “Lipid Storage and Trafficking in Metabolic Diseases.” 📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Webinar 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #metabolism #lipids

📢Join us Wed, Jan 28 @ 4pm CT for the #BarshopSeminarSeries! Qin Yang, MD, PhD, (UC Irvine) presents: “Epigenetic Regulation of Liver Metabolism.” 📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Webinar 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #agingresearch #metabolism #epigenetics

📢Join us Wed, Jan 14 @ 4pm CT for the #BarshopSeminarSeries! Ann Griffith, PhD, presents: “Mechanisms Regulating Thymus Function Across the Lifespan.” 📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Webinar 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #agingresearch #immunology #thymus

Join us Wed, Dec 17 @ 4pm CT for our #BarshopSeminarSeries Ward Awardee presentations! 🔬 Ziying Xu — myelin lipid metabolism & microglial reactivity ⏰ Kristi Dietert, PhD — senescence & circadian rhythms 📍 Barshop Institute 2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

📢 Join us Wed, Dec 3 @ 4pm CT for our #BarshopSeminarSeries! Valentina Garbarino, PhD, presents: “#Lactoferrin’s Biomarker and Therapeutic Potential in #Aging and Age-related Brain Disease.” 📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Webinar 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

🎉 UT San Antonio has launched the new NIA-funded Center for Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias (CAPAS), led by Drs. Rebeca Wong and Fernando Riosmena. The center will advance community-focused, inclusive research on Alzheimer’s. 🧠✨ 👉 bit.ly/3LMmlSk

Join us Wed, Nov 19 @ 4pm CT for our #BarshopSeminarSeries! Gary Churchill, PhD (The Jackson Laboratory) presents: “Dietary Restriction Extends Lifespan in Genetically Diverse Mice.” 📍 In person: Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Link 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw

🧠 Join us Wed, Nov 5 @ 4pm CT for our #BarshopSeminarSeries! Wenjie Luo, PhD, (Weill Cornell Medicine) presents: “How Microglial Lipids Shape Tau Pathology in #Alzheimer’s Disease” 📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual Zoom Link 👉bit.ly/4jjeaJw

Join us Wed, Oct 29 @ 4pm CT for our #BarshopSeminarSeries! Amina Qutub, PhD (UTSA) presents: “Innovations in AI and Their Relevancy to Longevity and Aging.” 📍Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005 💻 Virtual: Zoom Link 👉bit.ly/4jjeaJw #agingresearch #AI #longevity

🎉👏 Congrats to Ziying Xu on publishing her first-first-authored research paper in Nature Communications! Her paper uncovers how brain immune cells affect fat metabolism in #Alzheimer’s. 🧠🧬 👉bit.ly/4o295Hf #AgingResearch #Neurodegeneration

📢 Join us Oct 15 for the Barshop Institute Fall Seminar Series! 🧬 Biology of Aging student presentations: Xin Li and Lidia Cervantes 🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries #AgingResearch #AlzheimersResearch #Microbiome

📢 Join us Oct 1 for the Barshop Institute Fall Seminar Series! 🧠 Erik Musiek, MD, PhD, presents: “Circadian clocks, glia, and Alzheimer’s Disease" 🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom 👉 bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries #AlzheimersResearch #AgingResearch