On March 16, there will be a live free webcast of a Symposium sponsored by the Hawaii Institute for Molecular Education (HIME), Investigating the Future of Medicine. The following information is from the HIME symposium website and will likely be updated with more information, a specific schedule for talks and a webcast linkage address. Be sure to take into account the time difference between Hawaii and where you are.
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The Waialae Country Club
Honolulu, Hawaii
Saturday, March 16, 2013
8:30am-3:30pm HST
Discuss exciting insights regarding new and emerging biomedical applications in the field of mass spectrometry, nanotechnology and molecular biology. Visit changing human disease paradigms with thought leaders in Biochemistry, Molecular Medicine, Aging Sciences and Anti-Aging Medicine. Interact with the speakers by SKYPE or E-Mail.
View the Distinguished Scholar Award In Molecular Sciences ceremony for 2013 recipient Vincent Giuliano, Ph.D.
Engage in an interactive round table discussion on The Future of Medicine via SKYPE
Presentors:
Vincent Giuliano, Ph.D.
Multifactorial Hormesis
2013 HIME Distinguished Scholar Award In Molecular Sciences Recipient
Editor, AgingSciences.com, Boston, Massachusetts
Edward Dratz, Ph.D.
Future Diagnostics: Targeted Metabolomics as Biomarkers for Biochemical Individuality and Dietary Practices
Professor of Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
Frank A. Williams, M.D.
Promises and Pitfalls: The Future of Global Personalized Medicine
Program and Technology Director, Executive Edito, Hawaii Institute of Molecular Education, Honolulu, Hawaii
Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Biochemistry; Molecular and Integrative Physiology; Biophysics and Computational Biology;
Bioengineering; and Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Program: TBA
Registration is free for webcast attendees
Registration Fee for onsite attendance: $75.00 (Free for members of The Hawaii Institute of Molecular Education)
Click here to register (if not done already)
Questions? email us at Hawaii.Molecular@gmail.com
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As noted, I (Vince) will be offering a presentation at the Symposium and am scheduled to receive the HIME’s 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award in Molecular Education.
Here is a preliminary abstract of my talk:
Multifactorial Hormesis
Hormesis is a fundamental process probably observable in all biological species at all scales of their operation. Hormesis is about biological stresses of all kinds and how biological systems are optimized to function in the presence of stresses. In essence, a biological system responds to stress in a nonlinear fashion. In a certain “hormetic” range of stress dosage, the system responds by more than countering the stress, e.g. by putting itself into a more-healthy state than it would be without the stress. Stresses greater than those in the hormetic range can damage a biological system, possibly fatally. Many kinds of health-producing results can be induced by applying varying kinds of stress in the hormetic range. Although hormesis has been long-known and thought of as interesting-but-obscure effect, the universal nature of hormesis and its vast practical importance is only now becoming clear. Extremely important applications of hormesis have long been practiced, like the use of inoculations to strengthen body defenses against diseases, exercise training, military and outward-bound toughness training, and pre-surgery ischemic conditioning. But such applications have been seen and studied each as a completely separate matter. So, the ubiquitous nature of hormesis and its general properties have remained largely unexplored. Hormesis is multifactorial in that it exists on various levels of biology from the sub-cellular to the social functioning of organisms in their environments, in that it affects virtually all body systems and major subsystems, and in that it operates through multiple molecular pathways. Further, hormesis is required by the systems nature of biological processes and is essential for the evolution of species and survival of individual organisms. This presentation discusses the history of hormesis research, some familiar examples of hormesis, hormesis and aging, key molecular pathways that mediate hormesis, our emerging understanding of general properties of hormesis, hormesis and dietary substances, hormesis and systems dynamics, and the possibilities of developing new hormetic therapies and preventative interventions for diseases and for countering aging.