The 2026 Oklahoma Geroscience Symposium, held by the NIH Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center of Excellence, will be held
September 22, 2026.
Location: Nicholson Tower (OUHSC), Nicholson Conference Center
1000 NE 13th Street, Suite 5700, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Questions? Contact gerosciencesymposium@ou.edu.
keynote Speaker
| Susan Ozanne, PhD |
Early life nutrition: navigating the road to a healthy ageing trajectory |
Professor, University of Cambridge |
Symposium Speakers
| Adam Salmon, PhD |
Developmental programming and later life resilience from cells to function |
Professor, University of Texas Health |
| Archana Unikrishnan, PhD |
Wired for aging: how maternal obesity impacts offspring aging |
Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Health |
| Yousin Suh, PhD |
Title Coming Soon |
Professor of Reproductive Sciences, Columbia University |
| Mike Rudolph, PhD |
Title Coming Soon |
Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Health |
| Shelly Buffington, PhD |
How studies of host-microbe interactions mediating early-life neurodevelopment can inform lifelong brain health |
Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Michael Garratt, PhD |
Title Coming Soon |
Associate Professor, University of Otago |
| Martin Valdearcos, PhD |
Microglia as mediators of early-life programming of metabolic disease |
Assistant Professor, University of California |
| Sarah Borengasser, PhD |
Accelerated aging in the womb: fact or fiction? |
Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma Health |
| Ajay Bhat (K Awardee) |
Title Coming Soon |
Research Investigator, University of Michigan |
| Matthew Zipple (K Awardee) |
Aging in the real world: taking mice out of the lab and into the field |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University |
| Brianah McCoy (K Awardee) |
Title Coming Soon |
Postdoctoral Research Associate |