Prof. Robert Arking Wayne State University, USA

Robert Arking is a Professor of Biological Sciences and has long been interested in the mechanisms underlying health span extension in Drosophila and other model organisms. He did his graduate work at Temple University and two post-docs at Univ. of Virginia and Univ. of California-Irvine before joining Wayne State in... read more1975. His two current interests are. first, to better understand the difference in gene expression patterns between normal- and long-lived strains; and second, to finish writing the 4th edition of his textbook, "Biology of Longevity and Aging".