May Speaker: Mark Brown

Mark Is the Executive Officer for Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority (MWPA). Mark started his career as a volunteer firefighter in 1986 in Sonoma County. He was hired by the Marin County Fire Department as a Firefighter/Paramedic in 1991 and retired as the Deputy Fire Chief. After serving for nearly 30 years with the Marin County Fire Department, Mark retired in order to assume the position as Executive Officer for the Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority. Mark served on a CAL FIRE Incident Management Team for 15 years as a Type I Operations Section Chief and was qualified as a Type II Incident Commander. Chief Brown was a founding member of the North Bay Incident Management Team, a Type III All-Hazards IMT in the San Francisco Bay Area and was the Program Manager and one of the Incident Commanders. His deployments include floods, earthquakes, public health emergencies, hurricanes, oil spills, mud slides, civil unrest, wildland fires and planned events. Mark has a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Studies – Organizational Leadership. He is married and has three adult children.

June Speaker: Eric Grey

Eric Grey is the author of Bases to Bleachers and Backyards to Ballparks. He is a San Francisco Giants fan and baseball devotee. He will present a collection of personal memories collected in the book Backyards to Ballparks. They all, in one way or another, touch upon baseball but the stories are far more of a human-interest nature than the play of game. They are collected from folks around the world and make people laugh, tear up, and remember. These stories are a tribute to why baseball remains the American pastime and how it connects friends, families, and communities.
Eric is originally from Plainview, New York and got his BA from SUNY New Paltz in 1974. He made his way to San Francisco, and his first job with the Department of Labor became his life-long career. His passions are baseball, rock and roll, politics, conversation, and most of all family and friends. His wife Lynn, daughter Rachel, son David, daughter-in-law Lisa, and granddaughter Juliet are all baseball fans.
If you would like a preview, check out Eric’s YouTube channel, Bases to Bleachers
Eric will have his books available for sale.

July Speaker: Bijoya Sen PhD

Bijoya Sen, PhD is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Hansen lab. She is from India where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Biotechnology. Aging biology was introduced to her when she joined the lab of Gayatri Ramakrishna in Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi. There she studied the role of senescence-associated pathways in the progression of liver cirrhosis to hepatocellular carcinoma and received her PhD degree in 2019. Then she joined the Brand lab at Buck Institute as a Glenn postdoctoral fellow. Her area of research was to explore mechanisms by which mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) acts as a signaling molecule to abrogate various pathways using hypoxia/HIF as a model. She recently joined the Hansen lab where she plans to delve into the cellular recycling process named autophagy and how it affects aging using mammalian cell culture and C. elegans as a model system. Outside of the lab, she enjoys a challenging hike and experimenting with recipes.
Dr. Sen will be speaking about the work she is currently doing at Buck and how it is impacting the field of aging research, along with the work Buck is doing as a whole and the impact Buck has on our community and the world.

About Buck Institute:
The Buck’s success will ultimately change healthcare. The Buck Institute for Research on Aging aims to end the threat of age-related diseases for this and future generations by bringing together the most capable and passionate scientists from a broad range of disciplines to identify and impede the ways in which we age. An independent, nonprofit institution, its goal is to increase human healthspan, or the healthy years of life. Globally recognized as the pioneer and leader in efforts to target aging, the number one risk factor for serious chronic diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, macular degeneration, atherosclerosis (heart attack and stroke), and type 2 diabetes, the Buck wants to help people live better longer. Learn more at: Buck Institute