Aging: Mechanism & Prevention: 35th Annual Meeting of AGE

描述（由申请人提供）：美国老龄化协会第3 - 5届年会与美国临床老年学学院第20届会议将于2006年6月3日至5日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行。 会议的主题是：“干预老龄化和与老年人有关的疾病：现在和未来”。老年人是美国人口中增长最快的部分。随着美国老年人数量的增加，了解与年龄有关的健康问题和预防策略的必要性也在增加。本次会议旨在为老龄化研究专家、学生和年轻研究人员提供一个互动的机会，并促进对该领域最新研究结果的讨论和审查。本次会议将包括特邀讲师，研讨会，关于老龄化最新研究的口头和海报介绍，以及关于该领域有争议话题的辩论会。会议将包括8个会议，主题如下：1）了解衰老基本生物学的最新进展，2）肌肉减少症：原因，影响和治疗，3）骨质疏松症：机制，预防和治疗，4）干预衰老和与皮肤病有关的皮肤病，5）免疫和感染，6）跨大西洋意识和老龄化研究合作研讨会，7）代谢综合征和衰老，和8）钙介导的信号转导在脑老化。每场会议将包括3个特邀演讲者的演讲，包括足够的讨论时间，以及从提交的摘要中选出的1-2个简短（15分钟）演讲。每场会议将至少有1场关于基本机制的发言，1-2场关于 因此，我们需要一个新的框架来确定干预措施，其中应包括目前可用的干预措施以及未来预期的干预措施。此外，还将有一个关于老龄化研究中一个有争议的话题的辩论会，以及一个致力于提高研究生参与老年学研究的会议。第六次会议将由联合王国生物技术和生物科学研究理事会全额资助，以支持英国科学家在这次会议上的发言，并鼓励跨大西洋合作。将向年轻的调查员和正在接受培训的调查员提供财政援助，以鼓励他们参加会议。将作出特别努力，鼓励代表性不足的少数群体参与。会议之前将举行一个关于卡路里限制的会前会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 35th annual meeting of the American Aging Association, combined with the 20th Meeting of the American College of Clinical Gerontology, will be held June 3-5, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. The theme of the meeting will be: "Interventions in Aging and Age-related Diseases: the Present and the Future". Older adults are the fastest growing segment of U.S. population. As the number of older Americans increases, the need to understand age-related health problems and strategies to prevent them escalates. This conference aims to provide an opportunity for interaction among experts in aging research, students and young investigators and to facilitate discussion and review of the field's most recent findings. This meeting will consist of invited lecturers, workshops, oral and poster presentations of latest research on aging as well as a debate session on contentious topics in the field. The conference will include 8 sessions with the following topics: 1) Current Advances in Understanding the Basic Biology of Aging, 2) Sarcopenia: Cause, Effect, and Treatment, 3) Osteoporosis: Mechanisms, prevention and treatments, 4) Intervention in Aging and Age-Related Skin Diseases, 5) Immunity and Infection, 6) Trans-Atlantic Awareness & Collaboration Symposium on Ageing Research, 7) Metabolic Syndrome and Aging, and 8) Calcium-Mediated Signal Transduction in Brain Aging. Each session will consist of 3 presentations by invited speakers including adequate time for discussion, and 1-2 short (15 minutes) presentations selected from the submitted abstracts. Each session will have at least 1 presentation on basic mechanisms and 1-2 presentations on intervention, which should include both presently available interventions as well as what would be expected in the future. There will also be a debate session on a contentious topic in aging research, and a session devoted to enhance graduate students' participation in gerontological research. Session 6 will be fully funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom to support presentation by the British Scientists at this meeting and to encourage cross-Atlantic collaboration. Financial assistance will be provided to young investigators and those in training to encourage their participation in the meeting. Special efforts will be devoted to encourage participation of underrepresented minorities. The meeting will be preceded by a Pre-conference on Calorie restriction.