Conference on the Biology of Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案寻求对为期四天的生物老年学家会议的部分支持，该会议将与2007年11月16日至20日在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行的美国老年学会（GSA） 2007年年度科学会议相结合。GSA是美国致力于衰老研究的最大组织。选择了10个特邀专题讨论会，以反映目前研究进展迅速的领域，并探讨衰老和与年龄有关的疾病过程背后的生物学机制，以便收集有助于保持老年人健康和活力的信息。2007年会议的主题“全球老龄化时代：挑战与机遇”非常及时，一些受邀的专题讨论会实际上将讨论影响全球卫生的问题，例如关于疫苗和艾滋病毒疾病与老龄化的会议。我们的目标是将不同的学科结合在一起，形成一个令人兴奋的环境，在广泛的专业领域之间进行交流。会议的生物科学部分将侧重于健康和年龄相关疾病的衰老机制，以获得对衰老过程的理解的新见解。我们计划将邀请的专题讨论会与提交的海报会议结合起来，并在会议前向感兴趣的参与者传播有用的科学信息，以便为交流思想和实验方案创造一个丰富的环境。本次会议旨在为与会者提供有关衰老生物学最新研究方向的广泛概述，并为未来研究如何发展提供指导。从出生开始，个人的预期寿命急剧增加，导致我们社会前所未有的老龄化。拟议的专题讨论会反映了当前快速进展的研究领域，并探讨了衰老和年龄相关疾病过程的生物学机制。传播有助于保持这一年龄组的健康和活力的信息将对许多美国人的生活质量产生重大影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks partial support for a four-day meeting of biogerontologists to be held in conjunction with the 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) in San Francisco, CA, November 16-20, 2007. The GSA is the largest organization in the United States devoted to the study of aging. Ten invited symposia have been selected to reflect current areas of rapidly progressing research and explore biological mechanisms underlying the processes of aging and age-associated diseases in order to collect information useful for maintaining the health and vitality of the elderly. The theme of the 2007 meeting 'The Era of Global Aging: Challenges and Opportunities' is very timely, and several of the invited symposia will actually address issues that impact global health, such as the sessions on Vaccines and on HIV disease & aging. Our goal is to bring diverse disciplines together to form an exciting milieu for interchange between broad areas of expertise. The Biological Sciences component of the meeting will focus on mechanisms of aging in health and age-associated diseases to gain new insight into understanding of the aging process. We plan to integrate the invited symposia with submitted poster sessions and disseminate useful scientific information to interested participants ahead of the meeting in order to create a rich environment for the exchange of ideas and experimental protocols. It is intended that this conference will provide the attendees with a broad overview of the direction of recent research in the biology of aging and provide a guide as to how future research will evolve. Individual life expectancy from birth has dramatically increased, leading to an unprecedented aging of our society. The proposed symposia reflect current areas of rapidly progressing research and explore biological mechanisms underlying the processes of aging and age-associated diseases. The dissemination of information that is useful for maintaining the health and vitality of this age group will have a significant impact on the quality of life of a large number of Americans.