2008 Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association

描述(由申请者提供)：美国老年协会(AAA)第37届年会与美国临床老年学学会第22届会议将于2008年5月30日至6月2日在科罗拉多州博尔德举行。2008年会议选定的主题是“基因、环境和机会在决定衰老中的作用”。这次会议的目标是召集一群在实验老年学不同领域工作的科学家，审查和讨论该领域的最新发展。AAA会议为介绍老龄化研究的最新进展提供了一个极好的论坛，也是招募新学生/教师进入老龄化领域的关键机制。根据过去会议越来越多的参与，我们预计至少有325名科学家、临床医生、学生和非专业人员将参加AAA 2008年的会议。在会议的日程安排中，我们汇集了各种老龄化研究的前沿课题进行展示。老龄化过程当然是多因素的，本计划中强调的方法和方向就是为了反映这一点。课程将包括三次全体会议和十个主要会议的特邀讲座，以双重形式举行，每个会议由三到四个报告组成，并包含充足的讨论时间。我们还将包括四个环节，由从注册者提交的摘要中挑选出来的简短平台演讲组成。还将包括两个张贴式会议，允许注册者通过介绍他们的数据直接参加会议。该计划的其他关键内容包括一个致力于加强研究生参与老年学研究的会议。此外，对于第三年，我们将包括一个由联合王国生物技术和生物科学研究理事会全额资助的会议，以支持英国科学家在本次会议上的发言，并鼓励跨大西洋合作。我们正在申请资金，为会议的中心项目请来41位演讲者，该项目将重点介绍以下关键领域：衰老中的神经发生，衰老过程中细胞外基质的周转，营养干预，犬类衰老研究的最新进展，蛋白质聚集疾病，兴奋作用，运动在预防心脏衰老中的作用，以及衰老对免疫系统的影响。将作出特别努力，鼓励代表性不足的少数群体参与。在这次会议之前，将举行一个由外部来源资助的会前讲习班，主题为“非人灵长类动物的衰老：模型、进展和未来方向”，正如标题所示，该讲习班将涵盖与非人类灵长类动物模型衰老有关的各种专题。美国老龄协会(AAA)的年度会议发挥了重要的公共作用，使公众了解老龄研究的进展和实现长寿和健康生活的实用手段，老龄研究的进展，并提高医生和卫生团队其他成员对老年学的认识和知识。通过聚集在衰老生物学领域工作的主要研究人员，AAA提供了一个论坛，用于对最近的发展进行批判性讨论，并展示正在进行的研究的关键发现。因此，这次会议有助于促进该领域的进一步进展，并使研究人员随时了解实验老年学的最新发展和技术。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 37 Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association (AAA) combined with the 22nd Meeting of the American College of Clinical Gerontology will be held in Boulder, Colorado, May 30 - June 2, 2008. The theme selected for the 2008 meeting is "The Role of Genes, Environment and Chance in Determining Aging". The goal of this meeting is to assemble a group of scientists working in diverse areas of experimental gerontology to review and discuss recent developments in this field. The AAA meeting provides an excellent forum for presentation of recent advances in aging research, and it also represents a key mechanism for recruiting new students/faculty into aging. Based on the growing participation of past meetings, we anticipate that at least 325 scientists, clinicians, students and lay people will attend the 2008 meeting of the AAA. In the program for the meeting, we have assembled a variety of topics at the forefront of aging research to be presented. The aging process is most certainly multi-factorial and the approaches and directions highlighted in this program were chosen to reflect this. The program will consist of invited lectures arranged into three Plenary Sessions and ten major sessions held in a dual format, each consisting of three to four presentations and incorporating ample time for discussion. We will also include four sessions consisting of short platform presentations chosen from the abstracts submitted by registrants. Two poster sessions will also be included to allow registrants to participate directly in the meeting by presenting their data. Other key elements of the program include a session devoted to enhancement of graduate students' participation in gerontological research. In addition, for the third year, we will include a session that 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. We are asking for funds to bring in 41 speakers for the central program of the meeting that will highlight the following key areas: neurogenesis in aging, turnover of extracellular matrix during aging, nutritional interventions, updates on aging research in canines, diseases of protein aggregation, hormesis, the role of exercise in the prevention of cardiac aging, and aging effects on the immune system. Special efforts will be devoted to encourage participation of underrepresented minorities. The meeting will be preceded by a Pre-Conference workshop, funded by outside sources, on "Aging in Non-human Primates: Models, Progress & Future Directions", which will, as the title implies, cover a wide variety of topics associated with aging in non-human primate models. The annual meeting of the American Aging Association (AAA) serves an important public function by keeping the public informed about the progress of aging research and practical means of achieving a long and healthy life the progress of aging research and also by increasing the awareness and knowledge of gerontology among physicians and other members of the health team. By bringing together leading investigators working in the area of biology of aging, AAA provides a forum for critical discussion of recent developments and presentation of key findings from ongoing research. Therefore, this meeting is instrumental in helping to stimulate further progress in the field and in keeping investigators informed of the most recent developments and technologies in experimental gerontology.