2008 Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association

描述（由申请人提供）：第37届美国老龄化协会年会（AAA）和第22届美国临床老年学学会会议将于2008年5月30日至6月2日在科罗拉多州博尔德举行。2008年会议的主题是“基因、环境和机遇在决定衰老中的作用”。本次会议的目的是召集一组在实验老年学不同领域工作的科学家，回顾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，它也代表了招募新学生/教师研究老龄化的关键机制。根据以往会议越来越多的参与者，我们预计至少有325名科学家、临床医生、学生和非专业人士将参加2008年的AAA会议。在会议的计划中，我们汇集了各种最前沿的老龄化研究主题。衰老过程无疑是多因素的，本方案中强调的方法和方向是为了反映这一点。该计划将包括邀请讲座，分为三次全体会议和十次以双重形式举行的主要会议，每次会议由三到四次演讲组成，并有充足的讨论时间。我们还将包括四个会议，包括从注册人提交的摘要中选择的简短平台演讲。还将包括两次海报会议，允许注册人通过展示他们的数据直接参与会议。该计划的其他关键要素包括一个致力于提高研究生参与老年学研究的会议。此外，在第三年，我们将包括一个由英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。我们正在寻求资金为会议的中心项目带来41位演讲者，这些演讲者将突出以下关键领域：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，激效，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民族参加。会议之前将有一个由外部资源资助的会前研讨会，题为“非人类灵长类动物的衰老：模型、进展和未来方向”，顾名思义，该研讨会将涵盖与非人类灵长类动物模型衰老相关的各种主题。美国老龄协会（AAA）的年度会议通过向公众通报老龄研究的进展和实现健康长寿的实际方法、老龄研究的进展以及提高医生和健康团队其他成员对老年学的认识和知识，发挥了重要的公共作用。通过将衰老生物学领域的主要研究人员聚集在一起，AAA提供了一个论坛，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.