2008 Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association

2008年美国老龄化协会年会

• 批准号: 7540753
• 负责人: Thomas E. Johnson
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-15 至 2008-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7540753
• 关键词: Age; Aging; Aging-Related Process; American; Area; Awareness; Biological Sciences; Biology of Aging; Biotechnology; British; Cardiac; Clinical; Collaborations; Colorado; Data; Development; Dietary Intervention; Dog Diseases; Educational workshop; Elements; Environment; Exercise; Extracellular Matrix; Faculty; Funding; Future; Genes; Gerontology; Goals; Health; Immune system; Knowledge; Life; Modeling; Physicians; Prevention; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Scientist; Source; Students; Time; Title; Underrepresented Minority; United Kingdom; Update; Work; abstracting; age effect; base; college; lectures; member; neurogenesis; nonhuman primate; posters; programs; protein aggregation; symposium; technology development

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：美国老龄化协会（AAA）第37届年会与美国临床老年学学院第22届会议将于2008年5月30日至6月2日在科罗拉多博尔德举行。2008年会议的主题是“基因、环境和机会在决定老龄化方面的作用”。这次会议的目标是聚集一组在实验老年学不同领域工作的科学家，审查和讨论这一领域的最新发展。AAA会议为介绍老龄化研究的最新进展提供了一个很好的论坛，它也是招募新学生/教师进入老龄化的关键机制。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、学生和非专业人士将参加2008年的AAA会议。在会议的计划中，我们汇集了老龄化研究前沿的各种主题。老化过程肯定是多因素的，本计划中强调的方法和方向被选择以反映这一点。该计划将包括邀请讲座安排成三个全体会议和十个主要会议举行的双重格式，每个由三到四个演示，并纳入充分的时间进行讨论。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示。还将包括两个海报会议，使登记者能够通过展示其数据直接参加会议。该计划的其他关键要素包括一个专门加强研究生参与老年学研究的会议。此外，在第三年，我们将包括一次会议，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。我们正在申请资金，为会议的中心计划带来41位演讲者，这些演讲者将强调以下关键领域：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，犬衰老研究的更新，蛋白质聚集疾病，兴奋效应，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。会议之前将举行一个由外部来源资助的会前研讨会，主题为“非人类灵长类动物的衰老：模型、进展和未来方向”，正如标题所暗示的，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。美国老龄化协会（AAA）的年度会议通过让公众了解老龄化研究的进展和实现长寿和健康生活的实际手段以及老龄化研究的进展，并通过提高医生和健康团队其他成员对老年学的认识和知识，发挥着重要的公共职能。通过汇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，并介绍正在进行的研究的关键发现。因此，本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。