Research Networks in Biodemography and Demography of Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：关于老龄化和健康的研究需要来自多个学科的知识，方法，想法和数据，并为学科之间的交叉提供了很大的机会。但是，跨学科交流问题面临着许多挑战，交叉教授老龄化研究人员关于其他领域的知识，并刺激来自不同领域的知名科学家之间的创新合作来研究老龄化。本项目将通过以下具体目标发展研究网络来应对这些挑战：具体目标1：在正式的老龄人口学和生物人口学方面举办培训讲习班，以培训年轻和新的研究人员对老龄化进行多种分析和定量方法。具体目标二：组织催化会议，以促进跨学科的合作研究老龄化，处理几个广泛的问题-遗传学和行为和社会因素，社交网络的理论和数据之间的相互作用，并纳入老龄化研究的工作，对数量和人口遗传学和基因组学，进化和生态遗传学，流行病学和卫生政策。具体目标3：组织高级讲习班/研讨会，汇集研究人员小组集中在特定的问题和数据在老龄化研究，使用各种工具，包括短期工作组会议，基于网络的研讨会和讲习班，以及其他基于网络的协作工具。 培训讲习班向年轻和新的研究人员介绍最近关于衰老的科学工作，并提供与现有研究人员的联系。催化会议，在其他领域取得成功，提供了一个刺激的设置，其中一个小组探索和制定新的跨学科的想法。高级研讨会预计将出现在催化会议，并超越他们，让研究人员在一个问题的实质性利益，通过详细的想法和合作工作的计划工作。这些活动将加强对老龄化的研究，并根据Aoinc的Emercino行为和社会研究领域网络基础设施支持FOA的要求，在几个新兴领域开展合作研究。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将向年轻和成熟的老龄问题研究人员提供来自新的、新兴的和不同领域（如基因组学、遗传学和网络分析）的方法、知识和技术培训。通过这样做，该项目将加强老龄化研究，促进新的和新颖的科学合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research on aging and health requires knowledge, methods, ideas and data from multiple disciplines and presents great opportunities for cross-fertilization between disciplines. But there are many challenges to cross-fertilization - communicating questions across disciplines, cross-teaching researchers in aging about other fields, and stimulating innovative collaborations between established scientists from different fields to work on aging. This project will address these challenges by developing research networks via the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: Conduct training workshops in the formal demography and biodemography of aging to train young and new investigators in diverse analytical and quantitative approaches to aging. Specific Aim 2: Organize catalysis meetings to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborative research on aging that deals with several broad questions - the interplay between genetics and behavioral and social factors, theories and data on social networks, and the integration into aging research of work on quantitative and population genetics and genomics, evolutionary and ecological genetics, epidemiology and health policy. Specific Aim 3: Organize advanced workshops/seminars to bring together small groups of researchers to focus intensively on particular questions and data in aging research, using a variety of tools including short working group meetings, web-based seminars and workshops, and other web-based collaborative tools. Training workshops teach young and new researchers about recent scientific work on aging and provide links to established investigators. Catalysis meetings, successful in other fields, provide a stimulating setting in which a small group explores and formulates new cross-disciplinary ideas. Advanced workshops are expected to emerge from catalysis meetings and go beyond them by allowing researchers with substantive interests in a problem to work through in detail ideas and plans for collaborative work. These activities will strengthen research on aging and launch collaborative research in several emerging areas as requested in the FOA on Network Infrastructure Support for Emercino Behavioral and Social Research Areas in Aoinc. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will provide training in methods, knowledge and techniques from new, emerging and diverse fields (such as genomics, genetics, and network analysis) to young and established researchers in aging. By so doing the project will enhance aging research and promote new and novel scientific collaborations.