Conference--Biology of Aging

描述(由申请者提供)：我们请求为美国老年学会(GSA)2002年年会的生物科学部分提供部分支持。这次会议的主题由即将上任的总统乔治·M·马丁博士选定，主题是：“早期发展对晚年生活历程的影响。”组织了九次受邀的研讨会，目的是向研究生物学家、临床医生和感兴趣的卫生专业人员的不同受众介绍衰老生物学的最新研究。这些研讨会的主题旨在刺激令人兴奋的科学交流，为关于一般衰老模式的遗传学、生物化学和生理学的新兴数据提供综合和巩固。本申请的主要部分是为这些研讨会申请资金。 我们的主要目标是为与会者提供一系列具有刺激性和挑衅性的演讲和批判性对话，讨论最新的衰老基础生物学研究，并介绍具有显著促进该领域发展前景的新兴战略和技术。现在开始使用的革命性生物技术将极大地改变我们对衰老生物学进行基础研究的方式，这些变化及其影响应该得到广泛的讨论和赞赏。在不同的模型体系中正在进行的分子研究加深了我们对衰老机制和后果的理解。这些见解需要分享和讨论。由于这种更好的理解，干预老龄化过程的方法正在不断完善，这些工具也需要广泛分享和讨论。生物老年学的广泛领域开始显示出一些统一的概念主题，如果是这样的话，它们将从以前不同的研究领域的重叠和相互联系的增加中辨认出来。因此，这次会议的目标是提供一个传播信息的论坛，更重要的是促进研究领域和方法的对话，这些领域和方法：(1)最近没有在GSA会议上讨论；(2)提供了在我们对促进或延缓衰老的机制的理解方面取得重大进展的前景。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting partial support for the Biological Sciences component of the Year 2002 Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). The theme for this conference, selected by the incoming President, Dr. George M. Martin, is: "The Impact of Early Development upon Late Life Course." Nine invited symposia have been organized with the aim of bringing the latest research into the Biology of Aging to a diverse audience of research biologists, clinicians and interested health professionals. The topics of these symposia aim to stimulate exciting scientific interchange, provide synthesis and consolidation to emerging data on the genetics, biochemistry, and physiology of general patterns of aging. The principal part of this application is to request funding for these Symposia. Our main objective is to provide conferees with a stimulating and provocative set of presentations and critical dialogue on state-of-the-art current research in the basic biology of aging, as well as to introduce emerging strategies and technologies with prospects for significantly advancing the field. The revolutionary biotechnologies now beginning to be used will drastically change the manner in which we will conduct basic research into the biology of aging and these changes and their implications should be widely discussed and appreciated. Ongoing molecular investigations in diverse model systems have enhanced our understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of aging. These insights need to be shared and discussed. As a consequence of this better understanding, methods of intervening in the aging process are being continually refined, and these tools also need to be widely shared and discussed. The broad field of biogerontology is beginning to show some unifying conceptual themes, and if so, they will be discerned in the increased overlap and interconnectedness of previously discrepant research areas. The goal of this meeting, therefore, is to provide a forum for the dissemination of information, and more importantly to promote dialogue in research areas and methods which: (1) have not recently been covered at GSA meetings; and (2) offer the prospect of making significant advances in our understanding of the mechanisms that promote or retard aging.