Conference on the Biology of Aging

描述(由申请者提供)：我们请求为美国老年学会(GSA)2004年年会的生物科学部分提供部分支持。这次会议由即将上任的总统特里·T·韦特尔博士选定，主题是：“促进老龄化人口的健康。”已经组织了九次受邀的研讨会，目的是将衰老生物学的最新研究带给研究生物学家、临床医生和感兴趣的卫生专业人员的不同受众。这些研讨会的主题旨在刺激令人兴奋的科学交流，并对遗传学、生物化学、细胞生物学和一般衰老模式的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关于最先进的老龄化基础生物学研究的批判性对话，并介绍可能有助于我们人口健康老龄化的新兴战略。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，它们将在以前不同的研究领域的重叠和相互联系的增加中被辨认出来。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)最近在GSA会议上没有涉及，(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 2004 Annual Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA). The theme of this conference, selected by the incoming President, Dr. Terrie T. Wettle, is: "Promoting the Health of an Aging Population." 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 and to provide synthesis and consolidation to emerging data on the genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, and physiology of general patterns of aging. The principal part of this application is to request funding for these symposia. Our principal objective is to provide conferees with a stimulating and provocative set of presentations and critical dialog on state-of-the-art current research in the basic biology of aging, as well as to introduce emerging strategies that are likely to facilitate the translation to healthy aging of our population. 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 is, therefore, to provide a forum for the dissemination of information, and more importantly to promote dialog 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.