Biological Sciences Program at The Gerontological Society of America's 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting

项目总结 这项提案要求国家老龄研究所为生物科学(BS)部门提供资金 计划在美国老年学会(GSA)2019年德克萨斯州奥斯汀年度科学会议(ASM)上进行。 我们BS节目的目标是突出具有翻译潜力的最高质量的老年科学研究。 我们相信，当基础生物学研究人员交换信息时，该领域最好的工作就会出现 与医学研究人员和从业者、心理学家、社会学家、 和公共政策专家。反过来，临床护理和公共卫生的改善可能会在以下情况下产生 来自不同学科的老年学家更好地了解衰老的基本机制，接触到最新的 以及最好的研究，承诺提供干预措施来改善衰老和与年龄相关的疾病。我们加入了 BS部门非常认真地对待我们的责任，揭露我们的成员，那些生物科学和 GSA，到沟通良好的尖端科学，最终为工作提供信息和改进 在所有出席的人中。ASM在美国的位置是独一无二的，以促进这种范围的跨学科努力， 2019年11月在奥斯汀举行的会议将提供一个极好的机会来扩大 参与其中的科学家。自2010年以来，BS科在编制 最高质量的科学计划，并提供一个论坛，以产生互动和交流 来自不同领域的科学家之间的想法。2019年11月，我们建议加大力度，扩大力度， 通过一个单轨会议计划，展示衰老基础生物学中的新兴、翻译概念； 促进各部门与会者之间的讨论和联系；实现性别平衡和多样性 在口头节目中；并在生物科学研讨会上突出有才华的初级研究人员。在……里面 奥斯汀，我们将从一个为期半天的会议前研讨会开始，主题是“同一健康，健康老龄化：伴侣” 老年科学中的动物“，由凯特·克里维博士(德克萨斯A&M)和丹尼尔·普罗米斯洛博士(德克萨斯大学 华盛顿)。在会议期间，将举行15个(非竞赛)口头会议。许多这样的会议都是 GSA成员在公开征求提案后提出的建议，从而打开了主题和发言者的序幕 选拔过程。此外，委员会将从提交的文件中选出每届会议的一名发言者 摘要，这些职位将优先考虑初级教师或实习生(博士后、住院医生、研究生 学生或本科生)演讲者。还将安排两个海报环节，以避免竞争 通过谈话。由于GSA将免收费用，整个赠款预算可以用来吸引新的、多样化的和特别的 邀请年轻的调查人员在会上介绍他们的工作。我们将鼓励代表性不足的科学家申请 8个少数民族学者奖。我们的节目显示，超过一半的演讲者将是年轻的调查人员， 超过一半的受邀演讲者是女性，近20%的演讲者来自代表性不足的少数群体。

PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal requests funding from the National Institute on Aging for the Biological Sciences (BS) Section Program at the 2019 Austin, TX Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Our aim for BS programming is to highlight the highest-quality geroscience research with translational potential. We believe that the best work in the field will emerge when basic biological researchers exchange information about health-related human aging issues with medical researchers and practitioners, psychologists, sociologists, and public policy experts. In turn, improvements in clinical care and public health are likely to result when gerontologists from diverse disciplines better understand basic mechanisms of aging are exposed to the latest and best research with the promise of yielding interventions to ameliorate aging and age-related disease. We in the BS Section take very seriously our responsibility to expose our members, those of Biological Sciences and GSA at large, to well-communicated, cutting-edge science that ultimately serves to inform and improve the work of all who attend. The ASM is situated uniquely in the U.S. to promote an interdisciplinary effort of this scope, and the 2019 November meeting in Austin will provide an outstanding opportunity to expand the diversity of participating scientists. Since 2010, the BS Section has demonstrated quantifiable success in producing a scientific program of the highest possible quality and providing a forum to engender interaction and exchange of ideas among scientists from disparate fields. In November 2019, we propose to intensify and extend our efforts, through a single-track meeting program featuring emerging, translational concepts in the basic biology of aging; to promote discussion and networking among attendees across sections; to enact gender balance and diversity in the oral program; and to feature talented junior investigators prominently in Biological Sciences symposia. In Austin, we will begin with a pre-meeting, half-day workshop on “One Health for Healthy Aging: Companion Animals in Geroscience”, organized by Dr. Kate Creevy (Texas A&M) and Dr. Daniel Promislow (University of Washington). During the meeting, 15 (non-competing) oral sessions will be held. Many of these sessions were suggested by GSA members following an open call for proposals, thus opening up the topic and speaker selection process. In addition, one speaker in each session will be selected by committee from submitted abstracts, and preference for these slots will be given to junior faculty or trainee (post-doc, resident, graduate student, or undergraduate) speakers. There will also be two poster sessions scheduled so as not to compete with talks. As GSA will waive fees, the entire grant budget can be used to attract new, diverse, and especially young investigators to present their work at the meeting. We will encourage underrepresented scientists to apply for 8 minority scholar awards. Our program shows more than half of all speakers will be young investigators, more than half of the invited speakers are women, and nearly 20% are from underrepresented minority groups.