Biological Sciences Program at The Gerontological Society of America's 2021 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 美国老年学会(GSA)在凤凰城举行的2021年年度科学会议(ASM)上的计划， AZ.我们BS节目的目标是通过翻译突出最高质量的老年科学研究 潜力。我们相信，当基础生物学研究人员交流时，该领域最好的工作将会出现 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导致 当来自不同学科的老年学家更好地了解衰老的基本机制并暴露在 最新和最好的研究，承诺提供干预措施来改善衰老和与年龄相关的问题 疾病。我们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，最终服务于 通知并改进所有与会人员的工作。ASM在美国是独一无二的，旨在促进 这种范围的跨学科努力，以及2021年11月在菲尼克斯举行的会议将提供一个杰出的 有机会扩大参与的科学家的多样性。自2010年以来，BS部门一直在展示 在制作尽可能高质量的科学计划方面取得了可量化的成功，并提供了一个论坛 促进来自不同领域的科学家之间的互动和思想交流。2021年11月，我们 建议加强和扩大我们的努力，通过一个单一轨道的会议计划， 衰老基础生物学中的翻译概念；促进与会者之间的讨论和联系 跨部门；在口语课程中实现性别平衡和多样性；并以有才华的早期职业生涯为特色 在生物科学研讨会上表现突出的研究人员。在菲尼克斯，我们将从半天的会前会议开始 “衰老和长寿调节中的细胞器相互作用”讲习班，由Viviana Perez组织 Montes和Ih-Woei Fridell(国家老龄研究所)。在会议期间，15个(非竞争)口头会议 将被扣留。其中许多会议是由GSA成员在公开征求提案后提出的，因此 开启选题和发言人选拔程序。此外，许多会议的一名发言者将是 由委员会从提交的摘要中挑选，这些职位将优先考虑职业早期 教师或实习生(博士后、住院医生、研究生或本科生)演讲者。还将有两个 安排了海报会议，以免与任何演讲竞争。我们将鼓励代表性不足的科学家 申请8项少数民族学者奖。我们的节目显示，30%的演讲者将是早期职业调查人员， 近一半的受邀演讲者是女性，20%的人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 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) in Phoenix, AZ. 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 and 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 the Biological Sciences and the 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 2021 November meeting in Phenix 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 2021, 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 early career investigators prominently in Biological Sciences symposia. In Phenix, we will begin with a pre-meeting, half-day workshop on: “Organelle Interactions in the Regulation of Aging and Longevity”, Organized by Viviana Perez Montes and Yih-Woei Fridell (National Institute on Aging). 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 many of the sessions will be selected by committee from submitted abstracts, and preference for these slots will be given to early career 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 any talks. We will encourage underrepresented scientists to apply for 8 minority scholar awards. Our program shows 30% of all speakers will be early career investigators, nearly half of the invited speakers are women, and 20% are from underrepresented minority groups.