Conference on the Biology of Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案寻求对将于2009年11月19日至22日在格鲁吉亚亚特兰大举行的美国老年学会（GSA）2009年年度科学会议期间举行的为期四天的老年学家会议的部分支持。GSA是美国最大的致力于老龄化研究的组织。已举办了11个特邀专题讨论会，以反映当前迅速发展的研究领域，并探讨衰老过程和与年龄有关的疾病的生物机制，以收集有助于保持老年人健康和活力的信息。2009年会议的主题是“健康老龄化的创造性方法”，既及时又令人兴奋。为了适应这一主题，几个受邀的研讨会将讨论影响健康老龄化的问题，如营养对老龄化的影响，肿瘤抑制和老龄化以及干预老龄化过程的会议。我们的目标是将不同的学科聚集在一起，形成一个令人兴奋的环境，以便在广泛的专业领域之间进行交流。会议的生物科学部分将重点关注健康和年龄相关疾病中的衰老机制，以获得对衰老过程的新见解。我们计划将邀请的专题讨论会与提交的海报会议结合起来，并在会前向感兴趣的与会者传播有用的科学信息，以便为交流思想和实验协议创造一个丰富的环境。本次会议旨在为与会者提供有关衰老生物学最新研究方向的广泛概述，并为未来研究如何发展提供指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks partial support for a four-day meeting of biogerontologists to be held in conjunction with the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) in Atlanta, Georgia, November 19-22, 2009. The GSA is the largest organization in the United States devoted to the study of aging. Eleven invited symposia have been developed to reflect current areas of rapidly progressing research and explore biological mechanisms underlying the processes of aging and age-associated diseases in order to collect information useful for maintaining the health and vitality of the elderly. The theme of the 2009 meeting "Creative Approaches to Healthy Aging" is both timely and exciting. To fit this theme, several of the invited symposia will address issues that impact healthy aging, such as sessions on nutritional effects in aging, tumor suppression and aging and intervention in the aging process. Our goal is to bring diverse disciplines together to form an exciting milieu for interchange between broad areas of expertise. The Biological Sciences component of the meeting will focus on mechanisms of aging in health and age-associated diseases to gain new insight into understanding of the aging process. We plan to integrate the invited symposia with submitted poster sessions and disseminate useful scientific information to interested participants ahead of the meeting in order to create a rich environment for the exchange of ideas and experimental protocols. It is intended that this conference will provide the attendees with a broad overview of the direction of recent research in the biology of aging and provide a guide as to how future research will evolve.