Research Networks in Biodemography and Demography of Aging

描述(申请人提供)：关于衰老与健康的研究需要来自多个学科的知识、方法、想法和数据，并为学科之间的交叉培养提供了巨大的机会。但交叉受精面临着许多挑战--跨学科交流问题，交叉教授老龄领域的研究人员关于其他领域的知识，以及刺激来自不同领域的知名科学家之间的创新合作，以研究老龄问题。该项目将通过下列具体目标发展研究网络，以应对这些挑战：具体目标1：举办关于老龄化的正式人口学和生物人口学方面的培训讲习班，培训年轻和新的研究人员，使他们掌握各种老龄化分析和量化方法。具体目标2：组织催化会议，以促进关于老龄化的跨学科协作研究，这些研究涉及几个广泛的问题--遗传学与行为和社会因素之间的相互作用、社会网络上的理论和数据，以及将数量和群体遗传学和基因组学、进化和生态遗传学、流行病学和卫生政策方面的工作纳入老龄研究。具体目标3：组织高级讲习班/研讨会，利用各种工具，包括短期工作组会议、网上研讨会和讲习班以及其他网上协作工具，将研究人员小组聚集在一起，集中讨论老龄化研究中的具体问题和数据。培训讲习班向年轻的和新来的研究人员传授关于衰老的最新科学工作，并提供与知名研究人员的链接。在其他领域取得成功的催化会议提供了一个激动人心的环境，在这个环境中，一个小团体可以探索和制定新的跨学科想法。高级研讨会有望从催化会议中脱颖而出，并超越这些会议，允许对一个问题有实质性兴趣的研究人员详细讨论协作工作的想法和计划。这些活动将加强对老龄问题的研究，并按照《关于为Aoinc市紧急情况下的行为和社会研究领域提供网络基础设施支持的论坛》的要求，在几个新兴领域开展合作研究。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将为年轻和成熟的老龄研究人员提供新的、新兴的和不同领域(如基因组学、遗传学和网络分析)的方法、知识和技术方面的培训。通过这样做，该项目将加强老龄化研究，并促进新的和新颖的科学合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research on aging and health requires knowledge, methods, ideas and data from multiple disciplines and presents great opportunities for cross-fertilization between disciplines. But there are many challenges to cross-fertilization - communicating questions across disciplines, cross-teaching researchers in aging about other fields, and stimulating innovative collaborations between established scientists from different fields to work on aging. This project will address these challenges by developing research networks via the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: Conduct training workshops in the formal demography and biodemography of aging to train young and new investigators in diverse analytical and quantitative approaches to aging. Specific Aim 2: Organize catalysis meetings to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborative research on aging that deals with several broad questions - the interplay between genetics and behavioral and social factors, theories and data on social networks, and the integration into aging research of work on quantitative and population genetics and genomics, evolutionary and ecological genetics, epidemiology and health policy. Specific Aim 3: Organize advanced workshops/seminars to bring together small groups of researchers to focus intensively on particular questions and data in aging research, using a variety of tools including short working group meetings, web-based seminars and workshops, and other web-based collaborative tools. Training workshops teach young and new researchers about recent scientific work on aging and provide links to established investigators. Catalysis meetings, successful in other fields, provide a stimulating setting in which a small group explores and formulates new cross-disciplinary ideas. Advanced workshops are expected to emerge from catalysis meetings and go beyond them by allowing researchers with substantive interests in a problem to work through in detail ideas and plans for collaborative work. These activities will strengthen research on aging and launch collaborative research in several emerging areas as requested in the FOA on Network Infrastructure Support for Emercino Behavioral and Social Research Areas in Aoinc. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will provide training in methods, knowledge and techniques from new, emerging and diverse fields (such as genomics, genetics, and network analysis) to young and established researchers in aging. By so doing the project will enhance aging research and promote new and novel scientific collaborations.