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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Pre-meeting
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35th AGE ANNUAL MEETING
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CALL FOR
ABSTRACTS
Participants who wish to make an oral or a
poster presentation at this meeting must
submit an abstract which will be reviewed by
the Scientific Committee. Results of this
review will be communicated via email, to
each applicant. Please note that only
the abstract of the registered presenters
will be included in the program and the
Conference Handbook.
To submit your abstract today,
click here.
EXHIBIT/SPONSORSHIP
The 35th
American Aging Association Annual
Meeting offers great
opportunities to expand your
company's visibility among the
registrants by becoming an exhibitor
and/or conference sponsor.
These will include multiple
opportunities to:
- introduce and discuss your
products and services with
leading basic science
researchers and clinicians of
the aging field
- reach decision makers
within a group-setting
open door to
new leads and
long-term business relationships
- increase exposure and strengthen brand recognition
in the aging research field.
Attendees include many decision
makers, such as academic department chairs,
heads of laboratories, government
officials, attending
clinicians, private practitioners,
post-docs, MD and PhD students and
technicians.
You will be hard pressed to
find a more appropriate audience for
your latest products and services.
Consider becoming a sponsor today and
take advantage of extensive
advertising opportunities via our
newsletter and website!
OUR SUPPORTERS
The 35th American
Aging Association Annual Meeting Organizers
are most grateful for the support of the
following organizations:
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ANNUAL MEETING SESSION SPOTLIGHT |
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Following the first two presentations of our
Annual Meeting Session Spotlight (see
our September issue on
Sarcopenia: Cause, Effect
and Treatment as well as our October
issue on Immunity and Infection), we are continuing our
series with a brief presentation of
the Pre-Meeting Symposium on Caloric
Restriction chaired by Dr. Richard
Weindruch (scheduled for the 2nd of
June, 2006). As
always,
we encourage your comments and questions.
AGE
Symposium Pre-Meeting Conference on
"Caloric Restriction"
CHAIR:
Richard Weindruch
 Richard
Weindruch, PhD is a
Professor of Medicine at the
University of Wisconsin and
an investigator with the
Geriatric Research,
Education and Clinical
Center (GRECC) at the VA
Hospital in Madison. He
earned his B.S. and M.S. in
Biology at the University of
Illinois (Urbana) and his
Ph.D. (1978) in Experimental
Pathology at UCLA under the
direction of Dr. Roy L.
Walford. For more than 30
years, he has studied
caloric restriction, which
is known to slow the aging
process in experimental
animals. He is the author
of two books, over 100
peer-reviewed research
reports, and 65 review
articles and conference
reports. He has received
several awards for his
research including the
Gerontological Society of
America's Kleemeir Award
(1998), the Glenn Foundation
Award (2000) and the
National Institute on
Aging's Nathan Shock Award
(2000). From 1994-1999 he
served as Chairman of NIH's
Geriatrics and
Rehabilitation Medicine
Study Section.
Read more at:
http://www.medicine.wisc.edu/mainweb/DOMPages.php?section=DOM&page=facultystaff&facstaffid=4337&personsection=geriatgeron
SYMPOSIUM
BACKGROUND
Interest in caloric restriction (CR)
as a model of aging retardation and
disease prevention continues to
expand overtly. What began in 1935
with Clive McCay's founding
observation in rats subjected to CR
has evolved into a major model in
biological gerontology with over 350
scientific publications on the topic
in 2004. This symposium will begin
with a session on work in model
organisms such as yeast, flies and
worms (Drs. Guarente, Gems and
Helfand) in which remarkable
mechanistic insights have been
gained recently. The next session
will focus on advances made using
rodent models (Drs. Anderson, Barja
and Leeuwenburgh) which historically
have been the main focus of CR
investigations. The final two
sessions will address a major
question in aging research:
Can CR slow the aging process in
primates? Studies in nonhuman
primates on long-term CR will be
discussed (Drs. Colman, Ingram and Nikolich-Zugich) followed by
investigations of calorie-restricted
people being conducted by
investigators (Drs. Holloszy,
Ravussin and Roberts) in a three
site trial funded by the National
Institute on Aging.
The
one-day symposium will wrap up with
a debate titled Is Caloric
Restriction the Only Way to Increase
Health Span?, moderated by Dr.
James Joseph and featuring Drs.
Eric Ravussin and Stephen R Spindler.
SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS
Leonard P. Guarente, PhD,
MIT, USA
Stephen L. Helfand, MD,
University of Connecticut
Health Center, USA
David Gems, PhD, University
College London, UK
Chris Leeuwenburgh, PhD,
University of Florida, USA
Gustavo Barja, PhD,
Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Spain
Ricki Colman, PhD, Wisconsin
Primate Research Center, USA
Donald K. Ingram, PhD,
National Institute on Aging,
USA
James Joseph, PhD, JMUSDA-HNRCA at Tufts
University, USA
Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD,
PhD, Oregon Health &
Science University, USA
John O. Holloszy, MD,
Washington, University
School of Medicine, USA
Susan B. Roberts, PhD, Jean
Mayer USDA Human Nutrition
Res. Ctr., USA
Stephen R. Spindler,
PhD, University of
California, Riverside, USA
Eric Ravussin, PhD,
Pennington Biomedical
Research Center, USA
Wish to contact any of the speakers or
comment on this session? Click here.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW AGE MEMBERS:
Rochelle Buffenstein, PhD -
Department of
Biology The City College of New York
(Scientific Member)
Hsieh Ming Chun, MD -
Demeter Medical Institute of Beauty, Taiwan
(Lay Member)
K onstantin
Khrapko, PhD - Harvard Medical School, USA
(Scientific Member)
If we
had omitted your name from this list of new
members,
please let us know.
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GRANT
ANNOUNCEMENT:
The
National Institutes of Health announces the 2006
NIH Director's Pioneer
Award
A
key component of the NIH Roadmap for Medical
Research, the NIH Director's Pioneer Award
supports exceptionally creative scientists who
propose pioneering approaches to major
challenges in biomedical research.
In
September 2006, NIH expects to make 5 to 10 new
awards of up to $500,000 in direct costs per
year for 5 years.
Women, members of groups that are
underrepresented in biomedical research, and
individuals in the early to middle stages of
their careers are especially encouraged to
apply.
Open to Scientists Who Are
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U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals, or
permanent residents
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Currently engaged in any field of research
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Interested in exploring biomedically
relevant topics
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Willing to commit at least 51% of their
research effort to the Pioneer Award project
Apply Online
More Information
E-mail questions to
pioneer@nih.gov
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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Email
us your meeting announcement
The Impact of Chemogenomics on Drug Discovery
and Development
January 23 - 27, 2006
Santa Fe, NM, United States
http://www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/ViewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=772
Gordon Research Conference: Biology of Aging
January 29 - February 3, 2006
Ventura California
http://www.grc.uri.edu/06sched.htm
Oxygen Radicals Gordon Research Conference
February 5-10, 2006
Ventura, CA, United States
http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2006/oxyrad.htm
Gordon Research Conference: Oxigen Radicals
February 5-10, 2006
Ventura California
http://www.grc.uri.edu/06sched.htm
Conference on Neural Control of Behavior:
Convergent Principles from Divergent Model
Systems
February 9-11, 2006
Los Angeles, CA, United States
http://www.physiology.ucla.edu./ncbseminar
1st Middle East Congress on Aging
March 15-19, 2006
Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.meca2006.org/english/index.php
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JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
The two issues of the journal, 27.2 and
27.3, respectively, will be published in
December. For journal updates, please
bookmark the
Association's
homepage or visit the Springer
site at
www.springeronline.com/11357.
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