WELCOME
The 37th Annual Meeting of the American
Aging Association:
Role of Genes, Environment and Chance
in Determining Aging
Our 37th Annual Meeting of the American
Aging Association features an excellent
program, focusing on the Genes,
Environment and Chance and their Role in
Determining Aging, The meeting will
include five plenary speakers, thirteen
total sessions, including a number of
short oral presentations from the
submitted papers, posters, a wonderful
social event, and, once again, a
student-only session. There is also a
one-day pre-meeting symposium,
All sessions will be held at the
Millennium Hotel. On the 30th of May,
we have scheduled our pre-meeting
symposium titled "Aging Non-human
Primates: Models, Progress & Future
Directions " and chaired by Dr. Steven
Kohama from the Oregon National Primate
Research Center. Details on the
Pre-meeting workshop are available on
our website. The sessions will begin at
8 AM at the Millennium Hotel and will
continue until 6 PM. Later that
afternoon, we shall open the Annual
Meeting registration and will host our
Welcome Reception at the hotel, that
evening.
On Saturday, the 31st of May, the Annual
Meeting will kick off at 8 AM with a
welcoming and the first of two plenary
sessions. Session 1 will be on
"Demographic Consequences of the
“Aging-Revolution”" (Dr. James Vaupel,
Max Planck Center for Demographic
Research, Rostock Germany), “Epigenetics
of Human Aging” (Dr. Mario Fraga,
National Cancer Center, Madrid, Spain)
and Dr. Heidi Tissenbaum (University of
Massachusetts Medical School) will
present on “The Nematode C. elegans
and its Contributions to Aging
Research.” This will be
followed by two parallel sessions:
“Neurogenesis in Aging”, chaired by Dr.
Paula Bickford (University of South
Florida); the second, “Aging and
Turnover of Extracellular Matrix”, will
be chaired by John Furber of Legendary
Pharmaceuticals and is supported by The
Methuselah Foundation.
A
special luncheon is planned for Sunday
to coincide with the first presentation
of the Vincent Cristofalo Memorial Award
sponsored by the American Federation for
Aging Research.
We will have two concurrent Invited
Paper Sessions. These parallel sessions
will allow for an expanded participation
by our registrants and will cover the
Trans-Atlantic Conference, Chaired by
Dr. Richard Faragher and a session
entitled “Nutrition and the ‘Longevity
Dividend’”, chaired by Dr. Jim Joseph.
Following these sessions will have our
first Submitted Paper Sessions, composed
of talks chosen from the submitted
abstracts and our first Poster
Presentation and Cocktail Reception.
The Board of Directors' annual meeting
will be held that evening and the
Student Blitz and Social will meet this
evening also.
On
Sunday, the 1st of June, the morning
will open with the second plenary
session; Dr. Kaare Christensen
(University of Southern Denmark) will
talk on “Aging Twins: What They Tell Us”
and Dr. Eline Slagboom (Leiden
University Medical Center) will talk on
“Identification of Longevity Genes in
Humans”. This will be followed by the
first of a two-part Invited parallel
Paper Session 5: “Aging is Going to the
Dogs”, co-chaired by Drs. Donald K.
Ingram (Pennington Biomedical Research
Center, LA) and Norm Wolf (University of
Washington School of Medicine). The
second half of this session will be in
the afternoon. The second morning
session Sunday will discuss "Aging and
the Immune System", chaired by Dr. Rita
Effros (UCLA),
The
second afternoon session on “Habitual
Exercise and Arterial Aging”, chaired by
Dr. Douglas Seals (University of
Colorado, Boulder). Continuing that day,
we shall feature another submitted paper
and our second poster/cocktail session.
Our poster referees will make their
recommendations for the final three
winners from the poster and oral
presentations.
On Monday, the 2nd of June, the morning
begins with a single session "Protein
Aggregation in Diseases of Aging",
chaired by Dr. Chris Link (University of
Colorado, Boulder) followed by the final
two Invited Paper Sessions of the
meeting “Physiological Hormesis and Life
Extension”, chaired by Dr. Gordon
Lithgow (Buck Institute for Age
Research) and the Nathan Shock Symposium
chaired by Felipe Sierra from the
National Institute on Aging.
Lunch will be sponsored by our
Association and will present the year's
award winners. Our conference will then
conclude with the Denham Harman Award
Lecture for 2008, but plans are not yet
finalized. As you can see, we have a
great program, fantastic chairs and
speakers and tremendous opportunities to
network and learn. I look forward to
welcoming you to Boulder in 2008, hoping
that you will find the conference
informative and enjoyable, that you will
take the opportunity to meet new friends
and visit with old friends, and that you
will have a great stay in Colorado.
Thomas E. Johnson
2008 AGE President and Annual Meeting
Chair
