British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) Annual Scientific Meeting

"Engineering a Healthy Future"

2-3 July 2009

The Lowry Hotel, Chapel Wharf, Salford

Thursday 2^nd July

Registration and coffee will be available from 9.00am

10.10 - 10.20:       Welcome, Anne McArdle, Chair, BSRA.

Session 1: Psychosocial and behavioural determinants of biological ageing.

Chair Jos Bosch, University of Birmingham.

10.20 - 10.30:       Jos Bosch (University of Birmingham): Introduction; stress and socio-economic status as determinants of biological ageing

10.30 - 10.50:       Tarani Chandola (Whitehall study group, UCL): Job stress and low socio-economic status as determinants of metabolic ageing

10.50 - 11.10:       Lynn Cherkas (Kings College): Low socio-economic status and cellular aging: parsing out the effects of genes and environment

11.10 - 11.30:       Marie Pardon (University of Nottingham): Harmful and protective effects of stress on cognitive ageing

11.30- 12.00:        Moises Bauer (Univ Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil): Stress and immunesenescence

12.00 - 2.00:         Lunch and AGM and informal poster viewing.

                               (The AGM is scheduled for 1.00 - 1.30).

Session 2: Tissue engineering possibilities for ageing.

Chair Aphrodite Vasilaki, University of Liverpool

2.00 - 2.10:            Aphrodite Vasilaki (University of Liverpool): Introduction

2.10 - 2.30:            Anthony Hollander. (University of Bristol, UK): Clinical transplantation of a tissue-engineered airway

2.30 - 2.50:            John Hunt (Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK): Tissue engineering bone regeneration

2.50 - 3.10:            Patricia Murray, (Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool): Stem cell therapies for kidney disease

3.10 - 3.40:            Lisa Larkin (Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, U.S.A). The use of bone marrow stromal cells for engineering skeletal tissue constructs for tissue regeneration in the elderly

3.40 - 4.15:            Afternoon tea

4.15 - 4.45:            Mario Fraga (Cancer Epigenetics Unit, IUOPA, Spain). Epigenetics and Ageing

4.45 - 5.15:            Funding Q&A: Lesley Heppell BBSRC

5.15 - 7.00:            Wine reception and formal poster viewing and judging (please note, posters will be different on days 1 and 2)

7.30:                       Conference dinner

Friday 3^rd July

Session 3: Hormones and ageing.

Chair: Dr Matthew Hardman, University of Manchester.

9.00 - 9.10:            Mat Hardman (University of Manchester): Introduction

9.10 - 9.30:            Mat Hardman (University of Manchester): Estrogens and ageing

9.30 - 9.50:            Hugh Jones (Robert Hague Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Barnsley): Testosterone and ageing

9.50 - 10.20:          Adriana Miaggi (University of Milan, Italy): IGF and ageing

10.20 - 10.40:        Leptin, obesity and ageing. TBA

10.40 -  11.15 :      Coffee break

Session 4: Selected oral presentations

Chair: Dr Carole Proctor (University of Newcastle)

11.15 - 11.30:        Elevated presentation 1

11.30 - 11.45:        Elevated presentation 2

11.45 - 12.00:        Elevated presentation 3

12.00 - 12.15:        Elevated presentation 4

A prize, sponsored by BSRA will be awarded to the best presentation in this session.

12.15 - 1.40:          Lunch, formal poster viewing and judging (please note, posters will be different on days 1 and 2)

Session 5: The ageing bladder and bowel. BBSRC & RIA sponsored session.

Chair: Dr Lesley Heppell (BSRA)

1.40 - 2.00:            Marcus Drake (Bristol Urological Institute): Clinical aspects of urinary incontinence.

2.00 - 2.20:            John Scholefield (Nottingham University): Faecal incontinence.

2.20 - 2.35:            Elevated presentation on the ageing bladder and bowel 1

2.35 - 2.50:            Elevated presentation on the ageing bladder and bowel 2

2.50 - 3.05:            Elevated presentation on the ageing bladder and bowel 3

3.05 - 3.20:            Elevated presentation on the ageing bladder and bowel 4

A prize, sponsored by BBSRC and RIA will be awarded to the best presentation in this session.

3.20 - 4.00:            Coffee

4.00 - 4.40:            Plenary: Mark Birch-Machin (University of Newcastle): Sunburnt DNA: how mitochondria record the effects of UV exposure and oxidative stress on aging and cancer in human skin.