Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, 5th Conference (SENS5) August 31st - September 3rd, 2011
SENS5 is the fifth in a unique series of conferences that brings together researchers and laypeople interested in research leading to the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging. Since aging affects the body at all levels of organisation, a large number of otherwise unrelated disciplines are represented, including stem cells, immunotherapy, cancer, neurodegeneration, gene therapy and tissue engineering.
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 24, 2010
Early Registration: May 1, 2010
Topics to be discussed:
The 14th Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) provides an unmatched opportunity for participants to join over 4,500 colleagues to study and disseminate the latest research. Discover current clinical practices and treatments, and be an integral part of the central network of neurology in Europe.
Main Topics
The 7th World Stroke Congress, organized by the World Stroke Organization (WSO), is a landmark event attended biennially by top medical doctors and professionals interested in finding global strategies to combat the second most common cause of death worldwide.
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 12th 2010
Deadline for abstracts: 29th January 2009
Deadline for earlybird registration: 27th February 2009
This year's theme is "Aging, cancer and age-related diseases; are there common mechanisms?". You will learn about the latest advances in all biomedical aspects of aging, and will discuss them with a select group of scientists in the field.
Deadline for abstracts: April 1, 2009
The meeting will cover a wide perspective on aging ranging from metabolic and cellular interventions in aging, oxidative stress resistance, protein folding and quality control and the troublesome relationship between prevention of chaperonopathies and the risk for cancer. There will also be extra sessions on the necessity of aging research and the prospect of healthy aging in our aging societies. In addition there will be scientific sessions of short talks and posters selected from the submitted abstracts.
You will also note that a free student registration will be offered to each regular registrant in order to attract the next generation of scientists who will be responsible for taking care of our aging population.
The World Immune Regulation Meeting-III will have a special focus on regulatory cells and Th17 cells. Registration is online.
Abstract submission is reopened for late-breaking abstracts: 19 - 30 January 2009
List of Topics
Basic Mechanisms
Focus on clinical application, drug discovery and novel biotechnological developments
Deadline for abstracts and early registration: 15th February, 2009
signal transduction
intracellular transport and turnover of normal and misfolded proteins
cell differentiation, development and malignant transformation
aging and protein misfolding diseases
the maintenance of the cellular protein homeostasis on a systematic level
The set-up specifically encourages interactions between leading experts in the field and young scientists of different nationalities.
Beside invited lectures, there will be ample time for oral and poster presentations, which will be selected on the basis of the submitted abstracts by the scientific committee.
FEBS are sponsoring 20 Youth Travel Fellowships (YTF) covering attendance for up to 20 students/postdoctoral students.
The theme of the meeting will be: “Integrative Biology: Hormones, Signaling, and Aging”. The program committee is assembling an international group of experts in aging research from academia, government, and industry to share their newest findings.
Deadline for early bird registration 1st April 2009
More than past meetings, the 2009 meeting will include sessions whose emphasis is “translational,” oriented toward human physiology and disease, in order to strike a better balance between clinical and basic research. As usual, the meeting will consist of invited symposia, contributed oral papers, and poster presentations. The first day, coordinated by Janko Nikolich-Zugich and Richard Faragher, will consist of a symposium of invited speakers covering a range of topics related to the, “Integrative Biology of Aging,” and will include our annual TransAtlantic speakers from the UK. On days 2 and 3 there will be both a plenary symposium (Neurobiology of Aging and Hormones) and simultaneous symposia run concurrently. The latter will include topics ranging from basic (“Hormones, Genes, and Longevity;” “Physiology and Genomics of Caloric Restriction”) and evolutionary (“Evolution and Issues in Aging and Age-Related disease”) biology to clinical considerations (“Inflammation, age-related diseases and intervention strategies;” “Pituitary and Steroid Hormones and Aging in Humans”). When sessions are simultaneous, one will generally be more basic and the other more clinical. Following Tom Johnson’s lead in 2008, we have also invited plenary speakers, charged with bringing the audience up to date in their particular fields of expertise. The first plenary talk by Marc R. Blackman, MD, entitled, “Hormones and Hormone Receptor Regulation During the Aging Process” will have a clinical orientation; the second by Leonard Hayflick, PhD on, “Cell senescence: Relevance to Organismal Aging,” will cover basic research issues and mechanisms. Two additional plenary talks will be given by the yet to be named winners of the Vince Cristofalo award (sponsored by AFAR) and the Denham Harman award (sponsored by AAA). The pre-meeting symposium on Friday, May 29 will be on “Proteomics of Aging: Protein Metabolism and the Aging Process,” It is being arranged by Richard Miller with the assistance of Anna Maria Cuervo. The tentative schedule is for six long "overviews," in which the speakers will give general background information to bring the audience up to date on major topics, eight short talks focused on the authors' own recent discoveries, and a final, double-length summation session that would mix questions to speakers with six very short two-slide impromptu talks.
