Meeting Reports
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Author (s): Joao Passos
In June 2007, the BSRA funded one of our Young Scientist members, Joao Passos from Newcastle University, to present his work at the annual meeting of the American Aging Association in San Antonio Texas.
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Author (s): Claire LeeClaire Lee (Liverpool University) was one of the winners of Best Poster at the BSRA Annual Scientific Meeting 2007 on Tuesday 17th July, Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool. Claire has written a short report describing her winning poster and the benefits of the meeting.
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Author (s): Gabriele Saretzki
"Molecular Mechanisms and Models of Ageing"
Spetses Island, Greece, 20-24th May 2007
Chairman: Stathis Gonos from the National Hellenic Research foundation
The IABG was founded by Denham Harman, in 1985. It holds a congress every two years. The major aims of the organisation are to make the general public more aware of the potential of biomedical aging research to increase the span of healthy productive life and to decrease the social and economic problems of age; and to promote greater communication among the worldwide community of individuals engaged in biomedical aging research. At the recent meeting 173 participants took part from 27 countries. 44 talks were given and 89 posters presented.
The congress covered the following topics: replicative senescence, telomeres and telomerase, cancer and ageing, DNA repair, free radicals and oxidative stress, proteolysis and proteins maintenance, immunity, neurodegeneration, model organisms, intervention, evolutional and epidemiological aspects.
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Author (s): T B L Kirkwood
AgeAction, this one day conference was hosted by the Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University and funded by the EU Commission FP6 Framework. It took place on Monday 23 April 2007 at The Sage Gateshead.
The Conference was a unique bringing together of the work of expert sector panels in the areas of Medicine, Biology, Social Science, Technology and Finance to open the discussion to realise the full potential of biological ageing research in Europe.
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Author (s): Janet LordSeveral UK researchers, including BSRA and BGS members, together with industrial representatives were invited to a roundtable discussion on the biology of ageing with Malcolm Wicks, the new Science minister, on 19 April 2007. The meeting was held at The Royal Society and was also attended by the science editors of the main broadsheet newspapers (Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Times). The focus of this event was on the 'basic biology of ageing' and although the meeting coincided with a suggestion by the minister that old people with dementia could be tagged and followed using satellite technology, the meetings original brief was maintained!
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Author (s): Eugene Milne
The 5th European Congress of Biogerontology was held in Istanbul on 16th-20th September 2006. One of the presenters, Eugene Milne (Newcastle University) gives a personal account of the meeting.
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Author (s): Richard Faragher
A review of Mechanisms of ageing & longevity. 17th September 1999. Royal Free Hospital, London.
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Author (s): Richard Aspinall
A review of The Ageing Immune System. Colloquium of the 670th meeting of the Biochemical Society. Cork.
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Author (s): Anna Kayani
Anna Kayani,
PhD student,
Division of Metabolic
and Cellular Medicine,
School of Clinical
Sciences,
University of Liverpool.The 2005 mini-symposium on ROS muscle and ageing was held at the Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 19-20th May. The aim of the meeting was to provide a one-off opportunity for the world's leading scientific authorities to share cutting edge research findings with the overall aim of advancing the understanding of the age related loss of muscle-function. The meeting combined the latest studies performed on various ageing models including humans, rodents, pigeons, flies and yeast.