British Society for Research on Ageing

The Ocean Quahog, Arctica islandica (Linnaeus 1767), is the oldest non-colonial animal known to science, attaining an age in excess of 400 years. Funded by Research into Ageing^TM, Iain Ridgway and colleagues at Bangor University  seek to establish A. islandica as a new model ageing species.

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Francis Amrit and Elizabeth Marsh (University of Birmingham) use the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a whole-organism approach to study the links between gender, immunity and abiotic stress and the subsequent impact these factors have on animal lifespan.

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You may think that attempting to record electrophysiological data from the central nervous system (CNS) of an elderly snail would be a particularly uneventful task given that the snail is one of the slowest creatures to crawl the earth, and being elderly is even more lethargic than its younger relations. Yet the CNS of the common pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, proves to be a highly intriguing organ, and a useful model for the investigating the basic biology of neuronal ageing.

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