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I am writing to remind you that the early registration and abstract submission deadlines for the conference "Understanding Aging: Biomedical and Bioengineering Approaches" are coming up on May 15th. This conference, to be held at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA on June 27th-29th 2008, is organised jointly by [Dr. Aubrey de Grey], [stem cell researcher] Irina Conboy of UC Berkeley, and Amy Wagers of Harvard [Stem Cell Institute]. All details, including forms for abstract submission and online registration, are at the conference website:
http://www.methusela...tion.org/UABBA/
Please note that standard registration fees are fully inclusive of three nights' accommodation and all meals. However, there is also a deeply discounted non-residential rate of just $150 for students and $300 for others. Registration is by credit card at this page:
http://www.methusela.../UABBA/tickets/
Journalists wishing to obtain press passes are asked to contact me by email (aubrey@sens.org).
The program has over two dozen confirmed speakers, all of them world leaders in their field. As for previous conferences I have [co-]organised, the emphasis of this meeting is on "applied biogerontology" -- the design and implementation of biomedical interventions that may, jointly, constitute a comprehensive panel of rejuvenation therapies, sufficient to restore middle-aged or older laboratory animals (and, in due course, humans) to a youthful degree of physiological robustness. The list of scientific sessions and confirmed speakers is as follows:
-- DNA damage, telomeres, cancer --
Adam Arkin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Jan Vijg, Buck Institute for Age Research; Jerry Shay, U. Texas Southwestern; Bill Andrews, Sierra Sciences; Claudia Gravekamp, Pacific Medical Center Research Institute; Zheng Cui, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Rita Effros, UCLA
-- The cell niche --
Irina Conboy, U. California Berkeley; Judith Campisi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Buck Institute; Leanne Jones, Salk Institute; Ken Muneoka, Tulane University; Kevin Healy, Stanford University
-- Accumulation of damaged molecules --
Bruce Rittmann, Arizona State University; Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein University; Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Uniersity of Florida; Marisol Corral-Debrinski, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie; Richard Hanson, Case Western Reserve University
-- Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine --
Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Oregon National Primate Research Center; Stephen Badylak, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Doris Taylor, University of Minnesota; Matthias Stelzner, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System & UCLA; Amy Wagers, Joslin Diabetes Center; David Schaffer, U. California Berkeley; Tony De Tomaso, Stanford University School of Medicine
In addition, there will be short talks selected from submitted abstracts, as well as poster sessions each evening. To submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation, please go here:
http://www.methusela...esenting/absub/
The provisional agenda is here:
http://www.methusela...g/UABBA/agenda/
Furthermore, registration for the conference includes preferential admission to the free public preconference "Aging: the disease, the cure, the implications" which will be held in the 1800-seater Royce Hall, UCLA, on the evening of Friday June 27th, and free admission to the dinner and reception following (which costs $30 for others). This preconference will put the postponement of aging more firmly on the political and social map than ever before. It will consist of presentations by numerous illustrious speakers, including:
William Haseltine, Haseltine Global Health, founder of Human Genome Sciences
Bruce Ames, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, National Medal of Science awardee
Michael West, Biotime Inc., founder of Geron and Advanced Cell Technology
Daniel Perry, Director of the Alliance for Aging Research
Gregory Stock, UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology and Society and Signum Biosciences
Steve Burrill, Founder and Chairman, Burrill and Company
Bernard Siegel, Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute
I hope to welcome you to Los Angeles in June!
Aubrey de Grey
Co-Chair, "Understanding Aging: Biomedical and Bioengineering Approaches"
Chairman and Chief Science Officer, Methuselah Foundation
Editor-in-Chief, Rejuvenation Research (impact factor 8.353)
