Event: Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), Fourth Conference
February 19, 2009
Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), Fourth Conference
Queens’ College, Cambridge, England
3-7 September 2009
Registration and abstract submission are now open for the fourth Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) conference, to be held at Queens’ College, Cambridge, England on September 3rd-7th 2009. The early registration and abstract submission deadlines are both June 15th. Â All details, including forms for abstract submission and online registration, are at the conference website:
http://www.mfoundation.org/sens4
The preliminary program already has 35 confirmed speakers, all of them world leaders in their field. Â As for previous SENS conferences, the emphasis of this meeting is on “applied gerontology” – 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 sessions and confirmed speakers is as follows:
Making metabolism less harmful:
  Vladimir Skulachev, Holly Brown-Borg, Stephen Spindler, Stephen Vatner
Spontaneous regeneration:
  Brandon Reines, Jonathan Tilly, Alexandra Stolzing
Eliminating recalcitrant intracellular molecules:
  William Sly, Ana Maria Cuervo, John Schloendorn, Claude Wischik, Martin Hetzer
Rejuvenating extracellular material:
  Nik Nikitin, Mark Pepys, Sudhir Paul, Mark Noble, Kendall Houk
Novel anti-cancer approaches:
  Paul Hallenbeck, Adela Ben-Yakar, Vera Gorbunova, Maria Blasco, David Keefe
Rejuvenating the immune system:
  Janko Nikolich-Zugich, Anne de Groot
ES-like cells and cell therapy:
  Justin Ichida, Ilham Abuljadayel, Thomas Zwaka, Daniel Kraft, John Sladek, Dan Gazit
Tissue engineering:
  Augustinus Bader, Gabor Forgacs
The defeat of aging and its consequences:
  Philip Moriarty, Tanya Jones, Leonid Gavrilov
In addition, there will be at least a dozen short talks selected from submitted abstracts, as well as poster sessions each evening. Â Authors of short talks and posters will, like the invited speakers, be invited to submit a paper summarising their presentation for the proceedings volume, which will be published in the high-impact journal Rejuvenation Research early in 2010.
Please note that registration fees are fully inclusive of accommodation and all meals. Those not requiring accommodation, and journalists wishing to obtain free press passes (not including accommodation) are asked to contact Aubrey de Grey by email ([email protected]).
