Category: Events

This autumn there is a two-day workshop and meeting during the last week in October focused on ageing and the application of bioinformatic and genomic technologies to the study of ageing and longevity. Please visit the link here for more details.

Professor Thomas von Zglinicki has received Britain’s highest award for services to gerontology. Thomas von Zglinicki, Professor of Cellular Gerontology at Newcastle University, and Scientific Director of the Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, has received the highest honour of the BSRA; the Lord Cohen of Birkenhead Medal for services to gerontology. First awarded in 1980

The British Geriatrics Society Autumn Meeting 2017 which will be held in London from 22 – 24th November 2017. Key details: Title: British Geriatrics Society Autumn Meeting 2017 Venue: ExCeL London Date: 22 – 24th November 2017 Focus on: o Community geriatrics o Frailty and Sarcopenia o Movement Disorders Parkinson’s & Non Parkinson’s o Depression

The 67th BSRA Annual Scientific Meeting University of Exeter, 10th – 12th July 2017 The Biology of Ageing and the Omics Revolution How –omics technologies allow detailed dissection of ageing processes and age-related disease. Local Organiser: Lorna Harries Draft Programme is available on the following link: Programme_FINAL 2017. Confirmed speakers: Judith Campisi Linda Partridge Luigi Ferrucci

The ‘Ageing Cell’ conference is taking place at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge on the 27 – 28th March 2017. The full programme and further details can be found online here: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/the-ageing-cell/programme. Register now! The lucky 100th registrant wins their place for free*.

A Special Issue of Biogerontology The SI on BSRA 2015: Basic Biology of Ageing and BSRA ASM 2016: Evolution and the Biology of Ageing is dedicated to Biological mechanisms of ageing -from bench to bedside   The main topics faced by this SI are:   The molecular mechanisms of ageing Metabolic ageing/microbiota Immune metabolism and senescence