BRITAIN’S LEADING AGEING RESEARCH CONFERENCE
In 2025, the BSRA is pleased to host its 74th Annual Scientific Meeting on the Biology of Ageing at Manchester Metropolitan University between 3rd and 5th September.
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Click here for the full and updated 3-day scientific conference programme: 74th BSRA
Venue: The conference will take place in the University Business School and the brand new Dalton Building. The venue is a state-of-the-art environment with outstanding facilities and social spaces perfect for hosting our 2025 conference.
Public Lecture “Dietary Protein in Optimal Ageing”– free registration for the general public
Delegate registration deadline: Friday 8th August 2025 (23:59)
Please note, the abstract deadline has now passed. For any queries including registration, attendance, speaking, exhibiting at or sponsoring the meeting, please contact the conference lead Dr Paul Morgan on ASM@bsra.org.uk or paul.morgan@bsra.org.uk.
REGISTER HERE
Please note, final acceptance of your abstract will only be considered once registration to the conference is confirmed. Abstracts (one submission per delegate) may be uploaded as free text in our conference management portal, with a word limit of 300 words. One figure per submission may be included, using the ‘Insert/edit image function’ below. References do not need to be included. Please note, if you selected to be considered for an oral presentation, we will be in contact very soon (after the abstract deadline) to confirm the presentation format of your abstract (oral or poster). If you are shortlisted for an oral but would also like to present a poster, please let us know as soon as possible (ASM@BSRA.org.uk). More about the conference here
Speakers confirmed so far (subject to change):
- Professor Gordon Lithgow (USC Buck Institute, US)
- Professor Rozalyn Anderson (University of Wisconsin, US)
- Professor Stuart Phillips (McMaster University, CA)
- Professor Peter Stenvinkel (Karolinska institutet, SE)
- Professor Benjamin Miller (Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, US)
- Professor Beth Phillips (University of Nottingham, UK)
- Dr Colleen Deane (University of Southampton, UK)
- Professor Chris Murgatroyd (Manchester, UK)
- Professor Dawn Skelton (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
- Professor Leon Schurgers (Maastricht, NL)
- Professor Lykke Sylow (University of Copenhagen, DK)
- Professor Malcolm Jackson (University of Liverpool, UK)
- Professor Eugene McCloskey (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Professor Liesbeth Veenhoff (University Groningen, NL)
- Professor Rahul Samant (Babraham Institute, UK)
- Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
- Dr Rebecca Taylor (University of East Anglia, UK)
- Professor Steve Horvath (Altos Labs, UK)
- Dr Elizabeth Veal (Newcastle, UK)
So, how does submission of abstracts work?
Amongst other sessions, our programme has a total of 6 oral sessions which are structured in the following format:
- Invited speaker (~25 mins)
- Elevated speaker (~10 mins)
- Elevated speaker (~10 mins)
- Elevated speaker (~10 mins)
- Invited speaker (~25 mins)
During abstract submission, you will be asked if you would like to be considered for an oral presentation or remain as a poster. A small number of submissions will be selected by the Board of Trustees for a 10 minute elevated oral presentation and you will be informed in advance of the outcome. For the first 4 of the 6 oral sessions (on days 1 and 2), the elevated oral presentations will be predominantly from early career researchers, who will then be eligible for the Korenchevsky prize. The Korenchevsky prize is awarded each year to the best early career researcher elevated oral presentation and is a paid trip to present their work at the American Ageing Association (AGE) annual meeting in the US in May 2026. The winner will be presented with their award at the conference dinner on the evening of day 2. Poster awards will be presented to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. This year, we will have 2 poster receptions.
Poster Guidelines
- Portrait (not landscape)
- A0 as a maximum size
Elevated Oral Guidelines
- 7 minutes in length
- up to 3 minutes for questions
- Standard lecture hall podium setup with a Windows computer will be available for PowerPoint slides