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The 3rd Interventions in Aging Conference is being held at Nassau, Bahamas on 03 Mar 2019 – 06 Mar 2019. The meeting explores the topics of genetic, dietary and pharmacological interventions can extend healthy lifespan in laboratory animals, with particular emphasis on the systemic environment, mitochondria, biomarkers and frailty, immune aging and the protective effects of natural products.

BSRA Trustee Professor Lynne Cox is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate with experience in molecular and cellular biology/biochemistry to join her group in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of action compounds that suppress the senescence-associated secretory phenotype in replicatively senescent primary human cells.   For more details please

Post-doctoral Research Associate Nr Potters Bar, Hertfordshire c.£33.7 – £43.2 per annum inclusive of London Fixed term for 36 months This is an exciting opportunity to join a team working on the senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in age-related tendinopathies that affect horses. We are now seeking a highly-motivated individual to investigate SASP and stress-induced RNA

A Keystone Symposia is being organised by Drs. Rochelle Buffenstein, Holly Brown-Borg and Colin Selman  for Hannover, Germany, April 15-19, 2018. The meeting is entitled ‘Pushing the Limits of Healthspan and Longevity’ and details of registration and abstract submission can be found here. Speakers include Ronald Kahn, Dominic Withers, John Speakman, Colin Selman and Judith

The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress 2019 is being held in Gothenburg, Sweden from 23rd – 25th May 2019 Details can be found here.    

The Musculoskeletal Physiology Research Group at Nottingham Trent University are preparing a grant application to the BBSRC/NC3Rs on bone ageing.  As part of this grant they would like to provide some metrics on how many animals are used in the UK in age-related or bone-related research. Ideally they would like to provide numbers from 2