Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, Stress and Small RNAs Meeting

新陈代谢、衰老、发病机制、压力和小 RNA 会议

• 批准号: 9990946
• 负责人: Veena Prahlad
• 金额: $ 4.95万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9990946
• 关键词: Age; Aging; Animal Model; Biological Models; Biological Process; Biology of Aging; Biomedical Research; Caenorhabditis elegans; Child Care; Chronic Disease; Communities; Disabled Persons; Discipline; Disease; Etiology; Faculty; Family; Female; Fertilization; Foundations; Funding; Geroscience; Goals; Grant; Individual; Intention; International; Knowledge; Lightning; Mentors; Metabolism; Oral; Pathogenesis; Physiological; Postdoctoral Fellow; Research; Research Personnel; Risk Factors; Schedule; Scientist; Senior Scientist; Site; Small RNA; Stress; Targeted Research; Thinking; Time; Travel; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Wisconsin; Woman; care systems; career; design; disorder risk; frontier; graduate student; human old age (65+); innovation; insight; interdisciplinary collaboration; meetings; mortality; novel; posters; programs; symposium

PROJECT SUMMARY Conventional biomedical research targets the etiology of individual aging-related diseases. Yet chronic diseases in old age rarely come in isolation, and thus, even dramatic advances in disease-specific treatments will have minimal impact on the extension of disease-free years. An alternative that is likely to have a far greater payoff is to focus on their common risk factor, increased age, to understand how loss of the youthful state leads to increased disease risk. The 2020 ‘C. elegans Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, Stress and Small RNAs’ (MAPS 2020) is a bi-annual meeting that traditionally brings together leading researchers studying different aspects of aging biology in a single model organism. MAPS 2020 will leverage this strength and (i) provide a platform for presentation of predominantly unpublished, cutting edge-discoveries in aging from established and new investigators, (ii) expand the horizons of the field and encourage out-of-the-box thinking by incorporation of new topics and a variety of innovative formats in each session, (iii) provide opportunities for postdoc and graduate-student trainees, especially women and under-represented minorities (URMs) to present their research, (iv) facilitate interaction, mentoring and networking for new faculty trainees and established faculty through the introduction of two initiatives. The 2020 meeting roster thus far includes confirmed Invited speaker presentations from 42 renowned scientists (15 women (38%), 5 international). Seven out of the confirmed 11 session chairs are rising-star women in aging research (64%). The 2020 Conference Schedule incorporates formats that encourage our stated emphasis of promoting new investigators and trainees. The majority (72%; 37/52) of the invitees have not spoken at this meeting in the last four years, and amongst them, more than a third (21/52) are invitees to this meeting for the first time. The meeting schedule is designed to increase cross-participation and visibility of new faculty, post-doctoral trainees and graduate-students. We include two innovative initiatives: a strategic Paired-Mentoring Initiatives of young faculty with senior scientists, and a Cutting-Edge Concepts in Geroscience Initiative to bring new concepts and out-of-the-box concepts to aging research. Through this application, we are requesting funds to support the attendance of the invited speakers as well as the investigators at various career stages, from graduate students and post-docs to newly-independent faculty, who will be participating in the meeting. We propose allocating 55% of the funds from this grant specifically to support attendance of female scientists and URMs. We plan to offer on-site child-care services, travel and lodging to the meeting attendees to facilitate participation of young scientists and those with family responsibilities, and to make the meeting fully accessible to individuals with disabilities.

项目概要 传统的生物医学研究主要针对个体衰老相关疾病的病因学。 老年人很少会孤立地出现，因此，即使针对特定疾病的治疗方法取得了巨大进展，也会 对延长无病年限影响最小的另一种方法可能会带来更大的回报。 关注他们常见的风险因素，即年龄增长，了解年轻状态的丧失如何导致 2020 年《线虫代谢、衰老、发病机制、压力和小 RNA》 (MAPS 2020) 是一年两次的会议，传统上汇集了研究不同领域的领先研究人员 MAPS 2020 将利用这一优势，并 (i) 提供一个单一模型生物体中衰老生物学的各个方面。 展示主要未发表的老龄化领域前沿发现的平台 和新的研究人员，(ii) 扩大该领域的视野并鼓励开箱即用的思维 每场会议都纳入新主题和各种创新形式，(iii) 提供机会 对于博士后和研究生学员，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 展示他们的研究成果，(iv) 促进新实习教师的互动、指导和交流，以及 通过引入两项举措建立了师资队伍。 迄今为止，2020 年会议名单包括 42 位知名人士的已确认受邀演讲嘉宾 已确认的 11 名会议主席中有 7 名是女性新星（15 名女性（38%），5 名国际科学家）。 老龄化研究 (64%) 2020 年会议日程纳入了鼓励我们声明的形式。 大多数受邀者（72%；37/52）没有强调提拔新研究者和受训者。 过去四年在本次会议上发言，其中超过三分之一（21/52）是受邀者 本次会议的日程安排旨在提高交叉参与度和知名度。 新教师、博士后实习生和研究生我们包括两项创新举措：战略性举措。 年轻教师与资深科学家的配对指导计划以及老年科学的前沿概念 主动将新概念和创新概念引入老龄化研究。 通过此申请，我们请求资金来支持受邀演讲者的出席 以及处于不同职业阶段的研究人员，从研究生、博士后到新独立的人 我们建议从这笔赠款中分配 55% 的资金。 特别是为了支持女科学家和 URM 的参加，我们计划提供现场儿童保育服务， 为与会者提供差旅费和住宿费，以方便年轻科学家及其家人的参与 责任，并使残疾人能够完全无障碍地参加会议。