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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:33:15 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: SENS, 4th Conference, September 3rd-7th 2009

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From: Aubrey de Grey
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Subject: [SPAM] SENS, 4th Conference, September 3rd-7th 2009

My apologies if you receive this email more than once. Please forward
it to any colleagues who you feel may be interested.

I am writing to notify you that 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.  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.  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.  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 me by email ().

I hope to welcome you to Cambridge in September!

Cheers, Aubrey

Aubrey de Grey
Organiser, SENS4
Chairman and Chief Science Officer, Methuselah Foundation
Editor-in-Chief, Rejuvenation Research

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