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Meeting Report|Volume 7, Issue 6|pp 362—369

Meeting Report: International Symposium on the Genetics of Aging and Life History II

Murat Artan1, Ara B. Hwang2, Seung‐Jae V. Lee1,2,3, Hong Gil Nam4
  • 1Information Technology Convergence Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, South Korea
  • 2Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, South Korea
  • 3School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, South Korea
  • 4Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute for Basic Science, and Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu, South Korea

* * Equal contribution

Received: March 30, 2015Accepted: June 7, 2015Published: June 15, 2015
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.100762

Copyright: © 2015 Artan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

The second International Symposium on the Genetics of Aging and Life History was held at the campus of Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, South Korea, from May 14 to 16, 2014. Many leading scientists in the field of aging research from all over the world contributed to the symposium by attending and presenting their recent work and thoughts. The aim of the symposium was to stimulate international collaborations and interactions among scientists who work on the biology of aging. In the symposium, the most recent and exciting work on aging research was presented, covering a wide range of topics, including the genetics of aging, age‐associated diseases, and cellular senescence. The work was conducted in various organisms, including C. elegans, mice, plants, and humans. Topics covered in the symposium stimulated discussion of novel directions for future research on aging. The meeting ended with a commitment for the third International Symposium on the Genetics of Aging and Life History, which will be held in 2016.