BIOLOGY OF AGEING - OPEN SIG MEETING- March 17th 2022

Dear Colleagues,
The EuGMS SIG on Biology of Ageing is glad to invite you to a series of bimonthly open meetings to present the latest and activities of the teams and members of the SIG.
Each meeting will include a presentation and time for discussion.
Next meeting will be on Thursday March 17th, 2022 - 1PM CET - 60 min – 

Topics: Work on Cell Senescence and Researchers at 28 UK universities team up to tackle healthy ageing 

My lab works on the molecular cell biology of basic ageing processes, trying to understand which biological changes that occur during ageing are responsible for age-related poor health and multimorbidity. In this talk, I will discuss the contribution of cell senescence to ageing and age-related diseases, highlight the importance of mTOR signalling in senescence and assess therapeutic approaches to target senescent cells, including some of our new research to identify compounds that suppress the inflammatory senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). 

Presented by: Lynne Cox 

Lynne Cox is a biogerontologist at the University of Oxford and is head of the lab of Ageing and Cell Senescence at the Department of Biochemistry. She holds an MA in Natural Sciences and PhD in Regulation of DNA Replication from the University of Cambridge. As a post-doctoral scientist in Dundee working on the tumour suppressor p53 and DNA replication control, she helped develop initial IP for the spin-out company Cyclacel. She is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, the George Moody Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry at Oriel College, Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, co-founder of the Oxford Ageing Network, and strategic board member for the Ageing Research Collaborative Hub in Oxford. In 2014, she received the US Glenn Foundation award for research into the biological mechanisms of ageing. She serves on the strategic advisory board of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity, and the quinquennial review panel of the NIA Division of Aging Biology (US). She is an international member of Norwegian Centre for Healthy Ageing Network NO-Age, and co-chair of the Special Interest Group in Ageing Biology of the European Geriatric Medicine Society. She has very recently been appointed as co-lead of the new Building Links in Ageing Research and Translation Network and national coordinator of the UK-wide Ageing research network UKANet (https://www.ukanet.org.uk/).

So Join us!
Be on time, mute your microphone when you're not talking and enjoy this moment with your colleagues!

Please notice that the meeting will be recorded and that the audio and video recordings might be used by the EuGMS for dissemination on the EuGMS website and social media.

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SAVE THE DATE: Next meetings
MAY 19th 2022 at 1pm CEST