Late Breaking Biological Sciences Session

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Location: Room 118

Chair(s)

Blanka Rogina, PhD, M.S. (she/her/hers)

Professor
Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences
UConn Health
Farmington, Connecticut, United States

Slides

Co-Chair(s)

Rozalyn Anderson, PhD

Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Individual Symposium Abstract First Author(s)

Juan Palavicini, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes
UT Health SA
San Antonio, Texas, United States

Slides
Allyson Palmer, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Hospitalist, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hospital Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Justice Bell

Student
Chemistry
Claflin University
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Slides

This is a key element specific to the Biological Sciences Section within the Gerontological Society of America annual scientific meeting that allows for very new and unpublished findings to be presented. Due to the rapid advancement of our knowledge, four speakers in this symposium are selected from the submitted late breaking Abstracts. Special emphasis is given to selecting early career faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.

Learning Objectives:

After attending this session, participants will be able to better understand the role of circulating senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) factors in postoperative delirium.
After attending this session, participants will be able to better understand the effects of aging on fat tissue in Drosophila melanogaster.
After attending this session, participants will learn the latest association between neurodegenerative biomarkers of cognitive dysfunction, as well as new mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease.

Presentations:

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Novel molecular mechanisms underlying the association between PLCG2, Alzheimer's disease, and longevity
Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Juan P. Palavicini, PhD – UT Health SA
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Circulating SASP Factors are Elevated in Patients with Postoperative Delirium
Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Allyson K. Palmer, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Investigating the Cellular and Molecular Effects of Aging on Fat Tissue in Drosophila melanogaster
Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Justice Bell – Claflin University
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Evaluating Circulating Geroscience Biomarkers