Our Second Upcoming Seminar in Los Angeles, March 1

Greetings,

We are pleased to alert you about our second upcoming seminar, which will take place in Los Angeles, on Friday night, March 1st:

Living to 100 and Beyond: New Discoveries in Longevity Demographics
[ Do centenarians stop aging?  Refutation of 'immortal phase' theory ]
When: Friday, March 1 at 8 pm
Where:  Conference Room 159, Boyer Hall Building,  University of California Los Angeles, UCLA ( 611 Charles E. Young Drive, East, Los Angeles, California 90095 )
Related peer-reviewed study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269912/

This lecture will be about our new scientific discovery featured by Chicago Sun-Times,  Chronicle of Higher Education,  Daily Herald,  Discovery News,  Reuters,  Scripps Howard News,  U.S. News & World Report,  United Press International, UPI ,  Wall Street Journal, and  Wall Street Journal Blog.  You can retrieve the full text of these stories by clicking on any of these links.

Feel free to alert your friends and colleagues about this upcoming event.

Directions: Take the 405 (San Diego Freeway) to Wilshire Blvd. Turn toward Westwood. Turn Left on Westwood Blvd. and then enter into the main campus of UCLA. Drive to the Parking Kiosk in the center median and request parking for Lot No. 9. Turn right and right and enter the gate. Go to the very top at roof-top level and park in the diagonally opposite corner of the structure. Go up the ramp and to the end. Turn right and left and left. The first building on the left is Boyer Hall. Check the sign on the glass of the front door. Once in the building, take a quick right to Conference Room 159.

Click for an interactive map of the campus.

Telephone Numbers of Meeting Organizers:  
Voice: 310-400-7352; Cell: 310-892-9120
 
Hope to see you there!

Thank you,

-- Leonid  and  Natalia

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-- Leonid Gavrilov, Ph.D., GSA Fellow
-- Natalia Gavrilova, Ph.D., GSA Fellow
Center on Aging, NORC at the University of Chicago
Website: http://longevity-science.org/
Blog: http://longevity-science.blogspot.com/

Press Release: Research reveals ageing related to genetic programming

Greetings,

Surprise!   Recently  Journalism.co.uk  has unexpectedly published Press Release about our peer-reviewed study:

Testing predictions of the programmed and stochastic theories of aging:
Comparison of variation in age at death, menopause, and sexual maturation.
Biochemistry (Moscow), 2012, 77(7), 754-760.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428266/

Full text of this Press Release is published here:

http://www.journalism.co.uk/press-releases/research-reveals-ageing-related-to-genetic-programming/s66/a552156/

We have not seen it before its publication, so we could not correct it.   Here are some excerpts:

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Press Release

Research reveals ageing related to genetic programming 

Want to know about the mystery of why we age?  Groundbreaking new research may have brought us one step closer 

 Posted:  20 February 2013

Research scientists concerned with the nature of human ageing have found, surprisingly, that the timing of the ageing process may be run by our ‘biological clocks’ as accurately and predictably as predetermined genetic events, like puberty.

Previously, many scientists believed that the early stages of human development were genetically programmed and could be accurately predicted, while ageing events like menopause took place more randomly as bodies wear out. However, researchers found that “age at menopause has surprisingly small variability as if it is determined by biological clocks rather than by random loss of oocytes.”

Dr. Leonid Gavrilov, one of the co-authors of the new research entiled Testing Evolutionary Theories of Ageing and Longevity, said: "This new finding is important because of heated debates among scientists on the nature of human ageing - whether it is simply a wearing-out, like an accumulation of random damage, or a genetic program similar to other early developmental programs like reaching sexual maturity."

Dr. Gavrilov went on to say that research of this kind has a "profound effect" on the possibility of lengthening the healthy human lifespan. "If ageing is a wearing-out process, like in cars and other machines, then the emphasis should be on maintenance and repair through stem cells and other research. However, if ageing is a genetic program then the emphasis should be on identification of 'ageing' genes and attempts to reprogram it."  

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The researchers’ peer-reviewed study on ageing has been gathering much-deserved attention from the scientific community, having already been published in an academic journal and earning researchers an invitation to discuss their findings at a seminar at the University of Southern California Los Angeles on 1 March.

Notes for Editors

"Testing Evolutionary Theories of Ageing and Longevity"
When: Friday, March 1 at 3 pm
Where: USC Longevity Institute (3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089)
Related peer-reviewed study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428266/

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Guess, what things need to be corrected here?

Our Upcoming Seminar in Los Angeles, March 1

Greetings,

We are pleased to alert you about our upcoming seminar, which will take place in Los Angeles, on March 1:

“Testing Evolutionary Theories of Aging and Longevity”
When: Friday, March 1 at 3 pm
Where:  Conference Room 'Gerontology 224',  USC Longevity Institute (3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089)
Related peer-reviewed study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428266/

Feel free to alert your friends and colleagues about this upcoming event. 

The organizers would like to know how many people to expect so that they could select an appropriate room size.  Therefore please email us, if you wish to attend.

Hope to see you there!

Thank you,

-- Leonid  and  Natalia
 

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-- Leonid Gavrilov, Ph.D., GSA Fellow
-- Natalia Gavrilova, Ph.D., GSA Fellow
Center on Aging, NORC at the University of Chicago
Website: http://longevity-science.org/
Blog: http://longevity-science.blogspot.com/