Symposia Report of The Annual Biological Sciences Section Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America 2023, Tampa, Florida

Blanka Rogina^{1

2}, Rozalyn Anderson^{3

4}, Nathan K LeBrasseur^{5

6}, Sean P Curran⁷, Matthew J Yousefzadeh⁸, Bhaswati Ghosh⁹, Gustavo Duque^{10

11}, Susan Howlett^{12

13}, Steven Austad¹⁴, Ilja Demuth¹⁵, Denis Gerstorf¹⁶, Justin Korfhage^{17

18}, David B Lombard^{17

18}, Peter Abadir¹⁹, Kaare Christensen²⁰, James R Carey²¹, Susan C Alberts²², Fernando Campos²³, Juan Pablo Palavicini^{24

25}, Allyson Palmer²⁶, Justice Bell²⁷, Nathan Basisty²⁸, Rafael de Cabo²⁸, Ana Gomes²⁹, Vishwa Deep Dixit³⁰, Payel Sen³¹, Joseph A Baur³², Shin-Ichiro Imai³³, Xiaoling Li³⁴, Gregorio Valdez³⁵, Miranda E Orr^{36

37}, Scott Pletcher³⁸, Julie Andersen³⁹, Leanne Jones⁴⁰, David Castillo-Azofeida⁴¹, Michael Bonaguidi⁴², Yousin Suh⁴³, Francesca E Duncan⁴⁴, Anna Murray⁴⁵, Meng C Wang⁴⁶, Kristopher Burkewitz⁴⁷, Mike Henne⁴⁸, Kai Zhou³⁹, Mustapha Bouhrara⁴⁹, Dan Benjamini⁵⁰, Shannon Kolind⁵¹, Keenan A Walker⁵⁰, David A Reiter⁵², Douglas C Dean 3rd⁵³, Vera Gorbunova⁵⁴, Vadim N Gladyshev⁵⁵, Robert Palovics⁵⁶, Laura J Niedernhofer⁵⁷, Rong Fan⁵⁸, Andreas D Bueckle⁵⁹, Jennifer Hurley⁶⁰, Karyn A Esser⁶¹, Pankaj Kapahi³⁹, Shogo Sato⁶², Nisi Jiang⁶³, Sarah A Ashiqueali^{5

6}, Jose Diaz⁶⁴, Sidharth Prasad Mishra⁶⁵, Nuno Raimundo⁶⁶, Reema Banarjee²⁸, Richard Allsopp⁶⁷, Lindsay M Reynolds⁶⁸, Bohan Zhang⁵⁵, Paola Sebastiani⁶⁹, Stefano Monti⁷⁰, Nicholas Schork⁷¹, Noa Rappaport^{39

72}

Affiliations

¹ Genetics & Genome Sciences, University of Connecticut Health School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
² Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut Health School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁴ GRECC, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁵ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁶ Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁷ Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁸ Columbia Center for Human Longevity, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, Columbia Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
⁹ Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
¹⁰ Bone, Muscle & Geroscience Group, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹¹ Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹² Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
¹³ Department of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Psychology, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁷ Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
¹⁸ Miami VA Healthcare System, Miami, Florida, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
²⁰ Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
²¹ Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.
²² Department of Biology, Population Research Institute, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
²³ Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
²⁴ Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
²⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
²⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
²⁷ Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA.
²⁸ Translational Gerontology Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
²⁹ Department of Molecular Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA.
³⁰ Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³¹ Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³² Department of Physiology and Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
³³ Developmental Biology and Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
³⁴ Intramural Research Program, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
³⁵ Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rode Island, USA.
³⁶ Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
³⁷ W. G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.
³⁸ Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
³⁹ Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, USA.
⁴⁰ Anatomy, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴¹ IRegenerative Medicine, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴² Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Clinical and Biomedical Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
⁴⁶ HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
⁴⁹ Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵⁰ Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵¹ Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵² Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Biology and Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
⁵⁵ Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
⁵⁷ Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁵⁸ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
⁶⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA.
⁶¹ Department of Physiology and Aging, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁶² Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
⁶³ Cellular and Integrative Physiology, UT Health, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
⁶⁴ College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁶⁵ Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
⁶⁶ Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁶⁷ Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
⁶⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
⁶⁹ Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷⁰ Department of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷¹ Division of Clinical Genomic and Therapeutics, Translational Genomic Institute (tgen), Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
⁷² Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, USA.

PMID: 39932386
PMCID: PMC12046124 (available on 2026-02-11)
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glaf026

Symposia Report of The Annual Biological Sciences Section Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America 2023, Tampa, Florida

Blanka Rogina et al. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2025.

. 2025 Apr 7;80(5):glaf026.

doi: 10.1093/gerona/glaf026.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Genetics & Genome Sciences, University of Connecticut Health School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
² Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut Health School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁴ GRECC, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁵ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁶ Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁷ Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁸ Columbia Center for Human Longevity, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, Columbia Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
⁹ Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
¹⁰ Bone, Muscle & Geroscience Group, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹¹ Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹² Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
¹³ Department of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Psychology, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁷ Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
¹⁸ Miami VA Healthcare System, Miami, Florida, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
²⁰ Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
²¹ Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.
²² Department of Biology, Population Research Institute, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
²³ Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
²⁴ Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
²⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
²⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
²⁷ Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA.
²⁸ Translational Gerontology Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
²⁹ Department of Molecular Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA.
³⁰ Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³¹ Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³² Department of Physiology and Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
³³ Developmental Biology and Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
³⁴ Intramural Research Program, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
³⁵ Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rode Island, USA.
³⁶ Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
³⁷ W. G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.
³⁸ Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
³⁹ Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, USA.
⁴⁰ Anatomy, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴¹ IRegenerative Medicine, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴² Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Clinical and Biomedical Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
⁴⁶ HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
⁴⁹ Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵⁰ Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵¹ Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵² Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Biology and Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
⁵⁵ Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
⁵⁷ Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁵⁸ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
⁶⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA.
⁶¹ Department of Physiology and Aging, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁶² Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
⁶³ Cellular and Integrative Physiology, UT Health, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
⁶⁴ College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁶⁵ Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
⁶⁶ Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁶⁷ Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
⁶⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
⁶⁹ Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷⁰ Department of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷¹ Division of Clinical Genomic and Therapeutics, Translational Genomic Institute (tgen), Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
⁷² Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, USA.

PMID: 39932386
PMCID: PMC12046124 (available on 2026-02-11)
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glaf026

Abstract

The aging process is universal, and it is characterized by a progressive deterioration and decrease in physiological function leading to decline on the organismal level. Nevertheless, a number of genetic and nongenetic interventions have been described, which successfully extend healthspan and lifespan in different species. Furthermore, a number of clinical trials have been evaluating the feasibility of different interventions to promote human health. The goal of the annual Biological Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America meeting was to share current knowledge of different topics in aging research and provide a vision of the future of aging research. The meeting gathered international experts in diverse areas of aging research including basic biology, demography, and clinical and translational studies. Specific topics included metabolism, inflammaging, epigenetic clocks, frailty, senescence, neuroscience, stem cells, reproductive aging, inter-organelle crosstalk, comparative transcriptomics of longevity, circadian clock, metabolomics, and biodemography.

Keywords: Biology of aging; Caloric restriction; Lifespan extension; Metabolism; Senescence.

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Symposia Report of The Annual Biological Sciences Section Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America 2023, Tampa, Florida

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