Link-Age
 
 
 
 
Ageing demography


Contact

Coordinator
Olivier Toussaint, PhD


Contact and information
Béatrice Rayet, PhD
LINK-AGE deputy coordinator
The University of Namur
URBC - 61, rue de Bruxelles
B-5000 Namur - Belgium
Tel: * 32 (0) 81 72 41 07
Fax: * 32 (0) 81 72 41 35
beatrice.rayet@fundp.ac.be


LINK-AGE : coordination and consolidation of European biogerontology: en route towards formation of a European college of biogerontology

A Group


Each Topic Sub-Group aims the development of common research
goals and strategies.

Chairpersons: Heinz Osiewacz and Chitty Chen

I. Mitochondria/ Stress/ Proteins and DNA damages
II. Genetics and Proteomics: Technical approaches
III. Biomarkers
IV. Immuno-ageing/ Sarcopenia/ Diabetes

The 2008 Research Topic Group A  took place together with the Research Topic on Interspecies comparison (chair person: Jacques Vanfleteren), just before the 6th European Congress of Biogerontology, from 29/11 14h to 30/11 17h.

The first group A meeting took place on May 24 2007 in Spetses island after the:

12th Congress of the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology (IABG)
''Molecular Mechanisms and Models of Ageing'' - Spetses island, Greece 20-24 May 2007 Web site