TY - JOUR
T1 - Advances in age-old questions
AU - Carlson, Darby J.
AU - Pashaj, Anjeza
AU - Gardner, Kylee
AU - Carlson, Kimberly A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Larry Harshman for useful editorial comments and the following sources for funding: NIH grant number P20 RR016469 from the INBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources (all authors), University of Nebraska (UNK) College of Natural and Social Sciences (Kimberly A. Carlson and Darby J. Carlson), UNK Research Services Council (Anjeza Pashaj), UNK Undergraduate Research Council (Kylee Gardner), and UNK Student Talent Development funds (Anjeza Pashaj and Kylee Gardner).
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Drosophila melanogaster is an ideal model organism for various types of aging studies. They are easy to maintain, relatively inexpensive, have short life cycles, provide large sample sizes, and can be genetically manipulated via various methods for testing. The 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, held in San Diego, CA (April 2-6, 2008), had over 30 poster presentations and eight platform talks devoted to physiology and aging, and seven presentations in a longevity and functional senescence workshop. The data presented via these avenues included life span manipulation, physiological related genes, candidate aging genes, gene expression, signaling, and using D. melanogaster as a model for age related disease, to name a few. This report provides highlights of some of the information presented in the poster, platform and workshop presentations.
AB - Drosophila melanogaster is an ideal model organism for various types of aging studies. They are easy to maintain, relatively inexpensive, have short life cycles, provide large sample sizes, and can be genetically manipulated via various methods for testing. The 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, held in San Diego, CA (April 2-6, 2008), had over 30 poster presentations and eight platform talks devoted to physiology and aging, and seven presentations in a longevity and functional senescence workshop. The data presented via these avenues included life span manipulation, physiological related genes, candidate aging genes, gene expression, signaling, and using D. melanogaster as a model for age related disease, to name a few. This report provides highlights of some of the information presented in the poster, platform and workshop presentations.
KW - Candidate aging genes
KW - Drosophila melanogaster
KW - Gene expression
KW - Life span manipulation
KW - Model for age related diseases
KW - Physiological related genes
KW - Signaling
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U2 - 10.4161/fly.6381
DO - 10.4161/fly.6381
M3 - Article
C2 - 18820437
AN - SCOPUS:79951995873
SN - 1933-6934
VL - 2
SP - 149
EP - 151
JO - Fly
JF - Fly
IS - 3
ER -