Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), Second Conference

Queens' College, Cambridge, England

7th - 11th September, 2005 

Thanks to the hard work of Kevin Perrott, audio recordings of the majority of the talks at SENS2 are available as MP3 files, linked from the abstracts page. We have also provided the presentations of as many speakers as possible for download from the same page. The absence of any link generally indicates that the presentation contained unpublished or otherwise confidential material, such that the speaker has withheld their permission to distribute the file. Therefore please do not request copies of unlisted files, as we are unable to provide them.

The text of the original announcement is reproduced below for historical interest.

You are cordially invited to participate in the second Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) conference, which will be held from 7-11 September 2005 at Queens' College, Cambridge.

The purpose of the SENS conference series, like all the SENS initiatives (such as the journal Rejuvenation Research and the Methuselah Mouse Prize), is to expedite the development of truly effective therapies to postpone and treat human aging by tackling it as an engineering problem: not seeking elusive and probably illusory magic bullets, but instead enumerating the accumulating molecular and cellular changes that eventually kill us and identifying ways to repair -- reverse -- those changes, rather than merely to slow down their further accumulation.

This year's SENS Lecture, provisionally entitled "Stem cells, SCNT and the rejuvenation imperative", will be given by Dr. Michael West, CEO of Advanced Cell Technology.

SENS 2 will therefore continue and extend the superlative quality of the inaugural SENS conference held in 2003. The calibre of that meeting can be seen from the abstracts, the online audio recordings of the talks, and most of all from the proceedings volume, which was published as volume 1019 of the prestigious Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The proceedings of SENS 2 will be published in Rejuvenation Research, the only international peer-reviewed academic journal focused on the development of technologies to postpone and reverse age-related physical and cognitive decline in mammals and eventually humans.

The meeting will comprise invited talks, short oral presentations of submitted abstracts, and poster sessions. There will be no concurrent sessions. Talks will take place in the Fitzpatrick Lecture Hall. Poster sessions will take place each evening in the conservatory adjacent to the bar, with the customary free alcohol.

The conference will also feature the traditional punting on the Cam: an hour on the Backs for the faint-hearted and an afternoon or evening trip to Grantchester for the rest of us.

All questions should be directed to the main organiser, Aubrey de Grey.