The conference photograph is now available.

Videos of the presentations are currently being edited and made available by our volunteers. You can find the videos that are already available by following the (Video) links on the abstracts page, or via our YouTube channel.

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

You are cordially invited to participate in the fifth Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) Conference, which will be held from 31st August - 4th September, 2011 at Queens' College, Cambridge.

The purpose of the SENS conference series, like all the SENS initiatives (such as the journal Rejuvenation Research), 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 - to reverse - those changes, rather than merely to slow down their further accumulation. This broadly defined regenerative medicine - which includes the repair of living cells and extracellular material in situ - applied to damage of aging, is what we refer to as rejuvenation biotechnologies.

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.

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.

SENS5 is listed on many conference calendars including: