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authors: Lamming, Dudley W.; Carter, Christy S.
title: Introduction: Special Issue on Aging Science Talks: Science for our Community During Isolation
date: 2020-09-06
journal: Transl Med Aging
DOI: 10.1016/j.tma.2020.09.001
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on the creation of Aging Science Talks, the lessons learned, and their thoughts on how conferences may change going forward as a result.

With the assistance of TMA editors Drs. Matt Kaeberlein and Scott Leiser, this special issue extends our CoI further by giving a voice to some of those researchers, primarily but not exclusively ECRs, who took up our call and helped successfully launch the Aging Science Talks CoI through the presentation of their research during the early days of the pandemic shutdown. In order of presentation at "Aging Science Talks": continue to join us, or join us for the first time: a schedule and links for all Aging Science Talks are available at http://www.lamminglab.org/agingscitalks.html.

This seminar series and this accompanying Special Issue describing the outcomes of this series have accomplished many things. First, we have created a forum for presenters, especially ECRs to highlight their work. We have created a forum for those presenters to publish their work, albeit in an extending abstract format to highlight their ongoing research. We have also highlighted the challenges of a PI and ECR in this time of COVID and how the seminar influenced their perspectives. Finally, we provide a way forward to maintain this community by still involving ECRs, considering the barrier of time zones, and appreciating time limitations of scientists returning to work during this pandemic.

Javier Apfield presents "The heat shock transcription factor HSF-1 protects Caenorhabditis elegans from peroxide stress

Mitochondrial hyperactivity as a potential therapeutic target in Parkinson's disease

Goldberg discusses "Integration of immune-metabolic signals to preserve healthy aging

Role of hematopoietic Aging in Cognitive Decline

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk discusses "ELOVL2: not just a biomarker of aging

High-throughput chromatin screens to identify targets of senescence and aging" [9] and reviews "The eroding chromatin landscape of aging stem cells

Extracellular Vesicles and Extracellular RNA in References

Maintaining a scientific community while social distancing

Remote but not isolated

Improving trainee engagement in science: Lessons from a virtual seminar series

The heat shock transcription factor HSF-1 protects Caenorhabditis elegans from peroxide stress

Mitochondrial hyperactivity as a potential therapeutic target in Parkinson's disease

Integration of immune-metabolic signals to preserve healthy aging

Role of hematopoietic aging in cognitive decline

Not just a biomarker of aging

High-throughput chromatin screens to identify targets of senescence and aging

The eroding chromatin landscape of aging stem cells

Extracellular vesicles and extracellular RNA in aging and age-related disease