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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2641
igaa057.2641
Abstracts
Session 6525 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Physiology and Aging: New Understanding of Organs That Affect the Physiology of Aging
Drummond-Barbosa Daniela Chair 2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”739 740
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
As organisms age, many changes occur to their physiology, which in turn impact the function of multiple tissues. It is therefore critical to investigate the fundamental mechanisms of how endocrine organs shape our physiology, and how changes in our physiology affect stem cell lineages, which generate new cells for maintenance and repair of tissues/organs throughout life. This symposium will highlight the research in the laboratories of Dr. Gerard Karsenty (Columbia University) on the multiple endocrine functions of bone, of Dr. Nicholas Buchon (Cornell University) on the role of host-microbe interactions in intestinal homeostasis, of Dr. Jane Hubbard (NYU/Skirball Institute) on the physiological control of the germline, and of Dr. Daniela Drummond-Barbosa (Johns Hopkins University) on how diet and adipocyte factors regulate oogenesis. As research by these and other groups illustrate, the complex physiological regulation of tissue/organ maintenance and function is not only a fascinating biological problem, but it also has implications for many diseases and other conditions that are tightly linked to our endocrine state, including aging.