Statistical Methods, Developments, and Challenges in Geroscience
Meeting dates: June 16-18, 2025
Location: Hyatt Place Indianapolis Downtown, 130 S. Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis IN
Hosts:
- David Allison, PhD: Dean, Distinguished Professor, and Provost Professor, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington
- Colby Vorland, PhD: Assistant Research Scientist, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington
- Tatiana Foroud, PhD: Executive Associate Dean for Research Affairs, Distinguished Professor, Chancellor's Professor, Indiana University Indianapolis
Purpose: This meeting is designed to be a multidisciplinary gathering of researchers and statisticians at all stages of their careers. The meeting is open to all. The three-day conference agenda offers both presentations and collaborative discussions, emphasizing statistical leadership, innovative study designs and statistical approaches and questions therein, and novel methods that can be applied to aging biology, with an emphasis on fostering the full continuum of translational science. Our objectives include 1) highlighting methodologic and statistical approaches that can be leveraged to answer questions in aging biology, 2) fostering collaboration among statisticians, methodologists, and geroscientists to solve statistical questions that will advance the field, and 3) identifying and supporting emerging leaders in the field through lightning talks and awards, fostering an environment of mentorship and recognition.
Applications
Enrollment to the meeting will be limited.
Thanks to our generous sponsors, there is no cost to register for the meeting. Applications for scholarships are now closed. If you are interested in registering for the meeting, please email Colby Vorland at cvorland@iu.edu.
Meeting contact: Colby Vorland, PhD. cvorland@iu.edu
Sponsors
This meeting is generously supported by the Research Centers Collaborative Network of the NIA, the Hevolution Foundation, and a Research Conference Grant from Indiana University Research.
Draft Agenda
| Time | Session Details |
|---|---|
| Day 1 | |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner and Welcome Reception by Co-Hosts |
| Keynote: S. Jay Olshansky PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago | |
| Day 2 | |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 AM | Speaker – David Allison PhD, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington |
| 10:00 AM | Speaker - Heping Zhang PhD, Yale School of Public Health |
| 10:45 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | Speaker - Cai Li PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
| 11:45 AM | Speaker - Fang Liu PhD, University of Notre Dame |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | Speaker - Travis Thompson PhD, Texas Tech University |
| 2:15 PM | Speaker - John Sorkin MD PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:15 PM | Panel Discussion |
| 3:45 PM | Lightning Talks |
| 5:00 PM | Break |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner |
| Day 3 | |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Speaker - Qian-Li Xue PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| 9:45 AM | Speaker - Emily Ho PhD, Northwestern University |
| 10:30 AM | Speaker - Colby Vorland PhD, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington |
| 11:00 AM | Panel Discussion |
| 11:15 AM | Lightning Talks |
| 12:15 AM | Discussion and Wrap-Up |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch and Meeting Concludes |
