Past Meetings and Webinars

Remote Biomarker Collection in the COVID-19 Era: Strategies for respondent self-collection

Oct 27, 2020 | 11am-12pm PDT via Zoom

Agenda

• Introduction & Background
• Overview of remote blood collection strategies 
  • Dried blood spots (mailable self-draw kits; HemaSpot HF/SE/HD)
  • Microfluidic samplers (Tasso OnDemand, TAP 2nd Gen)
  • Logistics & infrastructure (mailing/transport, self-collection instructions/videos, participant support, regulatory issues, logistics services)
• Optimizing self-collected blood samples 
  • Sample collection protocols, with tips & tricks for both DBS & microfluidics
  • Customized instruction videos, Zoom “call centers”/”office hours”
• Analytic performance: what works, and what doesn’t 
  • Correspondence of DBS / microfluidic samples to venipuncture “gold standard”
  • Issues to manage (sample volume, humidity, temperature)
  • Interpretive caveats (SNR/power adjustment, LLD, fragile/untrustworthy analytes, venous vs capillary blood)
  • Experienced assay labs (volume, system-level QC)
• Temperature control 
  • Cold-chain maintenance (Health & Retirement Study salivary antibody example)
  • Logistics services (e.g., UPS Healthcare)
• Q&A 
• Adjourn 

Measuring Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 Webinar

Oct 22, 2020 | 11am-12:30pm PDT via Zoom

Agenda

Mark Wener: COVID19 Serology Introduction & General Principles
Thomas McDade: Quantitative Serological Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Dried Blood Spots
Bharat Thyagarajan: SARS Co-V-2 Antibody Tests

Virtual NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Sessions

June 16, 19 & 22, 2020

Agenda

Day 1 – June 16, 2020
Virtual Biomarker Network Meeting Day 1 Recording

• Welcome
  Teresa Seeman and Eileen Crimmins, USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health
  Lisbeth Nielsen, National Institute on Aging
• Biomarkers and Stress | Moderator – Eileen Crimmins
  How do war and stress contribute to subjective age? An analysis of biological, psychosocial and life course stress factors in the Vietnam Health and Aging Study
  Kim Korinek, Eleanor Brindle, Jefferson Schmidt, Tran Khanh Toan, Zachary Zimmer
• Cortisol concentrations in hair are reduced 14 years after exposure to a major natural disaster
  Ralph Lawton, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Teresa Seeman, Eileen Crimmins, Cecep Sumantri, Duncan Thomas
• Effect of violence crime in adolescent’s activity space on perceived and biological stress
  Jodi L. Ford, Christopher R. Browning, Kammi Schmeer, Catherine Calder, Beth Boettner, & Jacob Tarrence
• The role of early life environments in U.S. socioeconomic disparities in adult chronic inflammation
  Stephanie Koning, Thomas McDade
• Questions – Managed by Teresa Seeman and Steve Cole

Day 2 – June 19, 2020
Virtual Biomarker Network Meeting Day 2 Recording

• Welcome
  Eileen Crimmins and Teresa Seeman
• Biomarkers and Health Outcomes | Moderator – Teresa Seeman
  Lifespan adversity and epigenetic age acceleration in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  Cathal McCrory, Giovanni Fiorito, Paolo Vineis, Rose Anne Kenny
• Associations between changes in vitamin D levels and health in later life: evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing
  Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto, Cesar Messias de Oliveira Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto, Cesar Messias de Oliveira
• The Interaction of age and mild cognitive impairment on brain morphometry: Neuroimaging analysis from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India: Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (LASI-DAD)
  Brenton Keller, Jorge Jovicich, Arthur Toga, Jinkook Lee
• Biomeasures in the time of COVID19: remote self-administered collection
  Martha K. McClintock, Joscelyn Hoffmann, Hannah You, Elbert Huang, Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, Jay Pinto, L. Phillip Schumm and Kristen Wroblewski
• Questions – Steve Cole and Eileen Crimmins

Day 3 – June 22, 2020
Virtual Biomarker Network Meeting Day 3 Recording

• Telomere Measurement and Results | Moderator – Steve Cole
• Telomere Research Network
  Stacy Drury
• Telomere length estimates, lab to lab comparisons, and sample handling effects:
  Progress reports from multiple labs
  Jude Carroll, Daniel Notterman Colter Mitchell, Jessica Faul 
• Demographic and developmental patterns in telomere length across adolescence
  Lauren Gaydosh, Colter Mitchell, Daniel Notterman, Lisa Schneper, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Brandon Wagner, Kalsea Koss, and Sara McLanahan
• Questions – Teresa Seeman and Eileen Crimmins 
• Next Steps – for the Biomarker Network

2020 NIA Biomarker Network Meeting on Functional Genomics: RNA & Epigenetics in Population Health Research

April 21-22, 2020, 11am EDT (All times Eastern Daylight)

Organizers: Steve Cole, Colter Mitchell, Eileen Crimmins, Teresa Seeman

Tuesday, April 21: Sample Processing and Analytic methods

Virtual Meeting Agenda

• Welcome
• Novel Quality Control Metric Applications for RNA-Seq in Population Studies – Bharat Thyagarajan, Weihua Guan, Eileen Crimmins, Jessica Faul, David Weir, Sarah Munro.
• Patterns of reliability: Assessing the reproducibility and integrity of DNA methylation measurement. Karen Sudgen
• Longitudinal DNA Methylation Change in a Multi-ethnic Cohort Colter Mitchell, Erin Ware, Jonah Fisher, Kelly Bakulski, John Dou, Jessica Faul, Lisa Schneper, Daniel Notterman
• Cell type methods in DNA methylation studies: Biological and epidemiological frameworks. Kelly M. Bakulski
• Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test: a DNA methylation algorithm. Karen Sudgen
• Brief discussion
• Adjourn

Wednesday, April 22: Substantive Findings in Gene Expression and DNA Methylation

• Welcome
• Population-based RNA sequencing in Add Health: Major demographic differences in blood cell gene expression emerge by young adulthood. Steven W. Cole, Michael J. Shanahan, & Kathleen Mullan Harris on behalf of Add Health
• Integrative analyses of DNA methylation, RNA expression, and microbiome data in Add Health. Allison Aiello and Kathie Harris
• RNA sequencing in MIDUS: Initial findings from the Refresher Sample Steven W. Cole on behalf of the Study of Midlife in the United States.
• Integrative analysis of Transcriptomics and DNA methylation profiles. Bharat Thyagarajan, Nan Wang, Jessica Faul, Eileen Crimmins, Weihua Guan
• Epigenetic Clock Results from TILDA. Cathal McCrory
• Epigenetic Clocks in the HRS: Associations with Social, Psychological, and Biological factors and Health outcomes. Eileen Crimmins, Jessica Faul, Bharat Thyagarajan
• Brief discussion
• Adjourn

NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting
When: April 10, 2019 (8:30am – 4:30pm)
Where: JW Marriott, Austin, TX

• Agenda
• Attendees
• Telomere Validation Study – Jessica Faul
• Epigenetics Meeting and Network – Steve Cole
• Dried Blood Spots
  • Axel Börsch-Supan, Martina Börsch-Supan, Luzia Weiss: Dried Blood Spot Samples and their Validation
  • Eileen Crimmins, Yuan Zhang, Jung Ki Kim, Stephen Frochen, Hyewon Kang, Hyunju Shim, Jennifer Ailshire, Alan Potter, Jake Cofferan, Jessica Faul: Dried Blood Spots: Effects of Interviewer Collection, Shipping Time, Heat, and Humidity
  • Jake Cofferen, Alan Potter: Handle with Care: The Effects of Shipping, Holding Times, Drying Times, and Spot Size on Biomarker Recovery from Dried Blood Spots
• Genetics, Epigenetics and Flow Cytometry
  • Zuyun Liu, Diana Leung, Morgan Levine: Comparative Analysis of Epigenetic Aging Clocks from CpG Characteristics to Functional Associations
  • Lauren Schmitz, Arianna Gard, Erin Ware: Examining Sex Differences in Pleiotropic Effects for Depression and Smoking Using Polygenic and Gene-Region Aggregation Techniques
  • Bharat Thyagarajan: Role of T-cell Immunity in type 2 Diabetes: Findings from HRS
• Updates from Studies
  • Updates from SHARE – Axel Börsch-Supan
  • Updates from Add Health – Kathleen Mullan Harris
  • Updates from CHARLS – Perry Hu (or John Strauss)
  • Updates from MIDUS – Teresa Seeman
  • Updates from STAR – Elizabeth Frankenberg (or Duncan Thomas)
  • Updates from VHAS – Kim Korinek (or Ellie Brindle)
  • Updates from MHAS – Rebeca Wong (or Joseph Saenz)
  • Updates from NICOLA – Amy Jayne McKnight
  • Updates from NSHAP – Martha McClintock
  • Updates from ELSA – Paola Zaninotto
  • Updates from LASI (and LASI DAD) – Jinkook Lee
  • Updaters from HRS – Jessica Faul (or David Weir)
  • Updates from TILDA – Ann Hever
  • Updates from IFLS – John Strauss (or Perry Hu)
• Physical Activity Measurement
  • Chantel Ramraj, Phil Schumm, Sondra Birch, Diane Lauderdale: Physical Activity Measurement among Older Adults Using Triaxial Wrist Accelerometers in the US and Israel: Reliability and Concordance with Survey Questions
  • Hyunju Shim, Arie Kapteyn, Eileen Crimmins: Comparing Two Devices for Sleep Measurement
• Biomarkers I
  • Christopher Coe, Agus Surachman, David Almeida, Gayle Love, Carol Ryff: A Sensitive but Frequently Overlooked Biomarker of Health and Aging: Our Kidneys
  • Jennifer Ailshire: Air Pollution, Mitochodrial DNA and Cognition
  • Perry Hu, A.V. Dey, Sharmistha Dey, Pranali Khobragade, Joyita Banerjee, Sid Beaumaster, Eileen Crimmins, Jinkook Lee: Metabolic Syndrome and Cognitive Functioning Among Older Indians: LASI DAD
• Biomarkers II
  • Audrey Renson, Allison Aiello, Claire Yang: Cohort Effects in C-reactive Protein
  • Catherine Perez, Joseph Saenz, Rebeca Wong: Biological Risk in HRS and MHAS

NIA-Sponsored International Meeting on Biological Risk in Population Surveys
When: April 9, 2019 (9:00am – 5:00pm)
Where: JW Marriott, Austin, TX

• Agenda
• Attendees
• The Studies
  • China – CHARLS (Perry Hu and Qinqin Meng)
  • England – ELSA (Paola Zaninotto)
  • Europe – SHARE (Axel Boersch-Supan and Martina Boersch-Supan)
  • India – LASI, LASI DAD (Jinkook Lee, Pranali Khobragade, and Perry Hu)
  • Indonesia – STAR (Elizabeth Frankenberg)
  • Indonesia – IFLS (Perry Hu)
  • Ireland – TILDA (Ann Hever)
  • Mexico – MHAS (Rebeca Wong)
  • Northern Ireland – NICOLA (Amy Jayne McKnight)
  • United States – HRS (David Weir or Jessica Faul)
  • United States – MIDUS (Teresa Seeman)
  • Vietnam – VHAS (Kim Korinek and Ellie Brindle)
• Laboratory Cross-Calibration Results to Date (Teresa Seeman)
• Epigenetics in Population Studies (Steve Cole, Bharat Thyagarajan, Jessica Faul, Amy Jayne McKnight, Ann Hever)
• MRI in Population Studies (Brenton Keller and Jinkook Lee, Ann Hever, Jon King, David Weir)
• Activity and Sleep in Population Studies (Jessica Faul, Axel Borsch-Supan, Ann Hever, Jinkook Lee)
• Air Pollution in Population Studies (Jinkook Lee, Joseph Saenz, Eileen Crimmins)

NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting
When: April 25, 2018 (8:45am – 4:30pm)
Where: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, CO

• Agenda
• Attendees
• Epigenetics and Aging
  • Morgan Levine: An Epigenetic Clock for Aging and Life Expectancy
  • Lauren Gaydosh: Adolescent Striving and Epigenetic Age
• Biomarker Measurements and Results
  • Duncan Thomas: HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin Using Dried Blood Spots Collected Under Adverse Field Conditions
  • Courtney Boen: Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Biological Aging in Late Life
• Genetics
  • Robbee Wedow: The Genetics of Sexual Behavior and Orientation
  • Colter Mitchell: Application of Late Life Cognition Genes to Early Life Cognitive Development o Jason Fletcher: Early Life Exposures, Gene-Environment Interactions, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age
• State of the Field: Research on Gene-Environment Interaction
  • Jonathan Daw: Reviews of “Social by Nature” and “The Genome Factor”
  • Domments: Colter Mitchell, Jason Fletcher
• Biomarkers and Health Outcomes
  • Christopher Coe: Lessons from 10 Years of Biomarker Testing to Assess the Biology of Aging and Health in Two Countries
  • Yuan Zhang: Early Life Conditions and Later Life Biological Risk: Evidence from the Chinese Longitudinal Study of Aging (CHARLS)
• Telomere Length
  • Amy Thierry: Telomere Length and Neighborhood Characteristics: Race and Regional Differences in US Midlife and Older Adults
  • Jessica Faul: The Effects of Collection Procedures on Telomere Length Measurement in Population-based Surveys of Aging
  • Will Dow: Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): Correlates, Measurement Issues, Longitudinal Change, and Prospective Mortality
  • Judith Carroll: Telomere length measurement concerns: Cell sources, sample handling, and repeated assessments
  • Colter Mitchell: Report from NIA/NIEHS Meeting: Telomeres as Sentinels for Environmental Exposures, Psychosocial Stress, and Disease Susceptibility

NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting
When: April 26, 2017 (8:45am – 4:30pm)
Where: Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL

• Agenda
• Attendees
• Biomeasures
  • Lauren Gaydosh: Biological Age in Taiwan: Measurement and Prediction
  • Rebecca Johnson: Environmental Stress, HPA Axis Reactivity, and Child Outcomes: Moving Biomarkers from Lab to Field
• Measuring Biomarkers
  • Perry Hu: Implementation of A New Dried Blood Spot Based C-reactive Protein Assay in Indonesia
  • Kristina Pagel: Validating Field Methods for Measuring Protein Analytes in Blood Samples of Older U.S. Adults
  • Jessica Ho: Point of Care Testing in a Complex Population-Based Field Setting: An Evaluation of Four Biomarkers
• Measures in National Studies
  • Jennifer Ailshire: Health and Retirement Study – Contextual Data Resource (HRS-CDR)
  • Jessica Faul: Validation of Blood-Based Assays from Field-Collected Venous Blood in a Population-Based Study of Aging: Examination of the Health and Retirement Study
  • Amy Jayne McKnight: Analysis of Biomarkers in the Northern Ireland Cohort of Longitudinal study of Ageing (NICOLA)
• Genetics
  • Robbee Wedow: Large-scale genetic study of risk tolerance and risky behaviors identifies XX new loci and reveals shared genetic influences
  • Jason Fletcher: Genetic Endowments, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility
  • Amal Harrati: Life Course Cognition and Genetic Correlates of Cognition in Older Americans
  • David Rehkopf: DNA Methylation as a Mediator of Environments and Blood Pressure: Findings from the CRELES Study
• Genetic Indicators
  • Erin Ware: Methods of Measurement: Implications of Polygenic Scores’ Estimation Methods
  • Kalsea Koss: Copy Number Variation as a Source of Genetic Heterogeneity in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
  • Colter Mitchell: Constructing and Analyzing Genetic Rare Variant Burden Scores in Population-Based Studies
  • Jennifer Smith: Gene-Level Aggregate Methods to Evaluate Genetic Associations and Gene-by-Environment Interactions in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Data
• Biomarkers and Health Outcomes
  • Noreen Goldman: Predicting Survival: Do Age, Sex and Race Matter?
  • Ronny Westerman: The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) in Population Based Studies: Weight History and Bone Health Risks in the German National Cohort (GNC), update on German National Cohort (GNC)
• Social Factors
  • Thomas W. McDade: Socioeconomic adversity and DNA methylation in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey:  Evaluating Sensitive Periods of Exposure
  • Lauren Gaydosh: Childhood Family Instability and Adult Health
  • Courtney Boen: Social Relationships, Inflammation, and Cancer Survival
  • Pamela Herd: The Social Determinants of the Gut Microbiome
  • Jennifer Dowd: Social Determinants of the Microbiome

International Biomarker Studies Meeting
When: April 1, 2016
Where: USC Conference Center, 701 Pennsylvania Ave., Suite #540, Washington, DC 20004

NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting
@ The Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference, 2016
When: March 30, 2016
Where: Washington, DC

• Agenda
• Attendees
• Update on Assay Validations
  • Eileen Crimmins: IL-6, Vit D, CMV, EBV (1)
  • Alan Potter: Recent Progress in Developing Biomarker Assays for Dried Blood Pots (2)
• Updates from Studies
  • Nancy Dole: Add Health (3)
  • Perry Hu: CHARLS (4)
  • Joseph Saenz (Rebecca Wong): MHAS (5)
  • John Strauss: IFLS (6)
  • Jinkook Lee: LASI
  • David Weir: HRS (7)
  • Pam Herd: WLS
  • Ann Hever: TILDA (8)
  • Geeta Eick: SAGE
• Stresses and Biology
  • Michael Hurd: The Effect of Job Loss and Home Foreclosure on Health Evidence from Biomarkers
  • Elizabeth McClure: Prevalence of abandoned Homes in the neighborhood and thymic function (9)
  • Evan Krueger: Neighborhood income and high sensitivity C-reactive protein among young adults: differences by sexual orientation and gender (10)
• Genetics
  • Morgan Levine: A weighted gene correlation network analysis method for estimation of polygenic risk scores (11)
  • Benjamin Domingue: Mortality selection in a genetic sample and implications for association studies (12)
• New Measures and Markers for Demographers
  • Ronny Westerman: Imaging biomarker or surrogate end point: How do assess arterial stiffness as independent predictor for mortality and physical aging in population-based studies? (13)
  • Colter Mitchell: Nueroimaging data collection
• New Measurement Approaches
  • Lydia Feinstein: In Search of a Salient Marker of Immune Function for Population Health Research (14)
  • Geeta Eick: Validation of a commercially-available ELISA for apolopoprotein B measurement in dried blood spots (15)
• Allostatic Load and Cardiovascular Risk
  • Jenna van Draanen: Healthy Lifestyle Index Predicts Lower Allostatic Load in Young Women (16)
  • Peifeng Hu: Socioeconomic Gradients of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in China and India: Results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study and Longitudinal Aging Study in India (17)
  • Yuan Zhang: Diabetes and prediabetes in China (18)

NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting
@ The Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference, 2015
When: April 29, 2015
Where: San Diego, CA

• Agenda
• Attendees
• Social Factors and Inflammation, Allostic Load, Biological Risk and Physiological Dysregulation
  • Lee: Offspring’s Schooling and Inflammation of Older Parents
  • Dellor & Upchurch: Child Maltreatment, Interpersonal Violence and Inflammation
  • Kreuger, Hatzenbuehler and Upchurch: Sexual Identity Concordance and Allostatic Load
  • Li, Yang, Yin, Shi and Zeng: Social Relationships and Cumulative Physiologcal Dysregulation among Chinese at Advance Ages: Findings from the CLHLS
• Using Dried Blood Spots
  • Faul: Investigation of Dried Blood Spot HbA1c Measurement Errors Using TipTemp Stamps
  • Snodgrass, Thiele, Eick, Chatterji, Naidoo, Madurai, and Kowal: Preliminary Dried Blood Spot Biomarker Data from the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)
  • Eick, Urlacher, Kowal and Snodgrass: What a Drop Can(t) Do: Methodological Challenges Associated with Incorporating Dried Blood Spot Biomarkers into Population-based Research
• Updates on HRS Biomarkers
  • Crimmins: HRS Biomarker Data, 2006-2008 and 2010-2012
  • Mitchell, Ailshire, Ki Kim, Crimmins: Four-year Change in Cumulative Biological Risk: Does Race/Ethnicity Matter?
• Genetics
  • Domingue, Wedow, Conley, McQueen, Hoffman, and Boardman: The Application of Genome Wide Relationship Statistics to Social Scientific Inquir
  • Glei, Goldman, Risques, Rehkopf, Dow, Rosero-Bixby and Weinstein: Predicting Survival: Telomere Length versus Conventional Predictors
• New Measurement Approaches
  • Gruenewald: The Use of Smart Devices (Tablets, Phones) to Collect Cognitive Performance and Self-Report Activity and Affect Data
  • Herd, Rey, and DiLoreto: Incorporating the Microbiome into the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
  • Ford and Browning: Feasibility of Hair Collection for Biomarker Research in Population Studies of Adolescents: Updates from the Field
  • Westerman, Pyka, Groos, Ehlers, Krause and Mueller: Semen Quality as Predictor of Mortality in a Cohort of Out-Patients of a German Andrology Clinic: Biomedical vs. Life with-children Pathways of Influence

• • NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting
    @ The Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference, 2014
    When: April 30, 2014
    Where: Boston, MA
    • Agenda
    • Attendees
    • Update on Measures Implemented in Studies
      • Weiss: SHARE update – Airtightening DBSS collection
      • Gavrilova: Vaginal cytological characteristics as a biomeasure of estrogenization in a community based population of older women
      • Wong: Biomarkers in MHAS
      • Thomas: Health of the Mexican population in MxFLS
      • Thomas Education Diagram
      • McClintock: Update on blood-based collection in NSHAP
    • Results from India and China
      • Hu: Venous blood based biomarker data from CHARLS
      • Ho: Early life environmental exposures and adult health in India from WHO SAGE India
      • Shi: LDL and cognitive performance among Chinese elderly from CLHLS
      • Lee: Education in health from LASI
    • Results from US
      • Goosby: Perceived discrimination and biomarkers among low income youth
      • Mitchell: Discrimination, inflammation & purpose in life
      • Ford: Linking biological and social pathways to adolescent health
    • Genetics
      • Cole: RNA analyses
      • Levine: Childhood and later life stressors and increased inflammatory gene expression in old age
      • Faul: HRS Genetic data update
      • Levine: Genetic networks associated with human longevity, stress resistance, and aging
      • Mitchell: DNA Methylation
      • Meyer: Hair cortisol as a biomarker of long-term HPA activity and stress
      • Ailshire: New applications for biomarker measurement

NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting 
@ The Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference, 2013
When: April 9-10, 2013
Where: New Orleans, LA

• Study Descriptions
• Agenda & Attendees (April 9)
  • Hu: Validation & QC for DBS-based Assays
  • Biomarker Network Working Group Suggestions
  • Seeman: International Studies Workshop Priority Issues
  • Afternoon: International Studies Workshop Priority Issues
• Agenda & Attendees (April 10)
  • Seeman: Hair HPA & SNS
  • Foley: Development of SNS Marker Assays in Hair
  • McCreath: link to hair collection video
  • Hu: Point-of-Care Devices for A1C
  • Crimmins: Point of Contact Meters
  • McDade: Cytokines from DBS
  • Cole: Transcriptome Profiling from DBS
  • Kardia:
    • HRS Genomics Data Update
    • Sequence Kernel Association Test
    • Cognitive & Behavioral Phenotypes: SNPs of Interest
    • Longevity Candidate Genes: SNPs of Interest

• • • NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting 
      @ The Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference, 2012
      When: May 2, 2012
      Where: San Francisco, CA
      About: Two general topics were discussed: genetics (including issues of RNA collection and assay, measuring telomeres, and using GWAS) and developments in the use of dried blood spots. This included updates on material discussed at the last general meeting.
      • Agenda
      • List of Attendees
      • Presentation
        • Miller: DBS Assay Development
        • Potter: Effects of Shipping & Aging on DBS Assays, Assay Development
        • Hu: Setting Up a Lab & Assessing Laboratory Performance
        • Epel: Measuring RNA in Saliva, DBS, PaxGene & Venous Blood
        • Cole: Measuring Telomeres/DBS in Venous Blood
        • Boardman: GWAS Methods for Demographers

Meeting on Harmonization of Methods & Measures in Longitudinal Studies
When: May 2-3, 2011
Where: Davidson Conference Center, University of Southern California

• Agenda
• Study Descriptions

• Network on Biological Risk Inaugural Meeting
  When: March 30, 2011
  Where: Washington, DC
  • Agenda
  • List of Attendees
  • Studies With Biomarkers

Demography of Aging Biomarker Network Meeting (Genomics Workshop) 
@ The Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference, 2010
When: April 14, 2010
Where: Dallas, TX

• Meeting Agenda
• List of Attendees