Welcome Remarks (Colter Mitchell)

Remarks from NIA (John Phillips/Jon King)

Collection and Storage Effects on Measurement 

• Updates from the Telomere Network (Stacy Drury)
• Do Collection and Storage Effect the Measurement of Telomere Length and DNA Methylation? (Dan Notterman and Colter Mitchell)
• Impact of Long Term Storage on Dried Blood Spot Assays (Phil Schumm)

Blood Collection with Patient-Centric Devices

• Self Collection of Blood for Biomarkers of Aging in a Sample of Older Sexual and Gender Minority Adults (Lauren Gaydosh)
• Comparing Tasso to Venous Blood-Assay Validity (Bharat Thyagarajan)
• Assays Using the Tasso Device (Steve Cole)

Inflammation and Hormonal Measures- Collection and Rethinking Use in Analyses

• Out of the Lab and Into the Field: A Minimally- Invasive Cell Culture System to Advance Research on Inflammation, Aging and Health (Thomas W. McDade)
• A Latent Variable for Systemic Inflammation in the Health and Retirement Study (Helen Meier)
• Re-Examining Population Biomarkers of Thyroid Function: Demographic and Socio-Economic Relationships with Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis Hormones (Ralph Lawton)

Genomic Methods

• The Phenotype Differences Method: Identifying Genetic Effects with Incomplete Sibling Type Data (Sam Trejo)
• A Novel Biological Clock from RNA-Seq (Eric T. Klopack)
• DunedinPACE, a DNA Methylation Biomarker of the Pace of Aging: How to Use the Measure and Interpret Results (Dan Belsky)

Microbiome- Collection and Data Use

• Collection of Fecal Samples to Investigate the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Older Adults the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) (Aisling O’Halloran)
• Gut Microbiome Collection in AddHealth (Kathleen Harris and Bob Hummer)
• Estimating Adult Biological Age with Multiple Domains Through a Generalized Structural Equation Model (Hiram Beltran-Sanchez)

Measures of Neuropathology

• Validity of Field Collected Measures (Bharat Thyagarajan)
• The Association of Blood-Based Biomarkers of Neuropathology with Cognitive Performance in HRS (Jessica Faul)

Announcements

Future Planning/Discussion

Closing Remarks (Eileen Crimmins)