Aging in Single-celled Organisms: from Bacteria to the Whole Tree of Life/SrividyaIyer-Biswas

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Notes by user Srividya Iyer-Biswas (Purdue Univ./SFI) for Aging in Single-celled Organisms: from Bacteria to the Whole Tree of Life

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This was an exciting meeting with a lot of animated discussions leading to interesting confluences and diverges of opinions.

Basic questions that came up again and again: What is aging? Given how contextual it is, what is a good operational definition? How to design and refine specific experiments that get to the interplay between asymmetry generation, aging, memory formation, rejuvenation, information processing, statistical learning, energetics, individual specific histories, intrinsic stochasticity in organismal growth, resilience to different perturbations, homeostasis, adaptation, evolvability, plasticity and tradeoffs therein.

I especially enjoyed discussions about new technologies and tools that can be co-opted and added as modules to ongoing experiments to get at some of these exciting questions.

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