A Successful 2024 Colloquium
Thank you to all who attended and supported our 34th IOA Annual Colloquium, held Sept. 18, 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin.
If you were unable to participate, see below for some of the resources that were offered at the event:
2024 Exhibitors showcased at our Health & Resource Fair
2024 Speaker Presentation Slides
Marsha Mailick, PhD
Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, Emeritus; Vaughan Bascom & Elizabeth M. Boggs Professorships, Waisman Center; UW–Madison
Musculoskeletal Health with Aging: Perspective of an Aging Clinician Researcher
Neil Binkley, MD
Professor, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, School of Medicine and Public Health; Director, UW Osteoporosis Clinical Research Program; Associate Director, Institute on Aging; UW–Madison
Caring for My Abuser: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Intergenerational Caregiving
Jooyoung Kong, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor, Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, UW–Madison
Expansion, Equity, and the Economy of U.S. Higher Education since the 1960s
Adam Nelson, PhD
Senior Associate Dean, School of Education; Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Depts. Educational Policy Studies & History; UW–Madison
2024 New Investigator Award Winners
Awards are given to UW–Madison students or advanced trainees to recognize outstanding achievement in aging or life course studies. Winners receive a $500 award and their research is showcased in the event’s Poster Session. This year’s winners were:
Biological/Biomedical Research Award: Bailey Knopf
Sex-dependent metabolic responses to protein restriction are ablated by ovariectomy
Clinical/Applied Research Award: Ejura Salihu
Acceptability of inclusive Tai Chi Prime in Latinx and African American/Black communities
Psychosocial Research Award: Mingtong Liu
The association of tau and amyloid levels with representational similarity in the amygdala’s reactivity to and recovery from negative stimuli in individuals at risk for Alzheimer’s disease
Posters Presented at the 2024 Poster Session:
Perceived discrimination: A risk factor for accelerated brain aging
Presented by: Nagesh Adluru
Lifelong restriction of dietary valine has sex-specific benefits for health span and lifespan in mice
Presented by: Mariah Calubag
Low protein diet improves metabolic health but not lifespan in aged mice
Presented by: Isaac Grunow
Predicting myocardial infarction risk using abdominal CT-derived biomarkers
Presented by: Yunju Ha
Identifying patterns in patient-reported dysphagia across dementia progression
Presented by: Alyssa Huelsbeck
Implementation of Riding in the Moment in Dane County: An adaptive horseback riding program for adults with dementia and their care partners
Presented by: Benazir Meera
Associations between time spent on paid, unpaid work, and well-being
Presented by: Jonathan Morris
Mechanisms of Latino migrant retention: Lived-in experiences from the third age and implications for health
Presented by: Johanna Nunez
Age associations and retinal structure-function relationships in companion dogs
Presented by: Michele Salzman
Protein restriction improves metabolic health independent of dietary sugar content
Presented by: Michelle Sonsalla
Predicting fracture using bone mineral density from abdominal CT scans
Presented by: Alexandra Wong
Dietary restriction of individual BCAAs improved metabolic health and cognition in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Presented by: Fan Xiao
Hippocampal connectivity in aging: the impact on purpose in life
Presented by: Yiyi Zhu