LongeCity Newsletter
September 2011
Message
from the Chairman:
Short and sweet, an update on the items from last newsletter. The LongeCity forums
were updated as announced -- check out the new features! The call for
expression of
interests on the next research fundraiser on cryopreservation and
biostasis has now closed. Meetings were held and more are being
planned.
All
these and many other projects besides are under develpoment
and discussion at LongeCity, and they all need your feedback and
participation. It would be great to hear from you!
Caliban
NEWS
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Forum
upgraded
We conducted a
major technical upgrade to the forum software. A number of significant
developmennts include:
- Design:
with the help of the winning desinger we are starting to implement
customisations. We are also looking at a new 'skin' for the forum for a
fresh new look.
- Tags: Topic starters can now designate tags to their posts and
thereby cross-reference posts to broader themes and topics. Potentially
a very powerful tool to make LongeCity a more efficient information
repository while maintaining our approach to community-sourced content.
- Customised 'recent topics' - many people who use this feature
regularly will enjoy the new capacity to only include certain forums in
the automated 'renent topics' collection.
- Operability: a number of technical tweaks should hopefully make the forums quicker to navigate.
As
is the way with these things, (Members will be used to this by now) a
couple of things went awry and there may be a couple of glitiches still
to be ironed out.
>> Feedback
& bug reports
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Research
Funding
LongeCity continues its proud tradition to support small-scale,
high-impact life extension research. For our latest Last month we asked
for expressions of interest suggesting a project dealing with
cryopreservation, cryobiology,
biostasis or a related topic.'Ettinger Fundraiser'. We have received
more than one proposal of significant merit and will
discuss these interenally
and consult with peer reviewers. Hopefully, this selection process will
be
concluded next month and we can start another round of
matched fundraising to support the chosen project.
More
broadly, with new developments on our funded project, final report due
for the second, the third one having launched last month, the fourth
one in peer review phase and the science initiative getting into swing,
we are planning a gerneral report on LongeCity Science initiative for
consideration and discussion by the Membership. The report is not quite
finished, but watch out for it later this month.
>> Science
Support Report & Discussion (Members)
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Regional
Meetings
As usual, LongeCity members met
at the SENS conference in Cambridge, UK
one of the foremost international meetings on life extension
bioscience. For those who went, it was great to see some
familiar faces and make new friends. This triggered the idea of
engouraging Longecity members to meet locally. We have set a small
budget aside to support such gatherings, e.g. by contributing towards
room hire or travel costs.
>>
Poll
to help organise these meetings
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