The
Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis and Stress in C. elegans (MAPS) conference takes place at the University of Wisconsin, Madison July 14-17, 2022. This biyearly meeting gathers researchers who use C. elegans to answer fundamental questions in physiology. C. elegans are simple animals used to advance many areas of research. The advantage of C. elegans as a model lies in both its simplicity and its complexity. While its small size, rapid development and reproduction and ease of manipulation enable analyses not feasible with more complex models, as an animal, its complexity, relative to cell-based assays, is invaluable in studying organismal phenotypes like aging and pathogenesis.
This Research Topic aims to provide a collection of articles highlighting excellent research presented at this year’s MAPS conference. Participants of the conference are invited to submit original articles or reviews (including mini-reviews) that focus on the scientific topics of the conference: “Aging: from organelles to organisms”, “Maintenance and failure of homeostatic mechanisms”, “Metabolic signal integration in aging”, “Stress responses and cellular aging”, “Organismal physiology and aging”, and “Microbes, environments, and aging”. Researchers working in these areas not attending the conference are also welcome to submit their manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed.
We welcome submissions related to but not limited to the following sub-topics:
• Pathways that regulate aging
• Age-associated decline
• Innate immune function and aging
• Metabolic influence in aging or pathogenesis
• Cellular and organismal stress response and aging
• Microbes, environments and aging
• Metabolic control of development or aging
We would like to acknowledge
Prof. Veena Prahlad who has acted as coordinator and has contributed to the preparation of the proposal for this Research Topic.
The
Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis and Stress in C. elegans (MAPS) conference takes place at the University of Wisconsin, Madison July 14-17, 2022. This biyearly meeting gathers researchers who use C. elegans to answer fundamental questions in physiology. C. elegans are simple animals used to advance many areas of research. The advantage of C. elegans as a model lies in both its simplicity and its complexity. While its small size, rapid development and reproduction and ease of manipulation enable analyses not feasible with more complex models, as an animal, its complexity, relative to cell-based assays, is invaluable in studying organismal phenotypes like aging and pathogenesis.
This Research Topic aims to provide a collection of articles highlighting excellent research presented at this year’s MAPS conference. Participants of the conference are invited to submit original articles or reviews (including mini-reviews) that focus on the scientific topics of the conference: “Aging: from organelles to organisms”, “Maintenance and failure of homeostatic mechanisms”, “Metabolic signal integration in aging”, “Stress responses and cellular aging”, “Organismal physiology and aging”, and “Microbes, environments, and aging”. Researchers working in these areas not attending the conference are also welcome to submit their manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed.
We welcome submissions related to but not limited to the following sub-topics:
• Pathways that regulate aging
• Age-associated decline
• Innate immune function and aging
• Metabolic influence in aging or pathogenesis
• Cellular and organismal stress response and aging
• Microbes, environments and aging
• Metabolic control of development or aging
We would like to acknowledge
Prof. Veena Prahlad who has acted as coordinator and has contributed to the preparation of the proposal for this Research Topic.