Abstract
The 6th International Meeting on Bone Marrow Adiposity (BMA) entitled “Marrow Adiposity: Bone, Aging, and Beyond” (BMA2020) was held virtually on September 9th and 10th, 2020. The mission of this meeting was to facilitate communication and collaboration among scientists from around the world who are interested in different aspects of bone marrow adiposity in health and disease. The BMA2020 meeting brought together 198 attendees from diverse research and clinical backgrounds spanning fields including bone biology, endocrinology, stem cell biology, metabolism, oncology, aging, and hematopoiesis. The congress featured an invited keynote address by Ormond MacDougald and ten invited speakers, in addition to 20 short talks, 35 posters, and several training and networking sessions. This report summarizes and highlights the scientific content of the meeting and the progress of the working groups of the BMA society (http://bma-society.org/).
Highlights
The primary goal of the 6th international meeting on Bone Marrow Adiposity, “Marrow Adiposity: Bone, Aging, and Beyond” (BMA2020), was to provide a forum for basic, translational, and clinical scientists from around the world to discuss different aspects of bone marrow adiposity in health and disease
Despite the change in format, the BMA2020 meeting succeeded in bringing together clinicians and scientists studying all aspects of bone marrow adiposity, contributing to the advancement of the field
The highlighted topics of the posters fell into several main categories including aging, bone marrow adipose tissue (BMAT) dynamics and bone mass, endocrine regulation, imaging and advanced methods, metabolism, metastasis, myeloma and hematopoiesis, obesity and malnutrition, and progenitors and lineage tracing
Summary
The primary goal of the 6th international meeting on Bone Marrow Adiposity, “Marrow Adiposity: Bone, Aging, and Beyond” (BMA2020), was to provide a forum for basic, translational, and clinical scientists from around the world to discuss different aspects of bone marrow adiposity in health and disease. Despite the change in format, the BMA2020 meeting succeeded in bringing together clinicians and scientists studying all aspects of bone marrow adiposity, contributing to the advancement of the field. The scientific sessions at BMA2020 included bone marrow adipocyte (BMAd) dynamics and bone mass in aging, obesity and malnutrition, as well as BMAd progenitors and lineage tracing, metabolism, hematopoiesis, metastasis, leukemia and myeloma, endocrine regulation, exercise, and advanced methods of BMAd imaging and analysis, as discussed below.
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