shift to a quinquennial cycle; by this time the University of Alberta's Centre for Gerontology had formally changed its name to the Alberta Centre on Aging and was the lead sponsor for the conference. Branded as the Edmonton Aging Symposium, the conference was held March 30-31, 2007. The 2007 symposium featured presentations from Aubrey de Grey, Gregory Stock, Ronald Bailey, Daniel Callahan, Luiji Fontana, Judith Campisi, William J. Evans, Ellen Heber-Katz, and Amit Patel, amongst others. The 2007 symposium took place at Bernard Snell Hall at the University of Alberta. The 2007 symposium was organized by Dr. Kevin Perrott. 2012 Similar to the symposium presented five years prior in 2007, Alberta's fifth aging symposium was held on campus at the University of Alberta. Instead of being presented by the Alberta Centre on Aging, however, the fifth symposium was sponsored by the university's Special Interest Group on Aging in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. The fifth aging symposium was held in June 2012. 2017 From September 11-13, 2017 a sixth aging symposium was held in Hinton, Alberta and sponsored by Grey Matters Alberta. See also Alberta Centre on Aging List of Canadian provinces and territories by life expectancy References External links Official website Ageing Academic conferences Gerontology organizations Medical conferences Science conferences