ageing. Research interests are replicative senescence and the control of clonal growth. Trustee (2012 – present) of the Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Member of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine (2000 – present). Trustee (2012 – present) of the Marine Conservation Society. Author of The Telomere (1995). Professor Thomas Burton Loram Kirkwood CBE (1951–) 2000–present Dr James Brown (1975–)Elected to membership (2010), executive committee member (2013–). Born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire United Kingdom. Educated at Harry Cheshire high School, Staffordshire University (trained as a nurse) and Wolverhampton University (BSc (Hons) in biomedical science and PhD in the field of adipokine regulation of uncoupling-2 expression and function in human pancreatic islets). Brown was awarded the Eli Lilley Basic Science Prize (2005) at the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference. Lecturer at Aston University, research interest in metabolic regulation of ageing. Member of the British Geriatrics Society West Midlands branch. Dr Graeme L. Close (1977–)Executive committee member (2013–). Born in Wigan, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Educated at Deanery High School, Liverpool John Moores University, BSc (Hons) Sport Science and obtained his PhD in Sport Nutrition from Liverpool John Moores in 2003 investigating the role of free radials in exercise-induced muscle damage. Reader in Applied Physiology and Sports Nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. His research is focused upon the effects of vitamin D deficiencies in athletic performance, the role of antioxidants in the recovery of muscle function and the etiology of age-related loss of muscle mass. Accredited with the UK Strength and conditioning Association (UKSCA), an accredited physiologist with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and is on the Sport and exercise Nutrition register (SENr). Heads Sports Nutrition at Munster Rugby and Salford Red Devils RLFC, he is the lead nutritionist for British Ski and Snowboard as well as working with professional Flat and Jump jockeys and European Tour golfers. Prior to his academic studies, Graeme is a former professional rugby league footballer and has represented his country at youth and student level. Dr Lynne Suzanne Cox (1965–)Elected to membership of the society (1999), executive committee member (2005–2008, 2017- ), honorary programme secretary (2008–2012). Born and grew up in Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Educated at The King’s High School for Girls, Warwick (academic scholarship), Clare College, Cambridge (academic Foundation scholarship, BA Hons Natural Sciences First Class, MA, PhD: DNA replication in vitro, with Prof Ron Laskey). Royal Society of Edinburgh personal research