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Physiology News PN Issue 90 / Spring 2013 Physiology News The medicalisation of inactivity Lecturing, copyright and the law Physiological Reports: Meet the editors Are we in control of our own health? 37th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences Register Now! Early-bird registration closes on 12 April 2013 Visit www.iups2013.org Physiology News / Spring 2013 / Issue 90 Contents Welcome to the Spring 2013 edition of Physiology News. Introduction Meetings & events 05 Editorial 14 Will you be attending IUPS 2013? 15 BNA2013: Festival of Neuroscience 16 Meeting notes: Metabolism & Endocrinology Themed Meeting 17 Meeting notes: Biophysical Society’s 57th Annual Meeting News in brief Meeting notes: the Turkish Physiological Society Meeting 2012 06 The Society brings Katz, Starling, Hill and Sherrington to Hodgkin Huxley House 2013 Honorary Members: Call for proposals 07 Physiology photo competition Features Have your say on your Society 18 The medicalization of inactivity th 08 Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Undergraduate Prize for Physiology 22 Are we in control of our own health? 37 Voice of Young Science media training Congress of the 26 Films, muscle, potassium and exercise 09 Policy Corner 32 Is the desensitization of postsynaptic receptor channels Education Policy Update relevant? International Union of 37 Q&A: Physiological Reports Physiological Sciences In depth 10 Student access to lecture material: Membership How to avoid copyright pitfalls 40 Lab profile: The Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Addenbrooke’s 11 In vivo short courses: Giving students first-hand experience and Hospital, Cambridge Register Now! knowledge 42 Member profile: Dafydd Walters 12 The impact of engaging 44 Book review: Essential Guide to Reading Biomedical Papers 13 The Society’s story: Keeping our history alive Early-bird registration By Philip D Langton 45 Obituary: Beverly Mackenna closes on 12 April 2013 46 Obituary: William Dryden 47 Journal updates Visit www.iups2013.org 48 The last word Cover image: Conducting a maximal oxygen consumption test on a trained cyclist for a prolonged exercise study. Credit: Jill Barnes, Mayo Clinic, USA 3 A5 Open access research in all areas of physiology Editor-in-Chief: Susan Wray Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Thomas Kleyman University of Liverpool, UK University of Pittsburgh, USA • A unique collaboration between The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society • High standard, rigorous peer review • Rapid publication • Open Access • Compliant with open access mandates • Promotion of and publicity for quality research • First 100 articles will have usual article publication charge waived Opening for submissions in March 2013 For more information please contact: [email protected] 13-52605/MPOT007870 Physiology News Editor Mike Collis We welcome feedback on our membership magazine, or letters and suggestions for Editorial Board articles for publication, including book reviews, from Physiological Society Members. Siobhan Dennis Please email [email protected] (Eli Lilly UK) Michael Evans Physiology News is one of the benefits of membership of The Physiological Society, along with (Keele University) reduced registration rates for our high-profile events, free online access to The Physiological Sarah Hall Society’s leading journals, The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology, and travel (Cardiff University) grants to attend scientific meetings. Membership of The Physiological Society offers you access to the largest network of physiologists in Europe. John Lee (The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust) Join now to support your career in physiology: Jamie McPhee Visit www.physoc.org/membership or call 020 7269 5710. (Manchester Metropolitan University) Keith Siew (University of Cambridge) Membership Fees for 2013 FEES Head of Media and Communication Membership category Direct Debit Non-Direct Debit Jacob Lonsdale Ordinary Member £73 £93 Media and Communication Officer Affiliate £16 £21 Lucy Holmes Associate £36 £47 Undergraduate Join alone (single payment) - £15 Undergraduate www.physoc.org Join as part of undergraduate society (single payment) - £10 Opinions expressed in articles and letters submitted by, or commissioned from, Members, Affiliates or outside bodies @ThePhySoc are not necessarily those of The Physiological Society. © 2013 The Physiological Society ISSN 1476-7996 (Print) ISSN 2041-6512 (Online) The Physiological Society www.facebook.com/physoc is registered in England as a company limited by guarantee: No 323575. Registered office: Hodgkin Huxley House, 30 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AW. Registered Charity: No 211585. ‘The Physiological Society’ and the Physiological Society logo are trademarks belonging to The Physiological Society and are registered in the UK and in the EU Community respectively. Designed, produced and printed by Lavenham Press Ltd. Physiology News / Spring 2013 / Issue 90 Editorial for me and you is whether population-based editorial board is our use of imagery. Ideally, Mike Collis studies can be applied to all, or do genetic we would like to have images that show variations mean that ‘therapeutic’ exercise physiologists at work or images of Welcome to the first edition ofPhysiology regimes need to be tailored for each physiological science. It is difficult to access News for 2013. This year is shaping up to be individual. New multidisciplinary collaborative high quality images of this type and this is an a busy and historic one for The Society, with projects are being set up to answer some of area where Members may be able to help us relocation to Hodgkin Huxley House (see page these important questions. In the meantime I by submitting appropriate material (see page 6), the launch of the new journal, will continue to exercise. Whether walking, 7 for our pilot photography competition). Physiological Reports (interview with the cycling, swimming, etc, extend my life or not, editors on page 37), and the IUPS congress in they do make me feel fitter, livelier and We recently ran our first themed issue Birmingham (preview on page 14). happier. Quality of life is surely at least as (education, PN89). Our summer issue this important as length. year will have an international theme (to A number of articles in this edition of PN coincide with the IUPS meeting) and autumn relate to exercise, with differing views on the Last year Physiology News was redesigned. will have an industry theme, exploring what it important question, is exercise good for you The editorial board of Physiology News have is like to work in industry, how to collaborate and inactivity a ‘disease’? There is, of course, been very active considering how the with industry and whether it is possible to convincing evidence from major population magazine has developed and our objectives move from the academic sector into industry studies for lower all-cause mortality in those for its future. The main purpose of Physiology and vice-versa. We are keen to have content with higher activity levels or cardio- News is to be enjoyable, useful and direct from Members – article proposals, but respiratory fitness. But what are the reasons informative for our Members. We also hope also responses to articles in PN, or to for this and which is the chicken and which that it reaches those who have an interest in developments in physiology. PN should be a the egg? Whilst exercise can have beneficial physiology but who are not Members forum for discussion around practice and effects on blood pressure and on biomarkers (perhaps it will encourage them to join!). policy in physiology. So email us if you might for atherosclerosis and diabetes, these only Finally, we hope that the magazine will make like to contribute. account for about 60% of the reduction in complex topics in and around physiology risk. Conversely, exercise can have adverse accessible to students, researchers and Finally, ‘Feedback is the breakfast of effects on these traditional biomarkers in teachers of biological sciences. We think that champions’, as they say, and we have had some individuals. So what else is going on and the redesign of Physiology News has helped some very useful comments on the magazine are we measuring the right things? Exercise us towards these goals, but we can make from a few Members of The Society. But we has numerous additional effects that could be further headway in some areas and are, with want more. We welcome your feedback at beneficial for the cardiovascular system some every meeting of the editorial board, honing any time, but right now The Society is running of which are known, e.g. increased vagal tone, our approach. Whilst we believe that content a membership survey (page 7) and I look pre-conditioning and improved endothelial is much more important than presentation, a forward very much to seeing your opinions of function. So perhaps we need a new set of constant source of debate amongst the Physiology News. biomarkers to assess these. What is important 5 News in brief The Society brings Katz, Starling, Hill and Sherrington to Hodgkin Huxley House Having relocated in December 2012, The Society Members voted online to name the Several other organisations concerned with Society is now based at Hodgkin Huxley auditorium after Bernard Katz, and the three life sciences have already hired these meeting House (HHH). The Society completed the meeting rooms after Ernest Starling, AV Hill room spaces to successfully host their own purchase of 30 Farringdon Lane, London, in and Sir Charles Sherrington. These four figures events, and two tenant organisations now summer 2012 and had the premises refitted were nominated for their close ties to The occupy the upper floors of HHH (see The last to be a ‘home for physiology’ in the UK. Society as well as their immense contributions word, p52). to physiology. The Council endorsed the As well as a high-spec auditorium for lectures, results of the vote and are looking for other Watch out for a programme of Society events seminars and social events for up to 75 guests, ways to profile and reflect on other at HHH to be announced later this year.
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