February 2002 FASEB Federal Funding Consensus Conference Executive Summary

A Publication of The American Physiological Society Integrating the Life Sciences from Molecule to Organism THE Volume 45, Number 1 Physiologist February 2002 FASEB Federal Funding Consensus Conference Executive Summary

Our investment in scientific research proposals. search program. This effort should has contributed substantially to our FASEB advocates a return to the com- include an increase in the number of health and quality of life. We have made mitment to double the NSF budget and meritorious proposals funded, the addi- tremendous progress in the battle recommends that the NSF budget for FY tion of a second annual review cycle, against disease and now enjoy longer, 2003 be increased by at least 15 percent, expansion of the ground-based research healthier lives. With the power of the new to $5.5 billion. program to support the OBPR flight pro- discoveries in genetics, we stand on the United States Department gram and to prepare for utilization of the threshold of even more profound under- of Agriculture (USDA) International Space Station and expan- standing of basic biological processes FASEB supports increasing funding sion of outreach activities to enlist, train which will, in turn, dramatically enhance for the National Research Initiative and retain outstanding investigators. our abilities to prevent, treat and cure Competitive Grants Program to at least FASEB recommends an annual disease. $200 million. This amount would be a sig- increase of $100 million for OBPR s bio- The past year has also seen the rise of nificant step toward bringing the pro- logical research programs to be used to new threats to our security. Protection gram closer to its authorized level of $500 enhance investigator-initiated, peer- against bioterrorism has become a major million. reviewed life sciences research opportu- national priority. Due to our previous FASEB recommends that funding for nities. investments in research, the scientific the National Needs Fellowship Grants be (continued on page 3) community was able to immediately con- increased to $5 million and the Higher tribute to the nation s response to this Education Challenge Grants increased to new threat. Much more remains to be $6 million. done, and we stand ready to do our part. FASEB supports development of mech- Inside this issue... Scientific research must be an essential anisms that would enable the Initiative component in our plans to meet the chal- for Future Agriculture and Food Systems APS Council Holds Fall Meeting lenges of the 21st century. to become a stable source of research in Virginia In this report, the Federation of funds. p. 5 American Societies for Experimental Department of Energy (DOE) Biology (FASEB), on behalf of its 21 FASEB recommends a budget of $3,668 Blaustein Receives ACDP member societies representing more than million for DOE s Office of Science in FY Distinguished Service Award 60,000 scientists, offers its view of imme- 2003 for work that addresses important diate research opportunities for scientific national needs in basic energy sciences p. 7 and medical advancement and provides and to augment important core pro- fiscal year 2003 funding recommenda- grams, enhance utilization of major Ohio Physiological Society tions for the biomedical and life sciences research facilities, develop the next gen- Annual Meeting Report portfolios of seven federal agencies. eration of scientific tools and strengthen p. 8 National Institutes of Health (NIH) research and education at US universi- FASEB recommends an appropriation ties. NIH Issues New Graduate Student of $27.3 billion for NIH in FY 2003. This FASEB supports the establishment of Compensation Policy will achieve the goal of doubling the NIH the position of Under Secretary of p. 17 budget within five years. Science and Energy Research. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Aeronautics and Space FASEB supports a major increase in Administration (NASA) Experimental Biology the average size and duration of NSF FASEB recommends that the Office of 2002 Program grants. Biological and Physical Research (OBPR) p. 20 FASEB supports funding more of the give the highest priority to expanding its most meritorious yet currently unfunded investigator-initiated, peer-reviewed re-

1 Published bimonthly and distributed by THE The American Physiological Society 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20814-3991 PhysiologistVolume 45 Number 1 ISSN 0031-9376 February 2002 John E. Hall President Gerald F.DiBona Past President Contents Barbara A. Horwitz President-Elect Martin Frank FASEB Federal Funding 107th Congress Tackles Editor and Executive Director Consensus Conference Domestic Terrorism 18 Councillors Executive Summary 1 Senate Abandons Farm Relief Kim E. Barrett, Hannah V.Carey, Effort; Puppy Protection Douglas C. Eaton, Joseph R. Haywood, Creating a Better Mousetrap! Amendment Waits in Wings 18 Steven C. Hebert, Jo Rae Wright A Matter of Opinion 3 Experimental Biology 2002 Ex Officio APS News Distinguished Lectureships 20 Dale J. Benos, Mordecai P.Blaustein, APS Council Holds Fall Meeting 5 Schedule of Sessions 22 Robert G. Carroll, APS and International Outreach 6 Poster Sessions 27 Curt Sigmund, Celia D. Sladek Blaustein Receives ACDP Sections Special Functions 29 Distinguished Service Award 7 Committee Meetings 30 Publications Committee: Chairman:Dale Publications Special Functions 31 J. Benos; Members: David H.Alpers, Hershel Chapter News Raff, Richard A. Murphy, James A. Schafer. Ohio Physiological Society Positions Available 32 Director of Publications:Margaret Reich. Annual Meeting Report 8 Design and Copy Editor:Joelle R. News From Senior Grossnickle. Membership Physiologists 38 Subscriptions: Distributed to members as New Regular Members 9 part of their membership. Nonmembers in the USA: individuals $50.00; institutions New Student Members 10 Book Reviews 41 $75.00. Nonmembers in Canada and New Affiliate Members 11 Mexico: individuals $55.00; institutions Books Received 42 $80.00. Nonmembers elsewhere: individu- Publications als $60.00; institutions $85.00.Single copies APS s Legacy to Science 12 People & Places and back issues when available, $15.00 Fellows Steps Down, Campbell each; single copies and back issues of APS Web News Named Interim Head of Abstracts issues when available, $25.00. Subscribers to The Physiologist also receive The Popularity of the APS Physiology, Biophysics 43 abstracts of the Conferences of the Website Continues to Grow 12 American Physiological Society. Announcements The American Physiological Society Education New APS Membership Benefit: assumes no responsibility for the state- APS Undergraduate Fellow Free Access to All APS Online ments and opinions advanced by contribu- Receives Rhodes Scholarship 13 Journals 45 tors to The Physiologist. Lake Cumberland Biological Deadline for submission of material for Public Affairs Transport Group Meeting 45 publication: Jan. 10, February issue; March Rats, Mice and Birds Rule 10, April issue; May 10, June issue; July 10, Delayed Further 14 Scientific Meetings August issue; Sept. 10, October issue; Nov. Activists Funding Remains and Congresses 46 10, December issue. Strong; PCRM, PETA Hide Please notify the central office as soon as Fundraising Costs 15 APS Membership possible if you change your address or telephone number. Congress Finalizes 2002 Budgets 16 Application 47 AAHRPP Forming Human Headquarters phone: 301-530-7164 Accreditation Site Visit Teams 17 APS Conference Program 49 Fax: 301-571-8305 Email: [email protected] NIH Issues New Graduate Physiological Genomics of http://www.the-aps.org Student Compensation Policy 17 Cardiovascular Disease: Printed in the USA From Technology to Physiology

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(continued from page 1) Environmental Protection Agency the EPA to perform. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) (EPA) FASEB recommends that funding FASEB recommends that $404 mil- FASEB encourages the EPAs Office for the Science to Achieve Results lion be appropriated in FY 2003 for VA of Research and Development to attract (STAR) program be increased by $25 biomedical research, $33.5 million (a and retain talented scientists through million. nine-percent increase) over FY 2002. an expanded pre-doctoral, post-doctor- FASEB recommends that funding This should be the beginning of a sus- al and faculty exchange program. for the EPAs Office of Research and tained, multi-year investment. FASEB urges Congress to provide Development budget be increased to new funds for projects that it directs $664 million for FY 2003. ❖

A Matter of Opinion Creating a Better Mousetrap! On January 11th, HighWire Press, publishers that the content should be the development of the HighWire the producer of APS online journal given away. As a result of the discon- Public Library of the Sciences and sites, announced the launch of a new nect between the desires of PLoS and Medicine. The new site offers users and better mousetrap for the scientific the financial realities of publishing seamless, full-text access to nearly 300 community. Named the HighWire scientific journals online, very few highly cited journals, plus simultane- Library of the Sciences and Medicine publishers took PubMed Central up on ous, searchable access to all of [from http://highwire.stanford.edu, their offer. To date, only five estab- Medline. In addition, the portal pro- click on the link to try the beta ver- lished journals have content posted on vides access to the world s largest sion ], the site is designed to address PubMed Central. An additional seven archive of free, peer-reviewed, full-text one of the major concerns of the propo- online journals are included on the life sciences research with over nents of E-Biomed and the Public site along with a number of journals 385,000 full-text articles. It should be Library of Science (http://www.public- published by BioMed Central noted that PMC has about 61,000 full libraryofscience.org). That is, the cre- (http://www.biomedcentral.com), a text articles, an order of magnitude ation of a single site for digital scien- commercial publisher seeking to cre- fewer full text articles for searching tific content deposition will provide ate new journals to compete with the than HW has and a factor of six fewer enhanced searchability for all of existing scholarly journals. free articles than is available through Medline, plus the full text of 300 sci- Instead of transferring content from the HighWire portal. ence journals. HighWire to PMC, at additional cost, The new HighWire site allows In an earlier article (1), I indicated the APS and many of the other schol- researchers to be more productive, that it was the view of the proponents arly publishers working with focused and efficient in finding just of E-Biomed and the Public Library of HighWire decided to build on the the information they need. The new Science, that PubMed Central already enormous collection of scien- site has been enhanced to include 12 (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov) tific literature on the HighWire site by powerful new search features, would play this role. David Lipman, creating a web portal that provided advanced browsing capabilities, lin- Director for the National Center for the scientific community with guistic processing, and a four-color Biotechnology Information (NCBI), enhanced searchability in one loca- graphical TopicMap, which gives the had been pushing the community of tion. As expressed by many of the researcher a sense of context while scholarly publishers to deposit their early proponents of E-Biomed, they navigating HighWire s new peer- digital content into PubMed Central wanted a site where the entirety of the reviewed taxonomy in a tree-struc- (PMC) for archiving and searching scientific literature could be searched tured topical database browser. Users purposes. However, to do that, the APS without encountering barriers caused of the site will have seamless access to and other publishers would have had by access restrictions. PubMed (and both free and paid content and simpli- to bear the cost of file conversion to Medline) provides such a site, but fied management of content alerts. meet the requirements set by NCBI. much of the content is not posted for As scientists and publishers have The digital content housed on the several weeks after publication, and debated the merits of making more of HighWire computers needed to be contains full-text access to articles the literature free, researchers have manipulated and transferred to NCBI provided by only the few publishers told us what is important to the pro- for publication on PubMed Central. participating in PMC. ductivity and quality of their research: This was an unnecessary financial HighWire put together a Portal barrier-free access to more full-text burden at a time when the proponents Advisory Committee comprised of rep- content; easier, more comprehensive of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) resentatives from approximately 12 and more precise cross-journal search- were also telling non-profit scholarly publishers, including the APS, to guide (continued on page 4)

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(continued from page 3) of the 200 most frequently cited life In developing the site, the HighWire ing; and subject-specific, personalized sciences journals in the world, includ- Portal Advisory Committee encour- email alerts, said John Sack, Director ing the APS journals, on the journals aged the inclusion of new subject- and Associate Publisher of HighWire own sites. In addition, users will be based browsing features in order to press. The new HighWire site is our able to use the site to search the entire provide a way for researchers who are publishers and HighWire Press s spe- content of Medline, with one-click new to a field to browse articles, and cific response to researchers stated access to the full text. It is also clear for keyword-searchers to refine their needs. The APS is excited about being from the search results, which articles searches by topic. The HighWire part of this joint venture. are free over 350,000 currently are Library offers an enhanced CiteTrack The new site will provide free or which articles are accessible feature, which provides automatic researchers with access to nearly 300 via a personal or institutional sub- updating of citation references as new leading full-text journals including 80 scription. articles are published. Toll-Free Linking gives researchers the full-text of these cited references in any HighWire-based journal article. The HighWire Library also offers researchers a rich taxonomy with more than 22,000 topic categories in a detailed hierarchy developed by professional librarians, with discipline- by-discipline peer review underway by leading researchers. Nearly 12 million articles have been categorized with almost a quarter of a billion topic entries. The scientific community has asked for a better way to perform its literature searching and APS, in conjunction with HighWire Press and 100 other non-profit publishers, has responded. The HighWire Library of the Sciences and Medicine is the better mousetrap that the community has requested. Don t be the one asking, Who stole my cheese? use the HighWire Library of the Sciences and Medicine to keep track of it!

Martin Frank 1 Frank, M. No Free Lunch. The Physiologist 44: 109, 2001

APS Sustaining Associate Members The Society gratefully acknowledges the contributions received from Sustaining Members in support of the Society s goals and objectives.

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4 The Physiologist APS News Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 APS Council Holds Fall Meeting in Virginia The APS Council held their fall Council. The Committee and APS Committee and the inter-departmen- meeting at the Lansdowne Resort in senior management also made the rec- tal team will work together to inform Leesburg, VA, November 3-5, 2001. ommendation that funding for the the media and public about new devel- The International Union of legacy data project be taken from the opments in the field of physiology, and Physiological Scieces (IUPS) 2005 APS reserve accounts. The legacy data the contributions made by APS to the meeting, the APS Communications project will make available to the sci- field. They have begun working on program, and the 2000 Strategic Plan entific community the content of all identifying several internal APS pro- were among many key issues on the APS journals dating back to 1898. The grams that would be of interest to both agenda for discussion. Council was content will be scanned and then post- the media and the public, and have also presented with reports from the ed on the respective APS journal web also developed a procedure for identi- Publications, Finance, Joint Program, sites. The project will be handled in fying experts to respond to media Membership, Public Affairs, Animal three separate phases, the last 10 questions regarding physiology. Care and Experimentation, years of content being posted first. Efforts are also underway to publicize Education, and Daggs Award commit- Since this would be a one-time only the science published in the APS jour- tees. APS staff members Linda Allen, cost, and APS would be providing a nals. This is being done through a Marsha Maytas, Robert Price, Alice service to the scientific community, journal release program. Each Ra anan, and Margaret Reich also Council approved the funding for the month articles are reviewed and joined the meeting to assist with the project. selected based on their newsworthi- committee report presentations. The Joint Program Committee ness. The articles are then summa- Executive Director Martin Frank reported on the two APS conferences rized and compiled into a release that presented Council with the minutes of held in October 2001. Although the is distributed to science writers and the IUPS 2005 National Organizing two conferences took place shortly media outlets and posted in the APS Committee Meeting held August 30, after the tragic events of September Press Room (http://www.the-aps.org/ 2001, in Christchurch, New Zealand. 11, attendance at the conferences was press_room/). They are also working to At this meeting, the IUPS Council and not greatly affected. Based on the suc- obtain media coverage for APS confer- Executive Committee approved a cess of these and past conferences, ences and the awards program. change of venue for the IUPS 2005 Council has requested that the Joint The Public Affairs Committee meeting from Washington, DC to San Program Committee work to increase updated Council on the status of its Diego, CA. The meeting will now be the number of annual conferences new Legislative Action Center. The held in conjunction with EB 2005. from two to four. site provides users with up-to-date The Publications Committee Within the past year, a information on issues that will affect announced the appointment of several Communications Committee has been biomedical research. It also features a new editorships. The first was the established, and an inter-departmen- link to a special Take Action section appointment of Dennis Ausiello as tal communications team was formed that allows APS members to send let- Editor of the Physiology in Medicine to begin implementation of the new ters to Congress and the President on series, which will be published in the APS communications program. The (continued on page 6) Annals of Internal Medicine. Also, new editors for both the Journal of Neurophysiology and AJP-Cell Phys- iology were named. Eve Marder, Brandeis University, will be the new editor of the Journal of Neurophysiol- ogy, and Dennis Brown, Harvard University, will be the new editor of AJP-Cell Physiology. Both will begin their terms on July 1, 2002. Council also approved a motion made by the committee to provide free access to APS journals in developing countries. Both the committee and Council believe that making the journals available is of critical importance to these countries as they may contain information pertinent to treatments. The Finance Committee presented Front: Kim Barrett, Hannah Carey, J.R. Haywood, Celia Sladek, Dale Council with the final 2001 budget Benos; Middle: Barbara Horwitz, Jo Rae Wright, Gerald DiBona, and the proposed 2002 budget, both of Martin Frank; Back: Douglas Eaton, Steve Hebert, John Hall, Robert which were accepted and approved by Carroll, Mordecai Blaustein

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(continued from page 5) report of the plan. The report indicat- place. The task force will work to get current issues through the use of spe- ed that many of the action items in the both student and postdoctoral mem- cial software. This feature is available Strategic Plan have either been com- bers more actively involved in Society in the Members Only section on the pleted or are in the process of being activities. APS Home Page. The legislative action completed. One outstanding item Additional details of the Council s center is accessible at http://www.the- addressed by Council was the forma- fall meeting will be presented to the aps.org/pub_affairs/leg_act_cntr/index tion of a Task Force on Trainees. membership at the 2002 APS .htm. Council asked Jo Rae Wright, Duke Business Meeting. The Business The last part of the Council meeting University Medical Center, to chair Meeting will be held at EB 2002 on focused on the 2000 APS Strategic the task force, and she accepted. Tuesday, April 23 at 5:30 pm. All APS Plan. Executive Director Martin Together she and the Council will members are invited to attend. ❖ Frank presented Council with a status work to put the rest of the task force in

The APS and International Outreach

One of the maxims of our discipline ment of the Society s online journal start relatively small, allocating is that our science cannot be encum- program, these efforts have become $20,000 annually to the Latin bered by national boundaries. easier as institutions in developing American Initiative and requesting Physiological information and knowl- countries have developed the infras- that the Committee use the funds to edge flows freely between scientists in tructure to receive online journals. support up to four courses/work- the US and colleagues around the In 1999, the Society s efforts were shops/symposia per year to be held in world through scientific interactions redirected to focus on the needs of col- Latin American countries with the at meetings and the publication of leagues in Latin America. At that participation of APS members. It was research in scientific journals. time, Hector Rasgado-Flores took over expected that the sessions would focus Throughout its existence, the APS has as the Chair, International Physiology on the physiological sciences, broadly worked to uphold that view through Committee and influenced the com- defined, and be designed to encourage societal efforts and our participation mittee members and the APS Council the participation of students in the in the International Union of to direct the Society s attention to program. In addition, the APS invited Physiological Sciences (IUPS). Latin America. Previously, the Society the ALACF to sponsor a symposium at During the Presidency of Harvey had focused on sending our journals to the Experimental Biology meeting. Sparks (1987), the Society turned its institutions in Latin America and rep- Since the programs inception, the attention to Africa, helping with the resentatives to the meetings of the Society has approved funding for eight founding of the African Association of Association of Latin American courses/workshops held in five Latin Physiological Sciences and providing Physiological Societies (ALACF). American countries. A full listing of subscriptions to the Society s journals However, under the new Latin approved programs is included below. through the AAAS Sub-Saharan American Initiative, the APS was As noted by Mark Opp, University of Africa journal donation program. In seeking to do more with the goal of Michigan, and organizer of a sympo- 1988, Past-President Frank Knox and strengthening ties between APS, our sium held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, their Executive Director Martin Frank trav- sister physiological societies in Latin session attracted 43 registered partic- eled to the Soviet Union to sign a bilat- America, and physiologists working ipants, most of whom were students eral exchange agreement with the throughout the Americas. It was the that do not have the opportunity to leadership of Pavlov s All-Union Committee s view that the US and travel to international meetings. One Physiological Society. Under the agree- Latin-American countries would bene- of the goals of the Latin American ment, APS arranged for exchange vis- fit enormously from closer ties and Initiative is to foster collaborative its between physiologists from the US that such efforts were timely and efforts between physiologists of the and USSR. The Society s continued its made both geographical and historical Americas. In order to meet this goal, support of physiologists in the former sense. The Committee also expressed Opp held a roundtable discussion at Soviet Union and Eastern European the view that there were a great many the meeting in Brazil to discuss the countries after the breakup of the talented students and scientists in development of a program by which Soviet Union through the donation of Latin America who would benefit from students from Brazil would spend our journals directly to institutions such interactions. short periods (one to three months) and through our participation in a While the International Physiology visiting laboratories in North America. journal program supported by the Committee had initially sought a larg- According to Opp, these discussions Soros Foundation. With the developer program, the Council decided to are likely to lead to student exchange,

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thus providing a direct measure of the degree to which our symposium was a Latin American Initiative Awards success and met the objective of the 2002 Latin American Initiative. Patricia E. Molina; LSUHSC, New Orleans, organizer of course on Similarly, Reinaldo DiPolo orga- Advances in Physiology; Impact on our Understanding of Health and Disease nized a training course held in hosted by the Medical School of Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala Mochima, Venezuela that attracted 31 Claudia Capurro, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Guillermo Whittembury, students and 30 faculty members. The Caracas, Venezuela, organizers of a workshop on New insights in water trans- main objective of the course was to port across cells and membranes: Structure, function and regulation hosted allow Latin American students to at the International Congress of Biophysics, Buenos Aires, Argentina obtain updates on topics of basic Mario Parisi, Buenos Aires, Argentina, organizer of a workshop on Volume research in biophysics and physiology, regulation in animal cells and in plant vacuoles hosted at the International with an emphasis on how molecular, Congress of Biophysics, Buenos, Aires, Argentina biological and electrophysiological techniques can be used to unravel the 2001 structural properties of plasma mem- Mario Amzel, Johns Hopkins University, organizer of a course on brane proteins associated with ionic Molecular Modeling of Macromolecules, hosted by the Institute of channels, counter and co-transporters, Biotechnology, Universidad Autonoma of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico and ion ATPases. Mark R. Opp, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, organizer The Society is pleased to be able to of a symposium on Stressor-Induced Alterations in Sleep, hosted by contribute to the enhancement of the Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil physiological sciences throughout the Tania Zenteno-Savin, Center for Biological Research, Mexico, organizer of Americas. If you or your colleagues a workshop on Comparative Aspects of the Oxidative Stress in Biological have suggestions for future initiatives Systems, hosted by the Center for Biological Research, La Paz, Baja or would like to apply for support California, Mexico under the Latin American Initiative, Reinaldo DiPolo, Department of Biophysics, IVIC, Venezuela, organizer of please contact Hector Rasgado-Flores a course on Mechanisms of Ion Transport Across Cell Membranes, hosted by ([email protected]) or Martin Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC) Frank ([email protected]). Infor- mation about the Latin American 2000 Initiative can be found at http://www. Rafael Rubio, Faculty of Medicine, UASLP, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, orga- theaps.org/awards/society.awd_ltn_am nizer of a symposium entitled Paracrine, Cytokine, and Hormonal Factors er_init.htm. The deadline for applica- Involved in Cardiac Function and Remodeling at the XX Latin American tions under the Latin American Physiological Society Congress, Cancun, Mexico Initiative is March 1, 2002. ❖ Martin Frank Blaustein Receives ACDP Distinguished Service Award Donald M. Bers, President of the for his illustrious service to ACDP, to Association of Chairs of Departments science, and to physiology. He joins a of Physiology (ACDP), presented the long list of distinguished Chairs in ACDP s highest award, the receiving this award. Mordy served as Distinguished Service Award, to ACDP s Public Affairs Officer from Mordecai P. Blaustein, former ACDP 1994 to 1996, as President-elect in President, during the organization s 1997, as President in 1998, and as recent fall meeting in Los Cabos, Chairman of the Board of Directors in Mexico. The following are Bers 1999. remarks during the presentation, Mordy Blaustein was born in New which was followed by a multi-media York City, has been married to his wife presentation by Jon Lederer and pro- Ellen for 42 years, and has two chil- duced by him, friends, family, and dren, Laura and Marc. Indeed, this Donald M. Bers, President of the members of Blaustein s department at award goes to Ellen too, as we all know ACDP, presents the Distinguished the University of Maryland, Baltimore how much patience and support we Service Award to Campus. Chairs require. Mordecai Blaustein. We are honoring Mordecai P. He earned his Bachelor s degree Blaustein of the University of with honors in 1957 from Cornell Maryland in Baltimore this evening University and his MD degree in 1962 (continued on page 8)

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(continued from page 7) fessional societies extends beyond his pal Investigator on two NIH grants, from Washington University School of meritorious service to ACDP. He has one in its 16th year investigating Ca Medicine in St. Louis. He went on to served the American Physiological and Na transport in vascular smooth Boston City Hospital for his intern- Society as a Councillor from 1992 to muscle and the other in its 22nd year ship and from 1963 to 1966 was a 1995, as a member of the Society s investigating Na and Ca signaling in Medical Research Officer with the Finance Committee from 1995 to 1998, glia and neurons. There is a long list of United States Naval Medical Research and since 2000 as Finance Committee distinguished individuals who trained Institute in Bethesda, MD. From 1966 Chair, a position he will hold until with him and who went on to make to 1968 he was an NIH Special Fellow 2003. In addition, Mordy is serving on their own major contributions to phys- at the University of Cambridge in the Finance Committee for the iological research and education. His England. From 1968 to 1975 he held Biophysical Society, a position he will bibliography includes more than 200 the position of Associate Professor of also hold until 2003. This year he was papers, beginning with five papers in Physiology and Biophysics at named Councilor for the Biophysical 1966 (including one in Science) and Washington University and from 1975 Society, a position he will hold until nine in 2000. He is still very active and to 1980 was named Professor of 2004. Mordy also represented ACDP continues to make major contributions Physiology and Biophysics at that on the Council of Academic Societies. to the field. same institution. Mordy has been He has also organized numerous pro- In summary, Mordecai Blaustein s Chair of the Department of Physiology fessional meetings and symposia esteemed career is quite remarkable. at the University of Maryland since (including one this past October when It is my great privilege to express our 1979 (22 years) and is also a Professor he served as a Member of the Orga- Association s appreciation and deep in the Department of Medicine there. nizing Committee for APS s Fourth gratitude to him for his contributions In 1985 he was named Scientific International Conference on Sodium- in science, education, service, and aca- Director and Chairman of the Calcium Exchange in Banff, Canada). demic leadership. It gives me great Executive Board of the University of Throughout the course of his career pleasure to award the ACDP Maryland s Hypertension Center. Mordy has had consistent research Distinguished Service Award to Mordy Mordy s dedication to service to pro- grant support. He currently is Princi- Blaustein. ❖ Chapter News Ohio Physiological Society Annual Meeting Report The 16th annual meeting of the The meeting was held in a lovely old effective in promoting interactions Ohio Physiological Society (OPS) was chapel on the main green. With the among the Ohio physiologists. In addi- held on November 9, 2001 at Ohio exception of a couple of computer tion, I think these meetings make it University, Athens, OH. The theme of glitches during the Power Point pre- clear that physiological research takes the meeting was Comparative sentations, the morning session of place across the state of Ohio in insti- Aspects of Membrane Biology. An ini- talks went smoothly. Unfortunately, I tutions both large and small, and in tial announcement of this meeting had not reserved the use of the organ, institutions with and without physiol- was done by e-mailing members of the so Peter Lauf could not entertain us as ogy departments, per se. American Physiological Society resid- we waited a few minutes for the com- A business meeting was held at the ing in Ohio, as well as Chairs of puter problems to be solved!! The talks end of the meeting in which the loca- Departments of Physiology, Biology, or spanned a wide range of topics on tions of the next two meetings, related disciplines. Later a brochure membrane biology and generated NEOUCOM (2002) and Case Western was mailed out to these same people. many questions from the audience. A Reserve University (2003), were A website was created which provides sit-down lunch was held at the stu- announced. The president-elect is details about OPS and the meeting dent union building, which provided Hans Folkesson, NEOUCOM. (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~chamberl/ an opportunity for meeting attendees The 16th annual meeting of the ops/ops.html). to get to know one another and discuss Ohio Physiological Society would not A total of 55 people (including their research. After lunch, the have been possible without the gener- speakers) attended the meeting. American Physiological Society/Ohio ous support from the Ohio University Attendees came from several institu- Physiological Society keynote speaker College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio tions around the state of Ohio: presented his talk. John Crowe deliv- University Office of Research, and the Bowling Green State University, ered a wonderful and fascinating talk American Physiological Society. ❖ University of Dayton, Wright State about membranes in the dry state. University, University of Cincinnati, Following the keynote address, there Mary Chamberlin Miami University, Northeastern Ohio was a lively poster session in the lower President Universities College of Medicine floor of the chapel. I think this and Ohio Physiological Society (NEOUCOM), and Ohio University. other OPS meetings have been very

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Nader G. Abraham Lisa Colleen Hazard Wen-Ting Ouyang New York Medical College Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Georgetown Memorial Hospital, DC Tatsuya Asai Kyle Kenji Henderson* Vladimir Parpura Fukui Univ., Japan Univ. of Missouri, Columbia Univ. of California Mohammad Asghar Oscar Herreras Jitandrakumar R. Patel Univ. of Houston Hosp. Ramon Y Cajal, Spain Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Richard Lambert Auten Caryl Elizabeth Hill Rakesh Patel Duke Univ., NC John Curtin Sch. of Med. Res., Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham Brian Peter Bagatto* Australia Theo Louis Peeters Univ. of Akron, OH Maria T.E. Hopman Univ. of Leuven, Belgium Bruce Palmer Bean Univ. Med. Ctr. Nymegen, Netherlands Edison Perdomo Harvard Medical School, MA Fay Babling Horak Minnesota State Univ., Mankato Mercedes Belcells-Camps Oregon Health & Sciences Univ. Zhong Ming Qian Massachusetts Inst. of Technology Matthew Wade Hulver Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong Joel Hills Benington East Carolina Univ. Stanley Gerard Rane St. Bonaventure Univ., NY Mai-Lan Ngoc Huynh Fujisawa Res. Inst. of America, IL Istvan Bonyhay Univ. of Colorado Marie Christine Ruiz Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Center, Danny O. Jacobs Inst. Venezolano De Investigaciones, NZ MA Creighton Univ., NE Susumu Sasaki James G. Brasseur J. L. Kirkland Kyoto Prefectional Univ. of Med., Japan Pennsylvania State Univ. Boston Univ. Med. Ctr., MA Ayman I. Sayegh Nancy Joan Brown James F. Knudsen Tuskegee College, AL Vanderbilt Univ., TN FDA, CDERI, DNDP Paul Schaeffer* Harold Burton Thomas A. Krahn Washington Univ. Washington Univ. Private Practice, MA Helen Edith Scharfman Adelino V.M. Canario Jeffery M. Kramer Helen Hayes Hospital, NY Univ. Do Algarve, Portugal Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Rajesh Chandra Sharma Robert Carter* Ronald Bruce Langdon Surat Municipal Med. College, India Univ. of North Texas Seton Hall Univ., NJ Xiaorui Shi Jaehwa Choi Helene M Langevin Oregon Hearing Research Ctr. Univ. of Mississippi Univ. of Vermont Anthony Louis Sica Niels Juel Christensen Herve P. Lefebvre SUNY, Downstate Medical Center Herlev Univ. Hospital, Denmark National Veterinary School, France Daniel Concord Sigg Jody C. Culham Edward Joseph Lesnefsky Univ. of Minnesota Univ. of Western Ontario Case Western Reserve Univ., OH Tonous Nabih Silfani* Brian S. Cummings Jani Elizabeth Lewis Sankyo Pharma, Cuyahaga Falls, OH Medical Univ. of South Carolina SUNY, Geneseo Ruchira Sood Jonathan K. Ehrman* Jiang Li Stanford Univ., CA Henry Ford Health System, MI Univ. of California, San Franciso Hong Sun Eliseo Alberto Eugenin Peng Li Univ. of Nebraska Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY Univ. of California, Irvine Wanchun Tang Zheng Fan Christine A. Martin Inst. of Critical Care Medicine, CA Univ. of Tennessee Univ. of Maryland Glenn Jeffery Tattersall Terence G. Favero Todor N. Mazgalev Univ. of British Columbia Univ. of Portland, OR Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH Patti J. Thureen Jason David Gardner Robert B. McCall Univ. of Colorado Auburn Univ. Pharmacia, NJ Michael E. Tschakovsky Bret H. Goodpaster* Margaret Merryl McCarthy Queen s Univ., Canada Univ. of Pittsburgh Univ. of Maryland Ingvald Mikal Tyssebotn Steven S. Guest Paul McDonough SUNY, Buffalo Santa Clara Valley Med. Ctr., CA Kansas State Univ. Fredrik Ullen Sohrab Hajizadeh Cheryl C. Miller Karolinska Inst, A.Lindgren Hosp., Tarbiat Modarres Univ., Iran Univ. of Georgia Sweden Harriet Wehner Hanlon Mohammad Ali Newaz Anton Usaj Falls Church City Schools, VA Texas Southern Univ. Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia Per-Olof Hasselgren Walter Hayes Newman Mike Van Rollins Univ. of Cincinnati, OH Mercer Univ., GA Univ. of Iowa

9 The Physiologist Membership Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 Yosef Yarom Xiaoping Wan Haoliang Xu Hebrew Univ., Life Sciences Inst., Case Western Reserve Univ., OH Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Israel Stephen Lee Wasmund Meifeng Xu Gisele Tchuisseu Youmbi Dallas VA Medical Center, TX Univ. of Cincinnati, OH Case Western Reserve Univ., OH Anthony R. West Chunmei Yang Dennis Paul Valenzeno Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA Lexicon Genetics Inc, TX Univ. of Kansas Joseph M. Wu New York Medical College New Student Members Peter J. Adhihetty Long Ding Danielle Leteshe Hughes York Univ., Canada Univ. of Pennsylvania Winston Salem State Univ., NC Luis Eduardo Almeida Christine Ecker Julie Hwang Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Inst. of Psychiatry, England Univ. of California, Riverside Behrang Amini Taffeta Marie Elliott Kelly Anne Hyndman Univ.of Texas, Houston Columbia Univ., NY Univ. of Florida Johnnie B. Andersen Manuel Ivan Estrada Isabella Irrcher Univ.of Aaruus, Denmark Fac. De Medicina, Univ. of Chile, Chile York Univ., Canada Lida A. Anestidou Jon Robert Fee Inneke Miesha Jackson Univ. of Texas, Houston Furman Univ., SC Florida A&M Univ. Shailendra Anoopkumar-Dukie Gayani S. Fernando Dorothy Mae Jones Rhodes Univ., South Africa MCP Hahnemann Univ., PA Univ. of Michigan Siobhan M. Armstrong Steven M. Finckbeiner Michelle L. Jones Univ. of Michigan Louisiana State Univ. Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Joseph Artale Katharine Emily Forth Prasad Ramesh Joshi SUNY, Stony Brook Univ. of Houston, TX Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe Debra Page Baluch Kristen L. French Christopher D. King Arizona State Univ. Medical Univ. of South Carolina Univ. of Florida Jamie Louis Barger Kenneth Bradley E. Gagnon Tyson Rand Kinnick Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks Wright State Univ., OH Univ. of Arizona Ismaeel M. Bin-Jaliah Damien Garbett Micki E. Kobylk Univ. of Birmingham, AL Dickinson College, PA Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks Mark Robert Britton JoAnne Garvin Christina Koutasri Wayne State Univ., MI Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Harokopio Univ., Greece Anissa Joy Brown Shanaz Adi Ghandhi Matthew A. Kreitzer Univ. of Delaware City College of New York Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Candice M. Brown Tina M. Grieco Gary S. Laevsky Duke Univ., NC Northwestern Univ., IL Univ. of Connecticut Emanuela M. Bruscia Jutatip Guptarak Zaynsb Yusuf Lambat Univ. of Vermont Texas Woman s Univ. Rhodes Univ., South Africa Mirela Cerghet Bryan Christopher Hains Kwong-Joo Leck Wayne State Univ., MI Univ. of Texas Australian National Univ, Australia Alistair Jon Champman Michele B. Halvorsen Paul Robert Lee Univ. of Arizona Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Maryland Psychiatric Res. Ctr. Debika Chatterjea Milton Harrison Hamblin Naruemon Leelayuwat Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Meharry Medical College, TN Nottingham Univ., UK Hong Cheng Linda Lee Heideman Eric H. Leung Univ. of Michigan Rhodes Univ., South Africa Univ. of Chicago, IL Todd Michael Collura Tammi Sue Hildreth Martin Levesque Florida Atlantic Univ. Kansas State Univ. Lava Univ., Canada Gloriann Colon Matthew David Hind Qiang Li Univ. of Puerto Rico, Arecibo King s College London, England Univ. of Iowa Kuldip Dave Dao Hong Ho Grace Alexandra T. Liu MCP Hahnemann Univ., PA Texas A&M Univ. Texas A&M Univ. T. C. Der Muhsinau Lateefau Holmes Huifei Liu Arizona State Univ. Emory Univ., GA Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Pauline Dergham Mildred A. Hoover Ying Liu Univ. De Montreal, Canada California State Univ., Fullerton Univ. of Utah Giovana Seno Di Marco Michael Hung Hsu Stephanie S. Loranger Univ. Federal De Sao Paulo, Brazil Univ. of Illinois Washington Univ.

10 The Physiologist Membership Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 Precious Lung Christopher T. Robertson Heather L. Trantham Univ. of Cambridge, England Indiana Univ. Medical Univ. of South Carolina Christina P. Lynn-Bullock Amsale B. Robi Briedi Rae Treece Georgia State Univ. Long Island Univ. Washington State Univ. Cathyryne K. Manner Jed D. Robinson Susan K. Tsiuitse Univ. of California, San Diego Univ. of Colorado, Boulder Univ. of Toledo, OH David Marsolais Anne C. Roc Matthew A.I. Ua Cruadhlaoich CHUL Research Ctr, Canada Univ. of Pennsylvania Yale Univ., CT Lakus Mathiak Carmencita Rojas-Cartagena Ann Renee Van Gorder Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany Ponce School of Med, Puerto Rico Florida Atlantic Univ. Craig O Neill Mattern Dawna Salter Srinivasan Venkatachalan Ohio State Univ. Univ. of Southern Calif., Los Angeles Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe Kate D. Merritt Michael Todd Sapko Bjorn Egil Vikse Wake Forest Univ., NC Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Univ. of Bergen, Norway Susanna Mierau Jennifer Mayberry Sasser Jiaxu Wang Oxford Univ., England Medical College of Georgia Univ. of Toronto, Canada Robert A. Neff Gerwin Schalk Wang Wang George Washington Univ., DC New York State Dept. of Health Lehigh Univ., PA Melody Ng Cary Scheiderer Yu Wang NIH, Bethesda, MD Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center Tuyet Nhu Nguyen Matthew John Schmid Ahren Warf Univ. of Iowa Univ. of Texas, Austin Furman Univ., SC Jason Lance Niehaus Arron R. Seitz Christine Marie Werk Medical College of Georgia Boston Univ., MA Concordia Univ., Canada Ulla Vig Nissen Teresa Inez Shakespeare Jonathon P. Wetherington Univ. of Oslo, Norway SUNY, Stony Brook Med. College of Georgia Gabreila Novak Denise Smith Lindsay Beth Wichers Univ. of Toronto, Canada Kent State Univ., OH Univ. of North Carolina Justus D. Ortega Timothy J. Stalker Brad W. Wikins Univ. of Colorado Thomas Jefferson Univ., PA Univ. of Oregon Johannes Overgaard Lee Patrick Steffen Wendy Wilson Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark Univ. of Nebraska Med. Ctr. Washington State Univ. Carlos Alberto Palencia Irina A. Strigo Chia-Wen Wu Univ. of Illinois, Chicago McGill Univ., Canada Univ. of Rochester, NY Erlick A. Pereira Asha Suryanarayanan Hui-Bing Wu Univ. of Oxford, England Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe Hunter College, NY Dianne A. Petgrave Joseph J. Tam Rinah T. Yamamoto Univ. of Connecticut McGill Univ., Canada Tufts Univ., MA Melody D. Phillips Rogan Barnes Tinsley Ana-Maria Zagrean Purdue Univ., IN Flinders Univ., Australia Carol Davila Univ. of Med & Pharm, Julia Blanche Pitcher Anne Elizabeth Todgham Romania Alelaide Univ., Australia Univ. of British Columbia, Canada Li Zhen Paulo P. Provenzano Phat Tran New York Univ. Med. Ctr. Univ. of Wisconsin Texas Tech Univ. Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Judy P.Q. Zhu Hunter College, NY New Affiliate Members

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11 The Physiologist Publications Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 APS’s Legacy to Science APS Publications and Cadmus The Legacy Data project will Journal Services staff help pack bound take place in three phases: back volumes of the journals to be sent to to 1985 by the summer of 2002, Cadmus for scanning and placing back to the beginning of online on the HighWire Press site. Medline/PubMed (app. 1966) in This is the first phase of APS s plan 2003, and back to the beginning dubbed the Legacy Data project to of APS publication history have all journal content back to the (1898) in 2004. The bound jour- first issue of The American Journal of nals are taken apart and Physiology, published in 1898, online scanned page by page, destroy- in three years. ing the bound journal in the pro- The full-text articles will appear cess. As we get into the second online as a PDF, or an image of each and third phases, we may be journal page, but will be searchable requesting members to donate due to an OCR optical-character- print copies of journals to fill in reader scanned document residing in gaps and to keep one complete the background. Like any other online print set in the APS library. If journal article that APS publishes, the you have early issues of the Deb Kreiser, Cadmus Journal Services, articles will be linked to PubMed and, Society s journals available for and Misty Highley and Carolyn Villemez, like all APS journal content more than donation, please contact APS, pack the first set of APS journals to 12 months old, will be available to all [email protected]. ❖ be archived. free of charge on the Web. APS Web News The Popularity of the APS Website Continues to Grow The APS website http://www.The- cerning the Society. This has proven to (available in early 2002), is a collabo- APS.org has grown to eight million be a very useful tool and has been very rative effort with 11 other biological hits in 2001, with an average of 22,000 well-received. societies to make teaching materials hits per day. Our most popular pages • The completion of our E-Commerce accessible to biological educators in are the Publications section followed project by mid-year will allow us to undergraduate, graduate, and profes- by the APS Home Page and the accept online payment for member- sional schools. Education Section. With the redesign ship dues, journals, publications and In short, 2001 has been a very excit- of the website (completed in other products. ing year for all of us involved in the September 2000) and the Members • A new Online Membership development of the APS website. Our Only section (completed in January Application system will streamline role is to anticipate the needs of our 2001) our statistics, along with posi- the entire membership application members and to assist you by provid- tive feedback received in our web mas- process by automating the sponsor ing useful resources. If you have sug- ter mailbox, reveal to us that we are verification and creating the appropri- gestions please contact us at webmas- providing an important tool to our ate reports for the review process. [email protected]. ❖ members. • The redesigned In our continuing efforts to enhance Careers section Figure 1. Successful APS web hits 2000-2001. our web site, many new features have will provide mate- been added, while other services are rials to facilitate 1,000,0001000000 2001 still under development and will be the transition implemented some time in 2002. from student to 800000800,000 2000 Among these new features are: professional phys- 600,000 • The Legislative Action Center iologist and 600000 S where time-sensitive legislative infor- improve access to mation may be posted, and, as a mem- information about 400000400,000 S ber, you may also access the Take postdoctoral and Action section where you may write to other academic 200000200000 Congress. and non-academic • The periodic email newsletter to positions. 00 AllAPS calls attention to time sensi- • The Archive of tive news and topics of interest con- Teaching Resources 123456789101112 Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

12 The Physiologist Education Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 APS Undergraduate Fellow Receives Rhodes Scholarship Sunita Puri, an APS 2001 basis for the metabolic regulation of lege and university fees, provides a Undergraduate Summer Research UCP3 in vivo and the associated stipend to cover necessary expenses Fellow (UGSRF), was recently named impact on metabolic balance are con- while in residence in Oxford, as well a 2002 Rhodes Scholar. As one of the troversial and paradoxical. as during vacations, and transporta- 32 scholars selected, Puri successfully Puri is originally from Los Angeles tion to and from England. ❖ competed against 318 colleagues for and is currently a senior majoring in the award. cultural anthropology. She recently Puri, an undergraduate student also won the Rivers Prize, a national from Yale University, participated in undergraduate paper prize sponsored the UGSRF program with her host, P. by the Society for Medical Darrell Neufer, from the John B. Anthropology, for a paper on medical Pierce Laboratory, Yale University issues related to domestic violence School of Medicine. that will be published in Medical Her research project investigated Anthropology Quarterly. This research the role of UCP-3 gene expression in was supported by five fellowships regulating and reflecting metabolic from Yale University and the Ford changes in rats. UCPs are mitochon- Foundation. Annually, Puri has given drial proteins that uncouple respira- a lecture to first-year Yale medical tion from ATP synthesis and are students on eating disorders in minor- believed to play a role in energy ity communities and how physicians expenditure. Expression of UCP3 can best treat those patients. mRNA is dramatically regulated by a Rhodes Scholars are chosen on the number of metabolic challenges basis of high academic achievement, (including exercise, food intake, diet), integrity of character, a spirit of providing evidence that regulation of unselfishness, respect for others, the UCP3 gene is an adaptive potential for leadership, and physical Sunita Puri response. However, the molecular vigor. The Rhodes Trust pays all col-

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13 The Physiologist Public Affairs Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 actions. The ARDF s co-petitioners standing to sue. Rats, Mice, and Birds Rule included the head of an in vitro testing In June 2000, Judge Ellen Huvelle company, an ethicist, and two profes- of the US District Court for the sors of biology and pharmacology who District of Columbia issued a ruling in Delayed Further have developed alternative teaching favor of the ARDF in the suit. The As part of the USDAs FY 2002 fund- and in vitro testing methods. The peti- National Association for Biomedical ing legislation the agency got the tioners argued that the lack of USDA Research (NABR) sought to join the green light from Congress to begin regulation of these species means that suit on behalf of research community consideration of whether to extend the researchers are not required to consid- interests in the case during the appeal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulations er alternatives to their use, and that phase. However, rather than appeal- to rats, mice, and birds. The bill con- this has caused damage to the peti- ing, the USDA began negotiating with tains language permitting the USDA tioners financial and professional the ARDF for an out-of-court settle- to begin the rulemaking process, but interests. ment. NABR and others then sought prohibits it from finalizing changes The USDA published the ARDF to participate in the settlement talks, before the fiscal year ends on petition in the Federal Register on but these requests were denied. An September 30, 2002. January 28, 1999, and asked for public out-of-court settlement was reached This lifts the prohibition against comments. The USDA requested com- on September 25, 2000, and on such rulemaking that was included in ments on several questions. These October 6, Judge Huvelle agreed to last year s USDA funding bill. included whether the definition of ani- dismiss the suit. According to the Congress forbade the USDA from mal should be revised to include labo- USDA Animal Care home page, the spending funds during FY 2001 on ratory rats, laboratory mice, and birds, terms of the settlement agreement efforts to change the regulatory defini- or any of the three; whether the require the USDA to initiat[e] and tion of animal. This blocked imple- USDAs Animal Care unit should reg- complet[e], in a reasonable time, a mentation of an out-of-court settle- ulate the care provided to these rulemaking on the regulation of rats, ment of a lawsuit brought against the species in all circumstances covered mice, and birds under the AWA. The USDA by the Alternatives Research by the AWA or in certain circum- notice goes on to say, Beyond this con- and Development Foundation (ARDF). stances, such as use in research only ; dition, final results and timeframes The ARDF sued in 1999 to compel the how many rats, mice, and birds might are not specified. The settlement USDA to extend its AWA regulations the USDA be asked to regulate if the agreement also requires the USDA to to rats, mice, and birds. change in the definition was made; make periodic reports to the plaintiffs The issue is whether the wording of and what should be the USDAs attorneys on its progress. the AWA statute requires the USDA to enforcement priorities if the regula- It was this rulemaking that was put issue regulations that cover rats, mice, tion of rats, mice and birds were added on hold during FY 2001. With the FY and birds used in research, education, to its workload. 2002 funding legislation in place, it is and testing. The statute, as amended Dissatisfied with the agency s fail- anticipated that USDA will proceed by Congress in 1970, defines animal ure to take more decisive action, the with the rulemaking process. within the scope of the AWA as any ARDF filed suit in March 1999, seek- Researchers should be prepared on live or dead dog, cat, monkey (nonhu- ing to compel the USDA to man primate mammal), guinea pig, regulate laboratory-bred rats hamster, rabbit or other such warm- and mice as well as birds. The blooded animal, as the Secretary may Humane Society of the determine is being used, or is intended United States and the for use, for research, testing, experi- Animal Legal Defense Fund mentation and for other specified had brought a similar suit purposes. However, ever since imple- against the USDA in 1990. menting regulations for the 1970 That case resulted in an ini- amendments were adopted, the USDA tial ruling in favor of the has administratively excluded rats plaintiffs in 1992, that was and mice bred for research as well as overturned on appeal in 1994 birds. (Wild-caught rats and mice used because the higher court in research are covered by the regula- found that none of the plain- tions.) tiffs met the legal tests neces- The ARDF and several individuals sary to give them standing to petitioned the USDA in 1998 to end challenge USDA enforcement the exclusion. The petitioners argued of the AWA. However, while that excluding these species was arbi- the 1999 ARDF suit was Wisconsin researchers Hannah Carey trary and capricious, an abuse of agen- underway in the courts, a (left) and Joseph Kemnitz (right) met cy discretion, and not in accordance decision was handed down in with Senator Herbert Kohl (D-Wisc.) dur- with the law. These terms reflect the a separate challenge to AWA ing a July 11, 2001 advocacy day on legal arguments commonly used in regulations in which an indi- Capitol Hill organized by the APS. seeking to overturn federal agency vidual plaintiff was granted

14 The Physiologist Public Affairs Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 short notice to respond to a request for The existence of this foundation was United Way organizations. For more comments on extending AWA regula- one of the most striking revelations in information, see Are You Giving tions to rats, mice, and birds. In the 12th annual Who Gets the Money to Undermine Medical response to the USDAs 1999 request Money? feature published in Animal Research? (The Physiologist: Vol. 44, for comments, the APS expressed con- People in November 2001. Using infor- No. 6, December 2001, p. 414.) This cern that at major research institu- mation from IRS financial disclosure article is also available on line at tions, USDA regulation of rats, mice, statements of the three organizations, http://www.the-aps.org/pub_affairs/leg and birds duplicates the existing over- Animal People concluded the major _act_cntr/news/money.htm. sight protection provided by the PHS purpose of [FSAP] appears to be to The Animal People report is intend- Policy on Humane Care and Use of enable PETA and PCRM to evade pub- ed to assist donors sympathetic to ani- Animals and voluntary accreditation lic recognition of their relationship mal-oriented causes to determine the through the Association for the and the real extent of their direct mail financial strength of these organiza- Assessment and Accreditation of expenditures. tions programs; how much of their Laboratory Animal Care, Internation- Animal People is an independent resources are being used for fundrais- al. AWA regulations would add no ben- monthly publication that covers ani- ing and other overhead costs; and efit in terms of improving animal wel- mal advocacy and protection activi- whether they are accumulating assets fare and would at the same time be ties. It regularly reports on extrava- or providing services with the funds administratively burdensome and gant salaries, inappropriate uses of they receive. In assessing the propor- costly for both the USDA and research funds, and excessive fundraising costs tion of budget utilized for overhead facilities to implement. by activist organizations. The annual costs, Animal People uses a bench- Who Gets the Money? investigative mark developed by the now-defunct report is compiled from financial data National Charities Information Activists’ Funding that nonprofit organizations must file Bureau (NCIB). The NCIB recom- annually with the IRS. The current mended that charities spend at least edition covers 148 animal protection 60% of their budgets on programs Remains Strong; charities operating in the US and excluding direct mail appeals. abroad along with eight opposition According to Animal People, This PCRM, PETA Hide groups, such as Americans for Medical standard is stricter and more indica- Progress (AMP) and the National tive of priorities than IRS rules, Association for Biomedical Research which allow charities to call some Fundraising Costs (NABR). Information comes mainly direct mail costs program service Two prominent animal activists set from IRS Form 990 filings for the year under the heading of public educa- up a foundation in 1993 to undertake 2000. tion. The accompanying table shows fundraising on their organizations In addition to disclosing the exis- budget, program expenditures, assets, behalf. Physicians Committee for tence of FSAP, Animal People docu- and overhead claimed as well as Responsible Medicine (PCRM) mented the continuing success of self- Animal People s estimation of adjusted founder Neal Barnard and People for appointed animal advocacy organiza- overhead percentage that includes the the Ethical Treatment of Animals tions in amassing financial support for cost of public education mailings that (PETA) President Ingrid Newkirk their activities. Some groups that also contained requests for donations. comprise a controlling interest of the oppose the use of animals in research FSAP was incorporated in 1993. Its board of the Foundation for the receive donations through the sole purpose, according to its IRS Combined Federal Campaign or local Support of Animal Protection (FSAP). (continued on page16) Table 1. 2000 Funding of Animal Activist Organizations

Organization Budget Programs Overhead Total assets Overhead Adjusted Claimed overhead American Antivivisection $ 1,235,214 $ 1,151,82 $ 83,332 $ 11,230,110 7% 7% Society Animal Legal Defense Fund 3,133,399 2,497,396 636,003 2,572,436 20% 57% Doris Day Animal League 2,743,811 2,271,016 472,795 803,637 17% 71% Foundation to Support 2,554,996 232,524 2,122,472 7,733,414 83% 83% Animal Protection* Friends of Animals 4,764,001 4,071,602 692,399 7,064,794 15% 24% Humane Society of the US 50,431,797 29,148,054 16,172,403 106,840,986 32% 47% In Defense of Animals 1,841,705 1,502,034 339,671 732,824 18% 23% National Anti-Vivisection 2,620,228 2,022,995 597,273 8,763,579 23% 40% Society People for the Ethical 17,668,699 14,631,410 3,037,289 4,091,700 17% 34% Treatment of Animals* Physicians Committee for 2,533,289 1,914,808 518,481 237,363 24% 41% Responsible Medicine* *See accompanying article

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(continued from page 15) November for the fiscal year that Form 990 is to Provide support to var- Congress Finalizes FY began October 1. ious charitable, educational, and sci- On December 18, House and Senate entific organizations specified in the 2002 Budgets conferees approved the conference Corporation s Certificate of Incorpo- report for the Labor-HHS-Education ration. These organizations are PETA After months of debate and dis- spending bill, which included funding and four of its subsidiaries, the PCRM, tractions, Congress completed action for NIH. The House approved the mea- and the Washington Humane Society. on fiscal year (FY) 2002 funding for sure on December 19, and the Senate The FSAP board consists of three peo- the National Institutes of Health followed the next day before Congress ple: the PCRM s Barnard (President), (NIH) on December 20. Funding for adjourned for the year. PETAs Newkirk (Director), and the National Science Foundation Under the agreement, NIH receives Nadine Edles (Secretary). Edles (NSF), Veterans Research and the a funding increase of $2.99 billion in address as filed with the IRS is the National Aeronautics Space Adminis- FY 2002, or 15 percent over its FY same as the PCRM s. tration (NASA) was approved in 2001 budget. This will bring the total Animal People further reports that in fiscal years 1999 and 2000 combined, Table 1. Fiscal Year 2002 Appropriations for NIH Institutions FSAP raised $7,454,914 in donations and program NIH FY 2001 FY 2002 Conference $ Increase % Increase service revenue, paying the Institute Comparable Request (FY 2002 mortgage on the PETA Final) headquarters and leasing NCI $ 3,737,217 4,177,203 4,190,405 +453,188 +12.1 the site to PETA. The Foundation apparently NHLBI 2,298,664 2,567,429 2,576,125 +277,461 +12.1 did mailings in the names NIDCR 306,153 341,898 343,327 +37,174 +12.1 of the beneficiaries and NIDDK 1,303,570 1,457,915 1,466,833 +163,263 +12.5 paid $432,524 to PCRM in 2000. It spent $3,487,585 NINDS 1,176,797 1,316,448 1,328,188 +151,391 +12.8 or 89% of its budget, on NIAID 2,062,621 2,330,325 2,347,278 +284,657 +13.8 fundraising and administration and paid salaries NIGMS 1,539,903 1,720,206 1,725,263 +185,360 +12.0 totaling $2,102,216. NICHD 978,721 1,096,650 1,113,605 +134,884 +13.8 The bottom line, according to Animal People is NEI 510,525 571,126 581,366 +70,841 +13.9 that If FSAP, PETA, and NIEHS 502,987 561,750 566,639 +63,652 +12.7 PCRM were seen as a single fundraising unit, as the NIA 786,303 879,961 893,443 +107,140 +13.6 existence and activities of NIAMS 396,528 443,565 448,865 +52,337 +13.2 FSAP indicates they should be, their spending NIDCD 301,069 336,757 342,072 +41,003 +13.6 in 1999 came to NINR 105,158 117,686 120,451 +15,293 +14.5 $20,391,253; their declared overhead came to NIAAA 340,537 381,966 384,838 +44,301 +13.0 $4,053658, 20% of budget; NIDA 780,827 907,369 888,105 +107,278 +13.7 and their overhead if the cost of all direct main con- NIMH 1,106,519 1,238,305 1,248,626 +142,107 +12.8 taining fundraising NHGRI 382,040 426,739 429,515 +47,475 +12.4 appeals were counted as fundraising costs came to NIBIB 1,975 40,206 111,984 +110,009 +557.0 $9,633,083: 47% of budget. NCRR 817,098 974,038 1,011,594 +194,496 +23.8 In the year 2000, their combined spending was NCCAM 89,121 100,063 104,644 +15,523 +17.4 $22,756,984, with declared NCMHD 132,044 158,425 157,812 +25,768 +19.5 overhead of $5,778,242 (25% of budget), and the FIC 50,472 56,449 56,940 +6,468 +12.8 overhead total adjusted to OD 188,346 232,098 235,540 +47,194 +25.1 include direct mailings with fundraising appeals NLM 246,304 275,725 277,658 +31,354 +12.7 came to $9,168,478 or B&F 153,761 236,600 234,600 +80,839 +52.6 40.3% of budget. Total 20,295,260 23,041,902 23,285,116 +2,989,856 +14.7

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NIH budget to $23.28 billion. Never- existing human research protection theless, the agency s net funding level AAHRPP Forming measures using the standards laid out in FY 2002 decreases due to intera- by AAHRPP. It then submits its pro- gency transfers for administrative and gram description with an application. evaluation costs. Under the agree- Human Accreditation After the site visit is completed, ment, $100 million will be transferred AAHRPP representatives will put to the Global AIDS-Malaria-TB Fund Site Visit Teams together a report for its council on and $297 million will be transferred The Association for the Accredita- accreditation. The council will then for studies at other HHS agencies. tion of Human Research Protection recommend to AAHRPP s board of After these deductions are calculated, (AAHRPP) is actively recruiting indi- directors one of three levels of accred- the net total for NIH is $22.88 billion, viduals to participate in site visits to itation: full, provisional or none. This an increase of $2.87 billion or 13.9 institutions seeking accreditation for accreditation will be good for three percent over FY 2001. An increase of their human research protections pro- years, but the organization is consid- this magnitude is particularly notable grams, according to Marjorie Speers, ering allowing institutions to pay given the focus on addressing concerns Executive Director of this new organi- annually so the fee can be built into from the September 11 attacks and zation. budgets. the need to pursue the war on terrorism. Researchers are encouraged to sign More information about AAHRPP The accompanying table outlines up to become site visitors. and its activities can be found online appropriations for individual NIH Accreditation will have an enormous at http://www.aahrpp.org. institutions that were provided by the impact on the conduct of human sub- Senate Labor-HHS-Education Sub- ject research. It is very much in the committee. interest of the research community to NIH Issues New On November 6, 2001, the conferees be involved in developing approaches for the VA/HUD Appropriations to apply regulations and standards. Graduate Student Committee approved funding for NSF, According to the Washington Fax,an as well as the Veterans Medical Re- online daily science policy publication, search programs and NASA. President AAHRPP is seeking institutional Compensation Policy Bush signed the bill into law on review board (IRB) professionals, November 26, 2001 (P.L. 107-73) In researchers familiar with federal reg- The National Institutes of Health the end, Congress adopted the $4.8 ulations, research deans and adminis- (NIH) issued a new policy concerning billion dollar increase for NSF that trators, public representatives and compensation for graduate students was approved by the House. This others involved in human research supported by NIH research grants and appropriation was an 8.2 percent protection programs to comprise its cooperative agreements. The new poli- increase over FY 2001 and a boost of site visit team. cy, which will apply to future awards, $365 million over last year s budget AAHRPP was incorporated in April ties the maximum amount of support and $316 million over President 2001 and published a draft set of for a graduate student on an NIH- Bush s request respectively. Included accreditation standards for comment funded research grant or cooperative in this are: on October 15, 2001. Initial site visits agreement to the stipend level of first- • $3.6 billion for research and related were scheduled for December 2001 to year National Service Award (NRSA) activities; evaluate human research protections post-doctoral students in effect when • $139 million for major research in NIH s intramural research pro- the award is made. Compensation equipment; and gram. Comments on the draft stan- includes salary or wages, fringe bene- • $875 million for education and dards along with information gained fits, and tuition reimbursement. human resources. from the test visits will be used in for- The current entry-level NRSA While NSF received a substantial mulating the final standards. stipend is $28,260 but is expected to increase, VA medical research did not According to Speers, AAHRPP expects increase as part of a plan NIH fare quite as well. Veterans Medical to continue piloting its site visitor pro- announced in spring 2001 to raise and Prosthetic Research was cedure by examining Clemson first-year NRSA stipends to $45,000 increased by $20 million over FY 2001, University in South Carolina; Summa over the next four to five years. This bringing FY 2002 funding to $371 mil- Health System in Akron, Ohio and plan was a response to the August lion, an increase of 5.6 percent. one or two more institutions to be 2000 recommendations of a National For FY 2002, NASAs overall budget determined later. Once the pilot site Research Council (NRC) report on is $14.7 billion, a 3.5 percent increase visits are completed, Speers predicted, National Needs for Biomedical and over FY 2001. The newly created it s very possible that by the end of Behavioral Scientists. The NRC report Office of Biological and Physical next year, we will be able to announce called for significant increases in Research, which now houses many of our first accredited institutions. graduate and post-doctoral student NASAs life sciences programs, will be The site visit process is the second salaries. funded at $714 million in FY 2002. step toward AAHRPP s accreditation. NIH s new graduate student com- The biology research budget within The first step is for institutions to pensation policy was announced in the the office is expected to be $172 million. undertake a self-assessment of their December 10, 2001 issue of the NIH (continued on page 18)

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(continued from page 17) leagues wrote. Eco-terrorist cells like the natural environment. Guide to Grants and Contracts. It these have exacted a substantial Other members of Congress have applies to graduate students support- financial and personal toll on scores of expressed similar concerns about the ed by NIH grants and cooperative individuals and enterprises in all cor- violent tendencies of some domestic agreements but not to students direct- ners of the United States, they stated. groups. In the first session of the ly supported by NRSA training Groups such as ALF and ELF have 107th Congress, Congressman George awards. The policy will apply to all been responsible for millions of dollars Nethercutt (R-WA) introduced the future new and competing awards. worth of damage to university labs, Agroterrorism Act of 2001 designed According to the notice, NRSA stipend research facilities and personal busi- to deter domestic terrorism through levels are intended to offset the cost nesses. In fact, the FBI believes that increased university security funding of living during the period of training eight out of 12 suspected domestic ter- and stiffer criminal penalties. and are not considered equivalent to rorist incidents in the US in 1999 were Similarly, Congressman Felix Grucci salaries or other forms of compensa- caused by the ALF or ELF. (R-NY) introduced the Hands Off Our tion provided to individuals supported As recently as this October 30, 2001 Kids Act of 2001. This legislation was on research grants. Despite that dis- ELF claimed responsibility for the devised as a measure to prevent claimer, the NIH goes on to say, firebombing of a US Bureau of Land groups, such as ALF and ELF, from Nevertheless, the entry-level postdoc- Management wild horse corral in recruiting unsuspecting young adults toral NRSA stipend provides a useful California. According to Congressman from participating in violent and ille- benchmark for an award amount that McInnis s letter, ALF has been equally gal activities. approximates a reasonable rate of destructive with an attack on a New compensation for graduate students. Mexico biomedical research lab that In general, graduate student com- caused nearly $1 million in damage. Senate Abandons Farm pensation will not be considered rea- In calling on environmental groups sonable if in excess of the amount paid to disavow the actions of the terrorist to the first-year postdoctoral scientists organizations, McInnis likened the Relief Effort; at the same institution performing search for domestic terrorist groups to comparable work, the NIH cautioned. the war that is currently being con- “Puppy Protection” ducted following the September 11 attack. In a press release accompany- 107th Congress Tackles ing the release of his letter, he urged Amendment Waits in environmental groups to help in the fight. In probing the threat of terror- Wings Domestic Terrorism ism, it only stands to reason the Congress should probe the threat of An amendment to farm relief legis- As the 107th congressional session eco-terrorism as well, McInnis said. lation that could cause problems for came to an end, legislators were faced It is crucial that key environmental research with dogs was introduced in with an issue that had not presented organizations join with us in combat- the closing days of the first session of itself in the history of the Republic a ing these underground eco-terrorist the 107th Congress. The provision, foreign terrorist attack on US soil. organizations. sponsored by Senators Rick Santorum While the clear priority is to combat Representative McInnis also called (R-PA) and Richard Durbin (D-IL), terrorism from abroad, a few legisla- for a series of hearings this year was intended to help puppies bred as tors are also concerned with violent beginning February 12. He plans to pets but would also affect dogs bred groups with domestic agendas. use these hearings to probe the infras- and used in research. However, prior On November 2, 2001 several mem- tructure of the ALF and ELF. One of to adjournment, the Senate was forced bers of Congress sent a letter to envi- the witnesses scheduled to testify is to abandon consideration of the farm ronmental groups urging them to Craig Rosebraugh, who until recently bill for the time being after Senate reject the actions of eco-terrorist was a spokesman for the ELF. The Democrats tried three times without groups. We are calling on you and committee issued a subpoena to success to secure the votes to end a your organization to publicly disavow Rosebraugh in November 2001 after threatened Republican filibuster of the actions of eco-terrorist organiza- he refused previous requests to testify the bill. Some observers expect the tions like Earth Liberation Front voluntarily. Senate to make another effort to pass (ELF) and Animal Liberation Front Because Rosebraugh is being com- a farm bill in the spring. (ALF), Congressmen Scott McInnis pelled to testify, activists are calling The amendment of concern to the (R-CO), Chairman of the House Sub- for demonstrations in Washington. research community was based upon committee on Forests and Forest One activist urged others on an e-mail Sen. Santorum s Puppy Protection Health, James Hansen (R-UT), Chair- listserv to follow your conscience and Act (S. 1478). Sen. Santorum intro- man of the House Resources Commit- take any action necessary to stop the duced this measure earlier last year to tee and several congressional col- destruction of animals, humans, and improve conditions for puppies bred

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and raised in so-called puppy mills. their care. The American Veterinary Santorum, APS President John Hall Although intended to end undesirable Medical Association noted in a letter expressed concern that these new practices among breeders who sell to to Senator Santorum that there is a sanctions would cause confusion and commercial pet stores, the changes minimal amount of published, peer- lead to increased demand for adminis- called for in the legislation would have reviewed scientific research available trative and judicial review whenever unintended negative consequences on on which engineering standards could USDA inspectors cited any violation. dogs raised and used in research. be comfortably based. This could create a logjam of appeals This legislation would establish pre- The amendment would also estab- that may overwhelm the agency s ani- cise and rigid engineering standards lish harsh enforcement sanctions with mal welfare enforcement resources, for the breeding and socialization of poorly defined criteria for imposing Hall wrote. dogs. These provisions would be based them. It calls for mandatory license Having made their concerns known upon the recommendations of animal revocation when three violations of to Senator Santorum, researchers are welfare and behavior experts and the Animal Welfare Act are cited over hopeful that before the Puppy would override the current system of an eight-year period. However, the Protection Act is brought to the floor outcome-oriented performance-based amendment does not define the sever- either as freestanding legislation or as care standards that permit veterinari- ity of violations that would trigger the an amendment to another bill, the ans trained in laboratory animal three strikes, you re out provision, offending provisions will be modified medicine to determine how best to nor does the AWA itself make such dis- or removed. ❖ ensure the welfare of the dogs under tinctions. In a letter to Senator

Bowditch Lecture Award

The annual Bowditch Lecture honoring the first elected President of the American Physiological Society, Henry Pickering Bowditch, has been given at the annual meeting since 1956. The first Bowditch Lecture, Role of the Red Physiology in Perspective Blood Corpuscles in the Regulation of Renal Blood Flow and Glomular Filtration Rate, was presented by John R. Walter B. Cannon Memorial Pappenheimer. Lecture Award The lecturer is selected by the President with the consent of Council from among the regular members who The Cannon Memorial Lecture honors Walter B. have achieved outstanding work and are under 42 years of Cannon, President of the Society from 1913-1916 and one age at the time of presentation. The award is for original of the century s most distinguished physiologists. The and outstanding accomplishments in the field of physiolo- plenary lecture is presented annually by a distinguished gy. Originality of approach, clarity of data presentation, physiologic scientist, domestic or foreign, at the spring and the general significance of the results are important meeting on a subject that addresses some aspect of the criteria. The award conveys an honorarium of $2,500 plus concept of homeostasis as enunciated in Cannon s classic travel and per diem expenses to attend the spring meet- work, The Wisdom of the Body. The lecture, sponsored by ing, and the recipient is invited to submit a manuscript for the Grass Foundation, is selected by the APS President publication in one of the Society s journals. with the consent of Council. Nominations should be accompanied by letters from two The recipient receives an honorarium of $4,000 plus nominators describing the importance of the candidate s travel and per diem expenses and is invited to submit a work, a brief sketch of the nominee s professional history, manuscript for consideration of publication in one of the papers or manuscripts that substantiate the excellence of Society s journals. the candidate, and a curriculum vitae. The nominators Nominations for the Cannon Lecture Award should be should clearly state the contributions of candidates to any adequately documented to demonstrate the candidate s jointly authored manuscripts and papers, documenting contributions to physiology. A curriculum vitae should the independence of the nominee s work. accompany the letter of support describing the nominee s Nominations should be submitted by October 1 to: The achievements. Submit nominations by October 1 to: The APS Bowditch Lecture Award, 9650 Rockville Pike, APS Cannon Lecture Award, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3991. Bethesda, MD 20814-3991.

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PHYSIOLOGY IN PERSPECTIVE: HENRY PICKERING BOWDITCH THE WALTER B. CANNON AWARD LECTURE AWARD LECTURE (SUPPORTED BY THE GRASS FOUNDATION) Allen W. Cowley, Jr. Medical College of Pontus B. Persson Wisconsin Humboldt University

Genomics and Control of Renin, From Cell Cardiovascular Function Lysates to the Conscious Dog

SATURDAY,APRIL 20, 5:30 PM SUNDAY,APRIL 21, 5:30 PM

Distinguished Lectureships

AUGUST KROGH CARL LUDWIG DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP OF THE COMPARATIVE OF THE NEURAL CONTROL PHYSIOLOGY SECTION AND AUTONOMIC REGULATION SECTION Albert F. Bennett University of California, Suzanne Oparil Irvine University of Alabama, Birmingham Experimental Evolution: Generating Biological Novelty The Anterior Hypothalamic for Functional and Genetic Area: Gatekeeper in the Analyses Pathogenesis of Salt- Sensitive Hypotension

SUNDAY,APRIL 21, 8:00 AM SUNDAY,APRIL 21, 10:30 AM

CARL W. G OTTSCHALK CLAUDE BERNARD DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP OF THE RENAL SECTION OF THE TEACHING OF PHYSIOLOGY SECTION

Biff Forbush Penelope A. Hansen Yale University Memorial University, Newfoundland

Regulation of the Na-K-Cl Physiology s Recondite Cotransporter in Secretion Curriculum and Absorption

SUNDAY,APRIL 21, 2:00 PM SUNDAY,APRIL 21, 3:15 PM

JOSEPH ERLANGER JULIUS H. COMROE,JR. DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS OF THE RESPIRATION SECTION SYSTEM SECTION

Celia D. Sladek Norman C. Staub Finch University of the Health University of California, Sciences/Chicago Medical San Francisco School Regulation of the Prevention and Treatment Neurohypophyseal System: of Pulmonary and Systemic Neurotransmitter, Responses to Endotoxin: Neuropeptide and Steroid Whole Animal Physiology Hormone Interactions Redux

MONDAY,APRIL 22, 9:00 AM MONDAY,APRIL 22, 10:30 AM

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ROBERT M. BERNE HUGH DAVSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR OF THE CELL AND MOLECULAR SECTION PHYSIOLOGY SECTION

David G. Harrison Harvey F. Lodish Emory University Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Regulation of Vasomotor Tone by Redox Status: ACRP30 and Fatty Acid Physiological and Transport Proteins New Pathophysiological Approaches to Obesity and Implications Diabetes

MONDAY,APRIL 22, 2:00 PM MONDAY,APRIL 22, 2:00 PM

SOLOMON A. BERSON ERNEST H. STARLING DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP OF THE ENDOCRINOLOGY AND OF THE WATER AND METABOLISM SECTION ELECTROLYTE HOMEOSTASIS SECTION

Bruce M. Spiegelman Richard P. Lifton Dana-Farber Cancer Yale University Institute, Boston

Transcription Regulation Genetics, the Kidney and of Energy and Glucose Hypertension Homeostasis

MONDAY,APRIL 22, 3:15 PM TUESDAY,APRIL 23, 9:00 AM

HORACE W. D AVENPORT EDWARD F. A DOLPH DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SECTION AND EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY SECTION

John A. Williams Peter D. Wagner University of Michigan University of California, San Diego Regulation of the Synthesis Maximum Oxygen and Secretion of Pancreatic Consumption and Its Digestive Enzymes by Diet Limitation: the Good, the and Hormones Bad, and the Molecular

TUESDAY,APRIL 23, 10:30 AM TUESDAY,APRIL 23, 2:00 PM FASEB Excellence in Science Award

Phyllis Wise University of Kentucky, College of Medicine

Estrogen: Potent Protective Factors in the Adult and Aging Brain

SUNDAY,APRIL 21, 2:00 PM

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Room 8:30 AM-12 NOON 5:30-6:30 PM 255-257 Refresher Course: Recent Walter B. Cannon Advances in Neuroscience Memorial Award Lecture Heesch & Cunningham Cowley Room 10:00 AM-12 NOON 1:00 -4:00 PM 252-254 Workshop: Understanding Tutorial: Bioinformatics organ function through for physiologists real-time fluroscence Tonellato microscopy Bhattacharya & Pitt Room 3:15-5:15 PM 221-222 Microcirculatory Society President s Symposium: Signaling in cells of the microvascular wall Sarelius

Room 3:15-5:15 PM AFMR 211 Symposium: Diagnosis and treatment with atrial natriuretic peptides of diseases with salt and water retention Vesely Room 213 1:00-5:00 PM Public Affairs Symposium: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the IACUC But Were Afraid to Ask Stallone

Room 245 4:30-5:30 PM NIDDK Minority Travel Fellows Orientation

Fourth Annual Walter C. APS Annual Business Meeting and Randall Lecture Award Presentations in Biomedical Ethics

Adrian Morrison University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, April 23 Room 221-222 Developing an Ethical Position on 5:30-7:00 PM the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research

TUESDAY,APRIL 23, 2:00 PM Don’t miss it!

22 The Physiologist Experimental Biology 2002 Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 Sunday April 21, 2002 8:00-10:00 10:30-12:30 3:15-5:15 Room Physiology InFocus: Gene- Physiology InFocus: Neurobiology of 255-257 Environment Interactions in Obesity Obesity Haynes/ Schwartz Kurtz/Hill 5:30-6:30 PM: Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Lecture Persson Room Symposium: Bioinformatics in 1:00-2:30 PM 252-254 physiological genomics FASEB Public Affairs Symposium Tonellato Room Symposium : Sex and nonsex -- 1-hour only: Carl Ludwig 2:00-3:00 PM 244 estrogen and the aging Distinguished Lectureship FASEB Excellence in Science Award hypothalamus Oparil Lecture Clark/Wyss 12:30-1:30 PM: Ideas Forum: Wise Whatever Happened to AV3V? Sved Room 245 Symposium: The sensory functions 2:00-3:00 PM Carl W. Gottschalk of the DEG/ENaC superfamily of ion Distinguished Lectureship channels Forbush Benos/Stanton 6:00-10:00 PM Graduate student highlights in respiration physiology Raj/Bhattacharya Room Symposium: New paradigms in 2:00-3:00 PM Microcirculatory Society 221-222 neo-vascularization Landis Award Lecture Schatteman/Peters Gore Room 210 1-hour only: August Krogh FT: Central and peripheral Microcirculatory Society Young Distinguished Lectureship mechanisms of oxygen sensing Investigator Session Bennett Erlichman/Mitchell Stepp/Kanwar Room 207 Symposium: The promise for Symposium: Role of Endothelin Symposium: Functional heterogene- therapeutic intervention in obesity: ETB receptors in cardiorenal function ity in the renal microcirculation the brain and beyond Fink Harrison-Bernard/Loutzenhiser D Alessio Room 208 Symposium: Molecular and cellular Symposium: Manipulations to FT: Applications of physiological mechanisms of ischemic liver injury enhance new tissue formation genomics: the discovery of novel Lentsch Yin genes for volume and pressure regulation Greene/Pollock Room 209 FT: Regulation of vascular tone: Symposium: Viruses, ion channels FT: Epithelial calcium channels: from parallel versus redundant control and ion transporters identification to physiology and mechanisms Russell pathophysiology Frisbee Hediger/Bronner Room Symposium: Incorporating case FT: Helping students understand 1 hour only: Claude Bernard 214 studies in the physiology classroom physiology through the use of Distinguished Lectureship Cliff general models Hansen Modell Room 217 Symposium: The sudden infant FT: Living at extreme Symposium: Genetic adaptation to death syndrome, sleep, and breathing temperatures: genes to organisms cold Nattie Marjanovic Wang Room FT: Hypothalamic PVN: Workshop: Peer Review and Symposium : Rhythms in 211 neuromodulatory mechanisms in Publication of APS Journals reproduction autonomic regulation Benos Guevara-Guzman/Hudson Toney/Stern Room Symposium: Role of myostatin in FT: Ventilator induced lung injury: FT: Oxygen dependent signaling in 212 regulating muscle growth in vivo and in vitro mechanisms pulmonary vascular smooth muscle cell Lee Matthay Raj Room 213 FT: Interfacing molecular and inte- FT: Fetal programming of post- FT: Energy metabolism in skeletal grative physiology of the kidney: Na natal cardiovascular regulation and cardiac muscle transporters and channels in com- Schwartz/Thornburg Cabrera plex disease models Knepper/Garvin Room 218 Workshop: How to be a good mentor; how to be a good mentee (9:00-12:00) Davisson

23 The Physiologist Experimental Biology 2002 Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 Monday April 22, 2002 8:00-10:00 10:30-12:30 3:15-5:15 Room Physiology InFocus: Endocrine/ Physiology InFocus: Obesity and 1-hour only: Solomon A. Berson 255-257 Metabolic Consequences of Obesity Cardiovascular Regulation Distinguished Lectureship Horwitz/Kahn Mark/Hall Spiegelman Room 2:00-3:00 PM Robert M. Berne 252-254 Distinguished Lectureship Harrison Room 1-hour only:Julius H. Comroe Jr. 2:00-3:00 pm Hugh Davson 244 Distinguished Lectureship Distinguished Lectureship Staub Lodish FT:Novel insights in lung fluid balance Matthay/Staub Room 245 Symposium: Apoptosis and organ Symposium: Ion channels and FT: Signal transduction mechanisms injury mechanisms in hypertension hypoxia for O2 homeostasis Schmid-Schonbein/Boegehold Kunze Beckman/Prabhakar Room Symposium: Mechanisms of vascular 221-222 remodeling: temporal events from stimu- lus to structural and functional changes Hill/Meininger Room 210 FT: Which oxidase is the most Symposium: Comparative models to Symposium: The role of angiotensin important in vascular signaling?. understanding molecular and oxidative stress in the Wolin mechanisms of solute transport development of hypertension Goss Romero Room 207 Symposium: New developments in FT: History of gastric secretion FT: Epithelial sodium channels renal acid-base transport and its Tipton Kleyman/Thomas regulation Knepper/Wall Room 208 9:00-10:00 AM Joseph Erlanger FT: Cardiovascular and endocrine Symposium: Cellular biomechanics Distinguished Lectureship control in mice: a mouse is not a in the lung Sladek small rat Waters Morris/Davisson Room 209 FT: Proteinases: novel signaling FT: Formation of epithelia in the FT: Insights into epithelial trans- molecules in gastrointestinal embryonic kidney port physiology gleaned from function and dysfunction Barasch interactions with intestinal pathogens Wallace Barrett Room Symposium: Nanotechnology in bio- FT: Physiological genomics: FT: Developmental aspects of 214 engineering and biology transgenic models and gene regulation peripheral chemoreception Desai Gross/Sigmund Carroll/Forster

Room 217 Cell FT: Membrane transport Symposium: Physiology of physical 5:30-7:00 PM Symposium: Career autoinhibitory domains inactivity s induction of chronic opportunities in physiology: taking Milanick disorders the next step Booth/Holloszy Belloni Room FT: Role of gap junctions in CO2 AFMR Symposium: Endothelial FT: Exercise-induced cardioprotec- 211 chemoreception and respiratory dysfunction in end stage renal disease tion: unique insights from cardiac, control Goligorsky/Baylis smooth and skeletal muscle Solomon/Dean Korzick/Bowles Room FT: Oxidative stress and renal blood FT: Cellular growth factors and FT: Sensory afferents and 212 pressure stress proteins: regulation and cardiovascular regulation Welch effects Wang/Mifflin Rose Room 213 FT: Neural mechanisms impacting sodium balance and arterial pressure in hypertension and heart failure Ehmke/Felder

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Room MyoBio Symp: Adaptive responses Symposium: Vascular consequences 221-222 of cardiac muscle of oxidant stress Mestril Pitt/Miller Room 210 8:30-9:00 AM WEH Young Renal Symposium: Disorders of 5:30-7:00 PM APS Business Meeting Investigator Award in Regulatory sodium transport and blood Symposium: Epithelial channels: and Integrative Physiology pressure regulation regulation by differentiation and Davisson Linas growth factors 9:00-10:00 AM Ernest H. Starling Stockand/Rane Distinguished Lectureship Lifton Room 207 Symposium: Estrogen: a potent Cross Sectional: Cell-cell crosstalk 2:00-3:00 PM Edward F. Adolph neuroprotective factor in the generation of inflammation Distinguished Lectureship Wise Bhattacharya Wagner Room 208 FT:Capacitative calcium influx and Comp FT: Ontogeny of 2:00-3:00 PM The Walter C. Randall store operated calcium channels cardiorespiratory mechanisms: an Lecture in Biomedical Ethics Marchase evolutionary perspective Morrison Warburton Symposium: Redox control of skeletal muscle adaptation Reid/Powers Room 209 FT: Skeletal muscle circulation: NCAR Symposium: Neural control FT: Physiological mechanisms of neural and mechanical of the cerebral circulation neuronal plasticity in the mature determinants (Wiggers Award Talman nervous system featured topic) Marder/Llewellyn-Smith Rowell Room 214 Symposium: Bioengineering FT: Physiological genomics: disease FT: Molecular basis of local calcium approaches to enhance gene delivery gene therapy signaling Davis Phillips/Davisson Foskett Room 217 FT: Emerging views of epithelial 1-hour only: Horace W. Davenport FT: Redox regulation of vascular chloride channels Distinguished Lectureship function Wills/Fong Williams Harrison Room FT: Tissue responses to splanchnic FT: Eicosanoids and fever FT: Novel actions of aldosterone 211 organ injury Blatteis Rocha Kvietys/Clemens Room FT: Food intake and body fat: some FT: Chemoreflexes in health and 212 central and autonomic controls disease: recent perspectives in Bartness cardiovascular control Schultz/Somers

APS Elections! The American Physiological Society 2002 - 2003 election ballot will be arriving shortly. You will have the opportunity to vote for one of the following candidates for President-elect and for two of the following candidates for Councillor, as put forward by the Nominating Committee.

For President-Elect: For Councillor: Steven C. Hebert Irving C. Joshua John A. Williams Virginia M. Miller Gordon S. Mitchell Allen F. Sved Charles M. Tipton The deadline for receipt of the election ballot is on or before March 7, 2002.

25 The Physiologist Experimental Biology 2002 Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 Wednesday April 24, 2002 8:00-10:00 10:30-12:30 3:15-5:15 Room A. Clifford Barger Memorial 221-222 Symposium:Cardiac fibroblasts and heart failure Lucchesi/Hseuh Room 210 Symposium: Common brainstem FT: Integration of volume regulation FT: Cardiovascular genomics mechanisms of cardiovascular and and cardiovascular function, an Raizada/Berecek respiratory control application of comparative physiology Blessing/Wyss Olson Room 207 Symposium: Translational research Symposium: Mechanisms of FT: Cell signaling in lung injury in preeclampsia and pregnancy- estrogen effects on the Mizgerd/Townsley induced hypertension cardiovascular system Khalil/August Gross Room 208 FT: Microvascular regulation in Symposium: Hypoxia, ischemia, Na, genetic and acquired eNOS Ca and Cytoprotection deficiency Anderson Koller Room 209 FT: Muscle fatigue Ameredes/Nosek Room Symposium: Mesenchymal-epithelial 214 interactions in lung development and repair are modeling and remodeling one and the same process? Torday/Plopper Room 217 FT: Dietary fat: physiology and FT: Second messengers in lung cell metabolic consequences function Tso/York Bhattacharya/Margulies Room AFMR Symposium: Potentiation of Symposium: Cyclooxygenase-2 and 211 the development of atherosclerosis renal function by diabetes Salazar/Schnermann Draznin Room FT: Oxygenases and Renal Function 212 Harris Room Workshop: Physiology and risk FT: Protein transport across lung 213 assessment: predicting adverse air-blood barrier effects of new chemicals on critical Malik organ functions Kinter/Bass

APS EB 2002 Mixer FASEB Summer Research Conference on Lung Surfactant: Cellular and Molecular Band: Lagniappe, Biology featuring Judy England July 20-25, 2002 Saxtons River, VT Ballroom A in the Hilton Organizers: Robert J. Mason, meetings/src. New Orleans Riverside Carole Mendelson, Alan Jobe, An application will be on Roger Spragg. Up to 30 Category this same web site in February I CME credits can be earned. The 2002. For additional information preliminary program can be contact [email protected]. Saturday, April 20, found at http://www.faseb.org/ 9:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

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Pancreatic Hormones Sunday,April 21 Lipid and Cholesterol Metabolism Energy Metabolism in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Mammary Gland Biology and Lactation Cardiac Muscle Physiology Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenal Biomaterials Lung Fluid Balance Lung Development Endothelial Cell Biology/Respiratory Temperature Regulation Protein Transport across Lung Air-Blood Barrier Hibernation and Chronobiology Ventilator-induced Lung Injury: in vivo and in vitro Mechanisms Temperature Adaptations and Energetics Alveolar Epithelial Cell Biology Hypothermia and Cold Drugs of Abuse and the Nervous System Living at Extreme Temperatures: Genes to Organisms Applications of Physiological Genomics: The Discovery Physiology in Extreme Environments of Novel Genes for Volume and Pressure Regulation Endocrinology Angiotensin and Kidney Function Physiological Ecology and Evolutionary Physiology Physiological Genomics: Regulation of Gene Expression Gravitational Physiological Genomics: Gene Transfer, Transgenics and Knockouts Renal Medullary Transport and Urine Concentrating Mechanisms Respiration and Acid-Base Renal Acid-Base Transport and pH Regulation Osmotic and Ionic Regulation Regulation of Epithelial Transport Muscle and Locomotion Cell Volume, Osmoregulation and Water Transport Comparative Biochemistry Epithelial Transport Vascular Oxidases Hypoxia (Ion Channels) Oxidized Lipids/Oxidant Stress Gene Expression Oxidative Stress and Renal Blood Pressure Regulation Hypoxia-Transmitters Vascular Pathobiology Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Oxygen Sensing Endothelial Cell Biology/Cardiovascular Control of Breathing: Modulation and Plasticity Exercise-induced Cardioprotection: Pulmonary Vasoregulation Unique Insights from Cardiac, Smooth and Skeletal Muscle Pulmonary Hypertension Exercise-Training Responses Lung Nitric Oxide and Vasoregulation Altitude and Hypoxia Proteinases: Novel Signaling Molecules in GI Function Signal Transduction Mechanisms for O2 Homeostasis and Dysfunction Control of Breathing: Lung and Upper Airway Receptors and Reflexes Epithelial-Microbial Interactions Liver Physiology and Pathophysiology Regulation of Vascular Tone: Parallel versus Redundant Epithelial Transport, Secretion and Absorption Control Mechanisms Organic Solute Transport Microcirculation Cotransporters/Exchangers/Multivalent Cation Transporters, Angiogenesis and Vascular Growth Organic Ion Transporters Hypertension Membrane Transport Autoinhibitory Domains Vascular Smooth Muscle Cytoskeleton, Cell Mechanics and Intracellular Trafficking Fetal Programming of Postnatal Cardiovascular Regulation ATPase Ion Pumps Neurotransmitters in CNS Transporters: Ions, Nutrients, Metabolites and Drugs Motor and Sensory Systems and Altered States Tissue Engineering Neuroendocrinology Renal Hemodynamics and Hypertension Central Autonomic Regulation Epithelial Sodium Channels Neural Mechanisms in Hypertension Epithelial Potassium Channels Neural Control of Cardiovascular Function I: Epithelial Chloride Channesl/CFTR/Bicarbonate Transport Exercise, Aging Orthostasis Blood Pressure Regulation Neural Control of Cardiovascular Function II: Cardiac Innervation Myocardial Ischemia I Microvascular Pathophysiology Dietary Fat: Physiology and Metabolic Consequences Microvascular Pharmacology/Vascular Control Renin-Angiotensin System in Volume and Pressure Regulation Microvascular Networks Neural Control of Cardiovascular Function III: Angiotensin Atherosclerosis/Thrombosis and Clinical Microcirculation Neural Control of Cardiovascular Function IV: Brainstem Mechanisms Monday, April 22 Hypothalamic Control of Autonomic Function Diseases of the CNS History of Physiology Mice, Rats and the Brain Smooth Muscle Physiology Microvascular Permeability Aging and Muscle Function Microvascular Cell and Molecular Biology Gestational, Fetal and Neonatal Biology Angiogenesis/Microvascular Remodeling Growth Hormone and IGF, Neuroendocrinology Microvascular Mechanics and Hemodynamics Growth, Reproduction and Sex Hormones Flow Regulation; Oxygen Delivery Immunoendocrinology Instrumentation in Microcirculatory Research

27 The Physiologist Experimental Biology 2002 Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 Poster Sessions (12:45 PM - 3:00 PM) Tuesday,April 23 Wednesday,April 24 Active Skeletal Muscle: Cellular and Molecular Responses Microvascular regulation in Genetic and Acquired eNOS Skeletal Muscle Circulation: Neural and Mechanical Determinants Deficiency Skeletal Muscle Physiology Gene Expression and Cardiovascular Function Muscle Fatigue Shock Heat Shock Proteins and Muscle Function Cerebral Circulation II Carbohydrate Metabolism Cardiac Function and Dynamics Connective Tissue, Bone and Stress Related Metabolism Cardiac Electrophysiology During Stress and Trauma Redox Regulation of Vascular Function Obesity and Satiety Exercise Responses and Mechanisms Protein and Amino Acid Metabolism Regulation of Gene Transcription in Lung Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology Cytokines and Lung Function Neural Mechanisms Impacting Sodium Balance Lung Airway Reactivity and Arterial Pressure in Hypertension and Heart Failure Airway Epithelial Cell Biology Emerging Views of Epithelial Chloride Channels Signaling Mechanisms in Airways and Lung Parenchyma Intracellular pH and Acid-base Transport Lung Surfactant Ion Channels Growth Factors, Hormones and Development Epithelial Polarity/Protein Trafficking/Tight Junctions/Gap Junctions Pancreas Protein-protein and Protein-lipid Interactions; Intracellular Calcium and Calcium Signaling Second Messengers Calcium Signaling Insights into Epithelial Transport Physiology Gleaned Capacitative Calcium Influx and Store Operated Channels from Interactions with Intestinal Pathogens Intracellular Signalling and Second Messengers Epithelial Transporters and Channels: Molecular Biology Cell Growth, Differentiation and Apoptosis and Structure Oxidative Stress Biology Water Channels PPARs and Kidney Function Control of Breathing: CNS Mechanisms Oxygenases and Renal Function Control of Breathing: Chemoreception New Approaches to Biomedical Data Analysis Developmental Aspects of Peripheral Chemoreception Vasoactive Factors Regulating Renal Function Hypoxia Formation of epithelia in the embryonic kidney Epithelial Bicarbonate Transport Physiological Genomics Genetic Models of Cardiovascular Function Peripheral Circulation Chemoreflexes in Health and Disease: Recent Perspectives Respiration Section Dinner at in Cardiovascular Control Sensory Afferents and Cardiovascular Regulation Experimental Biology 2002 Neural Control of Cardiovascular Function V: Baroreceptor Reflexes The Respiration America while tracking Cerebral Ischemia, Blood Brain Barrier and Anesthesia Section of the American the elusive coati mundi. Regulation of Water and Electrolyte Physiological Society The title of his talk is Interfacing Molecular and Integrative Physiology of the Kidney will have its annual din- Death at high altitude Cerebral Circulation I NO/CO ner in New Orleans dur- and the mysterious coati Myocardial Ischemia II ing Experimen-tal mundi. Coronary Circulation Biology 2002. The din- Registration for the Diabetes ner will be on Monday, dinner is required and Gender Differences in Body Fluid and Cardiovascular Regulation April 22 at the Royal can be done via the Motility Fever and Hyperthermia Sonesta Hotel on Internet at:http://fmrc. Eicosanoids and Fever Burbon Street. Dr. Wiltz pulmcc.washington.edu/r Neuronal Plasticity Wagner will be the fea- espdinner.shtml. Or by Lung Ventilation and Gas Exchange tured speaker. He is the contacting Robb Glenny Mechanics of Breathing V.K. Stoelting Professor at: [email protected] Physiological Genomics of the Respiratory System Physiological Genomics: Genetic Analysis and Model Organisms of Anesthesiology and ton.edu Physiological Genomics: Microarrays, Proteomics Professor of Physiology, This is a marvelous and Bioinformatics Biophysics, and Pe- opportunity to socialize Integration of Volume Regulation and Cardiovascular Function, diatrics at Indiana with other members of an Application of Comparative Physiology University School of the Respiration Section Ontogeny of Cardiorespiratory Mechanisms: an Evolutionary Perspective Medicine. Dr. Wagner while enjoying a nice Heart, Blood, Circulation will regale us with his meal and outstanding Renal Translational Research adventures in South dinner presentation. Tissue Responses to Splanchnic Organ Injury Novel Actions of Aldosterone

28 The Physiologist Experimental Biology 2002 Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 Sections Special Functions Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Parietal Cell Club Section Program Committee Metabolism Monday, April 22, 5:00 PM Friday, April 19, 1:00 PM Steering Committee Hilton, Salon 10 Hilton, Warwick Room Monday, April 22, 12:00 PM NIH Liaison Committee Hilton, Prince of Wales Room Renal Friday, April 19, 5:00 PM Business Meeting and Reception Section Program Committee Hilton, Chequers Room Monday, April 22, 5:30 PM Monday, April 22, 12:00 PM Nominations Committee Hilton, Salon 6 Hilton, Chequers Room Saturday, April 20, 7:00 AM Reception Hilton, Marlborough A Environmental and Exercise Monday, April 22, 6:00 PM Industry Liaison Committee Section Program Committee Hilton, Cambridge Room Sunday, April 21, 7:00 AM Friday, April 19, 2:00 PM Steering Committee Hilton, Norwich Room Hilton, Trafalgar Room Tuesday, April 23, 12:00 PM Steering Committee Steering Committee Hilton, Chequers Room Monday, April 22, 12:00 PM Monday, April 22, 7:00 AM Dinner Hilton, Warwick Room Hilton, Chequers Room Tuesday, April 23, 6:30 PM Dinner Business Meeting The Plimsoll Club Monday, April 22, 7:00 PM Tuesday, April 23, 6:00 PM 2 Canal Street, World Trade Center Ralph & Kacoo s Restaurant Hilton, Cambridge Room For more information, contact: Susan 519 Toulouse Street Dinner M. Wall, Treasurer, Renal Section, Advanced-purchased tickets required Tuesday, April 23, 6:30 PM Tel: 713-500-6868; Fax: 713-500-6882; Hilton, Salon 4 Email: [email protected] Cell and Molecular Steering Committee Epithelial Transport Group Respiration Friday, April 19, 9:00 AM Steering Committee Section Program Committee Hilton, Chequers Room Tuesday, April 23, 12:00 PM Monday, April 22, 7:00 AM Banquet and Lecture Hilton, Prince of Wales Room Hilton, Marlborough A TBD Steering Committee For more information, contact Gastrointestinal Tuesday, April 23, 7:00 AM Martha O Donnell, Secretary- Section Program Committee Hilton, Norwich Room Treasurer, Tel: 530-752-7626; Fax: Friday, April 19, 6:00 PM Business Meeting 530-752-5423; Hilton, Cambridge Room Monday, April 22, 12:00 PM Email: [email protected] Steering Committee Hilton, Elmwood Room Luncheon Monday, April 22, 7:00 AM Dinner Tuesday, April 23, 12:00 PM Hilton, Prince of Wales Room Monday April 22, 7:30 PM Hilton, Salon 4 Business Meeting/ Royal Sonesta Hotel Reception/Lecture 300 Bourbon Street Central Nervous System Tuesday, April 23, 6:00 PM Dr. Wiltz Wagner, Jr. will be the Section Program Committee Hilton, Prince of Wales Room featured dinner speaker. Friday, April 19, 1:00 PM Presentation title: Death at High Hilton, Norwich Room History of Physiology Group Altitude and the Mysterious Coati Steering Committee Business Meeting/Lecture Mundi. Advanced-purchased tickets PM Monday, April 22, 12:00 Sunday, April 21, 12:00 PM required. For more information, con Hilton, Trafalgar Room Hilton, Cambridge Room tact: Jerry Dempsey, Treasurer, Reception Respiration Section, Tel: 608-263- Monday, April 22, 5:30 PM Neural Control and Autonomic 1732; Fax: 608-262-8235; Email: Hilton, Marlborough A [email protected] Regulation Joint Steering/Section Program Comparative Teaching of Physiology Committees Steering Committee Section Program Committee Friday, April 19, 12:00 PM Sunday, April 21, 12:00 PM Friday, April 19, 12:00 PM Hilton, Cambridge Room Hilton, Warwick Room Hilton, Windsor Room Reception for the Distinguished Business Meeting and Social Steering Committee Lecturer Monday, April 22, 11:30 AM Saturday, April 20, 12:00 PM Monday, April 22, 6:30 PM Hilton, Marlborough A Hilton, Marlborough A Hilton, Salon 15 Luncheon Sunday, April 21, 12:30 PM Hilton, Elmwood Room

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and Biophysics, Wright State Univer- join an enthusiastic interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Positions sity School of Medicine, Dayton, OH research team and will have the 45435 ([email protected]). opportunity to learn a broad range of [AA/EOE] techniques. Candidates should have Postdoctoral and PhD Positions: A experience in cellular or molecular postdoctoral and PhD position are cur- Postdoctoral Positions: Unique biology and for the three-year postdoc- rently available to study the cellular opportunities are available to under- toral positions hold an MD and/or PhD mechanisms of anoxia tolerance in an take postdoctoral research in the degree and for the four-year PhD posi- anoxia-tolerant vertebrate model. The molecular cell biology of signal trans- tions hold a Masters degree. For laboratory is currently studying cellu- duction and membrane trafficking in detailed information regarding these lar anoxia tolerance mechanisms in the nervous system using model sys- open positions please visit: http:// two model systems from the extremely tems as well as cultured neurons and www.ncmls.kun.nl/celfys/. For applica- anoxia-tolerant western painted tur- oligodendrocytes. Using morphologi- tions please contact: RenØ J. Bindels, tle, a hepatocyte primary culture and cal, cellular and in vitro methods, PhD, Department of Cell Physiology, brain sheet model. Individuals will often developed by laboratories in the Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life join ongoing projects studying either Department of Cell Biology, a variety Sciences, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB the role of second messenger regula- of important questions are available Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Tel: +31- tion of neuronal ion channels or the for study.These include (1) growth fac- 24-3614211; Fax: +31-24-3616413; role of stress proteins in anoxia toler- tor and G protein mediated signaling Email: [email protected]. ance. A working knowledge of any of and intracellular trafficking of recep- the following techniques is an asset: tors and prion proteins and (2) the Postdoctoral Position: A postdoctor- single-channel and whole-cell patch mechanisms of membrane trafficking al position is available in mammalian clamping, cell culture, fluorometry, and endocytosis via studies of assem- genetics to work on human and mouse UV/vis spectroscopy, immunohisto- bly of AAA and other chaperone pro- early developmental defects, particu- chemistry, and molecular biology teins required for signaling and traf- larly the role of genes of the Notch sig- including Western analysis. A mini- ficking. Career development is sup- naling pathway in neurological and mum two years of funding is available ported by excellent mentoring and an axial skeletal development. Stimulat- for the postdoctoral position and four active postdoctoral society in the ing academic environment and excel- years for the PhD position. Positions department (http://www.postdoc.wustl lent clinical resources in newly will begin as soon as suitable appli- .edu). Sabbatical opportunities for equipped laboratories of the cants can be found. Send CV, a letter of established investigators are also Abramson Research Center of The research interests and contact infor- available. These mentored postdoctor- Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, mation for three individuals to supply al opportunities in basic science have located on the campus of the a letter of reference to: Dr. L. Buck, broad and long-term applications to a University of Pennsylvania. PhD or University of Toronto, Dept. of Zoology, variety of neurological diseases. Send MD with significant research experi- 25 Harbord St., Toronto, ON. M5S three references and CV to: Phyllis ence in molecular biology or develop- 3G5. Canada, Email: buckl@zoo. Hanson, Jim Huettner, David Harris, mental biology required. Preference utoronto.ca; Tel: 416-978 3506; Fax: Maurine Linder, John Heuser, or will be given to applicants with expe- 416-978 8532. Philip Stahl at: Department of Cell rience in human or mouse molecular Biology and Physiology (http://www. genetics and vertebrate developmen- Postdoctoral Positions: Two post- cellbiology.wustl.edu), Campus Box tal techniques. Salary will be commen- doctoral fellow positions are available 8228, Washington University, School surate with experience. The Children s in the Department of Physiology and of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Hospital of Philadelphia is an equal Biophysics, Wright State University Louis, MO 63110. opportunity employer and a teaching School of Medicine. Doctoral-level hospital of the University of degree required. Conduct experiments Postdoctoral Positions: Postdoctor- Pennsylvania School of Medicine. on the response to hypercapnia of ven- al and PhD positions are currently Please send a CV with the names of tilation and central chemosensitive available to investigate in detail the three references to: Dr. Kenro Kusumi, neurons using simultaneous measure- regulation of the novel epithelial calci- The Children s Hospital of Philadel- ments of intracellular pH or calcium um channels (ECaC1 and ECaC2) to phia, Division of Human Genetics & and membrane potential or plethys- provide a molecular basis for achiev- Molecular Biology, Room 1002 ARC mography. Experience with fluores- ing a better understanding of calcium Bldg., 3516 Civic Center Blvd., cence imaging microscopy, patch mal(re)absorption. To this end, cell Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399, USA. clamp techniques and/or small animal lines heterologously expressing ECaC Fax: 215-590-3764. E-mail: kusumi@ plethysmography desirable. First con- and several tissue-specific ECaC email.chop.edu. You may also apply sideration will begin on February 1, knockout mice models will be charac- online at http://careers.chop.edu. Use 2002 and continue until both positions terized using state of the art tech- reference ID 41 in all correspondence. are filled. Send resume, reprints and niques including microarrays, protein the names of three references to: Dr. expressing profiling and functional Robert Putnam, Dept. of Physiology studies. The successful applicant will

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Postdoctoral Position: Applications experience according to NIH stipend transport in the normal intestine, the are invited from highly motivated levels. The fellow will be an employee alterations that occur in the intestine recent or future PhD graduates to be a of Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and of a mammalian animal model of part of our Cell Adhesion Biology thus will receive comprehensive fringe human inflammatory bowel disease, group. Opportunities are available to benefits including medical, dental, and identification of the immune-inflam- work in several areas of vascular biol- life insurance. Please send a state- matory mediators responsible for this ogy, inflammation and thrombosis ment of research interests, curriculum alteration, determination of the intra- using in vitro cell-based assays and in vitae, and three letters of reference to cellular pathways that mediate these vivo experiments. The individual will Craig Crandall, PhD Institute for alterations and the molecular charac- aid in furthering the understanding of Exercise and Environmental Medi- terization of altered transport path- therapeutic targets in pathologies cine, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, ways. These are National Institutes of such as stroke, ischemia/reperfusion 7232 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX Health supported positions for a mini- injury and peripheral vascular disease 75231. Email: craigcrandall@texas- mum of four years. The successful can- and will have an opportunity to incor- health.org. didates are expected to have a PhD in porate genomics and proteomics into molecular biology, cell biology, physiol- pharmacology. The individual will be Postdoctoral Research Fellows ogy or biochemistry. Those interested expected to work in a highly interac- Cardiovascular Research: The should send a curriculum vitae with tive team environment and collabo- University of Nebraska Medical contact information for three refer- rate with scientists in molecular biolo- Center offers a multidisciplinary ences to: Diane Turiano, Administra- gy and/or protein chemistry. Experi- training program in basic cardiovascu- tor, Digestive and Liver Disease Unit, ence with surgical procedures in ani- lar research. Our special strengths are Department of Medicine, University of mals is highly desirable. Applicants in the broad area of cardiovascular Rochester Medical Center, Box 646, familiar with intravital microscopy biology. Twenty faculty members are 601 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY will be preferred. Wyeth/Genetics mentoring both graduate students and 14562, Email: diane_turiano@urmc. Institute, the pharmaceutical division postdoctoral fellows. Our particular rochester.edu, Fax: 716-506-1967. of American Home Products offers strengths are in the areas of neural competitive salaries and benefits, control of the circulation in heart fail- Postdoctoral Positions: Postdoctor- including comprehensive health care, ure, vascular biology of the cerebral al Research positions in Vascular dental and life insurance, three weeks circulation, renal circulatory control in Biology are available within the new paid vacation, matching 401k, pension diabetes, modulation of membrane ion Heart and Lung Research Institute of plan, relocation assistance, dependent channels in cardiac myocytes, potassi- the Ohio State University, Columbus, care subsidy, and an on-site exercise um channels in renal mesangial cells, OH. Multiple positions are available facility. Please send CV to: Anjali molecular biology of viral endocardi- to investigate signaling mechanisms Kumar, PhD, Principal Scientist, tis, regulation of the extracellular of vascular cell function and vascular Wyeth/Genetics Institute, One Burtt matrix in blood vessels and the devel- disease. Our laboratory takes a multi- Road, Andover, MA 01810, Tel: 978- opment biology of cardiac septation. disciplinary approach to investigate 247-1333, Email: akumar@genetics Positions are well-supported and vascular function ranging from bio- .com. Wyeth/Genetics Institute is include stipend, health insurance and chemical and molecular analysis of proud to be an equal opportunity travel to scientific meetings. Details of mediators and cell signaling mecha- employer, dedicated to building the interests of faculty, a description of nisms in cultured vascular cells to strength through diversity. the program may be found on our web- image analysis (two-photon LSM) of site: http://www.unmc.edu/Physiology/ signaling systems in isolated perfused Postdoctoral Research Fellow- cardo_center.html. Competitive appli- arterioles. Major projects are analyz- ship: An NIH-funded postdoctoral cants may apply directly to: Dr. Irving ing the molecular mechanisms under- research fellowship position is avail- H. Zucker, Department of Physiology lying hypertension, Raynaud s disease able at the Institute for Exercise and and Biophysics, 984575 Nebraska and arteriosclerosis, as well as mecha- Environmental Medicine at Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198- nisms regulating normal vascular Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas to 4575; Email: [email protected]. You function. Interested applicants should study temperature and blood pressure must be an American citizen or per- have expertise in molecular or cellular control in healthy and diseased manent resident to apply for the NIH- biology, or in microvascular physiolo- humans. The Institute for Exercise training grant positions. [EOE] gy. The Heart and Lung Research and Environmental Medicine is affili- Institute is a state-of-the-art Institute ated with the University of Texas Postdoctoral Position in Gastro- with well-equipped imaging and Southwestern Medical Center at enterology/Hepatology: Postdoctoral molecular CORE facilities. Salaries Dallas. The applicant must have a positions are currently available in and associated benefits will be com- PhD, MD, or comparable doctoral the Digestive and Liver Disease Unit, mensurate with experience. Qualified degree. The ideal candidate will have a Department of Medicine, University of applicants should contact: Nicholas A. strong publication record and excel- Rochester Medical Center. The major Flavahan, PhD, Associate Director, lent communication and laboratory areas of interest include regulation of Heart and Lung Research Institute, skills. Salary is commensurate with intestinal electrolyte and nutrient Ohio State University, 473 West 12

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Avenue, Room 110E, Columbus, OH .ac.uk. Candidates should send a ters with which a successful candidate 43210. Tel: 614-247-7787, Fax: 614- detailed CV, together with the names may affiliate. These include The 247-7799, Email: flavahan-1@medc- and addresses of two referees, to: Dr. Cardiovascular Research Institute, tr.osu.edu. K. Tsintzas, School of Biomedical The Neuroscience Institute, The Space Sciences, Medical School, Queen s Medicine and Life Sciences Research Postdoctoral Positions: A postdoc- Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 Institute, The Cooperative Reproduc- toral position is available in an estab- 2UH, England. Closing date: 31 tive Science Research Center, and The lished research program focused on January 2002. Clinical Research Center. For further the pathogenesis of heart failure. information visit the website: Ongoing projects include the function- http://www.msm.edu/Aresearch.htm. al mechanisms of cardiac extracellular Faculty Positions The application deadline for this posi- matrix remodeling mediated by mast tion is March 1, 2002. Applicants cells, fibroblasts, cytokines, metallo- should send a current curriculum proteinases, and integrins in normal Assistant/Associate Professor of vitae to Gordon J. Leitch PhD, and diseased hearts. Candidates Physiology: The Department of ([email protected]), Department of should have a PhD in life sciences, Physiology of Morehouse School of Physiology, Morehouse School of with strong expertise in molecular Medicine invites applications for a Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, techniques, tissue culture and cellular full-time faculty position with a rank Atlanta, GA 30310. [EOE] metabolism being preferred. Review of commensurate with experience. applications will begin January 1, Candidates should have a PhD and/or Assistant/Associate Professor: Sev- 2002 and continue until a candidate is MD degree and have established an eral tenure-track positions in the selected and recommended for independent research program. ranks of assistant, or associate appointment. Qualified candidates Preference will be given to an individ- research fellows, which are equivalent should send a letter of interest, cur- ual with teaching experience in medi- to assistant, or associate professors riculum vitae and names and address- cal physiology and a strong research positions are available in (A) es of three references to: Joseph S. background in epithelial, cardiovascu- Physiology and Organismic Group Janicki, PhD, Department of Anatomy, lar or pulmonary physiology and a (two positions), and (B) Population Physiology, and Pharmacology, 106 funded research program. If the suc- and Evolutionary Zoology Group (one Greene Hall, Auburn University, cessful candidate has a background in position) of the Institute. Individuals Auburn, AL 36849-5517. Women and cancer related research he/she may be with at least two years of postdoctoral minorities are encouraged to apply. eligible to compete for appointment as training who are interested and/or [AA/EOE] a Georgia Distinguished Cancer have prior knowledge and experience Scientist. The Morehouse School of in the following areas: (A) integrative Postdoctoral Research Associate: Medicine is a free-standing medical and comparative physiology, ecological Applications are invited for the above school established in 1975, and a and evolutionary physiology, and (B) post to work on the molecular regula- member institution of the Atlanta biodiversity, ecology, or evolution are tion of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase University Center. It has as its mis- encouraged to send a CV, a description (PDK) in human skeletal muscle. The sion the training of physicians com- of past research accomplishment and intention is to examine the effect of mitted to the care of minority and a proposal of the future research, and nutritional interventions on PDK gene other underserved populations and three letters of recommendation to, expression with the aim to understand the training of research scientists with Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, the role of PDK in the development of interests in diseases that dispropor- Taipei 11529, Taiwan. Academia insulin resistance and diabetes. tionately affect such populations. The Sinica website: http://www.sinica.edu. Candidates must have a PhD and research interests of the department tw. Deadline for application is March experience in biochemistry or related include reproductive endocrinology 15, 2002. discipline. The project will involve and the endocrine and immunological characterisation of RNA and protein function of GnRH, host-parasite inter- Assistant Professor: Applications using Real-time PCR, SDS-PAGE and actions in the gastrointestinal tract are invited for tenure-track positions Western blotting. Experience in these and the role of epithelial cells in infec- at the Assistant Professor level. techniques is desirable, although tion, the cardiovascular effects of Outstanding candidates for higher appropriate training will be provided. hypogravity, and the ionic mecha- rank at the Associate Professor level Salary will depend on qualifications nisms involved in endothelial cell- will also be considered. Applicants and experience. This post will be monocyte interactions. For further must have PhD or equivalent degree offered on a fixed-term contract for a information about the Department of and evidence of research productivity period of three years. Informal Physiology visit the website: and creativity. Applicants are sought enquiries may be addressed to: Dr. K. http://www.msm.edu/physiology/phys- with demonstrated research expertise, Tsintzas, Tel: +0044 115 970 9473 or iology.htm. The School of Medicine including but not limited to molecular Email: Kostas.Tsintzas@Nottingham also has research institutes and cen- and cellular biology, genomics, trans-

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genesis and gene targeting, cytoskele- face with pharmaceutical/biotechno- permanent residents will be given pri- tal signal transduction mechanisms, logical companies and other academic ority. Queen s University is committed proteomics and bioinformatics. The institutions. The Department of to employment equity and welcomes successful candidates will be expected Biology has 15 full-time faculty mem- applications from all qualified women to participate in graduate and medical bers who serve approximately 500 and men, including visible minorities, student teaching and to develop a Biology majors (average SAT is 1270, aboriginal people, persons with dis- strong, independent research pro- high school class rank is 93%). The abilities, gay men and lesbians. The gram. He or she will join an interac- Department is housed in a newly-con- deadline for applications is March 1, tive faculty with research interests in structed building with excellent facili- 2002. Applicants should forward a molecular biology of ion channels, bio- ties for research and teaching. We are copy of the curriculum vitae and chemistry, biophysics and molecular seeking a colleague who is committed names of three referees to Dr. A.V. biology of skeletal muscle cells, cellu- to undergraduate teaching and has a Ferguson, Professor and Head, lar and molecular aspects of neu- passion to remain research-active. A Department of Physiology, Queen s ropharmacology, vascular wall cell review of applications will begin University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L biology, cell physiology, molecular biol- January 7, 2002. To apply, please 3N6, Canada. ogy, electrophysiology, and contraction send curriculum vitae, transcripts, of cardiac and smooth muscle cells statement of teaching and research Assistant Professor: The (http://www.unr.edu/med/dept/Pharma interest, representative publications, Department of Physiology in the cology/id1.htm). Opportunities exist and three letters of recommendation University of New England College of for a variety of collaborative interac- to: Dr. Howard K. Reinert, Chair, Osteopathic Medicine invites applications including possible adjunct Search Committee, Department of tions for a 12-month, tenure-track appointment in the interdisciplinary Biology, The College of New Jersey, appointment at the level of Assistant Center of Biomedical Research P.O. Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628- 0719. Professor. Applicants should hold a Excellence. Competitive salaries, Tel: 609-771-2474; Fax: 609-637-5118. doctorate degree, have at least two start-up and state-of-the-art instru- For further information about the years postdoctoral experience, and mentation and facilities are available. College the Department, and this posi- have strong potential for attracting Send curriculum vitae, a statement of tion, please visit our website: http://www. extramural research funding. future research plans and the names tcnj.edu/~biology. [AA/EOE] Preference will be given to research of three references to J.R. Hume, PhD, areas in neuroscience, cardiovascular Department of Pharmacology/318, Assistant Professor: The Depart- physiology or endocrine/metabolic University of Nevada School of ment of Physiology (http://meds.queen- physiology (diabetes). The successful Medicine, Reno, NV 89557. Review of su.ca/medicine/physiol/) invites appli- candidate will be expected to teach applications will begin January 15, cations for a three-year term non- endocrine and gastrointestinal physi- 2002. [AA/EOE] renewable replacement position at the ology to medical students and other level of Assistant Professor. While the graduate health program students. Assistant Professor-Animal Phys- successful applicant will be appointed Applications should include a curricu- iology: The Department of Biology at in the Department of Physiology, their lum vitae, a statement of current and the College of New Jersey is currently research interests should align with proposed research interests, selected seeking candidates for a tenure-track the Interdisciplinary Cardiac, Circu- relevant reprints, a statement of position in animal physiology or relat- latory, and Respiratory (CCR) Re- teaching experience/interests and ed fields: molecular, integrative, evolu- search Program that is an established names and contact information for at tionary or ecological physiology; neu- research focus of the Faculty of Health least three references. Review of appli- robiology; endocrinology; and physio- Sciences at Queen s University. cations will begin in February 2002 logical genomics. The teaching assign- Candidates should have expertise in and continue until the position is ment of the successful candidate will Cardiorespiratory Physiology, in par- filled. Application materials should be include a junior/senior course in ticular with the ability to enhance the sent to: Department of Human his/her area of specialty. The success- Cardiac node of the CCR Research Resources, Sally Libby, University of ful candidate will be expected to devel- Program. Requirements include a PhD New England, 11 Hill s Beach Road, op a research program involving high- or MD degree, outstanding scholar- Biddeford, ME 04005. [EOE/AA] ly motivated undergraduates. Start- ship, a strong record of achievement up funds are available. Requirements: and the potential to attract external Assistant Professor: A research PhD; postdoctoral experience pre- funding. Queen s University (http:// assistant professor position is avail- ferred. TCNJ is a four-year, primarily www.queensu.ca) is recognized nation- able at the East Orange VA Medical residential, primarily undergraduate ally for the quality of its undergradu- Center/UMD-New Jersey Medical comprehensive public institution ate and graduate programs, which School for an endocrinologist interest- with 5,800 undergraduate students. attract outstanding students. All qual- ed in working on human hormonal Our location in the greater Princeton, ified candidates are encouraged to rhythms. This faculty member will NJ, area offers opportunities to inter- apply; however, Canadian citizens and work with a multi-disciplinary team

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researching pathophysiological pro- ment. This position is scheduled to approved by the IRB and in accor- cesses responsible for medically unex- begin in the Fall Semester 2002. dance with Good Clinical Practice plained fatigue. Position requires PhD Application materials or resumes sent and/or other related requirements. In and post-doctoral experience. East via Email will not be accepted. For a addition to conducting quality assur- Orange is in the New Jersey suburbs- detailed job announcement and a fac- ance audits and reviews, this position 30 minutes from midtown Manhattan ulty application form, visit our web will also provide sponsor monitoring and 30 minutes from farm land. site by clicking Download Forms at activities, monitor the consent process Interested individuals should Email http://ccsf.org/hr or contact the as requested, review adverse events CV to Dr. Benjamin Natelson at Human Resources Dept., CCSF 33 and prepare summaries for sponsor, [email protected] or Fax to 973- Gough Street, San Francisco, CA IRB and regulatory agency considera- 395-7114. 94103; Tel: 415-241-2246; Fax: 415- tion. This position will also conduct ad 241-2335. Applications will be accept- hoc audits as necessary, a series of Assistant Professor: The Depart- ed for this position until Friday, random audits annually and will pro- ment of Zoology at the University of March 15, 2002. [AA/EOE] vide on-going monitoring and over- British Columbia is seeking an envi- sight of all projects undertaken at ronmental/integrative physiologist CHOP under an investigator-initiated with a PhD (or equivalent) and with Research Positions IND or IDE (whether held at CHOP or some postdoctoral experience. The suc- elsewhere). This activity is designed to cessful candidate must have an excel- ensure documentation accuracy, data lent record of research accomplish- Clinical Research Quality Assur- integrity, participant eligibility, etc. ment, demonstrate superior teaching ance and Compliance Manager/ Position will serve as a resource, sug- ability, and show potential for interac- Research Subject Safety Monitor: gesting the development or refine- tion with a core group of animal phys- This position involves clinical ment of policies to maintain CHOP iologists and a broadly based group of research, and especially the testing of compliance with relevant regulations. ecologists and evolutionary biologists. unapproved drugs, biologics and Position will also identify areas for They are expected to develop and sus- devices that pose substantial risk to which training should be developed or tain a strong, externally funded the institution, the individuals con- enhanced and will participate in research program that involves the ducting the trials, and the partici- developing and implementing training training of graduate students, and pants in the research. And yet, and institution wide SOPs. Position contribute to teaching core courses in because clinical research is critical to will serve as a resource on Federal animal physiology at the undergradu- developing new therapies and to the regulations pertaining to research ate and graduate levels. Applications, improvement of the health of children, involving human subjects/partici- including a curriculum vitae, summa- the Children s Hospital of Philadel- pants. Position will ensure compliance ry of research and teaching interests phia supports the conduct of clinical with: Department of Health and and the names of three referees who research by its faculty and has taken Human Services (DHHS), United have been asked to provide letters steps to see the current level of clinical States Food and Drug Administration should be sent to Dr. John Gosline, research activity expand. The conduct- (FDA), Office for Human Research Acting Head, Department of Zoology, ing of clinical research is in strict Protection (OHRP), and the Office for University of British Columbia, 6270 adherence to the ethical principles of Good Clinical Practices. Accountable University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, human subjects research and to the for adherence to all policies and proce- Canada, V6T 1Z4; Fax: 604- 822-5780; Federal, state and international regu- dures surrounding this process and for email [email protected]). Deadline lations governing such projects helps maintaining up to date knowledge on for receipt of applications is March 1, protects the subjects, the research these polices from IRB, FDA, OGCP or 2002. Salary will be commensurate staff and the institution. The Clinical other sources. The Children s Hospital with experience. Appointment will be Research Quality Assurance and of Philadelphia offers an array of out- subject to final budgetary approval. Compliance Manager/Research Sub- standing benefits and competitive The University of British Columbia ject Safety Monitor(s) will undertake a salaries. Apply online at http://careers. hires on the basis of merit and is com- variety of activities to ensure the chop.edu or fax your resume/CV to mitted to employment equity. We highest standards and quality in the 215-590-4644. Be sure to reference ID encourage all qualified candidates to conduct of CHOP clinical research and 41 in all correspondence. [EOE] apply; however, Canadians and per- to ensure compliance of clinical manent residents of Canada will be research projects, and especially tri- Research Positions: A career as a given priority. als, to relevant regulations. Specific research professional is filled with activities will include monitoring challenges, responsibility and exciting Human Physiology Instructor: studies to assure that they are being rewards. Nowhere will you find this City College of San Francisco is hiring conducted in accordance with the pro- more true than at The Children s for a full-time, tenure-track instructor tocol, safety monitoring plans, the con- Hospital of Philadelphia. As the first for the Biological Sciences Depart- sent process requirements as hospital in the nation dedicated exclu-

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sively to the care of sick children and son will have demonstrated the ability Responsibilities include: applying their unique needs, The Children s to plan and execute a research study background in muscle physiology in Hospital of Philadelphia has been the through some progressively responsi- performing single muscle fiber work setting of countless historic break- ble independent research work. and gel electrophoresis and coordinat- throughs such as vaccines against Desires experience with molecular ing the muscle analysis with other measles, mumps and rubella, the parasitology; cell biology and protein team members. Minimum qualifica- development of a balloon catheter for biochemistry techniques and prior tions: bachelor s degree in physics, use in cardiology, and the generation work experience with protozoal para- chemistry, biology, exercise physiology, of methods for changing sickle-shaped sites and transfection. Please send or other related science area; experi- red blood cells that form the very resume and cover letter indicating ence with data analysis; experience foundation of pediatric medicine. This #44598 to: Carol Wehby, Human with writing reports; basic computer has ranked us among the best pedi- Resources, Internal Medicine, E400 skills. Preferred qualifications: mas- atric hospitals and research facilities GH, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, ter s or PhD degree in science or other in the world. It also helps us attract 52242-1081. [EOE/AA] related field; experience working with some of the very best research profes- muscle tissue; basic electronic skills. sionals from around the globe. We wel- Assistant Research Scientist. The Send letter of application, current come you to join them and to find out Department of Internal Medicine, vita, and contact information (name, what it means to love what you do. Be Pulmonary, Critical Care and address, telephone number, email, and part of one of the leading research Occupational Medicine Division is affiliation) for three references to: efforts in the country. Sample areas of seeking an Assistant Research Scott Trappe, PhD, Human Perfor- hire include, but are not limited to: Scientist to perform basic or applied mance Laboratory, Ball State Research Technicians, Clinical research in the broad area of gene dis- University, Muncie, IN 47306. Review Research Technicians, Sr. Research covery including identification of novel of applications will begin immediately Technicians, Postdoctoral Fellows, genes involved in lipogenesis. and will continue until the position is Biostatisticians, Bioanalysts, Program Requires a person in this classification filled. (http://www.bsu.edu). Ball State Coordinators, and Animal Caretakers. to have the academic knowledge of a University is an equal opportunity, Scientific disciplines include, but are discipline that is generally associated affirmative action employer and is not limited to: Hematology, Neurology, with a Doctoral degree, or an equiva- strongly and actively committed to Cardiology, Immunology, Oncology, lent professional degree, i.e., MD, DDS diversity within its community. Endocrinology, Genetics, Nutrition, or DVM. In addition, the person will and Biostatistics. The Children s have demonstrated the ability to plan Research Assistant: This is a profes- Hospital of Philadelphia provides you and execute a research study through sional position available immediately with benefits that go beyond the work- some progressively responsible inde- working on a recently funded five-year place. Apply online at http://careers. pendent research work. Desires con- project from the National Institutes of chop.edu. You may also Fax your siderable research experience in Health. The focus of the study will be resume to 215-590-4644. Be sure to molecular biology and expertise in the to examine how skeletal adapts to use reference code 52 in all correspon- molecular cloning and expression of resistance training and how older peo- dence. [EOE] genes in eukaryotic systems, and anal- ple respond to this type of exercise. ysis of the biochemical and physiologi- Responsibilities include: recruitment Assistant Research Scientist: The cal relevance of expressed proteins. and screening of subjects, strength Department of Internal Medicine, Please send resume and cover letter training and muscle testing, data Infectious Diseases Division is seeking indicating #44550 to: Carol Wehby, organization, and coordination of the an Assistant Research Scientist to Human Resources, Internal Medicine, project with other team members, perform basic or applied research in E400 GH, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa including working directly with the molecular genetics of Leishmania cha- City, IA 52242-1081. Women and Principal Investigator of the project. gasi, to develop novel molecular genet- minorities are strongly encouraged to Minimum qualifications: master s ics techniques, and to adapt methods apply. [EOE/AA] degree in exercise physiology and/or in proteomics to the study of gene business-related field; experience with expression in this parasitic protozoan. Research Technician: This profes- statistical analysis; experience work- To identify and select problems to be sional position is available immediate- ing with elderly men and women; studied, select the optimal approach to ly for the successful candidate with a experience with data analysis; experi- questions, and interpretation of background in muscle physiology ence with writing reports, coordinat- results. Requires a person in this clas- working on a recently funded five-year ing projects, and working with other sification have the academic knowl- project from the National Institutes of people. Send letter of application, cur- edge of a discipline generally associat- Health. The focus of the study will be rent vita, and contact information ed with a Doctoral degree, or an equiv- to examine how skeletal adapts to (name, address, telephone number, alent professional degree, i.e., MD, resistance training and how older peo- email, and affiliation) for three refer- DDS, or DVM. In addition, such a per- ple respond to this type of exercise. ences to: Scott Trappe, PhD, Human

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Performance Laboratory, Ball State can be found at http://www.bcricwh. perform diverse and complex clinical University, Muncie, IN 47306. Review bc.ca. The position is available imme- research activities within the of applications will begin immediately diately and the salary is in the range Nutrition and Growth Lab. You will and will continue until the position is of $40,000-$50,000 per annum also manage quantitative information filled. (http://www.bsu.edu). Ball State depending on experience. Please send and acquire proficiency in the areas of University is an equal opportunity, your resume and the names of three growth assessment, body composition, affirmative action employer and is potential referees by December 14, bone material density, physical activi- strongly and actively committed to 2001 to: Dr Glen Tibbits (tibbits ty, and dietary intake. A Master s diversity within its community. @sfu.ca), Director (Pro tem), Cardio- degree in Nutrition or a related field is vascular Sciences Program, BC essential. Experience in a pediatric Research Associate: We are looking Research Institute for Children s & clinical nutrition or clinical research for a person highly skilled and knowl- Women s Health, 950 West 28th setting is preferable. The ability to edgeable in laser scanning confocal Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 4H4. work independently is required, and microscopy and deconvolution to work excellent communications skills are a in the field of developmental cardiac must, as you will interact extensively biology. The imaging will include dou- with staff, parents and children. The ble immunolableing of fixed cardiomy- Program Coordinator Children s Hospital of Philadelphia ocytes and line scanning of live cells offers competitive salaries, compre- for Ca2+ transients and sparks. The hensive medical/vision/dental/pre- ideal individual will have very good Program Coordinator II-GI/Nutri- scription plans, life insurance, employ- technical skills and hands on experi- tion: Join one of the leading pediatric er contribution retirement plan, ence in these techniques. Further- research facilities in the nation. With work/life benefits, and a firm commit- more, strong programming ability in over $65 million in research grants ment to staff development and educa- Labview is a decided asset. A doctor- each year, The Joseph Stokes Jr. tion. Apply online at: http://careers. ate is not a requirement but an advan- Research Institute of The Children s chop.edu or fax your resume to 215- tage. The laboratory is located in a Hospital of Philadelphia is a pioneer 590-4644. Use reference ID 50 in all new research institute, which is on the in pediatric medicine. This full time, correspondence. You may also forward grounds of BC Children s Hospital in Monday-Friday position will entail your information to dudleyn@email. Vancouver and is affiliated with UBC. handling confidential materials and chop.edu. [EOE] ❖. More information about the Institute multiple, time sensitive tasks. You will News From Senior Physiologists

Letter to G. Edgar Folk style. No matter how well I prepared confidence. Initially, I believed that or how hard I tried for this so called based on my scientific knowledge, Ching-Tong Liu writes: I was really easy life, I felt completely lost by not working experiences in animal mod- surprised to receive your letter of 19 going to work every day. I began to els, and established records of achieve- October 2001, reminding me of my 70 miss my administrative work, the lab- ments, to find another job should be years old birthday. I used to enjoy oratories, friends, colleagues, and the easy. However, I have been disappoint- reading some impressive stories of fun associated with my research. ed about the negative results. It other senior physiologists in The Indeed, the sudden change of normal appears that my advanced age may Physiologist. It is unbelievable that routine almost stopped my hopes or have played a role in preventing it this time is my turn to write some- dreams completely. happening. Nevertheless, I will contin- thing concerning my post-retirement I began to feel uncomfortable short- ue to test the hypothesis of possible life. I feel that life is too short, and ly after a quiet and semi-isolated life. age-related cause. there is too much remains to be done Although I had much free time every After retirement, my first adven- in one s life. We simply do not have day, there was no real purpose. First, I ture was to work independently as a enough time to accomplish what we struggled to put my mind together to Physiology Consultant at a local medi- wish to accomplish. write a manuscript using accumulated cal center in Frederick, MD. The main I retired in September 1996 from a data from the past. I also decided to purpose was to help patients under- federal government position (GS-14 learn some new things and kept stand some possible causes of their Research Physiologist) at USAMRIID myself busy. My main idea was to start diseases and recommend them to seek (US Army Medical Research Institute a new career in the field of clinical sci- proper medical treatments from a of Infectious Diseases), Fort Detrick, ences through active collaborations group of selected physicians, including Frederick, MD. At first, I tried to read- with physicians. acupuncturists. Unfortunately, I faced just myself to fit a new and relaxed life I began to apply some jobs with many unimaginable difficulties, and I

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gave up this business idea after four Advisory Board of Hepatitis magazine dom passing on to the younger col- months of trying. The next thing I did in June 1999. I wrote two short arti- leagues, I do not believe that I need to was to collaborate with members in cles related to the concepts of Chinese say too much. The main reason is that the Division of Substance Abuse, medicine in the Hepatitis magazine. they have heard a lot of good advice Frederick County Health Department My four-year voluntary work at and know how to be successful work- to write an NIH research proposal, USAMRIID was completed in August ing in the field of physiology. However, entitled The treatments of human 2001. I have been contracted by a com- I cannot maintain silence without say- substance abuse with alternative pany and assigned to work as a con- ing anything. The following six points medicine. The voluntary consent form sultant at the same Institute. This are provided for consideration: has been approved by the Institutional sudden change really made me happy! 1. Be curious about the life-main- Review Board, Maryland Department I am glad that I can continue to pro- taining processes and you must work of Health and Mental Hygiene, vide some help to the Institute, con- very hard to understand and demon- Baltimore, MD. cerning various aspects of vaccines strate the operational mechanisms in When I began to write a research and infectious diseases. Since this is a animals or humans. The emphases proposal, the first need was a local contract job with a fixed time limit, my should include the studies of control medical library where I could use their applications for finding a more secure animals and the pathophysiological services and facilities to search for the and regular job are continuing. mechanisms associated with diseases. literature. This necessity drove me to At the age of 70, I consider myself 2. Write research proposals continu- think seriously about returning to in excellent health condition. Perhaps ously to obtain grants or contracts for Fort Detrick. I had enough encourage- I have been doing the right things to continuing your exciting research ment to request to work as a volunteer my body and mind. I am still capable work. at USAMRIID, Fort Detrick in of taking care of the yard work, includ- 3. While studying molecular physiol- September 1997. The request was ing grass mowing and leaves removal. ogy is important, remember that the granted by the Commander and I got Since I am also a gardener, I planted gained knowledge must be applicable his permission to work with a mentor most of the flowers, shrubs, and trees to the whole body. in the Medical Division. While I was around the house since 1973. I must 4. Have a broad training in many finding my ways to get involved with keep them alive and trim them in fields of biomedical sciences in your some clinically related projects, I had some beautiful shapes. When I work in career to meet the future stiff and the opportunity to work with several the yard, I am completely relaxed. I do unpredictable challenges. military medical officers. My main job not think or worry about things relat- 5. To learn is a life-long process, and was to help them write manuscripts ed to sciences or any other matters in you must do it continuously with plea- using massive amounts of clinical data this world. The enhanced muscular sure and excitement. from previous human trial experi- work and sweating really reduce my 6. Never forget that you are a physi- ments. The data included the studies mental stress and improve the think- ologist. Your ideas and operations of efficacy and safety of three virus ing process. must be consistent with the physiolog- vaccines against Rift Valley fever, For my family life, I have a wife (In- ical principles. The principles include western equine encephalitis, and east- May) and three daughters (Grace, logical designs, clear organizations, ern equine encephalitis, respectively. I Jeannette, and Chrissy). In-May is and precise coordination to function also wrote another clinical manuscript working in the fields of insurance and together as a whole. concerning the development of a finance at the home office. The chil- human disease model challenged by dren have grown up and left the Letter to Eugene Renkin two strains of enterotoxigenic E. coli. house. The youngest Chrissy is a Bernice M. Wenzel writes: Many In addition, I continued to serve as a sophomore at Harvard University, thanks for your congratulatory note in voluntary manuscript reviewer for majoring in Computer Science. observance of my 80th birthday. It was Military Medicine. Jeannette, the second daughter, is a in the large box of mail awaiting my Because I have been always fasci- neurosurgeon, who is receiving resi- husband and me when we returned nated by the mystery of Chinese dency training at the University of from Paris in June and it promptly medicine, I decided to read some books Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, migrated to the bottom of a stack of related to the acupuncture, herbs, and Texas. Grace graduated from Hood things-to-do-later. There it stayed, out old concepts of human anatomy. While College in Frederick with a major in of sight and mind, until a few days ago I was studying the concept of Chinese Art History. She is married and had when I was finally stirred to clean up medicine, I was invited to give a talk twins (a boy and a girl) in April 2001. the unsightly pile, which had grown by the American Dental Society of We visit our daughters sometimes and since another return from Europe last Anesthesiology in April 1999, have so much fun with them. month, this last one complicated by Washington, DC. The topic was The Especially, we are so happy and excit- the closing of US air space after 11 Integration of Eastern and Western ed to see our grandchildren, who Sept. Medicine Concepts. The contents were somewhat repeat our life patterns You asked whether I am still active published in the Meeting Notebook. I again in a new form. professionally and the answer is a was appointed as a member of the As for my advice or words of wis- qualified No. I closed my laboratory

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when I retired in 1989. Except for ulations, I would like to send my own During this time, we prepared a some invited talks at international for its commendable practice of main- home page, near to 100 pages, on meetings soon after that, I have done taining this contact with the retired Biochemistry of Muscle Contraction very little professional writing or members. I have tried to convince that contains selected topics from our speaking. I continue to attend the other associations to do something class teachings, 1985-1995. This home annual meeting of the Association for similar, with no success at all. I always page rapidly has spread over the Web; Chemoreception Sciences regularly enjoyed reading the letters before I on average 500 files are being trans- and I go to the Society for Neurosci- retired myself. Such a personal touch ferred per day to various countries all ence meeting when it is in my neigh- by a large organization is impressive. around the world. The home page borhood as it is this year. became also part of the Biophysics I have remained active at UCLA in Letter to Karl Wasserman Textbook OnLine, and I was asked to the Emeriti Association and the The following letter was originally be the editor of the Muscle section of Academic Senate. In the latter, I have published in the October 2001 issue this textbook. Between 1997-2000, I served on a number of committees, The Physiologist (44:376, 2001). was a member of the Senior chaired one for two terms, represented However, because there were errors in Physiologist Committee, and enjoyed my department in the Legislative the original printing, we are reprinting speaking and corresponding with Assembly, and represented the cam- the complete letter with corrections. physiologists of my age. Unexpectedly, pus in the systemwide Assembly. I Michael Barany writes: Thank you I was reelected to the Committee and have also served on some administra- for your birthday greeting and invita- now I am serving my second term. tive committees. Currently, I am a tion to write a letter to The Also while staying home, I organized member of the Committee on Faculty Physiologist. the symposium of Muscle Research in Welfare, the executive committee of When I first wrote to The the 20th Century that took place at the Friends of the UCLA Library, and Physiologist I was optimistic. I the 2000 spring meeting of APS. Hugh an ad hoc review committee. In our thought retirement is nothing else; Huxley, myself, John Gergely, and Emeriti Association, which has over just a change in the source of my Clara Franzini-Armstrong were the 1,000 members and is very active, I salary from the State of Illinois pay- speakers. have filled many posts, including the roll to that of the State Universities In the middle of 2000, I returned to presidency.Two years ago, the associa- Retirement System. This idea was the laboratory, to work on actin in tion presented me with a handsome working for two years, when the con- smooth muscle. The Edgar Folk, Jr. plaque as Emeritus/a of the Year. tinuation of my 18-year NIH grant Foundation for Senior Physiologists After my husband, Wendell Jeffrey, was declined. Soon it turned out that I donated me $500, my department retired from the UCLA psychology can not get grants from various agen- helps by giving supplies from the department in 1990, we set out for cies, including my own Graduate storeroom on a long-term payment those parts of the world where, as he College, which kept me as a full pro- basis, but my personal money is the put it, our international meetings fessor. In the absence of funds, I edited main support of my research. never took us. We have greatly enjoyed the book Biochemistry of Smooth Fortunately, throughout my life I was many trips to exotic and remote spots Muscle Contraction, 30 chapters, pub- working in the lab with my own on all seven continents and hope that lished by the Academic Press. The hands; thus, I have no difficulty carry- the present situation will not limit us book got good reviews in Science and ing out the research virtually alone. while we are still vigorous enough for Nature, and it is considered as one of At the end of the 1990s, Kate and I adventure travel. Together, we have the textbooks in smooth muscle were invited to write our autobiogra- established and supported an annual research. I was happy when Dr. John phy to the Selected Topics in History of lectureship in the department of psy- Barron, my previous postdoctoral Biochemistry: Personal Recollections chology for the last few years, called associate, currently Associate VI, an Elsevier series within Compre- the Jeffrey Lecture on Cognitive Professor of Cardiology in the adjacent hensive Biochemistry. We described Neuroscience. Each lecturer visits for Rush Medical College, invited me to our 50-year marriage and scientific three days, meets with graduate stu- work with him on smooth muscle collaboration under the title, Strife dents, gives one major public lecture, metabolism. I devised a method for and hope in the lives of a scientist cou- and another more specialized one for measurement of 3H-H20 produced ple. The message that we want to send students. It has been a very successful from 3H-labeled sugars and fatty to the new generation of physiologists program. We take full advantage of acids in muscle, and we published a is: Strife and hope, and never give up. the wonderful art museums in Los few papers and abstracts. This happy The day will come when life smiles on ❖ Angeles as well as the theaters and time was interrupted when Kate had you. Serve science and humanity. symphony. In summary, we have rev- to be hospitalized with endocarditis eled in retirement, wonder how we and soon thereafter her retina got ever had time to work, and look for- detached. I have spent the last three ward to more of the same. years with Kate at home. In return for the Society s congrat-

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book begins with cellular and mem- modalities (i.e. gene therapy) in future Review of Medical Physiology, brane physiology which is fundamen- editions. tal to the students understanding of As in previous recent editions, an 20th Ed. the more complex organ systems and additional strength of this text is the William F. Ganong integrative physiology. Organ systems general and multiple choice questions New York: McGraw Hill, 2001, 817 pp., are covered in a rational order (ner- provided on a chapter basis at the end index, $44.95. vous system and muscle; endocrinolo- of the book. These are meant to pre- ISBN: 0-8385-8282-6. gy, metabolism and reproduction; gas- pare students for both course exams trointestinal function; the heart and and to act as preparation and review This classical and one of the histori- circulation; respiratory function; renal for the USLME Part 1 exam. While cally best selling and most widely dis- function). most of these questions are excellent, tributed basic medical physiology One of the strengths of this text is an improvement could be made in texts has been revised for its 20th that while the traditional material is designing questions that are more time. Like its predecessors, it includes covered succinctly, Dr. Ganong has case oriented in keeping with the the most relevant information neces- incorporated newer, more up to date recent changes in USLME format. In sary for first year medical students to material and has made every attempt addition, the inclusion of more mathe- review the areas on which most mod- to stay current. For instance, in matical problem solving sets in the ern medical practice is based. Because Chapter 28 which discusses cardiac renal and membrane sections would this text is intended as a review it is electrophysiology and the cellular further challenge the student. published in soft cover, and not meant basis for arrythmogenesis, a discus- In summary, this tried and true text to be a comprehensive annotated text sion of the molecular basis for the long maintains it prominence as one of the to be used by graduate students as Q-T syndrome provides new informa- premier comprehensive reviews of well as physicians. However, much of tion not provided in some earlier addi- medical physiology. It is an excellent the material is indeed covered in a rel- tions. Another good example of this is resource for medical and graduate stu- atively comprehensive manner and the discussion of Liddle s syndrome dents as well as junior physicians. It each section is concluded with rele- both in the section on renal function is written in a clear manner with vant references for those wanting a as well as the mention of it in Chapter many outstanding figures to help the deeper understanding of the subject 33 as part of the discussion of hyper- reader understand difficult concepts. matter. Dr. Ganong has, as always, tension. In this way the student more It should be understood that this is been able to describe complex concepts completely understands the relation- not a substitute for larger and more in a clear and concise manner with ships of a given disease entity on mul- expansive texts but should be used as supporting illustrations. This edition tiple organ systems and obtains a fur- a supplement to those texts and to lec- is filled with clinical correlations that ther appreciation of the true integra- tures and small group discussions. should make reading more relevant tive nature of pathophysiological and palatable for the first year medi- states. This reviewer would encourage Irving H. Zucker cal student. addition material on the molecular University of Nebraska Medical The text covers each organ system and genetic basis of disease as well as Center in an incremental manner. That is, the short references to new treatment

environment, the desktop computer program development is often limited LabVIEW: Data Acquisition functions as a dedicated measurement to engineers or computer scientists. device. Thus, programs in LabVIEW With this publication, Dr. McDonough and Analysis for the are referred to as virtual instru- enables those in biological fields, espe- ments. They use conventional pro- cially the movement sciences, to Movement Sciences gramming methods with graphical acquire the skills to develop their own icons rather than the conventional virtual instruments. Andrew L.McDonough computer-language command text. This well-written book is organized Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Graphical tools are used to connect or into three sections. The first answers 2001, 238 pp., illus., index, $64.00. wire a wide variety of functions and the question What is LabVIEW? The ISBN: 0-13-012847-3. hardware interfaces. second defines and discusses data col- This very popular programming lection parameters such as sampling LabVIEW (National Instruments environment, which is used in essen- rate, signal range, resolution, precision Corporation) is a graphical program- tially all fields of science and engi- and normalization. The third section ming language designed to facilitate neering, is well documented with begins with brief sub-sections on sys- data collection and analysis, as well as numerous examples. However, tem considerations (LabVIEW sup- offer numerous display options. With because the construction of virtual ports Mac, Window and UNIX plat- data collection, analysis and display instruments requires knowledge of forms), versions and drivers. Then it combined in a flexible programming programming and instrumentation, lays the groundwork for graphical pro-

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gramming by discussing and illustrat- author strongly recommends that the lar to what is needed and then making ing tools, menus, block diagrams and reader/student develop each example; necessary modifications. icons. The remainder of this section is however, all examples can be quickly It should be noted that this manual devoted to developing virtual instru- constructed by reading them directly was written for Version 5.0 and that ment examples. into LabVIEW from an accompanying National Instruments has recently A major strength of this book is its CD. The CD also contains sample data released Version 6.0. Functionality numerous illustrations and tables. files that complement the program has not changed, but there are minor These prove very helpful in the devel- example. These data files can be used and primarily cosmetic differences. At opment and understanding of the vir- to quickly test virtual instrumentation this point, a course developer wanting tual instrument examples. All but the functionality or can be used when data to insure a best fit between program- simplest of examples include a table collection hardware in not available. ming environment and manual should listing key parameters and an illus- This book s primary target, as stat- use LabVIEW 5.0. A document tration showing how the example will ed in the preface, is a structured (LabVIEW 6.0 Upgrade Notes) on the appear on the monitor as well as a dis- course for students in movement sci- National Instruments web page play of the virtual instrument block ences. It is not intended to be a gen- (http://www.ni.com) lists differences diagram. Illustration legends are eral-purpose reference or complete between versions. excellent, providing shorthand docu- overview. It could prove useful in other Dr. McDonough teaches graduate mentation of functionality and con- related biological fields such as physi- courses with LabVIEW and uses it in struction. After initial development, ology, bioengineering or biomechanics his own research. This book reflects an example can be reviewed quickly or be used by the individual student or his extensive hands-on experience and and easily by consulting the tables, professional wanting to add the quan- has been tried and proven in the class- illustrations and legends. titative skills of data collection and room. If you plan to learn or teach There are over 100 examples of vir- analysis. Another potential applica- LabVIEW, this book deserves consid- tual instruments in the third section, tion is the development of custom pro- eration. ❖ ranging from ones that can be created grams for the laboratory from the David R. Brown in a matter of seconds to complex example virtual instruments. University of Kentucky examples that collect data or compute LabVIEW applications are often statistical or spectral parameters. The developed by finding an example simi- Books Received Attitudes on Altitude: Pioneers of Bernard Robaire and Barry T. Hinton. Neuropathic Pain: Pathophysiology Medical Research in Colorado s High (Editors). and Treatment Mountains New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, Per T. Hansson, Howard L. Fields, John T. Reeves and Robert F. Grover. 2001, 575 pp., illus., index, $125.00. Raymond G. Hill, and Paolo Boulder, CO: Univ. Press of Colorado, ISBN: 0-306-46684-8. Marchettini (Editors). 2001, 218 pp., illus., index, $21.95. Progress in Pain Research and ISBN: 0-87081-645-4. Graphical Models: Foundations of Management, Vol. 21. Neural Computation Seattle, WA: IASP Press, 2001, Basic Concepts in Physiology: Michael I. Jordan and Terrence J. 277 pp., illus., index, $79.00. A Student’s Survival Guide Sejnowski (Editors). ISBN: 0-931092-38-8. Charles Seidel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, New York: McGraw Hill, 2002, 234 pp., 421 pp., illus., index, $32.95. Nutrient-Gene Interactions in Health illus., index, $29.99. ISBN: 0-262-60042-0. and Disease ISBN: 0-07-135656-8. Na ma Mousta d-Moussa and Carolyn Methods in Genomic Neuroscience D. Berdanier (Editors). Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Hemin R. Chin and Steven O. Moldin CRC Series in Modern Nutrition. R. Norman Harden, Ralf Baron, and (Editors). Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 2001, 472 pp.,, Wilfrid J nig (Editors). Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 2001, 321 pp., illus., index, $129.95. Progress in Pain Research and illus., index, $119.95. ISBN: 0-8493-2216-2. Management, Vol., 22. ISBN: 0-8493-2397-5. Seattle, WA: IASP Press, 2001, Primer of Biostatistics, 5th Edition 338 pp., illus., index, $78.00. Modern Protein Chemistry: Practical Stanton A. Glantz ISBN: 0-931092-41-8. Aspects New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002, 489 pp., Gary C. Howard and William E. Brown illus., index, $34.95. The Epididymis: From Molecules to (Editors). ISBN: 0-07-137946-0. Clinical Practice, A Comprehensive Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 2002, 257 pp., Survey of the Efferent Ducts, the illus., index, $99.95. Epididymis and the Vas Deferens. ISBN: 0-8493-9453-8.

42 The Physiologist People & Places Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002 Fellows Steps Down, Campbell Named Interim Head of Physiology, Biophysics

Robert E. Fellows, who has served as diagnosis of muscular dystrophy and years at Duke University teaching and head of the University of Iowa point to strategies for developing ther- conducting research as a faculty mem- Department of Physiology and apies for these devastating neuromus- ber of the departments of physiology Biophysics since 1976, will step down cular diseases. and pharmacology, and medicine from that position effective Feb. 1. Campbell received his doctoral before moving to the UI in 1976 to Kevin P. Campbell, PhD, the Roy J. degree in biophysics from the assume leadership of the department Carver Chair of Physiology and University of Rochester and his bache- of physiology and biophysics. Biophysics, and Howard Hughes lor s degree in physics from Fellows research career has focused Medical Institute (HHMI) Manhattan College. Campbell has on understanding the cellular and Investigator, has been named interim been an HHMI Investigator since molecular mechanisms that underlie head of the department. 1989, and in 1999 he was elected to the neuronal development and differentia- Campbell is internationally prestigious Institute of Medicine of the tion in the central nervous system. In renowned for his neuromuscular dis- National Academy of Sciences. He also particular, his work has investigated ease research. His work has led to the is a UI Foundation Distinguished the roles of hormones and growth fac- identification of the molecular and Professor. Campbell joined the UI factors in the earliest development of genetic basis of ulty in 1981 and fetal brain cells. several forms holds a joint Between 1976 and 1997, Fellows of muscular appointment in also was director of the Medical dystrophy and the department Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at has provided a of neurology. the UI. As a physician-scientist him- clearer under- Fellows self, Fellows has devoted himself to the standing of the earned his med- education and training of the next muscular dys- ical degree from generation of medical researchers. trophy disease McGill These physician-scientists, who have processes. University and both clinical and basic science exper- Campbell s his doctoral tise, play a critical role in the progress findings have degree from of biomedical science. ❖ already greatly Duke Universi- Kevin Campbell improved the ty. He spent 10 Robert Fellows

Joseph G. Cannon has accepted a University, College Station, TX. Marguerite Hatch has joined the position with the School of Allied Criscione was with the Department of Department of Pathology, University Health Science, Medical College of Bioengineering and Medicine, Univer- of Florida College of Medicine, Georgia, Augusta, GA. Prior to his sity of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Gainesville, FL. Previously, Hatch was new position, Cannon was affiliated CA. with the Department of Nephrology with the Department of Physiology, and Pediatrics, Northwestern Univer- Pennsylvania State University, Bruno Grassi has joined the sity, Chicago, IL. University Park, PA. Department of Science and Biomec Technology, University of Milano, Peter J. Hornsby has moved from Yifan Chen has moved from the Segrate, Italy. Grassi had held a posi- The Huffington Center on Aging, Department of Anesthesiology, Universi- tion with ITBA National Research Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, ty of Rochester Medical Center, Council, Segrate, Italy. TX and joined the Department of Rochester, NY to the Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Anesthesiology, Georgetown Universi- Diane M. Farrell has moved from the Science Center, San Antonio, TX. ty, Washington, DC. Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Stuart Donald Inglis has affiliated Sonya D. Coaxum has joined the Antonio, TX to accept a position with with the Ohio University Department Department of Physiology, Loyola the Department of Biology, Trinity of Biological Sciences, Athens, OH. University Medical Center, Maywood, University, San Antonio, TX. Recently, Inglis moved from the IL, having moved from the Depart- Department of Kinesiology, University ment of Pharmacology, University of John T. Flaherty has affiliated with of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., as Vice Canada. President of Medical Affairs, John Carl Criscione is currently Cambridge, MA, moving from Sonus Sarinee Kalandakanond has joined affiliated with the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Bothell, WA. the Department of Physiology, Faculty Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn

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University, Bangkok, Thailand moving Andre Obenaus is presently the versity of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City,IA from the Department of Physiology Director of the Imaging Lab, Depart- and joined the Department of and Pharmacology, Athens, GA. ment of Radiation Medicine, Loma Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Linda, CA, having moved from the of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Allison M. Kitten has moved from Department of Medical Imaging, the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon David W. Stepp has accepted a posi- Center, Emeryville, CA, and recently SK, Canada. tion with the Vascular Biology Center, affiliated with the The Jackson Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Laboratory at UC Davis, Davis, CA, as Helen Louise Reeve has joined the GA. Prior to this appointment, Stepp Manager, Physiogenomics. Department of Clinical Programs, was with the Department of Physiolo- Guidant Corporation, St. Paul, MN. gy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Bohdan P. Kolomiets has accepted Previously, Reeve had been with the Milwaukee, WI. the position of Chair of Department of Medicine and Neuropharmacology College de Physiology, VA Medical Center, Shu-Yu Sun has joined the Depart- France, Paris, France. Previously, Minneapolis, MN. ment of Pharmacology, Merck & Kolomiets was affiliated with the Company, Inc., Rahway, NJ, as a Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Ann M. Schreihofer has moved from Senior Research Biologist. Sun was Kiev, Ukraine. the Department of Pharmacology, Uni- previously associated with the Depart- versity of Virginia Health Systems, ment of Physiology and Biophysics, Mahmoud Loghman-Adham has Charlottesville, VA and accepted a University of Nebraska Medical moved from the St. Louis University, position with the Department of Phys- Center, Omaha, NE. St. Louis, MO, to Roche Pharmaceuti- iology, Medical College of Georgia, cal Company, Nutley, NJ. Augusta, GA. Erik Svensjo has moved from the Experimental Division, Institute of Christine Maric has joined the Stephen M. Secor has accepted a Caracao, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Department of Medicine, Division of position with the Department of accepted a position with the Laboratory Nephrology and Hypertension, George- Biological Sciences, University of Ala- of Molecular Immunology, Federal Uni- town University Medical Center, bama, Tuscaloosa, AL. Prior to his new versity of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Washington, DC. Maric moved from assignment, Secor was associated with the Department of Anatomy and Cell the Department of Biology, University Theresa D. Sweeney has moved Biology, University of Melbourne, Mel- of Mississippi, University, MS. from the Department of Pharmaceu- bourne, Victoria, Australia. tical R&D, Genentech Inc., South San Vladimir B. Serikov has accepted a Francisco, CA to a position with Inhale Edward R. McFadden is now a position with the Department of Therapeutic Systems, San Carlos, CA. member of the Metrohealth Medical Pulmonary Research, Children s Hos- Center, Division of Pulmonary & pital Oakland Research Institute, M.A. Hassan Talukder has moved Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland, Oakland, CA. Prior to his new appoint- from the Department of Pharmacolo- OH. Prior to his new affiliation, ment, Serikov was with the Institute gy, East Carolina University School of McFadden was with the University of Molecular Pharmacology & Bio- Medicine, Greenville, NC to join the Hospitals of Cleveland, Division of physics, University of Cincinnati, Department of Cardiovascular Med- Pulmonary and Critical Care, Cincinnati, OH. icine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Cleveland, OH. Japan. Alexander Serra has moved from the Shaun F. Morrison. has moved from Department of Physiology, Medical Balazs Toth has affiliated with the the Department of Physiology, North- College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Department of Surgery and Center for western University Medical School, and joined the Department of Surgical Research, University of Chicago, IL and accepted a position Pediatric Surgery, Technische Univer- Alabama, Birmingham, AL. Prior to his with the Neurological Sciences Insti- sity, Dresden, Germany. new affiliation, Toth was with the tute, Oregon Health Sciences Univer- Department of Experimental Surgery, sity, Beaverton, OR. Mark D. Slivkoff has joined the Bio- National Institute of Trauma, Rad Laboratories, Life Science Group, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Akira Nishiyama is now an Hercules, CA. Prior to his new Hungary. Assistant Professor, Department of appointment, Slivkoff was with the Pharmacology, Kagawa Medical Uni- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yuqi Wang has joined the versity, Kagawa, Japan. Prior to his University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Department of Biochemistry, Univer- new position, Nishiyama was with the sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Physiology, Tulane Rachel Dean Smetanka has moved NC and moved from the Department University School of Medicine, New from the Department of Internal of Pharmacology, Yale University, New Orleans, LA. Medicine and Exercise Science, Uni- Haven, CT.

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Brian J. Whipp has accepted a posi- Christopher Glenn Wilson has affil- Roger T. Worrell has accepted a position with the Centre for Exercise iated with the Department of Pedi- tion with the Department of Surgery, Science and Medicine, University of atrics and Neonatology, Case Western University of Cincinnati, the Vontz Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. Prior to Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Center for Molecular Studies, Cincin- his new assignment, Whipp was with Previously, Wilson was with the nati, OH. Worrell was previously asso- the Department of Physiology, St. Department of Neurological Disorders ciated with the Department of Phys- George s Hospital Medical School, and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD. iology, Emory Medical School, Center University of London, London, En- for Cell and Molecular Signaling, gland. Atlanta, GA. Announcements

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