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PHYSIOLOGYNEWS spring 2006 | number 62 Meetings Manchester Portugal Brazil Beijing, China Also featuring: A clinical scientist’s week Physiology in the extreme Letter from Korea An only transporter is a lonely transporter Dying for a good night’s sleep A publication of The Physiological Society SYMPOSIA For further information go to: http://jp.physoc.org or email: journals@physoc.org Call for related papers: Symposium proceedings will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Physiology. To submit a related manuscript for inclusion in the issue, Involvement of interstitial please visit: cells of Cajal in the control of http://jp.physoc.org smooth muscle excitability Saturday, 22 July, 2006 at the Japanese Society for Smooth Muscle Research, Okayama, Japan President: Tadao Tomita Chairmen: Hikaru Suzuki and G David S Hirst Speakers: Terumasa Komuro (Japan) Structure and organization of ICC in GI tract G David S Hirst (Australia) Role of ICC in generation of organized movements of the stomach Hikaru Suzuki (Japan) Factors modifying the frequency of slow waves in gastric muscle Sean Ward (USA) Involvement of ICC-IM in neuroeffector transmission in GI tract Kenton Sanders (USA) ICC at the clinical and scientific interface Noel McHale (Ireland) Organization and function of ICC in urinary tract Rick Lang (Australia) Role of ICC in upper urinary tract Hikaru Hashitani (Japan) Interaction between interstitial cells and smooth muscles in the lower urinary tract and penis Gerard Sergeant (Ireland) Ca imaging in urethral ICC The Journal of Physiology is published by Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Physiological Society in 24 fortnightly issues in eight volumes. For further information go to www.jphysiol.org Representatives of The Physiological Society and the Chinese Association of Physiological Societies meet to discuss a joint scientific meeting in Beijing, China in 2008 (see related article on p. 11). From the left: Prem Kumar (Meetings Secretary elect), Bridget Lumb (Meetings Secretary), Xiao-min Wang (Secretary General of the Chinese Association of Physiological Sciences), Giovanni Mann (Chairman of the Executive Committee), Tai Yao (President of the Chinese Association of Physiological Sciences) and David Eisner (International Secretary). PHYSIOLOGYNEWS Editorial 3 Meetings Manchester Focused Meeting – New university, new buildings, new The Society’s dog. ‘Rudolf Magnus gave staff Maynard Case 4 me to Charles Sherrington, who gave me Portugal Focused Meeting Margarida Amaral, Mike Gray 5 to Henry Dale, who gave me to the Physiology in Brazil – Andy Ramage, Ted Taylor, Thelma Lovick 7 Physiological Society in October 1942’ Joint Meeting of the Chinese Association of Physiological Sciences and The Physiological Society in Beijing, China 11 Giovanni Mann, David Eisner Published quarterly by the Physiological Society A week in the life of ... Contributions and Queries A clinical scientist Tim Lang 12 Executive Editor Letter from ... Korea Insuk So, Sung Joon Kim 14 Linda Rimmer The Physiological Society Publications Office Physiology in the extreme P.O. Box 502 John Coote, Thelma Lovick 16 Cambridge CB1 0AL Features UK How ion channels and transporters affect metastasis Christian Tel: +44 (0)1223 400180 Stock, Albrecht Schwab 19 Fax: +44 (0)1223 246858 Multimerisation – an only transporter is a lonely transporter Email: lrimmer@physoc.org David Meredith, Richard Boyd 20 The Society web server: http://www.physoc.org A new muscle sense? Uwe Proske 23 Magazine Editorial Board Sympathetic nerve activity and cardiac output: an integrated Editor balance with implications for blood pressure regulation 25 Austin Elliott (University of Manchester) Nisha Charkoudian, Michael Joyner, Gunnar Wallin Members 2+ Lesley Anson (Nature) Ca sparks – SOS signals of struggling muscle Elena Isaeva, Patricia de Winter (King’s College London) Vyacheslav Shkryl, Natalia Shirokova 27 Sarah Hall (University of Cardiff) Dying for a good night’s sleep Victoria Cooper 29 Munir Hussain (University of Liverpool) Vagal nociceptors in the oesophagus Martin Kollarik, Bradley John Lee (Rotherham General Hospital) Thelma Lovick (University of Birmingham) Undem 31 Bill Winlow (Prime Medica, Knutsford) Calcium signalizing in developing mouse skeletal muscle fibres Joana Capote, Pura Bolaños, Carlo Caputo 33 © 2006 The Physiological Society A racing start for the heart in exercise Valerie Gladwell 35 ISSN 1476-7996 Light up the signal fires – imaging calcium’s protein partners The Society permits the single copying of Stephen Bolsover 37 individual articles for private study or research. For Noticeboard 32, 36, 39, 40 copying or reproduction for any other purpose, written permission must be sought from The Obituaries Physiological Society (lrimmer@physoc.org). A Murray Harper Sheila Jennett, James McCulloch 38 Opinions expressed in articles and letters submitted Letters to the Editor 39 by, or commissioned from, Members, Affiliates or Nobel Prize 2005 39 outside bodies are not necessarily those of The Physiological Society. Unbelievable! 40 The Society’s journals The Physiological Society is registered in England The Journal of Physiology Carol Huxley 41 as a company limited by guarantee: No 323575. Registered office: PO Box 11319, London WC1X Experimental Physiology John Coote, Peter Hunter 42 8WQ Affiliate News Registered Charity: No 211585. Where are all the women going? Patricia de Winter 44 Printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd Young Physiologists’ Symposium Melissa Grant, Richard Siow 44 Medical education and the arts Mary Forsling 46 Society News Cover photos Celebrity diets, obesity and hormones Liz Bell 46 Meetings Bridget Lumb, David Eisner 47 Parliamentary and Scientific Committee Liz Bell 49 Competing with football in Dublin Society for Experimental Biology 50 A word from the Education Officer Donna Brown 51 Teachers’ Workshop at Coventry University Ray Carson 51 Science learning with a difference Donna Brown 52 Biosciences Federation Clockwise from top left: caiman, capabari, iguana and a group of caiman. Student employability – whose job is it? Sarah Blackford, 53 From Ramage A, Taylor T & Lovick TA. Physiology in Brazil. pp. 7-10. Dariel Burdass, Sue Assinder Book Reviews 55 PHYSIOLOGYNEWS Action points Guidelines for contributors In this issue Grants These guidelines are intended to assist Welcome to another issue of For full information on Members’ authors in writing their contributions and to Physiology News – 56 pages again, reduce the subsequent editing process. The and Affiliates’ Grants, Intercalated incidentally, as we were once more Editorial Group of Physiology News tries to BSc Bursaries, Network Interaction spoilt for choice for content. Grants, Non-Society Symposia ensure that all articles are written in a Grants, Postgraduate Support Fund journalistic style so that they will have an immediate interest value for a wide There is a short list of adjectives information and the Vacation readership and will be readable and magazine editors like to use about Studentship Scheme visit: comprehensible to non-experts. In their magazine and its content. http://www.physoc.org/grants particular, scientific articles should give a ‘Packed’, ‘exotic’ and ‘global’ are good overview of a field rather than focus three good ones. I like to think they Membership applications entirely on the authors’ own research. all apply. I don’t think I have seen Applications for Full and Affiliate another issue with quite such a Membership are received throughout Format of articles The main message or question posed should be breadth of features. Take the list of the year and have no deadlines. A introduced in the first paragraph. The background places where we have reports from, decision is normally made within 8 for the topic should then be established, leading or about. Meeting previews for 10 weeks of the Administration up to the final conclusion. Portugal, Brazil and Beijing (not to Office receiving the application. 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