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PN Issue 111 / Summer 2018 Physiology News Attitude at altitude The logistical, personal and scientific challenges of high-altitude research Help us improve diversity and inclusivity at The Society by completing the equal opportunities form on the member portal today! For more information about The Society’s Diversity and Inclusion work go to: www.physoc.org/diversity TPS11531 - Diversity and inclusivity advert V2 REPRO.indd 1 21/06/2018 12:22:05 Physiology News Scientific Editor Keith Siew University of Cambridge We welcome feedback on our membership magazine, or letters and suggestions for Managing Editor articles for publication, including book reviews, from our Members. 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Designed, produced and printed by Lavenham Press Ltd. 2 Physiology News / Summer 2018 / Issue 111 Contents Help us improve diversity and inclusivity at The Society by completing the equal opportunities form on the member portal today! Welcome to the Summer 2018 edition of Physiology News Introduction Journal insights 05 Editorial 22 The latest from our Journals 06 Letters to the Editor 07 President’s view: International relations Features 24 Maintaining your attitude at altitude News & views 29 On the blood pressure… ‘of Mice and Men’ 08 An introduction to the Editorial Board 32 Hold your nerve 10 Reports of recent Committee meetings 36 What does the future hold for the teaching of physiology in UK Higher Education Institutions? 11 Physiology Feed 38 Mysteries of the action potential For more information about The Society’s Diversity and 12 Can we cure jet lag with eye drops? Congratulations to our newest Fellow Members Inclusion work go to: www.physoc.org/diversity Voice of the Future 13 Member Spotlight: The Ultra Cycle Diaries Editorial Board Fellowship winners Membership TPS11531 - Diversity and inclusivity advert V2 REPRO.indd 1 21/06/2018 12:22:05 14 A unified voice for the life sciences 43 The future of education? Using 3D animation and virtual reality Our latest Public Engagement Grant winners in teaching physiology 15 Sitting is the new smoking 44 The three wise professors: Autonomy, Mastery and Meaning. Which one to supervise your PhD? 45 Syrian hamsters, auditory hallucinations and autophagy in Alzheimer’s: Greater Manchester Physiology Symposium Policy Focus 46 Better start them young: healthy lifestyle education in middle school 16 Best practice for data in research and publication – Society recommendations 47 The Physiological Society’s techniques workshop feedback: Introduction to Molecular Biology Events 17 2018 Forthcoming events Researchers’ Futures programme workshop 18 Focused Symposium: From Lab to Clinic – Pathways to Translational Brain Machine Interfaces for Rehabilitation 20 Sleep and Circadian Rhythms from Mechanisms to Function: Why should I attend? 21 How to Expect the Unexpected: Prediction and Prevention of Preterm Birth – GL Brown Prize Lecture Cover image: Photo of the late Chris Willie, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, just after completing a maximal exercise test at the top of the Ev-K2-CNR pyramid laboratory. 3 Love to sleep? Come and find out about the mechanisms that regulate your sleep and body clock, and what happens when they go wrong. Join us to solve the many exciting, unanswered questions in sleep science. Sleep, synaptic homeostasis, and neuronal firing rates Chiara Cirelli, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, USA Genes and neurons that regulate sleep in zebrafish Jason Rihel, University College London, UK Neural networks and sleep Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, University of Oxford, UK Submit your oral communication or poster from 1-30 September. Find out more and register at: www.physoc.org/sleep_circadian Sleep and Circadian Rhythms from Mechanisms to Function 5-6 December 2018 Barbican, London, UK Editorial Introduction to your Editors In Spring of 1992, The Physiological Society Another key issue of our time is Newsletter began an experiment. The scope representation; simply put it matters! Our Under the new framework for PN, primary of the Newsletter was to be expanded to Society and discipline is diverse, and it was responsibility for the content of PN is divided include a broad range of articles on important for us to appoint a PN Editorial between the Scientific Editor, who curates physiology, the activities of our members Board that not only reflected this diversity the academic and physiologically focused and political commentary of the academic in terms of background knowledge but also pieces, and Managing Editor, who highlights scene. The result of this experiment was gender, geography, career type and stage the activities of Society members/staff and the eventual transmutation of a Newsletter (pg 8-9). oversees overall production of PN. Both into a Magazine and establishment of the work together with the support of the rechristened Physiology News (PN) as a Similarly, this issue of PN is no less diverse, editorial board to produce an exciting issue cornerstone of our community. with an article exploring the neuromuscular of PN each quarter. consequences of ageing that we all must face Physiology News is your magazine: it should (pg 32-35), reminders of the lessons that reflect your diversity, satisfy your broad can be learned from comparative physiology Keith Siew Scientific Editor interests, celebrate your achievements and (pg 29-31) or those giving us rare insight commemorate those no longer with us. into the real stories behind the research Keith’s first taste of The Society was as a Having thrived through several redesigns, papers (pg 24-28). PN also serves as a place physiology/pharmacology undergrad relaunches and now ‘under new for us to challenge the status quo, with an attending the 2009 Dublin meeting where management’, the magazine at its heart has, article from our former Editor Bill Winlow on he sat and read through his first copy ofPN . and always will be, for the membership by the propagation of the action potential (pg Little did he know that he would eventually the membership! However, as The Society 38-42), and to make calls to arms, like our become a Council Affiliate Representative, continues to grow and the way we consume education and teaching theme leads serve on numerous committees, get on information changes, PN must also evolve identifying the salient issues in higher the PN Editorial Board and eventually to keep pace with a modern world. education (pg 36-37), innovations in become its youngest Scientific Editor. This education technology with 3D and virtual all happened whilst attempting to finish an The development of the new Society reality (pg 43) or the importance of starting MSc in imaging, and PhD in medicine and website, presents us with an opportunity to healthy lifestyle education young (pg 46-47). start an international postdoctoral revamp PN, offering both old and new fellowship pursuing his passion for renal articles in dual format (webpage and Another important function of PN is to physiology and technological innovation. hardcopy/PDF), improving shareability and provide an outlet for our members to It is his hope to strengthen and modernise searchability of content, as well as opening express themselves. Thanks in large part to PN and give back to a Society which has up the potential for supplementing the the previous editor, Roger Thomas, Letters given him so much. traditional hardcopy with embedded to the Editor have seen a resurgence. We multimedia content (i.e. short videos and believe they are a healthy forum for audio clips of authors and their work). discourse and provide a rare uncensored Julia Turan Managing Editor platform for one to pose questions or draw It is more important now than ever to not attention to that not often given the Julia triturated, pipetted, imaged, and just simply be aware of, but to actually spotlight (Letter from Lamarck; pg 6-7). It is analyzed, during her undergrad years deliver on our environmental and social our hope that this tradition continues to live studying neurobiology.