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The Grey Record 2018 The Grey Record September AGM 2018 – July AGM 2019 Grey Record 2018 About The Physiological Society: As the largest network of physiologists in Europe, with academic journals of global reach, we continue our 140-year tradition of being at the forefront of the life sciences. Offices of The Physiological Society: Correspondence and enquiries should be directed to the offices of The Society: The Physiological Society Hodgkin Huxley House Tel: +44 (0) 20 7269 5710 30 Farringdon Lane Email: [email protected] London Website: www.physoc.org EC1R 3AW Strategy 2018-22: Vision Physiology flourishing Purpose To advance physiology in order to foster the understanding and improvement of life. Overall Objective In the next 3-5 years increase recognition that physiology is essential to solving the health challenges faced throughout life. 1 Grey Record 2018 Council of Trustees: Trustees are legally responsible for the overall governance, management and policy of The Society, ensuring the charitable objectives for which it has been set up are met. The Trustees are also the Directors of The Society. Trustees are elected to serve a period of four years and any voting Member is eligible to stand. Meetings of the Council are chaired by the President. Honorary Officers President Membership & Grants Committee Chair Bridget Lumb (2018)* Rachel Tribe (2015) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] President-elect Publications Chair David Paterson (2018) Deborah Baines (2017) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Honorary Treasurer Elected Trustees Frank Sengpiel (2017) Guy Bewick (2015) Email: [email protected] Federico Formenti (2016) Charlotte Haigh (2017) Education & Outreach Committee Chair Graham McGeown (2016) Sarah Hall (2016) Elizabeth Sheader (2017) Email: [email protected] Holly Shiels (2015) Stefan Trapp (2017) Conferences Committee Chair Raheela Khan (2018) Sue Deuchars (2017) Email: [email protected] External Trustee Matt Taylor (2018) Policy & Communications Chair Lucy Donaldson (2016) stood down 31/12/2018 Affiliate Members of the Council of Trustees (in attendance) Rachel McCormick (2015) Peter Aldiss (2017) *The year in brackets indicates the date of election 2 Grey Record 2018 Honorary Members 2018: We award Honorary Membership to persons of distinction in science who have contributed to the advancement of physiology. Graham Burton Graham Burton was awarded Honorary Membership primarily in recognition for his work on placental physiology in which he has a long-standing interest. Having qualified in medicine from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and having pursued research at Cambridge, he now holds the Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professorship of the Physiology of Reproduction at Cambridge. One of his most important findings is that the human embryo in the uterus is supported by nutrition from the endometrial glands during the period of organogenesis, prior to onset of the maternal arterial circulation to the placenta at the end of the first trimester. He has published his research findings in The Journal of Physiology, organised symposia at Society meetings, mentored numerous young researchers and had a keen involvement in outreach activities designed to increase public awareness of the importance of research in reproductive physiology. He is the inaugural Director of the Centre for Trophoblast Research at the University of Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011. Michael W. Young Michael W. Young was awarded Honorary Membership in recognition of the physiological importance of his work on the molecular mechanisms responsible for circadian rhythms, for which he was joint recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash. He is Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Genetics at The Rockefeller University. He is also the University’s Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Young received a BA in biology in 1971 and a PhD in genetics in 1975, both from The University of Texas, Austin. Young is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. In addition to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he (along with colleagues Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash), received the 2009 Gruber Neuroscience Prize, 2011 Horwitz Prize, 2012 Canada Gairdner International Award, 2012 Massry Prize, 2013 Wiley Prize, and the 2013 Shaw Prize for discoveries of molecular mechanisms that control circadian (daily) rhythms. 3 Grey Record 2018 Committees: The Council has committees to which it delegates powers, and these groups report back to the Council. Meetings Committee Finance Committee Susan Deuchars (Chair) Frank Sengpiel (Chair) Deborah Baines (Chair of Publications Committee) Philip Aaronson (Member) Daniel Brayson (Affiliate Representative) Richard Barker (External Member) Carolyn Greig (Committee Member) Havovi Chichger (Committee Member) Llwyd Orton (Committee Member) Bridget Lumb (President) Ole Petersen (JP Representative) David Patterson (President-elect) Matthew Piasecki (Affiliate Represenative) Dean Sewell (Committee Member) Louise Robson (Committee Member) Tony Silcock (External Member) Holly Shiels (Trustee) Lucia Sivilotti (Committee Member) Stefan Trapp (Trustee) Society contact: Casey Early ([email protected]) Michael White (EP Representative) Society contact: Sarah Bundock Membership & Grants Committee ([email protected]) Rachel Tribe (Chair) Emmanuel Amabebe (Committee Member) Education & Outreach Committee Guy Bewick (Trustee) Sarah Hall (Chair) Carrie Ferguson (Committee Member) Federico Formenti (Trustee) Alex Ireland (Committee Member) Nicholas Freestone (Committee Member) Stephen Keely (Committee Member) Charlotte Haigh (Trustee) Lijun Shang (Committee Member) Ian Harvey (External Member) Society contact: Chrissy Stokes Jessica Piasecki (Affiliate) ([email protected]) Clare Ray (Committee Member) Phillip Rhodes (External Member) Nominations Committee Christopher Torrens (Committee Member) Bridget Lumb (President) Society contact: Chrissy Stokes Guy Bewick (Trustee) ([email protected]) Charlotte Haigh (Trustee) David Paterson (President-elect) Society contact: Dariel Burdass ([email protected]) 4 Grey Record 2018 Policy & Communications Committee Publications Committee Lucy Donaldson (Chair) Deborah Baines (Chair) Simon Cork (Committee Member) Kim Barrett (Editor-in-chief, JP) Blair Grubb (Committee Member) Sue Deuchars (Chair of Conferences Committee) Patrick Max Headley (Committee Member) Federico Formenti (Trustee) Jo Lewis (Affiliate) Thomas Kleyman (Editor-in-chief, PR) Graham McGeown (Trustee) Frank Sengpiel (Honorary Treasurer) Andrew Powell (Committee Member) Michael Tipton (Editor-in-chief, EP) Elizabeth Sheader (Trustee) Society contact: Simon Rallison ([email protected]) Keith Siew (PN Scientific Advisor) Andrew Trafford (Committee Member) Remuneration Committee Society contact: Andrew MacKenzie ([email protected]) Bridget Lumb (President) David Paterson (President-elect) Frank Sengpiel (Chair of Finance Committee) Matt Taylor (External Trustee) Society contact: Dariel Burdass ([email protected]) Sub-Committees & Working Groups: Affiliate Working Group History & Archives Committee Peter Aldiss (Chair) Emmanuel Amabebe Jonathan Ashmore (Chair) Jade Bearham Robert Banks (Committee Member) Daniel Brayson Fernando Cervero (Committee Member) Hannah Kirton Vanessa Heggie (External Member) Jo Lewis Rachel McCormick David Miller (Committee Member) Jessica Piasecki Holly Shiels (Committee Member) Matthew Piasecki (Former Chair) Tilli Tansey (Society Archivist) Calum Wilson Society contact: Andrew Morley Society contact: Jen Happe ([email protected]) ([email protected]) 5 Grey Record 2018 Editorial boards: The Journal of Physiology Publisher Sally Howells ([email protected]) Senior Editors Editorial Board Fellows Kim Barrett (Editor-in-Chief) Alicia D'Souza Laura Bennet Pawel Ferdek Donald M Bers Melanie Gareau Derek Bowie (CrossTalk Editor-Neuroscience) Javier Gonzalez Peying Fong (CrossTalk Editor) David M MacLean Ian D. Forsythe (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) Vincenzo Marra David Grundy (Senior Ethics Editor) Christopher West Michael C. Hogan Calum Wilson Ole Paulsen Ole Petersen (Senior Reviews Editor) Scott K. Powers Harold D. Schultz Francisco Sepúlveda (Senior CrossTalk Editor) Janet Taylor David Wyllie Statistics Consultant Alan Batterham 6 Grey Record 2018 The Journal of Physiology - Continued Reviewing Editors Benedito Machado Philip Ainslie Walter Marcotti Jean-Claude Béïque Satoshi Matsuoka Dennis Brown Suzanne Miller Richard Carson Yashuhiko Minokoshi Julie Chan Bettina Mittendorfer Sumantra Chattarji Kathleen G. Morgan Diego Contreras Janna Morrison Dario Farina Ruth Murrell-Lagnado Robert A Fenton Matthew Nolan Greg Funk Yasushi Okamura Maike Glitsch Reinhold Penner Bruno Grassi Frank Powell Paul Greenhaff Rajini Rao Fiona Gribble Caroline Rickards Brian Gulbransen Weifang Rong Beth A Habecker Luis Fernando Santana Karyn L Hamilton Nathan E Schoppa Emma Hart Michael Shattock Robert Harvey Jesper Sjostrom Russell T Hepple W Rowland Taylor Livia Hool Jolanda van der Velden Troy Hornberger Jian Yang Tadashi Isa Michisuki Yuzaki Andrew King Song Yao Bjorn Knollmann Florian Lesage 7 Grey Record 2018 Experimental Physiology Publisher Senior Editors Sally Howells ([email protected]) Greti Aguilera Philip Atherton Editor-in-Chief Damian Bailey Mike
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