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THIS ISSUE: Get ready for a APS/ASPET Presidential Symposium Series: Microbiome61 Five Ways to be an Effective NEW LOOK Mentor and Mentee Career Central: One-on-One Careerfor Counseling, The Physiologist! Mentoring, 66 Micro-learningExperimental Biology 79 APS Launches Taskforce on Hubs, Career DevelopmentWe’re Workshops completely reimagining and our Job PostingsSexual Harassment newsletter, and we’ll be skipping New Video on Primate Research the May issue to focus on the reboot. 101 The Future of APS withStay Executive tuned for the new Director format in July. Scott Steen
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Five Ways to be an Effective Mentor and Mentee
Rachel C. Drew, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston
As a relatively new assistant to another person in the same or similar field to help professor in the Department of them succeed. However, successful mentoring involves Exercise and Health Sciences at a combination of factors that culminate in a mutually the University of Massachusetts beneficial relationship between the mentor and the Boston, there were innumerable mentee, one in which they both gain something positive things that I needed to learn to from their partnership. smooth the transition into my tenure-track position. One of the These mutually beneficial relationships can take the Rachel C. Drew, PhD most notable, and significant form of formal or informal mentor-mentee relationships. areas not covered in my doctoral Formal partnerships can be formed through targeted and postdoctoral training was how to be a successful programs created by professional societies that match mentor to trainees and students working in my research interested mentees with willing mentors, which also lab. Having earned my bachelor’s degree in sport and provide great networking opportunities. Formal exercise science and my PhD in exercise physiology at partnerships can also be structured partnerships within the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, academic institutions or industrial companies that followed by completion of my postdoctoral training and pair a junior person with a more senior person within a short time as a research associate at Penn State Hershey the same department, college, campus, university, or in Pennsylvania, I learned a great number of things about company. These relationships can provide helpful inside conducting research. However, I received little training knowledge relevant to the respective institution or about mentoring. It was not until I was thrust into the company. However, the expertise of the senior person position of running my own independent research lab may not fully align with the specific field in which the as an assistant professor that I was suddenly very aware junior person is working, because it is the institution or that I felt ill-prepared to successfully mentor others. I had company that brings the mentor and mentee together only just been a mentee myself, and now I was expected to rather than the same research or teaching interests. help shape fully formed trainees who work with me in my lab with no obvious training? “Fake it until you make it” Informal partnerships can be formed through meeting certainly sprang to mind. people at conferences and meetings, often through introductions made by colleagues with an existing After attending many professional development sessions relationship with the other person. You may also meet and workshops, and reading numerous articles on potential mentors at workshops and other networking mentoring, I learned there are many things that go into events. I have been introduced by colleagues to numerous being not just a mentor but a good mentor. This article people at conferences, and some of those introductions shares what I have learned about how to be a successful have grown into current research collaborations, an mentor in the two years that I have had this seemingly huge invaluable asset to my research program. I also met a responsibility placed on my shoulders. I do not profess graduate student at a conference poster session who is to be the best mentor—since it takes years of mentoring now a PhD student working in my lab! I now introduce experience to achieve that status, but I have learned several him to people at conferences and other events, so he nuggets of wisdom. I hope these lessons will benefit other may benefit from those introductions at some point, thus researchers also undergoing this transition. continuing the networking cycle.
On the surface, mentoring may seem like a fairly In a mentor-mentee relationship, knowing what will straightforward process of a person with experience be necessary for the mentee to succeed requires a or expertise in their respective field providing advice conversation about what the mentee wants to achieve.
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This conversation should happen at the beginning of Mentor-mentee relationships do not always come without the relationship. The mentor can then draw on their their challenges. There can be differences in personalities experiences in their specific field to help guide the that make it more difficult for the partnership to bea mentee in appropriate ways. Typically in a successful fruitful one. There can be time constraints, particularly for mentor-mentee relationship, the mentee provides the the mentor, who is typically more established in their field energy, and the mentor can help steer the mentee in the than the mentee and often has other commitments that right direction, much like a human equivalent of a car require more of their time or more immediate attention. engine and steering wheel. This effective mentor-mentee The mentee may be seeking advice on a particular topic partnership results in a “win-win” for both people. The that a specific mentor cannot provide. Some of these mentee can learn from the advice and support provided obstacles can be avoided or at least managed by having by the mentor as an experienced person in their field a conversation at the beginning of the relationship about to help them succeed, and the mentor can help newer what the mentee wants to achieve and how they envisage people in their field grow and become successful, serving the mentor helping them. If the mentor does not have the their professional community as well as gaining personal necessary experience or expertise, or time realistically satisfaction. Both of these successes contribute to the to offer support, they should try to redirect the mentee advancement of the respective field, highlighting the to someone who may be able to help. Time constraints importance of successful mentoring. brought about by commitments at different times of the academic or calendar year can lead to fluctuations in The relationship between mentor and mentee is mentors’—and mentees’—availability. Communicating dependent on many factors, such as the academic level of known periods of limited or no availability from both sides both individuals, the nature of the institution or company helps mitigate or alleviate situations in which one side of in which they work, and their respective personalities. the partnership does not feel like the other is responding It can also be influenced by both individuals’ cultural in a timely manner. A quick email can go a long way to backgrounds, gender, age, race, religion, sexuality, keeping things afloat! gender identity, physical ability, socioeconomic status, and other factors. Knowingly or unknowingly, any of As mentees rise through the ranks of training, it can these factors can affect this relationship, so it is important be typical for them to look for one mentor who will to understand that individuals’ implicit biases against satisfy all their academic needs, but it is not usually that certain groups of people exist (as well as explicit biases, straightforward! There may be the occasional superhero- in some cases) and that we recognize these biases rather mentor who provides mentees with exactly the advice they than ignoring them or pretending they do not exist. There are seeking at the precise time they are seeking it. If this is a growing awareness of the need for diversification of is the case for you, congratulations! These encyclopedic the scientific workforce that is leading to the creation of mentors are likely few and far between, however, given the initiatives aimed at recruiting and retaining people in vast array of academic needs that mentees have. No two traditionally underrepresented groups in science, such mentors or mentees are the same, and therefore neither are as the National Institute of Health’s (NIH’s) Scientific any mentor-mentee relationships. Mentees should therefore Workforce Diversity Officehttps://diversity.nih.gov ( ). seek multiple mentors for their different needs, whether According to NIH, traditionally underrepresented groups academic, technical, or another area. Having a smorgasbord include women, certain racial groups including black of mentors will enable mentees to seek advice on a specific people or African-Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, topic at a certain time from someone who will be able to American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians help them with it at that time. Making and maintaining and other Pacific Islanders, people with disabilities, these relationships with others in their field also increases people from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, mentees’ professional network, which can provide and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, greater visibility of their work and open doors to receive or queer. Scientific progress is at its best when viewpoints invitations to review manuscripts for specific journals and from multiple different backgrounds and experiences are present at professional meetings and workshops. For some voiced and heard. Mentoring is a crucial area of science in people who are in the early stages of their career, simply the which individuals from all backgrounds and experiences thought of contacting an established person in their field can be included and starting early in their careers. to ask for something is so intimidating that it can cause
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them to break out in a cold sweat. However, most people • Meet your mentees where they are (figuratively are often flattered to be asked and willing to share their speaking). Have an awareness of where your mentees experience or expertise if they are able, since they have been are as far as academic level and experience to date, so in the shoes of the junior person at one time or another. you can provide more tailored advice to support them Therefore, a well-crafted email clearly stating your position, to achieve their goals in ways that will be achievable for experience, and what you are seeking advice on could lead them. In other words, be the wheel that steers the car as to a new prosperous connection, as well as other potential each particular mentee provides the work of the engine! beneficial opportunities down the road. As Geordies from the Newcastle area in the north-east of England close to • Use your experience to provide advice for your where I grew up would say, “Shy bairns get nowt,” or, for mentees on an individual basis. No two mentees those who need a translation, “Shy kids get nothing!” are the same; each will bring their own set of interests, expectations, motivations, and personal There are numerous professional development characteristics. Mentors should be open to responding opportunities available for both mentors and mentees in ways that provide mentees with the tools they can that provide information and useful resources to help use to flourish. maximize efforts for successful mentoring. A great example is the National Research Mentoring Network, • Create a “safe space” for your mentees. Promote an NIH initiative aimed at enhancing the diversity of a culture of openness and dialogue by providing a the NIH-funded research workforce (https://nrmnet.net). I “safe space” for your mentees in which they can feel regularly attend the monthly sessions, which are run by comfortable discussing challenges—academic or the Office for Faculty Development at the University of personal—that they are facing and that may be affecting Massachusetts Boston. They have offered great insight their academic performance. Although mentors are not into various issues faced by both mentors and mentees, expected to help with mentees’ personal issues, you and effective strategies to overcome potential barriers may be able to point them in the direction of appropriate to improve the success of mentor-mentee relationships. support services on campus or elsewhere that may Because the University of Massachusetts Boston has benefit them and improve their academic performance. such a diverse student body—with a population of 33 The power dynamic that can exist between a person in percent underrepresented minorities and 56 percent a position of more authority and a trainee can be felt first-generation students—resources such as this are quite profoundly by mentees, which can be a barrier fantastic for increasing the effectiveness of mentor-mentee to open dialogue. The onus is on you to diffuse any partnerships. potential power inequalities by conversing with your experience rather than your power. As the person in a Drawing on my personal experiences and insights position of more authority, you may feel comfortable gleaned from various professional development sessions, and not appreciate this power inequality, but given this workshops, and mentoring articles, I’ve compiled the greater “power,” you have the opportunity to minimize following nuggets of wisdom to be an effective mentor this inequality to bridge any potential barriers between and mentee. yourself and your mentees.
Five Ways to be an Effective Mentor • Tell your mentees what they need to hear rather • Start with a conversation. Talk with your mentees than what they want to hear. It is in your position to find out what their goals are and do so atthe as a mentor to give your mentees realistic advice beginning of your relationship. Gaining a clear picture about their progress, which at times they may of what your mentees aspire to achieve and why will not want to hear. However, this feedback will allow you to shape your advice and support to best help them on their academic journey by turning meet their needs or suggest someone else who may be challenges into opportunities from which they can better able to do so. grow and develop their various academic skills, such as time management, scientific writing ability, communication, motivation, and attention to detail.
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Five Ways to be an Effective Mentee • Become comfortable having conversations with • Communication is key. Set up preferred communication your mentors. Your mentors are likely to be in methods with your mentors early in your relationship to positions of more authority than you, which can be maximize effective communication from the beginning. intimidating to mentees, but your relationship will Your mentors will likely have a preference on how be most effective if you communicate your needs best to communicate with them, based on their time clearly. Effective mentors should support you in an commitments and availability, so ask them what their open and constructive way and allow you to express preference is and use this type of communication if they your needs, rather than unfairly exerting their power do not mention it themselves. When mentors receive over you. communications in a way that is agreeable to them, they are more likely to respond in a positive way! • Seek multiple mentors for different, specific needs. Most often, mentors can provide advice in one, • Be the engine of the relationship. Approach your sometimes two, areas, whereas you will likely have mentors when you need to, bearing in mind the type of several areas in which you would like to receive communication that you have set up between the two support. Although occasionally a mentor may be of you. Mentors are often busy with tasks that require able to provide advice on all the topics you need, more of their attention at certain times, but if you typically having numerous mentors will provide want something from your mentor, the emphasis is on you with a greater level of support. Your needs you to ask. This does not necessarily mean to pester will also likely change as you progress through your mentors with questions for which you should your training and up the professional ranks, so be expected to search for the answers elsewhere, it is particularly important to have many people but more that it is up to you to speak up if you need to whom you can turn to answer those burning something that only a specific mentor can provide. questions that will arise at various stages of your career. Having this larger support system will better • Be open to constructive feedback. One of the most enable you to overcome potential obstacles and important aspects of a junior person’s training is ultimately be more successful. learning how to improve, which often means learning from their mistakes. When feedback is provided with Mentoring may seem to be about the expertise that can the intention of being helpful to you, receive the be passed down from an experienced mentor to a mentee feedback graciously and openly so you can use it to who is looking to grow and succeed, but successful improve on the specific task at hand. Remember that mentoring is contingent on the two individuals being no-one is perfect, and everyone has traversed through able to meet in the middle to create a “win-win” situation. similar formative experiences in their training, Meeting people where they are, both as mentees and including your mentors. Effective mentors want you mentors, benefits those involved, as well as science as a to succeed and will use their academic and personal whole. Although I have found several approaches that experiences to guide you toward that success through have worked for me as a mentor in my early career stage, this constructive process. I know it is important to continue to learn, grow, and adapt to new situations. Lifelong learners make the best mentors, because their best is constantly getting better. ●
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Rachel Drew Biography
Rachel Drew, PhD, is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Exercise and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The focus of her research program is the nervous system control of the cardiovascular system during exercise. Specifically, her neurovascular exercise physiology research involves examination of the effects of healthy aging, race, and exercise training on blood pressure control and blood flow to the kidneys during exercise. Drew earned her bachelor’s degree in sport and exercise science and PhD in exercise physiology under the supervision of Mike White, PhD, at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She then completed her postdoctoral training under the mentorship of Larry Sinoway, MD, followed by three years as a research associate at Penn State Hershey in Pennsylvania. Drew is a member of the American Physiological Society and received a Postdoctoral and Early Career Research Recognition Award from the Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section of the American Physiological Society in 2014. She is also a member of the Physiological Society in the United Kingdom, the American College of Sports Medicine, and American Heart Association.
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Experimental Biology 2019 Distinguished Lectures
Physiology in Henry Pickering Robert M. Berne Perspective: The Bowditch Award Distinguished Walter B. Cannon Lecture Lectureship Memorial Award of the APS Lecture Cardiovascular Section
Peter Aronson Jennifer Pluznick Rong Tian Yale University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University University of Washington From Salt to Stones to CKD: Anion Functional Roles for Orphan GPCRs Cardiac Metabolism: An Odyssey of Transporters in Health and Disease in the Kidney Energy and Beyond Sunday, April 7, 2019, 5:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 5:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 8:30 AM
Hugh Davson Joseph Erlanger August Krogh Distinguished Distinguished Distinguished Lectureship of Lectureship of Lectureship of the the APS Cell the APS Central APS Comparative and Molecular Nervous System and Evolutionary Physiology Section Section Physiology Section
David Dawson Tracy Bale Terrie Williams Oregon Health Sciences University of Maryland School University of California, Santa Cruz University of Medicine On the Cardio-Neural Trail of Stranded Membranes, Music and Economics: Parental Stress and Germ Cell Whales and Wounded Warriors: An What I Learned from CFTR, Bob Epigenetic Contributions to August Krogh Investigation Dylan and Adam Smith Offspring Development Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM Sunday, April 7, 2019, 3:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM Supported by Novo Nordisk Fonden
Solomon Berson Edward F. Adolph Horace W. Distinguished Distinguished Davenport Distin- Lectureship of the Lectureship of the guished Lectureship APS Endocrinology APS Environmental of the APS Gastro- and Metabolism and Exercise intestinal and Liver Section Physiology Section Physiology Section
Juleen R. Zierath Sue Bodine Nicholas LaRusso Karolinska Institutet University of Iowa Mayo Clinic Epigenetic Control and the Circadian Skeletal Muscle Atrophy: The Cholangiopathies: Clock: Turning Back Time on Diabetes Multiple Pathways Can Achieve Pathogenic Perspectives Pathogenesis the Same Outcome and Therapeutic Targets Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 1:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM
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History of Carl Ludwig Carl W. Gottschalk Physiology Lecture Distinguished Distinguished Lectureship of the Lectureship of the APS Neural Control APS Renal Section and Autonomic Regulation Section
James Bassingthwaighte Susan Barman R. Ariel Gomez University of Washington Michigan State University University of Virginia School Ancel Keys Lambasted at the Faraday What Can We Learn about Neural of Medicine Society Meeting of 1937! Control of the Circulation by Studying Regulation of Renin Cell Fate in Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 1:00 PM Rhythms in Sympathetic Nerve Activity? Homeostasis and Disease Monday, April 8, 2019, 1:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM
Julius H. Comroe, Claude Bernard Distin- Ernest H. Starling Jr. Distinguished guished Lectureship Distinguished Lectureship of the of the APS Teaching Lectureship of the APS Respiration of Physiology Section Water and Electro- Section lyte Homeostasis Section
Sadis Matalon Mary Pat Wenderoth Jennifer S. Pollock University of Alabama, Birmingham University of Washington University of Alabama at Birmingham Heme as a Central Mediator of Evidence Based Teaching: So That There’s NO Place Like Home(ostasis) Acute and Chronic Lung Injury All Students May Learn Sunday, April 7, 2019, 3:30 PM Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 1:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 8:30 AM Supported by APS Strategic Partner ADInstruments
APS Nobel Prize Award Lecture Peter Agre Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Aquaporin Water Channels—From Atomic Structure to Malaria Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 5:30 PM
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Experimental Biology 2019 April 6–9, 2019, Orlando, FL www.apsebmeeting.org
We are excited to present the tentative educational program for the APS annual meeting held in conjunction with Experimental Biology (EB) 2019 in Orlando.
NEW this year: The 2019 annual meeting features a compressed, four-day meeting schedule from Saturday, April 6, to Tuesday, April 9. The daily schedule for APS will be:
7:00 AM to 8:00 AM Professional development sessions 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM Oral scientific sessions 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM Poster presentations 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM Free time for lunch and visiting exhibits 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Oral scientific sessions 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Oral scientific sessions 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Plenary named lectures
We hope you find the new meeting format valuable and that you take advantage of the many collaborative, cross-society offerings, such as the plenary Tang Award Prize lecture, the EB-wide Opening Reception, Career Central and the joint APS/ASPET President’s Symposium Series held daily throughout the meeting. Register, reserve your housing and more on the EB 2019 website (www.experimentalbiology.org). We can’t wait to see you in Orlando!
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APS/ASPET Presidential Symposium Series: Microbiome
Career Central: One-on-One Career Counseling, Mentoring, Micro-learning Hubs, Career Development Workshops and Job Postings
The Future of APS with Executive Director Scott Steen
Science Policy Symposium: A Role for Professional Societies in Addressing and Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Sciences apsebmeeting.org
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Saturday, April 6, 2019
Morning Afternoon Afternoon/Evening 8:00 AM–12:00 PM 12:00–1:00 PM 2:00–5:00 PM Education Committee Refresher MCS Mentoring Lunch WEH Section Course Trainee Award Finalists and Data Beyond the Weight Room: The Diuresis Importance of Skeletal Muscle in Cunningham/Loria/Hulstrom Health and Disease (Supported by APS Strategic Partner ADInstruments) Merritt/Durocher
9:00 AM–5:00 PM 1:00–2:30 PM 3:00–4:30 PM ETG Pre-EB Meeting Conference AFMR Symp AFMR Symp Alzheimer’s Disease: Many Failed New Method and Models to Study Trials so Where Do We Go from Human Metabolism with Stable Here? Isotope Tracers Reiss/Stecker Cree-Green/Parks
9:30 AM–11:30 AM 1:00–3:00 PM 3:00–5:00 PM MCS President’s Symp Science Policy and Women in NCAR Section Awards Session Clinical Perspectives on the Physiology Committee Symp Data NCARnation Microcirculation A Role for Professional Societies in Miller/Blackmore Pierce-Cottler/Mendelson Addressing and Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Sciences Goulopoulou/Wilson 1:00–3:00 PM 3:15–5:15 PM APS-ASPET Presidential Symp Series Techniques Workshop on Microbiome Writing Good Multiple Choice Workshop on Microbiome Research: Questions: A Hands-on Workshop What You Need to Know Silverthorn Patterson/Hullar
1:00–5:00 PM 3:30 PM–5:30 PM Physiological Omics Group 6th MCS Symp Annual PG Conference Emerging Topics: Adaptation of Microvessels and Lymphatics Breslin/MacGabhann
1:00–3:00 PM 5:30–6:00 PM MCS Symp Building the Future of APS Microcirculation’s Contribution to (and Physiology) Organ Failure Steen Beyr/Halabi 6:00–7:00 PM Tang Prize Award Lecture Druker
6:00–8:00 PM MCS Poster Discussion and Reception LeBlanc
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Sunday, April 7, 2019
7:00–8:00 AM 8:30–10:00 AM 1:30–3:00 PM 3:30–5:00 PM Professional Development Hour Trainee Advisory CV Section FT Physiological -Omics Group Symp 3:30–5:00 PM Committee Symp Kaley Award FT: The Metagenomic and David Bruce Undergraduate Marketing Yourself for a Microcirculation and Its Many Metabolomic Studies of Host- Poster Session and Horwitz/ Successful Career I Cells that Contribute to Microbiotal Contributions to Horowitz Awards Ceremony Obi/Zarate Tissue Repair Health and Disease Kubes Joe/Abais-Battad
Women in Physiology Resp Section Symp Hypoxia Group Symp MCS Landis Award Lecture and Committee Symp Central Control of Breathing: The Lahiri/Cherniak Business Meeting Career Planning: No Gliocentric Mechanisms Lecture Symp Hill Scientist Left Behind Funk/Mulkey Wilson Nichols/Randive/Porta Career Opportunities in Pubs Committee Workshop CNS Section Symp EB Symp Series Physiology Committee Publications 101 Workshop Interaction of Cardiovascular Carotid Body Sensing—More Symp Sigmund/Scheman Disease and Neuro-cognitive than Just an O2 Sensor The Hidden Job: Skills for Impairment. MacFarlane/Wyatt a Career in Physiology Wallace/Stocker Becker/Trimby Renal Section FT Cell Section FT GIL Section Symp Young Investigator Award: At pH Homeostasis and Acid-Base Innovative Imaging Approaches the Nexus of Circadian Biology Transport in Gastrointestinal Epithelial and Renal Physiology Parker/Romero Biology Gumz/Wingo Edelblum
NCAR Section FT PIC Symp EM Section Symp Young Investigator Awards SGLT2 Inhibitors: From Hormonal Influences on Tissue Xu/Del Rio Basic Physiology to Clinical Remodeling Success Lindsey/Gohar Gonzalez Villalobos/Pati
EEP Section Symp ETG Ussing Lecture FT NCAR Section Symp Exercise and Heat Therapy: Keely/Kortenoeven Autonomic Control of Shared Molecular Targets and Metabolism Cardiometabolic Benefits Aubert Minson
WEH Section Symp NCAR Section FT Nutrition Group Symp Translational Models of Renal Autonomic Anti-inflammatory Nutrition as a Biological and Cardiovascular Disease: Mechanisms: Which Branch Variable: Considerations for the Informing Human Health or Not? Trumps? Future of Physiology Research Harrison-Bernard/Osborn Harwani/Pham Anthony/Baum CV Section FT TPIG FT Renal Section Symp Cardiac ECM Niche in Health Translational Physiology Mechanism of Hypertension- and Disease Highlights induced Kidney Damage Dixon/Griffiths McConnell/Jeong Li/Prieto CV Section Symp CV Section Symp 3:30–4:30 PM Neurodegeneration and Heart Survived a Complicated Cell Section Davson Lecture Failure: An Intimate Connection Pregnancy? Maternal, Dawson del Monte/Wold Postpartum, and Fetal Cerebrovascular Risks Warrington/Cipolla CEP Section FT EM Section FT Respiration Section FT Trainee session Sex Specific Differences in Sex and Gender in Respiratory Crossley Obesity Induced Hypertension Physiology Barnes/Primeaux Silveyra/Prakash
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Sunday, April 7, 2019, continued
Teach Section FT CV Section FT Sex/Gender Symp Innovative Techniques for Aging, Exercise, and Heart Sex and Metabolic Health: Teaching Health Sciences Failure: Common Connections Emerging Challenges and to Increase Retention and and New Targets Discoveries Mastery Learning Emter/Wrann Alexander/Rice Jones/ElSayed EB Symp Series Teaching Section Symp PanAm Symp Aquaporins – More than Water Using Writing to Teach Common Pathways of under the Bridge and Assess Undergraduate Angiotensin on Cardiovascular Mamenko/Ilatovskaya Physiology Students and Respiratory Responses Anderson Induced by High-Fat- Diet, Hypoxia, and Renal Hypertension Colombari/Del Rio
APS/ASPET President’s Symp EEP Section Symp EEP Section Symp Series on Microbiome The Role of Skeletal Muscle Nrf2 as a Promising Target Gut Microbiome and Damage in Adaptive Remodeling for Increasing Healthspan and Metabolic Disorders McCarthy/Murach Diminishing Aging-Related Sands/Morgan Chronic Diseases Hamilton 12:00-1:30 PM 3:30–4:30 PM Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen WEH Section Starling Lecture Distinguished Award Lecture Pollock Wagner 4:30–5:30 PM WEH Section Lecture New Investigator Award Hulstrom 5:15-5:40 PM APS Business Meeting 5:40–6:30 PM Physiology in Perspective: The Walter B. Cannon Award Lecture Aronson
Monday, April 8, 2019 7:00–8:00 AM 8:30–10:00 AM 1:30–3:00 PM 3:30–5:00 PM Professional Development Hour
Trainee Advisory 8:30–9:30 AM 1:30–2:30 PM 3:30–4:30 PM Committee Symp CV Section Berne Lecture NCAR Section Ludwig Lecture EM Section Berson Lecture Marketing Yourself for a Tian Barman Zierath Successful Career II Obi/Zarate Women in Physiology EEP Section FT 1:30–2:30 PM 3:30–4:30 PM Committee Symp EEP Impact Award FT: EEP Section Adolph Lecture CEP Section Krogh Lecture Career Planning: No Modulation of Systemic Bodine Supported by Novo Nordisk Scientist Left Behind and Tissue Metabolism via Fonden Nichols/Randive/Porta Differences in Activity and Williams Fitness Morris/Rector
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Monday, April 8, 2019, continued
Careers in Physiology 8:30–9:30 AM GIL Section FT 3:30–4:30 PM Committee Symp Teaching Section Bernard Gastrointestinal and Liver GIL Section Davenport Lecture The Hidden Job: Skills for Lecture Physiology and Disease LaRusso a Career in Physiology Supported by APS Strategic Zachos Becker/Trimby Partner ADInstruments Wenderoth
Cell Section FT CAC Symp Cell Section Symp Molecular Mechanisms APS Chapters: Why, How, What of New Frontier in Direct Effects of Cellular Signaling and Starting New Chapters of Lipids and Lipid Metabolic Transduction Hopper Defects on Membrane Proteins Blazer-Yost/Teal Jiang/Greenberg
WEH and ETG FT History Symp WEH Section FT Hot Topics in Water and Updating the History of Insulin: Environmental and Epigenetic Electrolyte Homeostasis and Novel Insights into Regulation of Contributions to Disease Origin Epithelial Transport Release, Delivery, and Functions Hyndman/Leachman Rieg/Beggs Molina/Souza-Smith
TPIG Symp EM Section Symp CV Section FT Type 2 Diabetes: A Metabolic Crosstalk between Metabolic Wiggers Award Featured Topic Karma Disorders and Mitochondrial Chien Carrillo Sepulveda/Chen Oxidative Stress Dikalov/Sack
CNS Section FT Renal Section FT Respiration Section Symp Effects of Diet on Emotion and Advances in Renal Physiology I ENaC and Fluid Transport across Motivated Behavior Ellison/Feng Airway Epithelia Silberman/Barson Althaus/Butterworth
EB Symp Series EB Symp Series 3:30–4:30 PM Oxidative Stress and Post- Brown Adipose Tissue – The Fat Renal Section Gottschalk Lecture translational Modification of that Makes you Thin Gomez Protein Thiols in Cell Signaling Symonds/Budge Helms/Downs
NCAR Section Symp CV Section FT 3:30–4:30 PM Neural Circulatory Mechanisms CV Section Young Investigator CNS Section Erlanger Lecture Linking Sleep Loss to Competition Bale Hypertension Faulkner/Dorrance Limberg/Somers
Respiration Section FT WEH Section FT EEP Section FT Mapping The Lung: Leveraging Therapeutic and Adverse Effects Mechanisms underlying Emerging Technologies To of Pharmacological Agents the Greater Propensity for Better Understand Pulmonary on Integrative Physiology and Cardiovascular Disease in Disease Pathophysiology Populations with Elevated Risk Beers/Bastarache Loria/Wolf Keller/Brothers
Muscle Biology Group FT CV Section Symp CV Section FT Hot Topics in Muscle Biology Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Cardiac and Peripheral Wang/Mitch Aneurysm: From Models and Vasculopathies: Emerging Mechanism to Clinical Trials and Biomarkers, Imaging and Therapy Updates Treatments Kassiri/Liu LeBlanc/Kaufman
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Monday, April 8, 2019, continued
Respiration Section FT 2019 Annual Marion J. Siegman Respiration Section FT Perinatal Reprogramming of Lectureship Award Emerging Therapeutics for Respiratory Control Respiratory Dysfunction Huxtable/Baker Turner/Falk
APS/ASPET President’s Symp CEPS Symp 5:40–6:30 PM Series on Microbiome From The Brainstem to the Heart: Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Gut Microbiota: A Chemical Cardio-Respiratory Control in Lecture Factory Ectothermic Vertebrates Pluznick Jeong/Pluznick Janes/Conner
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00–8:00 AM 8:30–10:00 AM 1:30–3:00 PM 3:30–5:00 PM Professional Development Hour
Trainee Advisory Muscle Biology Group Symp 1:00–2:00 PM EM Section Committee Symp Muscle-Derived Extracellular History Lecture Awardees Session Marketing Yourself for a Vesicles in the Regulation of Bassingthwaighte Romero/Sidossis Successful Career III Metabolic Health and Disease Obi/Zarate Lark Women in Physiology Physoc/APS Joint Symp 1:30–2:30 PM Physoc Symp Committee Symp Physiology of Obesity: From Respiration Section Comroe The Clinical and Metabolic Career Planning: No Mechanisms to Medicine Lecture Benefits of Exercise for People Scientist Left Behind Aldiss/Lewis Matalon with Type 1 Diabetes Nichols/Randive/Porta Wagenmakers
Careers in Physiology CV Section Symp GIL Section FT ETG Hebert Lecture Committee Symp Protein Degradation Control of cellular organelle McDonough/Kazi The Hidden Job: Skills for Mechanisms: A function, metabolism, and injury a Career in Physiology Compartmentalized Affair in in liver and intestinal diseases Becker/Trimby Cardiac Muscle and Disease? Li/Yang Sheik/Liang
Cell Section FT Cell Section Symp NCAR and CNS FT Ion Channels, Solute and Emerging Roles of the Hot Topics in Neuroscience Molecular Transporters In Cytoskeleton in Striated Muscle Banek/Wainford Heath and Disease Hawke/Perry Baines/Althaus
NCAR Section FT WEH Section FT Nutrition Group FT Autonomic Function in Normal Hormones and Receptors Hot Topics in Nutrition and Preeclamptic Pregnancies in Homeostatic Control of Thalacker-Mercer/Borsheim Stachenfeld Physiology and during Allostasis in Pathophysiology Grobe/Balapattabi
CV Section FT CNS Section FT WEH Section FT Cardiovascular Metabolism in New Advances in CNS Physiology Effect of Diet on Metabolism, Diabetes Wainford/Zarate Cardiovascular and Renal Hill/Harmancey Physiology and Pathophysiology Drummond/Pati
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019, continued
EEP Section FT NCAR Section FT CV Section FT Examining Physiological Regulation of Muscle Sympathetic Inflammation and Leukocyte Mechanisms Using Outflow during Exercise Biology in Cardiovascular Disease Environmental Stressors Floras/Millar Halade/de Castro Brás Johnson/Schlader
Renal Section FT EB Symp Series 5:30–6:30 PM Advances in Renal Physiology II Metabolism, Organ Crosstalk, Nobel Prize Award Lecture Layton/Sullivan Microbiome and Mechanisms Agre Sun
Respiration Section Symp Renal Section Symp Musculoskeletal Afferents and Mighty Concepts in Mitochondrial the Control of Breathing Biology in the Kidney Streeter/Fuller Mallipattu/Li
GIL Section FT CV Section Symp John Forte Plenary Session AJP-Heart Editors Symposium Frey Zucker/DeLeon Pennell
EB Symp Series EM Section FT Crosstalk among Myofibers, Noncoding RNAs: Emerging Microvessels and Motor Functions in Metabolism and Nerves during Skeletal Diseases Muscle Regeneration Huang/Zhang Segal Resp Section FT Hypoxia Group FT Inflammasome Activation in Hot Topics in Hypoxia Diseases of the Lung Nichols Waters/Yeligar
APS/ASPET President’s Symp CEP Section Symp Series on Microbiome Causes and Consequences of Microbiota in Action: The Gut Inter-individual Physiological and Beyond Variation McCabe/Cui Rees
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Undergraduate Opportunities at EB 2019
APS Undergraduate Orientation Session All undergraduate students are invited to attend.
Saturday, April 6 | 3–5 p.m. The Hyatt Regency Orlando, Plaza International Ballroom J/K
APS summer research fellow Maleeha Ahmad presents her research findings to an APS member at EB 2018 in San Diego
The APS David Bruce Undergraduate Poster Session is a special poster session held during EB for physiology undergraduates. This session is held in addition to the regularly programmed scientific Undergraduate students networking at the undergraduate orientation at EB 2018 in San Diego session in which all researchers participate.
Network with other undergraduate researchers; hear Over 125 undergraduate students will be presenting great suggestions on how to get the most out of EB; their research on a wide range of topics. Don’t and meet members from the Careers, Education and miss this opportunity to support undergraduate Trainee Advisory committees. students and encourage them to pursue a career in biomedical research. For more information, go to the-aps.org/ugorient or contact Allison Hood, program manager, higher Program education programs ([email protected]). 2:00 p.m. Check in and hang posters Meet with graduate APS David Bruce Undergraduate departments/programs Poster Session 2:30–3:30 p.m. on site Snacks and refreshments All APS members are invited to attend. Students provided interested in presenting at this event must sign up Poster presentations - in advance (visit URL below). Meet APS members and 3:30–4:30 p.m. answer questions about your research Sunday, April 7 | 3:30*–5 p.m. Horwitz/Horowitz Orange County Convention Center, Valencia Ballroom D 4:30–5:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony 5:00 p.m. Remove posters *Undergrad students must arrive by 2:00 p.m. to check in and hang their poster. They will have a chance to meet For more information, go to the-aps.org/ugposter or with various graduate departments and programs on site. contact Allison Hood, program manager, higher education programs ([email protected]). ●
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Career and Professional Development Talks at the APS Annual Meeting at EB
All EB attendees are invited to join us for the APS career and professional development talks on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday mornings from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. in the Orange County Convention Center. Coffee and pastries will be provided for symposia attendees. Visit the websites or the APS EB meeting website for additional information. We hope to see you there!
Symposium Title Sunday, April 7 Monday, April 8 Tuesday, April 9 7:00–8:00 a.m. 7:00–8:00 a.m. 7:00–8:00 a.m.
Marketing How to Build Career Development Capitalizing on Social Yourself for Marketable Skills Opportunities Outside Networks to Build a a Successful the Academia - And Successful Career Career How to Get There
the-aps.org/ marketing-yourself
Room W311B Sponsored by the Trainee Advisory Merry Lindsey Niclas Lindqvist Melissa Bates Committee University of Nebraska Svensk Medicin AB University of Iowa Medical Center Organizers: Ijeoma Obi and Miguel Zarate
Career Planning: Juggling a Career and Building Bridges for a Knowing When to Say No Scientist Left Parenthood: A Scientist’s Sustainable Career Path Yes, Knowing When to Behind Perspective and Workforce Diversity Say No: Strategies for Success the-aps.org/ No-Scientist-Left-Behind
Room W311C Sponsored by the Women in Physiology Committee Jacqueline Limberg Irving Vega Nancy Fjortoft Organizers: Nicole University of Missouri Michigan State University Midwestern University Nichols, Sushant Ranadive, and Maura Porta
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Symposium Title Sunday, April 7 Monday, April 8 Tuesday, April 9 7:00–8:00 a.m. 7:00–8:00 a.m. 7:00–8:00 a.m.
The Hidden Job: Tools for Transitions Mentoring, Management The Elusive Informal Aspects of a and Team Science Skills: Things I Wish I Physiology Had Known Earlier Career You May Not Be Aware of the-aps.org/the-hidden-job
Room W311D David Brooks Jennifer Pollock Sponsored by the Alberto Roca Janssen Pharmaceuticals University of Alabama Diverse Scholar Career Opportunities in at Birmingham Physiology Committee Organizers: Bryan Becker and Chris Trimby
Kathy Ryan Stanley Andrisse Adam Case U.S. Army Johns Hopkins University University of Nebraska Medical Center
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Join APS for a new session at EB 2019 Why, How, What of Starting New Chapters Monday, April 8 from 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. Room W311A, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL • apsebmeeting.org
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Don’t Miss the Refresher Course at the APS Annual Meeting at EB
Please join us Saturday, April 6 at 8:00 a.m. for this year’s Refresher Course “Beyond the Weight Room: The Importance of Skeletal Muscle in Health and Disease.” The goal of the annual APS Refresher Course is to provide instructors of medical physiology courses with updates to their lecture content and to provide materials for non-specialists who have teaching responsibilities in specific content areas. At EB 2019, the Refresher Course will review updates in teaching skeletal muscle physiology.
Four lectures will be presented covering a broad range of topics to review current topics covered in medical physiology and to highlight new areas of interest, including the role of skeletal muscle beyond strength and how it is related to overall health and disease.
Beyond the Weight Room: The Importance of Skeletal Muscle in Health and Disease Saturday, April 6 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Orange County Convention Center, Room W314 the-aps.org/refresher-skeletalmuscle Sponsored by the Education Committee Organizers: Edward Merritt and John Durocher
Teaching the Skeletal Muscle Active Learning Age-Related Etiology of Metabolism in the of Skeletal Muscle Changes in Skeletal Metabolic ICU Physiology Using Muscle: Differences Disease From a Physical Models, Between Females Mitochondrial Laboratory and Males Bioenergetics Experiments, Perspective Current Events, and Historical Lessons
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Steve Elmer Craig Porter Anna Thalacker-Mercer Darrell Neufer Michigan Technological Shriners Hospital for Cornell University East Carolina University Children University
Supported by APS Strategic Partner ADInstruments.
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APS Launches Taskforce on Sexual Harassment
In 2018, the National Academies of Science, Engineering Members and Medicine (NASEM) issued a milestone report, Sexual • Katherine Blackmore, George Washington Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This report found that sexual harassment in many forms • Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, University of Florida is widespread in academic science and that it takes a • Timothy Musch, Kansas State University significant toll on the careers of women. It also found that people of color and LGBTQ individuals experience higher • Matthew Pamenter, University of Ottawa rates of harassment and workplace discrimination. • Jennifer Pluznick, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine At its fall 2018 meeting, the APS Council approved • Maura Porta, Midwestern University the creation of a Taskforce on Sexual Harassment to recommend actions APS can take to address sexual • Alicia Schiller, University of Nebraska Medical harassment and to ensure that our culture is one where Center everyone is treated equally and with dignity and respect. Taskforce members include a representative of the Council • Annabell Segarra, University of Puerto Rico School and two members of each of the following committees: of Medicine
• Gary Sieck, Mayo Clinic • Porter Physiology Development and Minority Affairs • Ashley Stewart, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine • Science Policy • Annelyn Torres-Reveron, University of Texas at Rio • Trainee Advisory Grande Valley Medical School • Women in Physiology • Christopher Wilson, Loma Linda University This fall, a call went out to the membership at-large to • Lila Wolman, University of Florida volunteer to either serve on the taskforce or provide input on its activities. The response was robust: More than 60 Over the next several months, the Taskforce will develop APS members expressed interest in working on this effort. recommendations for Council about shaping future APS Members of the taskforce were selected to ensure broad policies with respect to membership, conferences and participation in terms of diverse backgrounds, career awards. It will also suggest ways to improve diversity and levels, section representation, and geographic area. We are inclusion, support civility and combat bullying within pleased to announce the taskforce membership: a scientific context. Taskforce members are expected to report their recommendations to Council later this year. Co-Chairs • TanYa Gwathmey-Williams, Wake Forest University Brooke Bruthers, director of education and member School of Medicine communities, and Rebecca Osthus, associate director for government relations and science policy, are the APS • Victor Convertino, U.S. Army Institute of Surgical staff liaisons to the Taskforce. If you would like more Research information, please contact Rebecca Osthus at rosthus@ the-aps.org or Brooke Bruthers at [email protected]. ●
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EB Symposium: Sexual Harassment in the Sciences
Join us on Saturday, April 6 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. of sexual harassment in the sciences, and explore ways in the Orange County Convention Center (Room that professional societies can play a role in protecting all W309AB) in Orlando, Fla., for a discussion of the role members and creating an environment where the risk of of professional societies in addressing and preventing harassment is minimized. sexual harassment in the sciences. Gilda Barabino will review the major findings of the The 2018 report on the sexual harassment of women in the NASEM report; Billy Williams will address the role of sciences issued by the National Academies of Sciences, professional societies; and BethAnn McLaughlin will Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) focused attention on share her efforts to raise awareness about the impact of an issue that has long plagued the scientific community. sexual harassment on women in the sciences. There will This symposium will review the primary findings of the be time for audience members to ask questions and share landmark report, help participants understand the impact their thoughts and ideas with the panel. ●
APS Satellite Symposium after EB to Honor Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Jorgen Frokiaer and Jeff Sands (Symposium Organizers)
We are excited to announce and invite you to the Bodil The event kicks off with a plenary lecture by Nobel Schmidt-Nielsen Honorary 100 Year Symposium. Laureate Peter Agre—the 2019 APS Nobel Lecturer—and features three sessions: Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen, PhD, was the first female APS president and would have turned 100 on November 3, • Structural basis for the urinary concentrating 2018. In addition to her reputation as an eminent renal mechanism and comparative physiologist, Schmidt-Nielsen was a wonderful person and scientific pioneer. The day-long • Novel aspects of aquaporin regulation; and session will feature a program that is close to some of the • Novel aspects of urine concentration. central scientific areas of her work during her long-lasting scientific career. A detailed program will be available at a later date. We hope you will plan to attend, learn more about the The symposium—made possible by a generous grant from research being presented and honor the science and legacy the Novo Nordisk Foundation—will be held at the Hyatt of this trailblazing physiologist. Sign up at http://evite. Regency Orlando on April 10, 2019, the day after the EB me/65KUqCqHqN. ● meeting in Orlando, Fla. It’s free to register and to attend. Free lunch and coffee breaks will also be provided.
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You’re Invited to Attend the 2019 APS/ASN Renal Conference in Charlottsville Edward Inscho, PhD, and Pablo Ortiz, PhD (Conference Organizers)
It’s our pleasure to announce and invite you to the • developmental programming of kidney disease; upcoming APS/ASN “Control of Renal Function in Health and Disease” conference (http://ow.ly/qgMF30ngArE). • genetics, epigenetics and the kidney; The conference—formerly the FASEB summer research • immunology and the kidney; and conference on renal hemodynamics—has been held every three years since 1989. The 2019 conference will be the first • circadian biology of kidney function. time it will be jointly sponsored by APS and the American Society of Nephrology. We will also cover recent advances in traditional areas of renal hemodynamics, acute kidney injury, chronic kidney The conference will be held June 23–27, 2019, at the disease and podocytes, hypertension, and autocoids and Boars Head Resort (https://www.boarsheadresort.com) in the kidney. We have an exciting program that will attract Charlottesville, Va. (abstract deadline: March 29). investigators from around the world. You can view the preliminary program we’ve developed—including the slate of leading scientists scheduled to present at the Our goal is to continue building on the success of meeting—on the APS website (http://ow.ly/8Irz30ngAwU). this conference series by expanding the clinical and translational component of the meeting. This will allow us to bring together basic and clinical investigators to discuss If your research is in these areas, we hope you will consider new ideas about renal and cardiovascular function as they submitting an abstract by March 29 and attending the ● relate to the mechanisms of kidney injury. meeting. We look forward to seeing you there!
We have assembled a group of international expert investigators in renal and cardiovascular research to organize the conference and serve on the program Deadlines committee. Additionally, 37 scientists from institutions Abstract Submission: March 29, 2019 worldwide have committed to present at the conference, APS Abstract Travel Award: March 29, 2019 and we will be selecting approximately 32 short talks to be presented by meeting participants. APS Minority-based Travel Award: March 29, 2019 Advanced Registration: May 23, 2019 To continue the conference’s tradition of excellence and Hotel Reservations: May 23, 2019 cutting-edge research presentations, we’ve added new Cancellation Deadline: May 31, 2019 topics to the program, including: For more information, visit www.the-aps.org/renal. • obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome;
• sex steroids and the kidney;
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Apply for Martin Frank Diversity Travel Awards to Attend the 2019 Renal Conference
APS will be offering Martin Frank Diversity Travel This program is designed to broaden participation of Awards, which provide up to $1,800 in travel expense those pursuing professional careers in physiological/ reimbursement, for the upcoming 2019 APS Conference: biomedical sciences. Specifically, the program provides travel fellowships to underrepresented graduate students, Control of Renal Function in Health and Disease (Formerly postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty members the Renal Hemodynamics Summer Research Conference) (within five years of obtaining a PhD).
Co-Sponsored by the American Society of Nephrology For more information about the Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award program, visit the-aps.org/MFDT or contact June 23–27, 2019 in Charlottesville, Va. Kayla Palmer, project assistant, diversity and higher education programs, at [email protected].
APS Travel Fellows at EB 2018 in San Diego
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Upcoming APS Meetings and Conferences
2019 2020
April 6–9 April 4–7 Experimental Biology, Orlando, Fla. Information: Experimental Biology, San Diego. Website: http://apsebmeeting.org/eb2019/ June June 23–29 11th International Conference on Heme Oxygenase APS/ASN Conference: Control of Renal Function in & Related Enzymes: From Physiology to Therapeutics Health and Disease, Charlottesville, Va. Information: Website: http://www.the-aps.org/renal
September 11–14 APS Interface of Mathematical Models and For a list of upcoming meetings from related Experimental Physiology: Organ Function from organizations, see the APS website: the Microvascular Perspective, Scottsdale, Ariz. www.the-aps.org/mm/Conferences/Related-Meetings. Information: Website: http://www.the-aps.org/mathmodels
October 2–6 9th Annual International Conference of Aldosterone and ENaC in Health and Disease: The Kidney and Beyond, Estes Park, Colo.
APS/ASN Conference: Control of Renal Function in Health and Disease Formerly the Renal Hemodynamics Summer Research Conference Charlottesville, Virginia • June 23–27, 2019 Keynote Address “New Frontiers in Kidney Research: Overview of the Field” Donald Kohan, MD University of Utah
Abstract Submission and Travel Award Deadline March 29, 2019
Advanced Registration Deadline May 23, 2019 the-aps.org/renal
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Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology 2018 Leadership Retreat Highlights
Lessons in Stress Adaptation and Resilience.” Aviad Haramati (Georgetown University) presented his research on medical student stress and efforts to bring wellness into the curriculum by recruiting educators to help students manage their own stress; the talk was titled “Managing Stress, Building Resilience in the Curriculum and in the Culture: The Unique Opportunity for Physiologists.” He also held a workshop called “An Experiential Introduction to Mind-Body Medicine” for interested attendees to learn about methods for better stress management that can be shared with students, faculty and others in their departments.
ACDP President Janice H. Urban (right) presents Frank W. Booth (left) ACDP continues to be concerned with undergraduate with the 2018 ACDP Arthur Guyton Lectureship Award. physiology education. An update of a pre-meeting workshop was given by the Working Group on The Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology Undergraduate Education led by T. Richard Nichols (ACDP) held its annual Leadership Retreat at Grand (Georgia Institute of Technology) and included Dixon Fiesta Americana in Cancún, Mexico, November 29 to Woodbury (University of Utah), Christopher Hardin December 2, 2018. (University of Missouri), Nicholas Delamere (University
President Janice H. Urban (Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science/Chicago Medical School) developed a program focused on stress, its physiological background and consequences and how to combat it. This focus was prompted by recent findings on the high levels of stress being experienced by chairs, faculty, and both medical and graduate students.
Research talks included the 12th annual Arthur C. Guyton Lectureship given by Frank W. Booth (University of Missouri), “Maximal Aerobic Training: An Ultimate Integration of Genes and Systems While Maintaining ACDP Council. (Back, left to right): Charles Wood, Dale Buck Hales, Homeostatic Harmony.” V. Gustavo Blanco, Elsa Mangiarua, Edward Morrison, C. Lee Cox. (Front, left to right): Toni Pak, Marlene Wilson, Janice Urban, Patricia Molina, Gaylen Edwards. Not pictured: Walter Boron, Nick Delamere, The 2018 ACDP Distinguished Service Award was Christopher Hardin, Santiago Schnell. presented to Celia D. Sladek (University of Colorado School of Medicine) who gave the talk “Physiology: A of Arizona), and Patricia Nichols (Emory University). Career of Lifetime Learning,” highlighting her career as Also present was Jeffrey Osborn (University of Kentucky), a physiologist (see “Sladek Honored at Annual ACDP chair of the APS Education Committee. The group’s Meeting” on p. 86). consensus was that the working group continue to hone the ACDP list of core principles that should be included in The new chair research presentation by James Herman any undergraduate physiology major’s coursework. Erica (University of Cincinnati) was “On Becoming ‘Furniture’: Wehrwein (Michigan State University) and Jennifer Rogers
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of APS, Scott Steen. Steen presented “The Path Forward: A New Vision for the Future of APS.” ACDP members were very pleased at his attendance and gave enthusiastic feedback on his plans for the Society.
Officer elections were held with the following results: Dale “Buck” Hales, PhD (Southern Illinois University School of Med.), was elected president-elect, C. Lee Cox, PhD (Michigan State University), and Toni R. Pak, PhD (Loyola University Chicago), were elected to three-year terms as councilors, Nicholas A. Delamere, PhD (University of Michigan), was reelected to a three-year term as CFAS representative, and Santiago Schnell (University of Michigan) was elected to a two-year term as CFAS representative to fill the remainder of a term.
Charles E. Wood, PhD (University of Florida College of Medicine) was thanked for his service as past president. Edward E. Morrison, PhD (Auburn University), and ACDP incoming President Patricia Molina (left) thanks outgoing Marlene A. Wilson (University of South Carolina School President Janice Urban (right) for her leadership over the past year of Medicine) were thanked for their service as councilors.
(University of Iowa) attended on behalf of the Physiology President-elect Patricia E. Molina, MD, PhD (Louisiana Majors Interest Group, which is planning its third annual State University Health Science Center, New Orleans), meeting in 2019. They updated members on the efforts of announced the 2019 ACDP Leadership Retreat will be the group over the past year. ACDP will again be supporting held December 5–8 at Hotel Casa Santo Domingo in the meeting in 2019 as it has since the meeting began. The Antigua, Guatemala. As details are available, they will presentations from these groups are available at acdponline. be added to the 2019 meeting webpage at acdponline.org/ org/Home/Meetings/2018-Leadership-Retreat. Home/Meetings/2019-Leadership-Retreat.
Other presentations included one by LouAnn Woodward The Leadership Retreat is open to chairs of departments titled “Medical School Accreditation: One Dean’s of physiology or related areas, graduate directors in Perspective.” She is the vice chancellor for health affairs physiology or related areas, medical/osteopathic/ and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of veterinary physiology course directors and undergraduate Mississippi Medical Center and served as the former program directors. The meeting will build on this year’s chair of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of topics and will continue to focus on leadership issues and the American Associate of Medical Colleges. Also of high other areas of broad interest to those audiences. ● interest was the presentation from new executive director
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Sladek Honored at Annual ACDP Meeting
one year, teaching physiology to undergraduate students. Then, due to her love of research, she accepted a research associate position in neurology and in neurobiology and anatomy at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. In collaboration with Robert Joynt, MD, PhD, her research focused on the neurohypophyseal hormones, vasopressin and oxytocin. On obtaining her first National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant and a Research Career Development Award, she was promoted to assistant professor in neurology, and rose through the ranks to full professor. Sladek was the first tenured PhD in a clinical department at Rochester.
In 1991, Sladek returned to Chicago as a tenured professor in the department of physiology and biophysics at the Chicago Medical School. There, Physiology Chair Richard Hawkins, PhD, was involved in developing the APS sections and chaired the CNS Section. Although Sladek was already a member of APS, Hawkins was instrumental ACDP President Janice H. Urban (right) presents Celia D. Sladek (left) with the Distinguished Service Award in getting her involved in the Society. She joined the CNS section and served on the steering committee as The highest award given by the Association of Chairs of secretary-treasurer and chair. This led her to chairing Departments of Physiology (ACDP), the Distinguished the Section Advisory Committee and serving on the Service Award, was awarded to Celia D. Sladek, PhD, APS Nominating and Women’s committees, which she emerita professor of physiology at University of Colorado eventually chaired, as well as the FASEB Excellence in School of Medicine. Janice H. Urban (Rosalind Franklin Science Committee. In 1996, she was elected to the APS University of Medicine & Science/Chicago Medical Council and chaired the Committee on Committees. School), president of ACDP, presented the award during She organized the APS Conference “Neurohypophyseal the organization’s 2018 Leadership Retreat at Grand Hormones: From Genomics and Physiology to Disease,” Fiesta Americana Coral Beach in Cancun, Mexico, from in Steamboat Springs, Colo., in 2005. She served on the November 29 to December 2, 2018. editorial board and as an associate editor of American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory and Integrative Physiology. Sladek was selected to receive the ACDP Distinguished Recently, she obtained an APS International Opportunity Service Award for leadership in the discipline of Award to support attendance of student and junior physiology, educating the next generation of physiologists, researchers at the World Congress on Neurohypophyseal outstanding research, and service to national and Hormones in Rio de Janeiro. Sladek served as chair of international organizations. physiology and biophysics at the Chicago Medical School from 2000 to 2002, was a member of the first class of APS She began her career in the physiology department Fellows in 2015 and has received many other honors and at Northwestern University Medical School. After awards, including the Erlanger Distinguished Lectureship completing MS and PhD degrees, she went directly into an and James O. Davis Distinguished Lectureship. She is a assistant professor position in the physiology department member of Alpha Omega Alpha. Sladek moved to the at the University of Illinois, College of Medicine in Chicago. University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2002 in part She moved to western New York in 1973 as assistant to return to her home town of Denver and her beloved professor in biological sciences at SUNY Brockport, for Rocky Mountains.
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Sladek was continually funded by NIH from 1976 to 2013, During her career, she had the pleasure of watching the published 125 peer-reviewed journal articles and 35 reviews understanding of the roles of vasopressin and oxytocin or book chapters, presented over 110 invited lectures, and expand from important hormones regulating renal, mentored 17 PhD students and postdoctoral or clinical cardiovascular, uterine, and mammary function to fellows. She served on research review committees for neuropeptides influencing maternal/paternal behavior, NIH (NINDS, NIMH, NHLB, NIA, and NIAMD), National memory, emotion, appetite, and much more. Science Foundation, and American Heart Association, and as an editor for Brain Research Bulletin, Experimental Because of her scientific endeavors and mentorship, Neurology, and Journal of Neuroendocrinology. her dedicated service to the field of physiology, and her distinguished service to APS and other societies, the ACDP was proud to present Sladek with its 2018 Distinguished Service Award. ●
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Obituary: Professor Timothy Evans (1954–2018) Peter J. Barnes, FRS, FMedSci National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London
Tim Evans (MD, PhD, DSc, influential, and he received widespread international FRCP, FRCA, FMedSci), recognition. He played a major role in the development an international leader in of critical care as an independent specialty in the United respiratory critical care, Kingdom and in the founding of the Faculty of Intensive died on November 9, Care Medicine, of which he was the vice-dean. He trained 2018, at age 64. He will many in critical care who have gone on to leadership be greatly missed for his positions nationally and internationally, and all recognize outstanding and sustained his major influence on their careers. He was in great contributions to research demand as a lecturer at international meetings and was and clinical medicine. a key member of the international research community in Tim Evans critical care and respiratory medicine. Evans received his medical training at the University of Manchester in England, qualifying in 1982, and went on In addition to his research and clinical commitments, he had to do a PhD at the University of Sheffield. After clinical several administrative roles, becoming medical director of training at London, he was a visiting fellow at the the Brompton in 2006, then deputy chief executive officer Cardiovascular Research Institute in San Francisco in in 2008. He also served as academic vice-president of the 1984/85. After returning to London, he worked in my Royal College of Physicians (2009–2012), where he led department on several projects, including studies of plasma the Future Hospital Commission, described in the Lancet extravasation from airway blood vessels and pulmonary (2013) as “the most important statement about the future vascular function, resulting in over 30 publications. In of British medicine for a generation.” He was a trustee of 1987, he was appointed consultant in intensive care and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and the Nuffield thoracic medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Trust, and an honorary consultant in intensive care to the London and, in recognition of his major contributions Army, and became the founding editor of Future Hospital to critical care medicine, was appointed professor of Journal, among many other roles. intensive care medicine at Imperial College in 1996. He ran a large and productive research group focusing on Over his career, Evans received many honors and translational research in critical care medicine, with an prizes, including fellowships of the Academy of Medical emphasis on acute lung injury, sepsis, acute respiratory Science, Royal College of Physicians, and Royal College distress syndrome (ARDS), and pulmonary vascular of Anaesthetists. He published over 300 papers in peer- disease. He also ran the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit reviewed journals. at the Brompton, which became a magnet for trainees in critical care. It became a national referral center under He was enthusiastic and inspirational in everything his guidance and the largest extracorporeal membrane he did, and it was difficult to understand how he could oxygenation center in the United Kingdom. In 2015, achieve so many things. He was universally liked and he took a government post as the National Director for respected by his colleagues, had extraordinary clinical Clinical Productivity at the Department of Health and the skills, and was loved by his patients. He was passionate National Health System (NHS). about improving healthcare across the NHS and beyond. He was always optimistic, often irreverent, and very His contributions to academic critical care were enormous. funny. He was unique and will be greatly missed by his His research into acute lung injury and ARDS was very family, many friends, colleagues, and patients. ●
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This fall, students at the Indiana University School GI tract. The students and participants were amazed. of Medicine-Evansville (IUSM-E) created a program A hands-on experience included having groups of in which medical students travel to surrounding students place bread in a bag with Coke and watch elementary schools to teach basic medicine-related what happens. Participants were quick to observe that topics. The goals of this program are to build community the bread was “barely melting.” To illustrate the action relationships between IUSM-E and community schools, of stomach muscles in mechanical digestion, students and to educate students about their health education were then instructed to squish the bread in the bag and and future quality of life. During PhUn Week, note further changes. Finally, medical students assisted medical students collaborated with the University the participants in using stethoscopes to listen to bowel of Evansville Physician’s Assistant program to create sounds and discussed the general physiology creating an interprofessional experience in which they taught the sounds. Participants loved using the stethoscopes elementary students about the gastrointestinal (GI) and, through participation in this outreach activity, will system. Models were used to introduce basic anatomy. hopefully aspire to having their own stethoscope in the A string was then used to demonstrate the length of the future! ●
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Introducing New Editor-in-Chief of Comprehensive Physiology Y. S. Prakash
I am humbled to have found Dr. Sieck quite intimidating! (Hopefully and ironically, been selected as the now that I am his chair, the situation is a bit different?) I was next editor-in-chief of quite interested in neurophysiology, and Gary with his lab Comprehensive Physiology members Cesar Blanco (still at USC), Mario Fournier (now at (CPHYS). I recognize the Cedars), and Wen-Zhi Zhan (now at Mayo) convinced me to incredible effort it takes take a deep dive into diaphragm neuromotor control. So away to make a journal great I went on my first project on maternal undernutrition on the and keep it so. And so postnatal diaphragm (or so I thought). Within three months, my sincere and heartfelt Gary asked if I wanted to move to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, thanks to Ron Terjung, Minn. Never having seen snow in my life, one would think the founding editor, and my answer would be (expletive) no! But H. K. Chang came Y. S. Prakash David Pollock, the current to my rescue and convinced me of the opportunities of a editor, for placing me clinical/translational environment such as Mayo. And so, in the fortunate situation of inheriting a highly recognized with a terminal master’s in BME, I headed Minnesota-ward journal from a position of strength. And thank you to APS for for what has become the longest stay of my life thus far. having created the Handbook of Physiology, CPHYS’s previous and long-recognized avatar that kept me in good stead during At Mayo, I became a graduate student in the Department of graduate and medical training. It has indeed been a pleasure Physiology and Biophysics (interestingly the department that to serve on the CPHYS Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) for the I now chair). With a new environment came opportunities for past two years under David, and I look forward to continuing my PhD project on phrenic motoneuron and neuromuscular to work with him, the EAB, and APS to expand the reach junction (NMJ) plasticity in development. Along with and broaden the appeal of CPHYS as a leading journal for physiological measurements, I delved into the emerging field publishing authoritative reviews and updates in physiology of fluorescence confocal microscopy, imaging retrogradely for both learners and the learned. labeled phrenic motoneurons. With a comprehensive image analysis and display package called ANALYZE To the many who ask, “Who on earth is this guy?” the simple developed at Mayo, I worked with what were then quite answer is Prakash is someone who could never make up his large and cumbersome 3D image data sets to assess neuronal mind about who he wanted to be but ended up doing what architecture. Confocal microscopy also helped me explore he really wanted to do. I was born and raised in India where changes in NMJ architecture with development and injury. I completed undergraduate training in electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. During four Although industry felt appealing post-PhD, a simple joking years of grueling training, I saw myself drawn to biomedical comment from my co-advisor Ken Smithson was insightful as engineering as a future, given the appeal of bridging to who I really was: a lab rat! Ignoring the wisdom of moving engineering and medicine, fields that I loved equally. My elsewhere post-PhD, I continued at Mayo in the Department of initial interests were in rehabilitation engineering based on an Anesthesiology. During this time, I was introduced to airway undergraduate project on communication devices for children biology, thanks to collaborations between Gary, Jeff Fredberg with cerebral palsy and amputations. (Harvard), and anesthesiology colleagues Kai Rehder, David Warner, and Tony Jones. It was thus a timely and fortuitous I was fortunate to be granted a graduate fellowship in BME arrival of Mathur Kannan from the University of Minnesota at University of Southern California (USC). There, it was my for a sabbatical to explore mechanisms of calcium regulation chair, H. K. Chang, who got me excited about physiology in airway smooth muscle. With my imaging experience, it research, something I frankly knew little about given my was not long before Kannan and I were spending evenings engineering background. Looking for a PhD thesis project in and nights doing high-speed real-time confocal imaging of physiology is how I got to meet Gary Sieck. As many in the APS calcium sparks and oscillations in airway cells, establishing who know Gary can imagine, a relatively shy Indian engineer the importance of influx/efflux versus sarcoplasmic reticulum
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pathways, and how they are affected by bronchoconstrictors in pulmonary medicine (American Thoracic Society), and versus relaxants such as beta-agonists, nitric oxide, or anesthesiology (Association of University Anesthesiologists, anesthetics. What I lost in sleep, I gained in crystallizing my Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research and now longstanding interests in the airway and meeting my American Society of Anesthesiologists). I am the current chair wife along the way when she joined us in these experiments of the NIH Lung Cellular and Molecular Immunology Study as a German clinician/research fellow “down the hall.” Section. For even more fun, my wife and I like to travel when we can bear to separate ourselves from the many cats that rule It was obviously not enough to have shifted from neuromotor our household, and I can indulge in my hobby of photography control to the airways. Deciding to complicate things (but as (yes, I do have a drone!). much to develop my own niche), I wrote my first R01 grant on mechanisms by which gas anesthetics reduce calcium and As a physiologist and clinician (particularly an anesthesiologist), contractility of the neonatal heart. But the same environment it is natural for me to state unabashedly that physiology is of anesthesiologists and physiologists at Mayo also medicine! CPHYS is in a position of strength thanks to its reenergized my interests in medical school. As luck would association with APS and importantly you: the large APS have it, I gained entrance into the University of Minnesota membership that includes many (if not all) leaders in just about medical school and got my R01 funded. The National every aspect of physiology. Your continued contributions, and Institutes of Health (NIH) was willing to let me keep my R01 the introduction of your current and former trainees to CPHYS, while attending medical school 100 miles away, leading to will greatly help maintain the pipeline of engagement (today’s interesting professional and personal times! I came back to trainee will be tomorrow’s authority). In that spirit, as editor, I Mayo to be a full-time anesthesiology resident but gave up look forward to working with all of you to help me realize an my R01 to focus on clinical training. overall vision of consolidating and enhancing the reputation of CPHYS as the publication hub and resource for interdisciplinary By the time I was done with residency, my interests in the physiology across the translational spectrum: from fundamental lung were much more consolidated, particularly mechanisms discoveries that inform patient care to integrative clinical of asthma involving airway smooth muscle. Harking back to medicine that informs future discoveries. Thank you. ● my graduate school interests on trophic factors, I delved into the idea that neurotrophins such as NGF and BDNF modulate airway contractility and remodeling, and that mesenchymal Y. S. Prakash Biography cells are both sources and targets—concepts that became longstanding grants focused on inflammation and asthma in Dr. Y. S. Prakash is Professor of Anesthesiology adults, and neonatal airway reactivity and fibrosis following and Physiology, and Chair of the Department of perinatal insults such as oxygen and CPAP (the latter a Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at Mayo longstanding collaboration with Richard Martin at Case). Over Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Prakash is a clinician- the past 15 years, we have focused on several themes (largely scientist with training in engineering, physiology, in airway smooth muscle) including sex steroids, unexpected and anesthesiology. He leads a longstanding mechanisms such as the calcium-sensing receptor or nicotinic research program focused on lung diseases across receptors, and the roles of aging and senescence in lung the age spectrum, from airway reactivity and disease. Such projects have helped me mentor trainees and fibrosis in prematurity to lung diseases in aging. develop collaborations in diverse fields including physiology, He is active in multiple communities: physiology engineering, anesthesiology, pulmonary medicine, ob/gyn, (associate editor of American Journal of Physiology— pediatrics, neonatology, and surgery. I also helped lead a T32 Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology), pulmonary on lung physiology and BME. medicine (American Thoracic Society), and anesthesiology. He currently chairs the NIH Lung Extramurally, I am active in multiple communities, including Cellular and Molecular Immunology Study Section. APS, serving as past Respiration Program Committee chair; Prakash is married to Christina Pabelick, a pediatric associate editor of American Journal of Physiology—Lung anesthesiologist and clinician-scientist. Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and a past editorial board member of the Journal of Applied Physiology. I am also involved
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Current Calls for Papers
Physiological Genomics AJP—Cell Physiology AJP—Regulatory, Integrative and • Physiology of • Cell Physiology of Germ Cells Comparative Physiology Cell State Transitions NEW deadline: June 30, 2019 • Cardiovascular and Neural Deadline: June 30, 2019 • Channels and Transporters in Adjustments to Exercise in • Big Data Integration to Cell Signaling Chronic Disease States Understand Complex Disease NEW deadline: June 30, 2019 Deadline: April 1, 2019 Deadline: December 31, 2019 • Metabolism, Oxidative Stress • Mechanisms Underlying Greater • The Microbiome and and Cell Signaling Propensity for Cardiovascular Metabolic Health Deadline: June 30, 2019 Disease in High Risk Deadline: December 31, 2019 Populations • Roles of the Cytoskeleton Deadline: June 1, 2019 Journal of Neurophysiology in Striated Muscle • 50 Years of Modeling Neural Deadline: June 30, 2019 Activity: Celebrating Jack AJP—Renal Physiology Cowan’s Career AJP—Gastrointestinal and • Epigenetics and MicroRNAs Deadline: June 30, 2019 Liver Physiology in Kidney Physiology and • International Pathophysiology • The Gut Microbiome: Deadline: June 30, 2019 Motoneuron Society A Virtual Organ Deadline: June 30, 2019 Deadline: April 30, 2019 • Circadian Rhythms or Time-of- • Modularity and Day Effects in Renal Physiology, • Brain-Gut Interactions the Urinary System, Blood Compositionality in • Deadline: April 30, 2019 Motor Control: Acknowledging Pressure or Volume and Emilio Bizzi • Translational Human Physiology Electrolyte Regulation Submission deadline: June 30, 2019 and Pathophysiology Deadline: June 30, 2019 Deadline: April 30, 2019 • Auditory and • Sex and Gender in Vestibular Efferents • The Physiology of Renal Health and Function Deadline: December 31, 2019 Immune Therapies and NEW deadline: June 30, 2019 Their Application in Treating • Modulation of Dynamic • Inflammatory Mediators in Gastrointestinal Cancers Kidney/Bladder Diseases, Neural Networks: From Sensory Deadline: April 30, 2019 Inputs to Motor Outputs and in Hypertension Deadline: December 31, 2019 NEW deadline: June 30, 2019 AJP—Lung Cellular and • Mechanism and Treatment • Society for the Neural Molecular Physiology Control of Movement of Renal Fibrosis Deadline: December 31, 2019 • Electronic Cigarettes: NEW deadline: June 30, 2019 Not All Good News? • Renal Hemodynamics NEW deadline: December 31, 2019 Deadline: December 31, 2019 Advances in Physiology Education • K–12 Outreach For a complete list of current Calls • Curricular Integration for Papers, visit the APS website: of Physiology https://www.physiology.org/calls. ●
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Katalin Modis Yuh-Fen Pung* Stacey A Skoretz* Univ. of Texas Med. Branch, Galveston, TX Univ. of Nottingham, Semenyih, Selangor Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Sumit Ranjan Monu* Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Canada Henry Ford Hlth. System, Detroit, MI Lu Qin John G. Sled Naima Moustaid-Moussa Univ. of Nebraska Med. Ctr., Omaha, NE Hosp For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX Sadiqa K. Quadri Canada Juan M. Murias Columbia Univ., New York, NY Carl Smoot* Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Dinah L. Ramos-Ortolaza Michigan Tech. Univ., Kingsford, MI Timothy Vincent Murphy Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Puerto Rico, Chang Song* Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Ponce, Puerto Rico Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA Australia Rajini Rao Joo-Hyun Song* Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD Brown Univ., Providence, RI Bruce Murphy Univ. of Montreal, St. Hyacinthe, QC, Alvaro Reischak-Oliveira* Michael Stec Canada Federal Univ. of Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Sanford Burnham Prebys Med. Discovery Timothy O’Connor Alegre, Brazil Inst., San Diego, CA City of Hope Beckman Res. Inst., Duarte, William O. Roberts Christine Elizabeth Stephens CA Univ. of Minnesota, Mahtomedi, MN Univ. of Florida Coll. Med., Gainesville, FL Michael Olaopa Cesar Andres Romero Prem Subramanian UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Emory Univ. Sch. Med, Detroit, MI Univ. of Colorado Sch. Med., Aurora, CO Peter Oldenburg Nicole C. Rust Madhan Subramanian Univ. Nebraska Med. Ctr., Omaha, NE Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK Muralidhar Padala Allan Sales Kristyn E. Sylvia* Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA Univ. of Sao Paulo, Niteroi, Brazil Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch. Public Clive Pai Sadhana Atmaram Samant* Hlth., Bloomington, IN Chantilly, VA Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL Takamune Takahashi Ryan Paitz* Koji Sato Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., Nashville, TN Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL Kobe Univ., Kusatsu, Japan Ryosuke Takeda AM Sashi Papu John Tiffany Crawford Scharschmidt Osaka City Univ., Kyoto, Japan Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY UCSF, San Francisco, CA Hesham Tawfeek Sanket Patel Michael C. Schubert James J Peters VA Med. Ctr., Bronx, NY Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. Med., Baltimore, Kristen Anne Taylor* Leeann Pavlek MD Sale Lake Community Coll., Sandy, UT Nationwide Children’s Hosp., Hilliard, OH Sam Scott Michael Thompson Tiago Pecanha* Liverpool John MooRes. Univ., Toronto, Washington Univ., Saint Louis, MO Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil ON, Canada Shuchita Tiwari Gavin Jon Pinniger* John W. Seawright* Univ. of California-Davis, Davis, CA Univ. Western Australia, Crawley, WA, McLennan Community Coll., Waco, TX John Tompkins Australia Michael C. Seeds* UCLA, Los Angeles, CA David W. Piston Wake Forest Sch. of Medicine, Winston- Luciana N. Torres* Washington Univ., Saint Louis, MO Salem, NC US Army Inst. Surgical Res., San Antonio, Robert Steven Pozos Chris Shelley TX San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA Univ. of the South, Sewanee, TN Gelsy Torres-Oviedo Terri Lee Provost* Elaine L. Shelton Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Utica Coll., Utica, NY Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., Nashville, TN, Balagangadhar R. Totapally* Nicklaus Childrens Hosp., Miami, FL
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Katrina Traber* Susan Wernimont Yosuke Yamada Boston Univ., Boston, MA Hills Pet Nutrition Inc., Topeka, KS Natl Inst. Hlth. and Nutr., Tokyo, Japan Matthias Christof Truttmann* Stephanie R. Wesolowski* Junya Yamaguchi Med. Sch. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Univ. of Colorado Sch. Med., Aurora, CO UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX MI Jamie Whitfield Junro Yamashita Muhammad Usman* Australian Catholic Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Fukuoka Dental Coll., Fukuoka, Japan Wichita, KS Australia Zhibing Zhang* Adrienn Varga Kent Avery Willis* Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL Univ. of Tennessee Hlth. Sci. Ctr., Yunpei Zhang Rengasayee Veeraraghavan Memphis, TN Penn State Coll. of Med., Hershey, PA The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH Heather Ann Wilson-Ashworth Bojun Zhang Utah Valley Univ., Provo, UT Patricia D. Wade Baylor Coll. of Med., Houston, TX New York Coll. of Podiatric Med., New Kay L. H. Wu Jing-Jing Zhou York, NY Chang Gung Memorial Hosp., Kaohsiung MD Anderson Cancer Ctr., Houston, TX City, Taiwan Jeremy James Walsh Jianqiu Zou Univ. of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Jiaojiao Xu Med. Coll. of Georgia, Augusta, GA Canada Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD Li Zuo Chad Wayne Hariom Yadav Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX Wake Forest Sch. Med., Winston-Salem, NC New Graduate Student Members Kareem Abdelsaid Onur Bayramoglu Jeremiah Campbell Augusta Univ., Augusta, GA Akdeniz Univ., Antalya, Turkey Ut-Arlington Dept. of Kinesiology, Eiman Aboaziza Mediha Becirovic-Agic Arlington, TX West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden Vinicius Canale Bana Abolibdeh Daniel J. Belcher UCR, Riverside, CA Michigan State Univ., Okemos, MI Pennsylvania State Univ., State Coll., PA Daisy Cantu Maitha Aldokhayyil Jessica Kathleen Bernard Texas Woman’s Univ., Denton, TX Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL USC, Glendale, CA Casey Carlisle Natascha Guimaraes Alves Craig William Berry Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA Morgan Carson-Marino Jose Adan Arevalo Susmita Bhattarai Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA LSU HSC Shreveport, Shreveport, LA Abigail G. Casso Olufunke Arishe Samuel Bloom Univ. of Colorado At Boulder, Denver, CO Augusta Univ., Augusta, GA Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Silvia Cristina Cervantes Gutiérrez Brandon Jacob Baer Josephine Bou Dagher National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico, Western Univ., London, ON, Canada Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA Aguascalientes, Mexico Saroj Chakraborty Kandice Bailey Matthew Brown Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr., Jackson, MS Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, OH Katherine Chan Mahesha N.S. Bandara Stephanie Burr Dept of Physiology and Pharm. Univ., The Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Tulane Univ. Sch. of Med., New Orleans, LA Shambhabi Chatterjee Calgary, AB, Canada Cristhian Calo Guadalupe Cesar Barrabi Univ. of Puerto Rico MSC, Canovanas, Hannover Medical Sch., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI Puerto Rico Hannover, Germany
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Weelic Chong CU Boulder, Boulder, CO Dylan Stone Holly Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX Thomas Jefferson Univ., Philadelphia, PA Shi Fang Qing Chu Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Nathalie L. Holme Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway West China Hosp. Sichuan Univ., Chengdu, Qipu Feng China West China Hosp. Sichuan Univ., Chengdu Rebecca Dean Howell Alberto Cintrón-Colón Sichuan Province, China Univ. of Oklahoma HSC, Oklahoma City, OK Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI Paul Fodor John Howell Karen Clark The Univ. of Nottingham, Derby, United Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr., Jackson, MS Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Kingdom Minqi Huang Colin Cleary Sarah Galla Marshall Univ., Huntington, WV Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs Mansfield, CT The Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, OH Sara Ibrahim Keith E. Crabtree Christian Kyle Garcia Indiana Univ. Sch. of Med., Indianapolis, IN Texas Woman’s Univ., Greenville, TX Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL Vijaya Indukuri Flor De Maria Cruz Estrada Tonatiuh Garcia Ruiz Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA Autonomous Univ. State of Mexico, Toluca, San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA Torikul Islam Mexico Shari Garrett Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Jessica A. Cucinello Univ. of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL Alicia Ivory LSU Health Sci. Ctr., New Orleans, LA Henri Alexandre Giblot Ducray Medical Coll. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Tala Curry Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL Abdulazeez Jimoh Midwestern Univ., Fredericksburg, VA Jacob Goldsmith Ahmadu Bello Univ. Coll. of Med. Hlth. Hailey Daker Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL Sci., Zaria, Nigeria Western Univ. of Hlth. Sci., Pomona, CA Dulce Hiraci Gomez Ruta Jog Michael Delgiodice Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI USAT Coll. of Med., Wheat Ridge, CO Jeanmarie Gonzalez Ellen Keaveny Danja Den Hartogh Univ. of California-San Francisco, San Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY Brock Univ., Grimsby, ON, Canada Francisco, CA Nathan Ketelhut Revati Dewal Ryan A. Gordon Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO The Ohio Student Univ., Columbus, OH Texas Woman’s Univ., Denton, TX Hyoseon Kim Raechel Dickman Drew Gourley Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX Midwestern Univ., Phoenix, AZ Austin, TX Joyce Kim Basak Donertas Edward Green Hershey, PA Coll. of Veterinary Med., Gainesville, FL The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA Andreas Kreutzer Jonnelle Edwards Maia Gumnit Texas Christian Univ., Fort Worth, TX Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, OH UW-Madison, Madison, WI Atreju Lackey Jenna Edwards Roberto Gutierrez Rutgers Univ., Somerville, NJ Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO City of Hope, Duarte, CA Mia Larson Nicole Eisenmann Brayden Halvorson Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Univ. of Wisconsin, Fitchburg, WI Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Jacqueline Renee Leachman Hyeyoon Eo Canada Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Krista Hamilton Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA Matthew David Lee Wesley Evans Troy Univ., Montgomery, AL Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA Andrea E. Hanson Kingdom Letao Fan Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX Jae Sung Lee Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr., Jackson, MS Jennifer Hillyer NYIT-COM, Bridgeport, CT Hannah K. Fandl North Canton, OH
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Chen Li Carly Mickelson Pedro Antonio Perez Sichuan Univ. West China Hosp., Chendu, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Univ. of California Riverside, Moreno Valley, CA China Hillary Miller Natalia Salvatierra Lima Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Okoli Ifeoma Perpetua Imo State Univ. Owerri, Umuna Orlu, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Rola Mofleh Nigeria Jonathon Lisano Gothenburg Univ., Angered, Sweden James Poteracki Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO Alex Mohr Wake Forest Inst. Regenerative Med, Josue Alan Lopez Arizona State Univ., Chandler, AZ Winston Salem, NC Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Mary P. Moore Gavin Power Chuan-Fen Lu Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI Taipei, Taiwan Clarissa Maria Dias Mota Sabhya Rana Erin Lynch Univ. of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Macquarie Univ., NSW, Australia Nayeem Moulana Sahib Rasulov Sandy Macmillan Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Shreya Tapan Mukherji Makenna Reed Kingdom Marshall Univ., Huntington, WV Ngonidzashe Madungwe IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN Chaise Murphy Maryam Riaz Univ. of Texas Hlth. San Antonio, San Univ. Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE Antonio, TX Univ. of North Texas Health Sci. Center, Etienne Myette-Cote Ammar Mahmood Fort Worth, TX Univ. of British Columbia Okanagan Rauchelle Richey Saint Louis Univ. Sch. of Med., Saint Louis, Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada MO Univ. of Texas Arlington, Grand Prairie, TX Samera Nademi Joseph Thomas Mannozzi Luis Angel Rivera-Arce McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI Ponce Hlth. Sci. Univ., Utuado, Puerto Rico Sangeetha Nathaniel Nikolaos Maragkos Deborah Rose Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE Univ. of Tubingen, Anstruther, United Loyola Univ. Chicago Stritch Sch. of Med., Kingdom Dominik Naumann Forest Park, IL Mayo Clinic Rochester MN, Bad Homburg, Laura Christine Mark Ryan Rosenberry Germany Michigan State Univ., Haslett, MI Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Morgan Allen Nelson Corina Marziano Ryan Rosentreter Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Michael Nguyen-Truong Stephanie McGlothlin Shaunak Roy Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO OSU Center for Hlth. Sci., Claremore, OK Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, OH Charles Okechukwu Jonathan Matthew Memme Claire Ruddiman North Carolina Central Univ., Durham, NC Muscle Health Res. Ctr. York Univ., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Shelby Osburn Newmarket, ON, Canada Hannah Ruholl Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL Xia Meng Southern IL Univ. Edwardsville, Marine, IL Matteo Ottolini West China Hosp., Sichuan Univ., Fatima Ryalat UVA , Charlottesville, VA Chengdu, China Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC Karla Merz Shiyue Pan Lubriel Sambolin-Escobales Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA City of Hope, Duarte, CA Ponce Hlth. Sci. Univ., Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Aubrey Michi Alex Patrician Raul Sampieri-Cabrera Univ. of British Columbia Okanagan, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Kelowna, BC, Canada Avanzados del IPN, Cuautitlan Izacalli, Mark Pepin Mexico Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, Homewood, AL
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David Sanchez-Real Kyle Smith Kathryn Vera San Juan Bautista Sch. of Med., Manati, PR SIUE, Edwardsville, IL Univ. of Minnesota, Hudson, WI Ryan Sapp Joshua Smith Valerie Wagner Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Sandy Saunders Daniel Stewart Jamarius Waller Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr., Jackson, MS Mike Schaid Zachary Stielper Sarah Weidenfeld UW Madison, Madison, WI LSU Hlth. Sci. Ctr.-New Orleans, New Charité Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany Gabriel Schirmbeck Orleans, LA Rowena Woode Federal Univ. of Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Joseph Michael Stock Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO Alegre, Brazil Univ. of Delaware, Camden Wyoming, DE Morgan L. Worley Kathleen Scullion Jasiel Omil Strubbe Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY The Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Michigan State Univ., Lansing, MI Natalie Zolotareva Kingdom Yanna Tian NYIT Coll. of Osteopathic Med., Sudha Sharma Augusta Univ., Augusta, GA Brooklyn, NY LSUHSC, Shreveport, LA Patrick Tomko Yvonne Zuchowski Richard J. SIMA Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr., Pearl, MS Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD Johnathan Velazquez Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Puerto Rico, Las Piedras, Puerto Rico Undergraduate Student Members Sachin Abraham Nora Christine Lakes Courtney Smith Univ. of the Incarnate Word, Pearland, TX Cincinnati Children’s Hosp. Med. Ctr., Brigham Young Univ., Bellevue, NE John Bauza Cincinnati, OH Tilmira Smith Univ. of Florida, Land O Lakes, FL Zeeshan Malik Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. Med., Ethan Benevides Univ. of Florida, Tampa, FL Baltimore, MD Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL Hanna McDonald Caleb Smith Kimberly Bonacker Texas Woman’s Univ., Denton, TX Messiah Coll., Mechanicsburg, PA Western New England Univ., East Suyog Ashok Mhamankar Jenna Sorensen Longmeadow, MA Spartan Hlth. Sci. Univ., Vieux Fort, Saint Univ. of Dayton, Wheaton, IL Lyndee Branen Lucia Lauren Styczynski Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK Mia Moreno Univ. of Cincinnati, West Chester, OH Gillian Bryant Santa Monica Coll., Culver City, CA Max Thurston Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Toi Nguyen Colorado Coll., Santa Fe, NM Kevin Chacko Texas Wesleyan Univ., Fort Worth, TX Stephanie Twohey Univ. of Florida, Valrico, FL Darby Peter Simpson, Indianola, IA David Echeverri Osorio Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI John Tworek UCLA, Covina, CA Cooper Pitts Augustana Coll., Mount Prospect, IL Samuel Gallo Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Mount Monica Vemulapalli Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Pleasant, SC Emory Univ., Orlando, FL Aleksis Ramírez Pedroza Delton Hall Demetria Walker Oklahoma State Univ., Amarillo, TX Univ. of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX Georgia State Univ., Stone Mountain, GA Ashley Ross Tatiyana Harris Olivia Walsh Michigan State Univ., Owosso, MI Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL UC Davis, Davis, CA Drew Sanclemente Ava Khaksar McGill, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE 100 • Vol. 62/No. 2 | March 2019 THEPHYSIOLOGIST Science Policy
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Americans for Medical Progress (AMP) has a new video An earlier video in this series highlights the role of dogs that takes viewers inside a nonhuman primate research in research to advance both human and animal health. facility, highlighting the critical role these animals play in Both videos and a factsheet on research with non-human health research. The five-minute video is part of a series primates are available at https://www.amprogress.org/love- called Love, Care, Progress. It includes interviews with care-progress-videos/. ● researchers, animal caregivers, and others charged with overseeing the welfare of research animals.
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Joint Program Committee
Experimental The meeting opened with several unique sessions on Biology 2018 Saturday, April 21, including the traditional Refresher The 2018 EB Meeting was held Course this year on “GI Physiology: Not Just the Gut in San Diego, April 21–25, Anymore.” APS sponsored two unopposed Techniques 2018. Participating societies and Technology in Physiology Workshops on Saturday, were APS, AAA (anatomy), April 21, titled “Sex and Age as Biological Variables in ASBMB (biochemistry), ASIP Physiology Research” and “Transformative Technologies (pathology), and ASPET Enabling Ecological Assessment of Human and Wildlife (pharmacology). APS hosted Physiology”. The Tang Prize Lecture was scheduled seven guest societies: American as the first ever EB-wide plenary lecture on Saturday, Robert Hester, Joint College of Sports Medicine April 21. It was presented by Feng Zhang from the Program Committee Chair (ACSM), American Federation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University titled for Medical Research (AFMR), Brazilian Physiological “Harnessing Nature's Diversity for Gene Editing and Society (SBFiS), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), the Beyond.” Following the Tang Prize Lecture, attendees Microcirculatory Society (MCS), the Society for Redox Biology enjoyed an opening reception, which featured 57 Science and Medicine (SfRBM), and the Physiology Society (Physoc). Outreach Activity and 50 Hot Topic posters along with Overall paid scientific registration across all societies totaled food, games, and networking. 9,448, with 1,784 ancillary registrants. APS had 384 sessions in total: 234 poster sessions, 68 symposia, 51 featured topics, The Physiology in Perspectives—The Walter B. Cannon 18 lectures, 3 workshops, 1 refresher course, 8 special sessions, Memorial Award Lecture was moved to Sunday, April 22, and 1 undergraduate poster competition session. and was presented by Ole Petersen (Cardiff University).
Table 1. Abstract submissions by society 2018 (San Diego) 2017 (Chicago) 2016 (San Diego) 2015 (Boston) 2014 (San Diego) On-Time Submissions APS 2,145 2,251 2,194 2,385 2,313 ASMBM 1,746 1,601 1,360 1,420 1,205 ASPET 801 753 613 672 619 ASIP 348 369 349 294 358 ASN – 1,811 1,759 1,813 1,722 AAA 515 479 410 494 494 EB (teaching) 44 31 45 67 ASBMB (Invited) 124 125 174 189 173 AAA (Invited) 68 92 89 72 91 Total 5,747 7,525 6,979 7,384 7,042 Late-Breaking Submissions APS 284 227 225 220 215 ASMBM 243 222 157 182 217 ASPET 95 114 87 85 95 ASIP 41 41 35 49 68 ASN – 211 235 187 186 AAA 57 49 43 52 84 Total 720 864 782 775 865 GRAND TOTAL Submission Abstracts 6,467 8,389 7,761 8,159 7,907
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The Henry Pickering Bowditch Memorial Award Lecture The APS President's Symposium Series, organized by was moved to Monday, April 23, and was presented by Dennis Brown around the theme of Exosomes the New Yatrik Shah (University of Michigan). Frontier, included three symposia:
• Cell Biology of Exosomes APS also sponsored four Integrative Symposia Systems: • Pathophysiology of Exosomes • Bioartificial Organs: Using Donor and synthetic Scaffolds • Exosomes in Diagnostics and Therapeutics • Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in Metabolic Diseases The Nobel Prize Award Lecture, presented by Leland Hartwell • Tissue-Distributed Control of Sex Differences in Diabetes of Arizona State University, was titled “A Life of Learning” and and Cardiovascular Disease focused on the importance of science education. The Nobel • Ischemic and Hypoxic Conditioning: Potential for lecture was followed by a trainee reception where attendees Protection of Vital Organs could meet and greet the Nobel lecturer.
Table 2. Registration breakdown by registrant category
EB 2018-San Diego EB 2017-Chicago Registration Type Total Percent Member 3,694 33% 5,011 36% Retired Member 102 1% 134 1% Retired Nonmember 22 0% 28 0% Nonmember 618 6% 817 6% Postdoc Member 648 6% 656 5% Postdoc Nonmember 268 2% 390 3% Grad Student Member 1,475 13% 2,048 15% Grad Student Nonmember 818 7% 1,313 9% One Day Member 166 1% 270 2% One Day Nonmember 67 1% 124 1% Total Paid Scientific 7,803 10,791 77%
Undergraduate Member 757 7% 621 4% Undergraduate Nonmember 888 8% 1,115 8% High School Student 509 5% 416 3% High School Teacher Member 76 1% 81 1% High School Teacher Nonmember 65 1% 53 0% Total Paid Undergrad/High School 2,295 2,286 16%
Exhibitors 831 7% 795 6% Guest of Exhibitors 141 1% 100 1% Guest 42 0% 35 0% Press 17 0% 16 0% Blogger 5 0% 8 0% Total Paid Ancillary Registration 1,036 954 7%
Grand Total Registration 11,134 14,031
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A total of 6,467 abstracts were submitted and scheduled for Series and expanded from the traditional four sessions the meeting across all societies, including 5,747 on-time and to six, cross-society and cross-sectional topics cover the 720 late-breaking abstracts. Table 1 provides a breakdown following areas: of on-time and late-breaking abstracts programmed over • Oxidative stress and posttranslational modification of the past five years. The meeting experienced a decrease in protein thiols in cell signaling. submissions and attendance due to the departure of the American Society for Nutrition. • Aquaporins—more than water under the bridge.
• Carotid body sensing—more than just an O2 sensor. Experimental Biology 2019 • Metabolism, organ cross talk, microbiome, and The Joint Program Committee (JPC) met at EB 2018 mechanisms. on Saturday, April 21 and Tuesday, April 24, to begin organizing EB 2019, which will be held Saturday, April 6, • Brown adipose tissue—the fat that makes you thin. through Tuesday, April 9 in Orlando, Fla. Of note is that • Cross talk among myofibers, microvessels, and motor EB 2019 will be a shortened meeting, with the elimination nerves during skeletal muscle regeneration. by all societies of Wednesday programming. EB 2019 will feature a collaborative presidential symposium series organized by both APS and ASPET on The JPC met again on April 25–26, 2018 in Crystal City, the microbiome. There will be a series of three symposia Va. to schedule rooms by day and time for the platform held from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. Sunday through Tuesday and sessions, and to minimize scientific overlap. EB 2019 will a Saturday workshop from 1 to 3 p.m.: continue to feature a plenary Tang Lecture on Saturday evening, the Cannon Lecture on Sunday, Bowditch on • Workshop on Microbiome Research: What You Need to Know Monday, and the Nobel Prize Award lecture. In addition, professional development sessions organized by the • APS-ASPET Presidential Symposia Series: Microbiome. Trainee Advisory, Women in Physiology, and Career Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Disorders Opportunities committees are scheduled for 7–8 a.m. • APS-ASPET Presidential Symposia Series: Microbiome. Sunday through Tuesday. Gut Microbiota: A Chemical Factory
The JPC discussed survey responses both from EB-wide • APS-ASPET Presidential Symposia Series: Microbiome. participants and the APS-specific survey. Many comments Microbiota in Action: The Gut and Beyond pertained to disappointment with the mobile app and with An additional Saturday workshop is scheduled for 3:15– the lack of a dedicated Publishers Row on the exhibit floor. 5:15 p.m. titled “Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions: A Hands-on Workshop” and chaired by Dee Silverthorn of The JPC discussed forming a task force to unify the topic the University of Texas at Austin. category list, making it easier for submitters to find the appropriate topics for their research. The task force will The Cannon Lecture will be given by Peter Aronson. The Bowditch Lecture will be given by Jennifer Pluznick. The be chaired by Sean Stocker, chair of the Section Advisory Nobel Prize Award Lecture will be given by Peter Agre. Committee (SAC), and will be comprised of a diverse group from both JPC and SAC. Council accepted the report of the Joint Program Committee. ●
The former Integrative Physiology Symposium series has been renamed as Experimental Biology Symposium
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Assistant Professor: The Department of Biological will also be expected to contribute to teaching medical Sciences at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio invites and graduate students. Outstanding candidates in all applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in areas of physiology will be considered, with special evolutionary, comparative or functional genomics. We are consideration given to investigators who will complement interested in candidates who combine experimental and existing strengths of the department, which include computational methods, and applicants who investigate cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary and renal physiology. model or non-model organisms, and have expertise Candidates must have a PhD, MD or other equivalent in biostatistics, including Bayesian methods, and in doctoral degree with relevant postdoctoral experience. analyzing large genomic datasets. The ideal candidate Highly competitive salary and startup packages, including will have postdoctoral experience in genomics or new state-of-the-art laboratory space, are available. The bioinformatics and teaching experience at undergraduate Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology is or graduate levels. The assistant professor will be nationally and internationally recognized in the areas of expected to establish a strong, extramurally funded cardiac physiology, neural control of circulation, renal research program and to collaborate with faculty from a physiology, and integrative physiology. The department broad-based biology department. Faculty members in the is located in a new building, the Durham Research Center department are responsible for teaching and mentoring (289,000 sq. ft.), which houses 116 research laboratories. both undergraduate and graduate students; student An adjacent second tower (264,000 sq. ft.) with 100 advising; conducting scholarly research; and providing research laboratories further enables multi-departmental service to the university and/or department. Depending and multi-disciplinary research interactions. Omaha on the assistant professor's area of interest, teaching for boasts a metro area population of over 800,000, with a this position will include the appropriate portion of a vibrant downtown area, excellent art and entertainment second semester introductory class (ecology, evolution, opportunities, outstanding school system, and low cost animal body systems) and two upper-division courses of living. For more information about the department, based on their research expertise that fill teaching please visit our website at http://www.unmc.edu/physiology/. needs in the department. Minimum qualifications. PhD Applications are being accepted online at http://unmc. in biological sciences or a closely related field (foreign peopleadmin.com/postings/41568. For additional information educational equivalent acceptable) at time of application on the position, please contact: Adam J. Case, PhD, Chair, and demonstrated research productivity. Ohio University Search Committee Department of Cellular and Integrative is committed to creating a respectful and inclusive Physiology University of Nebraska Medical Center, educational and workplace environment. Ohio University 985850 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5850; is an equal access/equal opportunity and affirmative email: [email protected]; phone: 402-559-3078; fax: 402- action employer with a strong commitment to building and 559-4438; www.unmc.edu/physiology. maintaining a diverse workforce. Women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged Assistant/Associate Professor: The School of Dental to apply. Apply at http://www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/ Medicine at LECOM (Bradenton, FL campus) is seeking postings/29427. candidates for a full-time, non-tenure track, 12-month faculty position at the Assistant/Associate Professor of Assistant/Associate Professor: The Department of Cellular Physiology level. Successful candidates will have a desire and Integrative Physiology is seeking applications from to teach and mentor students at the graduate/professional candidates for a faculty position at the level of assistant level, including facilitation of problem-based learning or associate professor. Candidates should employ modern (PBL) groups and the delivery of traditional lectures. genetic, cellular, molecular, electrophysiological and/ In addition, faculty members are expected to develop or integrative approaches to address questions related an active and independent program of scholarship. All to physiology or pathophysiology. We are interested in areas of expertise will be considered. The successful individuals who apply new and innovative state-of-the- applicant will have a doctorate level of achievement art techniques to address and complement the integrative (PhD, DO, MD, or EdD) and prior experience of 2–5 approaches already ongoing in the department. Priority years teaching physiology to medical or dental students. will be given to candidates with an extramurally Preference will be given to individuals with a progressive funded research program. The successful candidate and innovative teaching philosophy and previous
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experience in a small-group teaching or facilitating biophysics, or neuroscience obtained within the past 2 environment. Additional qualifications to strengthen the years, with a strong background in live tissue handling; applicant include a strong desire to foster learning in a strong understanding of research design, research an innovative curriculum, advisement and mentorship methodology and data analysis; evidence of experience of dental students, a progressive teaching philosophy, in preparation and publication of manuscripts; excellent and the ability to contribute to the development of the oral communication and technical writing skills; excellent college through research and service. Faculty rank and computer skills (Microsoft Office, EndNote, CorelDraw, salary are dependent on qualifications and experience. SigmaPlot); ability to take guided initiative and to work in About the LECOM School of Dental Medicine. The School an organized fashion with flexibility in shifting between of Dental Medicine provides investigators and teacher- independent and collaborative work; ability to assist in scholars an exciting environment to develop collaborative the training of undergraduate and graduate students; and innovative research projects. We value diversity in and demonstrated collegiality, professionalism and our faculty, staff and students. The SDM is located in interpersonal skills. The postdoctoral scholar duties will Bradenton, FL, only minutes from beautiful beaches to the include but are not limited to organizing/implementing west and less than 1 hour from the Tampa-St. Petersburg a focused research agenda, developing new methods metropolitan area. To apply. Complete an online application and approaches, data collection and interpretation, at www.lecom.edu/jobs. At the time of application, please writing scientific articles, and mentoring graduate/ be prepared to submit the following: 1) cover letter, 2) undergraduate students. Candidates are expected to be current CV, 3) teaching/mentoring philosophy, and 4) effective communicators and to present their research contact information for three professional references. The findings to peers at local, national and international applicant must also email [email protected] the following: meetings. The successful candidate will be integrated into a cover letter outlining how he/she would enhance the a postdoctoral training program and given opportunities LECOM family, a statement of teaching philosophy, and to develop teaching experience. Competitive salary and contact information for three professional references. benefits including universal healthcare and a health EEO/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. spending account are provided. Postdoctoral scholars are expected to apply for scholarships as applicable. An Postdoctoral Fellow: The Robarts Research Institute, initial 2-year term will be offered with opportunity for an Department of Physiology & Pharmacology at the Schulich extension. Applications will be reviewed as received until School of Medicine, has a position for a postdoctoral the position is filled. Please send a letter of application scholar to work in the laboratory of Donald G. Welsh, the including a 1-page description of research experience and Rorabeck Chair in Vascular Biology and Neuroscience. We interests, an updated curriculum vitae, and names and seek a motivated scientist interested in pursuing vascular contact information of three references to dwelsh@robarts. biology research from the cell to the whole organism. ca. Positions are subject to funding availability. Applicants Our research focuses on ion channels (CaV3.1/3.2 and should have fluent written and oral communication KIR2.1/2.2) and electro-mechanical coupling in cerebral skills in English. The university invites applications arterial resistance arteries from normal and diseased from all qualified individuals. Western is committed tissue. We rationalize concepts with computer modeling, to employment equity and diversity in the workplace then test them on cerebral arteries harvested from humans and welcomes applications from women, members of and genetically modified mice. Key techniques include racialized groups/visible minorities, aboriginal persons, myography, electrophysiology, biochemistry and magnetic persons with disabilities, and persons of any gender resonance imaging, transgenics and genomics. We seek identity or gender expression. In accordance with individuals who recently completed their PhD (within the Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be past 2 years) and with experience in vascular biology and or given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Non- molecular biology. All applicants with a strong command of Canadian citizens or non-permanent residents will require English are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate a valid work visa prior to employment. ● will possess: a PhD degree in physiology, medical
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