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Designed, produced and printed by Lavenham Press Ltd. 2 Physiology News / Autumn 2019 / Issue 116 Contents Welcome to the Autumn 2019 edition of Physiology News Introduction Features 5 Editorial: Keeping the EDI conversation going 28 Visualising cell biology: We’ve an app for that! How I am incorporating molecular visualisation into my teaching 6 President’s View: The impact of Sport and Exercise Science 31 Flipping physiology: Can we teach physiology in a different way? 7 Sport and Exercise Science (SES) case studies A traditionalist tries out some new tricks 10 Letters to the Editor 34 Neural WiFi: A new form of communication in the brain by electric fields 37 Microcirculation, metabolic syndrome and exercise: Does News and Views exercise dose matter? 40 Metabolic physiology in flux: A Theme Lead report 12 Open access: Widening access to the scholarly literature increases the literature’s value to society 14 Q&A with the Head of Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Grant Hill-Cawthorne Membership 16 Outstanding physiologists awarded 2019 Honorary memberships 42 My experience as a PhD student adapting to a new country Congratulations to physiologists in the Queen’s birthday honours and culture Growing Older, Better: Ensuring a physiology-based response to healthy ageing 44 Art and science together can change the world: Seven Thousand Feet and The Fascinating Family 18 Where it all began 46 STEM for Britain 2019: Preventing type 2 diabetes using 19 Book Review - Human Metabolism: A Regulatory Perspective wrinkled peas Events 20 Future Physiology 2019: Uniting early career researchers 22 Physiology 2019: Bringing together our vibrant community of physiologists Cover image: Artist’s impression of the BodyApp – an augmented reality app to visualise metabolism for use in teaching . Image by Kalyan Veera, Medical Illustration, University of Aberdeen. 3 Future Physiology 2019 A conference for early career researchers by early career researchers FREE REGISTRATION for Undergraduate This exciting conference Members and will give you the Affiliate Members experience, skills and networking opportunities to boost your career Reasons to join us: Be inspired by the invited speakers Present your research at one of the oral communications Gain key skills at the career development workshops Network and explore new opportunities at the poster communication session Registration opens 1 July 2019 Register at: www.physoc.org/futurephysiology2019/ 17-18 December 2019 Liverpool John Moores University, UK Submit abstracts from 1-30 September 2019 Travel grant deadline 31 October 2019 Editorial Keeping the EDI conversation going in the laboratory (Sara AlMarabeh, p.42) or of metabolic function or can interact with Keith Siew diversity of thought in health education of a number of receptors. Textbooks are now Scientific Editor the public (Christine Wilcox-Baker, p.44). being updated to reflect this thinking (Andrew It is clear that there is appetite for EDI Murray, p.19) and a greater appreciation content and we’re glad to be part of that is given to the role of the gut microbiome greater conversation going forward, and in nutrition, metabolic signalling and the Julia Turan the PN microsite now more explicitly states potential for novel therapeutic approaches Managing Editor our contributor guidelines on diversity and (Katerina Petropoulou, p.46). accessibility which we welcome feedback on to improve further (physoc.org/explore- Additionally the overlap of metabolic research physiology/contribute/). with other disciplines is perhaps most evident We must first start this issue by once again in the study of the pathophysiology of its thanking our authors for their informative As mentioned above, the greatest desire of disorders, as discussed in one of our feature and emotive contributions to Physiology any communicator, or indeed educator, is to articles exploring the impact of metabolic News 115 – Diversity Special Issue. In facilitate the greatest amount of audience syndrome on the microcirculation (Marcus the combined years of our Editorial Board, engagement and responsiveness. In this issue, Machado, Aline Vieira & Eduardo Tibiriçá, none can remember a topic eliciting so we have two education-themed articles p.37), or the crossover with exercise which much audience engagement. The dozens focusing on just that. The cover story of this is now more often seen as a remedy that of anecdotes from colleagues recounted to issue embraces the fact that many students should be prescribed clinically as much as the editorial board, the emails and letters today have a smartphone or tablet to hand, any drug, as suggested by our authors or of thanks and personal stories sent to the and rather than try to fight that, instead indeed likely many of those interviewed in the editors, the hundreds of reactions on social redeploys them in a ground-breaking way sport and exercise science (SES) case studies media and many long overdue conversations… to help students grasp molecular physiology (p.7), which is also highlighted in this issue’s the response has been overwhelming. concepts in the classroom via augmented President’s View (Bridget Lumb, p.6). reality. The app projects digital objects into In particular, we were moved to see the the 3D space when viewed through the Last but by no means least, we want to expressions of sheer delight by many online smart device (John Barrow, p.28). The second take the time to encourage readers to enjoy who were seeing themselves and their stories article explores what happens when you take our feature article on non-synaptic neural represented in this way for the first time. We the oldest teaching method of them all, the communication by electric fields (i.e. ephaptic were also encouraged by letters to the editor lecture, and turn it completely on its head in coupling), an exciting study that shows which continue important conversations an institute with over 800 years of teaching openness to new ways of thinking (Dominique on the need to increase ethnic diversity in experience (Matthew Mason & Angela Durand, p.34). In line with this ethos, as academia (Jeff Allen, p.11) or how best Gayton, p.31). PN moves to become a truly dual format to present your science for a colour blind publication we must consider how to best audience (Nick Birch, p.10), something which With the launch of the new Themes we’ve utilise the new mediums and tools available we noted a number of delegates enacted last decided to restart our Theme Lead reports to us. To that end, PN is now featuring minute on the trains and flights to Physiology segment starting with the new independent short author videos for selected