Gastrointestinal and Liver Section Newsletter
Fall 2003
SECTION ANNOUNCEMENTS
ELECTIONS
The GI/Liver Section would like to extend our sincere
appreciation to our outgoing members Meena Rao and Nigel Bunnett. They both
have done a great job during their tenure on the committee. Linda Samuelson
has agreed to remain on the committee as our representative to the Committee
on Committees. I am also pleased to announce that Deborah Rubin (Washington
University School of Medicine) and Jack Grider (Medical College of Virginia)
were elected by section members to serve as new councilors on our Section
Steering Committee.
Helen Raybould Elected to the APS Council!
The Section received some great news this Spring with
the announcement that our past Chair of the Section, Helen Raybould was
elected to the APS Council. Helen has done an outstanding job with the
Gastrointestinal/Liver Section over the years and we are all very proud of
her accomplishments.
New
Editorial Team at work on American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal
and Liver Physiology
The outgoing editorial
team led by editor-in-chief Marty Kagnoff has developed our journal to
greater strengths and speed of review over the past 6 years. We thank Marty
Kagnoff, and Associate Editors Mark Czaja, Paul Kubes, and Chung Owyang for
their long, capable, and dedicated service to the journal and section. As of
July 1, Marshall (Chip) Montrose assumed the editorship of the journal.
Helen Raybould graciously agreed to continue as Associate Editor, and an
expanded group of new Associate Editors join her: Matt Grisham, Gail Hecht,
Shelly Lu, Karnam Murthy, Patrick Tso, Tim Wang, and Allan Wolkoff. Look for
the January 2004 issue of AJP:GI and Liver, which will introduce the new
team, and outline their goals for the Journal in the coming years.
From the APS Liaison With
Industry Committee (LWIC)
(Section representative: Pam Hornby)
The LWIC is sponsoring a Workshop entitled
"High Content Biology: Multiplexing in Cell Physiology" at EB2004 on Monday,
April 19 from 3:15-5:15 pm. This workshop will describe novel methods for
simultaneous analysis of multiple endpoints in cells and biochemically. The
topics of cell signaling, protein translocation, protein phosphorylation
cascade, GPCR signaling as well as genomic mutational analysis will be
covered. Look for the full program in the Spring Newsletter.
The Novel Disease Model Award will be
granted to a graduate student and a postdoctoral fellow who submit the best
abstracts at EB2004 that describe a novel disease model. The model can be
in vitro or in vivo but should clearly emphasize the potential utility of
the system for future research related to a disease. The award is $500 for
the graduate student and $800 for the postdoctoral fellow and is sponsored
by the LWIC. See the call for abstracts this Fall for application details
and in the Spring newsletter.
You're invited! Come meet and eat with
your fellow physiologists who are working in the corporate sector. The 4th
Annual Liaison With Industry Committee Mixer is on at EB2004. Look for
details in the Spring newsletter.
FALL PREVIEW – EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 2004
April 17-21 2004, Washington, DC
Gastrointestinal Programming at EB 2004
Chris Cheeseman and the Programming Committee has done another
outstanding job of organizing our Section Symposium and Featured Topics.
Here is a listing of the GI/Liver Section Program for EB 2004:
Symposium: Mediators of Liver Inflammation
organised by Alex Lentsch, speakers are: Paul Kubes, Mark Clemens, Timothy
Billiar and Hartmut Jaeschke.
Time: Monday,4/19/04, 8:00-10:00AM
Featured topic: Regulation of Intestinal Ion and
Vitamin Transporters During Development, organiser and first speaker
Mrinalini C. Rao, age-dependence of intestinal Ca regulated Cl transport,
and Hamid M. Said. Ontogeny of intestinal biotintransport.
Time: Sunday,4/18/04,10:30AM-12:30-PM
Featured Topic: Intestinal, renal and new model
systems for the study of oligopeptide transporters. Organiser Fred
Leibach. speakers: Hannelore Daniel from Munich and Professor Ken-ichi
Inui from Tokyo.
Time:Tuesday,4/20/04, 3:15-5:15PM.
The Third featured topic will be abstract driven.
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DO YOU WANT TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT TO EB 2004? SUBMIT
YOUR ABSTRACT TO ONE OF THE FEATURED TOPICS ABOVE OR TO THE POSTER
SESSIONS – SEE LIST OF DESCRIPTIONS ON NEXT PAGE. |
Award Lectures
We are pleased to announce that the Horace W.
Davenport Award for 2004 will be awarded to Dr John Forte of UC-Berkeley at
EB 2004. In addition, Dr Fred Leibach from the Medical College of Georgia
will be awarded the Abbott Distinguished Award in GI and Liver Research at
EB 2004.
GI Section Student and
Postdoctoral Travel Awards
We hope that you will encourage your graduate students, postdoctoral
fellows and medical residents to apply for our section travel awards to
attend EB 2004. In addition, APS funds several different types of travel
awards. Further details in the EB 2004 Call for Abstracts.
Descriptors for Poster
Sessions
Below is a list of the GI/Liver descriptors that should be used for
abstract submissions not directly related to a specific Featured Topic. If
you are not submitting under a Featured Topic category, we encourage you to
submit your EB 2004 abstract using one of these descriptors that designates
your presentation as GI/Liver related.
FEATURED TOPICS:
1113-APS Regulation of intestinal ion and
vitamin transporters during development (M.C. Rao)
POSTERS:
1114-APS Development and adaptation
1115-APS Epithelial channels, pumps and
transporters
1116-APS Epithelial-microbial
interactions: lessons in communication
1117-APS Gastrointestinal pathophysiology
1118-APS Growth factors
1119-APS Liver physiology and
pathophysiology
1120-APS Motility
1121-APS Pancreas
1122-APS Regulatory peptides and hormones
1123-APS Secretion and absorption
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE
NOVEMBER 12, 2003
GI Section
Steering Committee: 2003-2004
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