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2005 Joint Program Committee Report
XXXV International Union of Physiological Sciences
The 2005 IUPS Congress was held in San Diego, CA March
31 through April 5 under the meeting-wide theme of “From Genomes to
Function.” As reported previously, the scientific programming was handled by
an IUPS International Scientific Program Committee, chaired by Walter Boron.
The program was largely organized around 13 programming tracks that
encompassed 89 symposia or featured topic sessions. The programming tracks
were entitled: Calcium Signaling; Cardiac; Ecophysiology for the 21st
Century; Education; Epithelia; Feeding, Fuel and Fat: Energy Metabolism;
Genomics; Mechano- and Chemo-transduction; Muscle-Exercise; Neural Control
of Locomotion: From Genes to Behavior; Regulatory Brain; Renal Control of
Blood Pressure; Thermoregulation and Energetics; Tissue Dynamics in the
Lung; and Vascular Physiology. Additionally, there were 43 free-standing
symposia or featured topic sessions not designated into a track.
There were 330 sessions in total: 177 poster sessions,
78 symposia, 49 featured topics, 20 lectures, three controversies, one panel
discussion, one tutorial, and one refresher course. The lectures included
the traditional APS Society-sponsored named lectures (Walter B. Cannon,
Henry Pickering Bowditch and Walter C. Randall) plus the 12
section-sponsored named lectures. In addition, there was the
Microcirculatory Society’s Landis Award Lecture, and four IUPS-sponsored
lectures (Wallace O. Fenn, Robert Pitts, Ernst Knobil and IUPS President’s
Lecture). The panel discussion topic was Ethics and Physiology in the Era
of the Human Genome and included the APS Walter C. Randall Lecturer on
Biomedical Ethics.
The 2005 IUPS/EB included AAA, AAI, APS/IUPS, ASBMB,
ASIP, ASNS and ASPET. Total registration (including exhibitors and press)
was 15,868. Scientific registration totaled 12,613. This is a 17 percent
increase over EB ‘04 in Washington, DC, where six societies met; and a 12
percent increase over EB ‘02 in New Orleans, the last seven-society meeting.
The Joint Program Committee (JPC) was responsible for
scheduling the submitted abstracts into poster sessions and selecting the
abstracts for the featured topics. A total of 8,628 (including 886
late-breaking) abstracts were submitted to the joint EB/IUPS meeting. Of
that total, 3,189 (including 196 late-breaking) were scheduled into the IUPS
program.
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 2006
The JPC met at the IUPS Congress on March 31 to begin
organizing EB 2006 that will be held Saturday, April 1 through Wednesday,
April 5 in San Francisco, CA. The meeting will once again feature the slogan
“Translating the Genome.” The Call for Abstracts and online abstract
submission site will be available by September 2005. The abstract deadline
will be November 2, 2005. EB06 will again provide for a late-breaking
abstract deadline, anticipated sometime in February 2006.
The sections will regain their autonomy over their
individual symposia and featured topics. The JPC received 11 Cross-Sectional
symposium proposals of which four were approved:
1) Lipid Mediated Regulation of Membrane
Transport, chaired by M.S. Awayda and J.D. Stockand; 2)
Development and Maintenance of Epithelial Polarity, chaired by J.
Goldenring;
3) Spinal Interneurons: Underappreciated
Players in Autonomic and Respiratory Regulation?, chaired by I.J.
Llewellyn-Smith and L.P. Schramm; and, 4) Could Cell Dehydration
Promote Obesity and Chronic Disease? A Multidisciplinary Look at the Effects
of Hypertonic Dehydration, chaired by J. Stookey.
In addition, two Techniques and Technology
workshops will be scheduled on the first day of EB ‘06: 1) Atomic
Force Microscopy: Tools for the Physiologist, chaired by G.A. Meininger
and M.J. Davis; and, 2) Live Imaging, Whole Body/Animal Imaging,
organized by P.D. Bell.
The Physiology InFocus program, organized by Douglas
Eaton, is entitled “Cellular Signaling: New Ideas and Approaches and
Translational Research” and will feature a series of four symposia focusing
on: 1) Cellular Signaling with Atomic Force Microscopy, 2)
Cellular Signaling and the Role of Central Cilium in Polycystic Kidney
Disease, 3) The Lipid in Lipid Rafts: Lipids and Signaling
Molecules, and 4) Acute Lung Injury and Regulation of Alveolar
Fluid Clearance. Note that the first tutorial fits very nicely with the
first session of the InFocus program. This is something we have been trying
to accomplish each year there is an InFocus program.
The meeting will also feature sessions organized by the
APS Publications Department, Careers in Physiology Committee, Public Affairs
Committee, Women in Physiology Committee, Education Committee and the
Liaison with Industry Committee.
APS CONFERENCES
The 2004 APS Translational Research Conference
entitled “Immunological and Pathophysiological Mechanisms in Inflammatory
Bowel Disease,” organized by Matthew Grisham and Fabio Cominelli, was held
September 8-11, in Snowmass, CO. Fifty volunteered abstracts were received
and the total meeting attendance was 119, including 30 invited speakers.
The 2004 APS Intersociety Meeting entitled “Integrative
Biology of Exercise,” organized by Ronald Terjung, Chair was held October
6-9, in Austin, TX. The total meeting attendance was 606, including 68
invited speakers, and 337 volunteered abstracts.
The 2005 APS Conference entitled “Neurohypophyseal
Hormones: From Genomics and Physiology to Disease,” organized by Celia
Sladek, will be held July 16-20, 2005 at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort &
Conference Center Steamboat Springs, CO.
The 2006 APS Intersociety Meeting entitled “Comparative
Physiology 2006: Integrating Diversity,” organized by David Goldstein,
Chair, will be held October 8-11 in Virginia Beach, VA.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
The Committee is discussing the possibility of an
exchange program with the Australian Physiological Society (AuPS), as well
as a joint meeting with The (British) Physiological Society (TPS). The TPS
is requesting that a symposia (or several symposia) be developed for their
Main meeting of the Physiological Society to be held at University College
London (UCL) in July 2006. The APS would sponsor this meeting.
Curt D. Sigmund, Chair
Council Actions
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Council accepted the report of the Joint Program
Committee.
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Council approved entering into a speaker exchange
program with The Physiological Society (TPS); and authorized funding
needed for travel and lodging costs for the selected US speakers to attend
TPS’ annual meeting.
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