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2009 Joint Program Committee Report
Experimental Biology 2009: The 2009 EB Meeting was held in New
Orleans, LA, April 18-22 under the meeting-wide theme of “Today’s Research:
Tomorrow’s Health.” All scientific and poster sessions were well-attended
and overall enthusiasm for the meeting remains high. The primary
participating societies were: APS, ASPET (pharmacology), ASN (nutrition),
ASBMB (biochemistry), ASIP (pathology), and AAA (anatomy). AAI (immunology)
will no longer be affiliated with EB for the foreseeable future. APS hosted
five guest societies: The Microcirculatory Society (MCS), the Biomedical
Engineering Society (BMES), the American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR),
the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (SEBM), and the
Association of Latin American Physiological Societies (ALACF).
The APS portion of EB 2009 featured two unopposed Techniques and Technology
in Physiology Workshops on Saturday entitled, “Chronic Instrumentation in
Conscious Small Animals” and “Multi- Photon Imaging of Renal Regulatory
Mechanisms in vivo.”
APS also sponsored four “Cross-Sectional” Symposia entitled, “Novel Insights
into Nitric Oxide Signaling;” “ENaC/ASIC Proteins as Cardiovascular
Sensors;” “Breaking the Diffraction Barrier in Imaging of Molecules in
Living Cells;” and “Adrenal Corticosteroid Effects in the Central Nervous
System on the Long-Term Control of Blood Pressure.”
Out of a total of 5,021 volunteered abstracts submitted, 2,136 (42%) were
programmed by APS; an increase of 9% from EB 2008 when seven societies met.
Five hundred and twenty four abstracts were submitted by the late-breaking
deadline in February 2009. Of that, 138 (26%) were submitted to APS for
programming. Meeting attendance was below budget. The total meeting
attendance was 10,742 which represents the lowest attendance on record for a
six-society EB meeting. APS programmed 318 sessions in total: 183 poster
sessions, 61 symposia, 46 featured topics, 17 lectures, five workshops, and
one refresher course, two mini-symposia, and two awards sessions.
The Physiology InFocus program entitled, “Integrative and Systems
Physiology: An Approach to Understanding Organ Systems and Disease,” was
organized by Irving H. Zucker and included four symposia scheduled
throughout the meeting. These were entitled, “A Systems Approach to Disease
Mechanisms,” “Cardiac Ion Transport and Arrhythmias,” “An Integrative and
Systems Analysis of Membrane Transport,” and “Omics: The Changing Face of
Integrative Physiology.” The lectures included the 12 Section Distinguished
Lectureships, the MCS Landis Award Lecture, the WEH Section Young
Investigator Award lecture, the Physiology in Perspective—The Walter B.
Cannon Memorial Award Lecture, presented by Frank Abboud; The Henry
Pickering Bowditch Award Lecture, presented by Ann Schreihofer; and The
Walter C. Randall Lecture in Biomedical Ethics, presented by Peter Schwartz
which was delivered via a live webinar.
Experimental Biology 2010: The JPC met at EB 2009 on Saturday, April
18 to begin organizing EB 2010 that will be held Saturday April 24 through
Wednesday April 28 in Anaheim, CA. This EB also will be a six-society
meeting in the absence of AAI.
Total number of paid scientific registrants has been projected to be 9,931.
The JPC met on June 9, 2009 in Bethesda to finalize and schedule by day and
time the platform sessions. The Call for Abstracts and online abstract
submission site will be available by September 2009. The abstract deadline
will be November 4, 2009. EB 2010 will again provide for a late-breaking
abstract deadline, anticipated sometime in February 2010. The JPC received
16 Cross-Sectional symposium proposals of which four were approved: “Humoral
Factors in Renal Injury and Hypertension,” “Novel Redox Signaling in Ion
Channel Regulations and Pathophysiology,” “Regulation of Neuronal Cell
Volume: From Activation to Inhibition to Degeneration,” and “Endoplasmic
Reticulum Stress at the Crossroad Between Fatty Liver, Leptin Resistance,
Obesity and Diabetes.” In addition, two Techniques and Technology workshops
will be scheduled on the first day of EB 2010: “Computational Modeling and
Simulation as a Tool for Studying Physiological Processes,” and
“Microfluidics and Nanophotonics.” These workshops were designed to
complement the Physiology InFocus series organized by APS President Gary
Sieck.
The Physiology InFocus program entitled, Physiology and Biomedical
Engineering: Partners in Translational Research will feature a series of
four symposia: “Airway Smooth Muscle: Where Does It Come From, How Does It
Work, What Does It Do?,” “Physiology at the Crossroads of Biomedical
Engineering and Medicine,” “Preparing Students for Physiological
Complexity–Emphasizing Quantitative Skills,” and “One Hundred Years of
Starling: His Contributions to Physiology.” 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, Liaison with Industry Committee, and Trainee Advisory
Committee.
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