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APS-EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 2007—TENTATIVE PROGRAM

 


 

Physiology InFocus

Novel Technologies in Physiology and Medicine
Organized by: Dale J. Benos, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham

Experimental Evolution as a Tool of Physiological Analysis
Michael R. Rose

Novel Approaches to Structure-Function Relations in Membrane Transport Proteins
Christopher Miller

Forensic Medicine
Gregory G. Davis

Novel Technologies and Approaches in Imaging
P. Darwin Bell and Peter Komlosi

 

Societal Lectures 

Physiology in Perspective — The Walter B. Cannon Memorial Award Lecture
Title:
ATP-Sensitive K-Channels And Disease: From Molecule To Malady
Frances Mary Ashcroft,
Univ. of Oxford

Walter C. Randall Lecture on Biomedical Ethics: The Dark Side
Title:
Research Misconduct: How to Avoid, Prevent, Detect and Report
Sandra L. Titus
,  U.S. Dept. Hlth. & Human Services, Office of Res. Integrity
Title:
Motives, Ethics, and Responsibility in Research
David Prentice
, Family Research Council

Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Lecture
Title:
New Insight into the Regulation of ENaC by Small G Proteins and Phosphatidylinositides
James D. Stockand,
Univ. Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., San Antonio

Microcirculatory Society Landis Award Lecture
Title:
When pressure becomes a way of life
Gerald Meininger, Univ. of Missouri at Columbia

 

Section Distinguished Lectureships 

August Krogh Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section. Supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation
David R. Jones,
Univ. of British Columbia

Joseph Erlanger Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Central Nervous System Section
Eric Kandel,
Columbia Univ. Col. of P&S

Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Renal Section
Chris Baylis,
Univ. of Florida

Julius H. Comroe, Jr. Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Respiration Section
Brigid Hogan,
Duke Univ.

Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Neural Control & Autonomic Regulation Section
John Andrew Armour,
Univ. of Montreal

Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Gastrointestinal & Liver Physiology Section
Mark Donowitz,
Johns Hopkins Univ.

Claude Bernard Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Teaching of Physiology Section
Hilliard Jason
, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

Hugh Davson Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Cell & Molecular Physiology Section
David Clapham,
HHMI, Children's Hosp., Harvard

Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section
Jack A. Boulant,
Ohio State Univ.

Robert M. Berne Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Cardiovascular Section
William Sessa,
Yale Univ

Ernest H. Starling Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section
Pedro A. Jose
, Georgetown Univ.

Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Endocrinology & Metabolism Section
Roger D. Cone,
Oregon Hlth. Sci. Univ.

 

Workshops and Special Symposia 

Alternatives to Animal Experimentation Revisited
Linda A. Toth

Multiple Career Paths for a Physiologist: Understand your Options and How to Get There
Jennifer Pluznick and Erica Wehrwein

Being Heard: The Microinequities that Tilt the Playing Field
Kathleen Berecek, Susan Steinberg and Holly Brevig

Publishing 101: Dos and Don’ts of Publishing in APS Journals
Kim E. Barrett

Effective Use of Course Management Systems to Enhance Student Learning
Jonathan Kibble

Refresher Course in GI Physiology
P.K. Rangachari and B. Wilson

Making the Case for Federally-funded Research. Communicating with Congress: Worried about Funding Trends? Learn What You Can Do about It
Francis L. Belloni

Scientific Principles for Education Research (featured topic)
Barbara E. Goodman

Graduate Student Highlights in Respiration Physiology (poster discussion)
Susan Margulies and Judith Neubauer

Teaching about Evolution in a Biomedical Context
Jon Harrison

Guide for Successful Collaboration: From the Handshake to the Collaborative Research Agreement
Douglas G. Johns and Catherine F. T. Uyehara

Chronic Instrumentation in Conscious Small Animals
J.R. Haywood and Sue Mulroney

Human Subject Research Ethics: Issues for Going from Bench to Bedside
Michael Portman and Virginia Miller

Workshop on Emerging Techniques for Ion Channel Studies
Tzyh-Chang Hwang and Douglas Krafte

 

Career Track

Being Heard: The Microinequities that Tilt the Playing Field
Susan F. Steinberg
, Holly H. Brevig and Kathleen H. Berecek

Multiple Career Paths for a Physiologist: Understand your Options and How to Get There
Jennifer Pluznick and Erica Wehrwein

Guide for Successful Collaboration: From the Handshake to the Collaborative Research Agreement
Douglas G. Johns and Catherine F. T. Uyehara

Publishing 101: Dos and Don’ts of Publishing in APS Journals
Kim E. Barrett

 

Education Track

Alternatives to Animal Experimentation Revisited
Linda A. Toth

Scientific Principles for Education Research (featured topic)
Barbara E. Goodman

Effective Use of Course Management Systems to Enhance Student Learning
Jonathan Kibble

Walter C. Randall Lecture on Biomedical Ethics: The Dark Side
Sandra L. Titus
,  U.S. Dept. Hlth. & Human Services, Office of Res. Integrity
David Prentice
, Family Research Council

Making the Case for Federally-funded Research. Communicating with Congress: Worried about Funding Trends? Learn What You Can Do about It
Francis L. Belloni

Workshop on Chronic Instrumentation in Conscious Small Animals
J.R. Haywood

Human Subject Research Ethics: Issues for Going from Bench to Bedside
Michael Portman and Virginia Miller

Workshop on Emerging Techniques for Ion Channel Studies
Tzyh-Chang Hwang and Douglas Krafte

Refresher Course in GI Physiology
P.K. Rangachari and B. Wilson

 

  

Ion Channels Track

Lectures

Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Lecture
James D. Stockand,
Univ. Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., San Antonio

Physiology in Perspective — The Walter B. Cannon Memorial Award Lecture
Frances Mary Ashcroft,
Univ. of Oxford

Hugh Davson Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Cell & Molecular Physiology Section
David Clapham,
HHMI, Children's Hosp., Harvard

 

Workshop

Emerging Techniques for Ion Channel Studies
Tzyh-Chang (TC) Hwang and Douglas Krafte

 

Symposia

Interrelations between Transcellular Ion Transport Function and Paracellular Tight Junctional Properties in Lung Epithelial and Endothelial Barriers
Kwang-Jin Kim and Simon Lewis

Two-Pore Domain Potassium Channels: Vascular Control by a Newly Discovered Channel Family
Robert M. Bryan, Jr. and Arthur Weston

Physiology InFocus—Novel Technologies in Physiology and Medicine: Novel Approaches to Structure-Function Relations in Membrane Transport Proteins
Christopher Miller

 

Featured Topic

Ion Channels
Peter Snyder and Estelle Cormet-Boyaka

Novel Ion Channels in Neuro-Cardiovascular Regulation: Focus on ASIC and TRP Channels
Francois Abboud

 

Metabolic Abnormalities Track

Symposia

Insulin Resistance and the Cardiometabolic Syndrome:  Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle Factors
James R. Sowers and Craig S. Stump

Obesity and the Central Nervous System
Steve Mifflin and Alison Strack

Metabolomic Approaches to Study Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms and Diagnosis
Christopher Hardin and Chris Newgard

Role of Adipose Tissue Macrophages in Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance
Meredith Hawkins

Featured Topics

Adipocyte Hormones: Focus on Adiponectin
Willis K. Samson

The Impact of Fatty Acids and Glucose on Insulin Resistance Across Species
Karen L. Sweazea and Eldon J. Braun

 

Public Policy Track

Symposia

Alternatives to Animal Experimentation Revisited
Linda A. Toth

NIH at the Crossroads: How Diminished Funds Will Impact Biomedical Research and What Scientists Can Do About It
Leo Furcht

Human Subject Research Ethics: Issues for Going from Bench to Bedside
Michael Portman and Virginia Miller

Teaching about Evolution in a Biomedical Context
Jon Harrison

Making the Case for Federally-funded Research. Communicating with Congress: Worried about Funding Trends? Learn What You Can Do about It
Francis L. Belloni,
New York Med. Col.

Walter C. Randall Lecture on Biomedical Ethics: The Dark Side
Sandra L. Titus
,  U.S. Dept. Hlth. & Human Services, Office of Res. Integrity
David Prentice
, Family Research Council
 

Experimental Biology 2007 Capitol Hill Visits

 

Oxidative Stress/Hypoxia Track

Symposia

Hypoxia and Cancer
Gregg L. Semenza

Respiratory Control in Insects: Integration from the Gene to the Organism
Scott Kirkton

Neural Plasticity of the Hypoxic Reflex: Carotid Bodies, NTS and Pons
Chi-Sang Poon and David D. Kline

 

Featured Topics

Mitochondrial Mechanisms in Cerebrovascular Function in Health and Disease
David W. Busija

O2 Sensing by Central Nervous System
Irene Solomon and Judith Neubauer

 

Translational Physiology Track

Lecture

Julius H. Comroe, Jr. Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Respiration Section
Brigid Hogan,
Duke Univ.

 

Symposia

Biomarkers of Acute Kidney Injury- Early Diagnosis, Pathogenesis and Recovery
Chirag Parikh

Pharmacogenomics of Estrogen and Cardiovascular Disease
Virginia M. Miller and S. Mitchell Harman

Breakthroughs in Protection of the Ischemic Heart
Steven P. Jones

PPARγ : a Novel Molecular Target in Lung Disease
Mike Hart

Drug Discovery Efforts for Pain Indications:  Ion Channels and GPCRs
Michael F.A. Finley and William Martin

Stem Cells in Physiology and Drug Discovery
Chahrzad Montrose-Rafizadeh and Brigid Hogan

Featured Topics

Roles of Intestinal Epithelia and Bacteria in Inflammatory Disease
Jerrold R. Turner

 

 

Transporters Track

Symposia

Molecular Regulation of Renal Epithelial Transport Proteins in the Nephron: Lessons from Ontogeny and Disease
Young Hee Kim and Lisa M. Satlin

The SLC26 Transporter Family and Epithelial Function
Michael A. Gray

Novel Aspects of the Regulation and Physiology of NHE1
Diane Barber and Stine Falsig Pedersen

Transport-Metabolism Coupling through AMPK
Kenneth Hallows and Alicia McDonough

Featured Topics

Molecular Physiology of Cation-Coupled Bicarbonate Transporters
Mark O. Bevensee and Irina I. Grichtchenko

Renal Transporters
A. McDonough and Nuria Pastor-Soler

 

Additional Symposia

Calcific Aortic Valve Disease:  A Disease Process Comes of Age?
Kevin D. O'Brien and Emile R. Mohler III

Mechanotransduction Mechanisms of Muscle Hypertrophy:  Translation from Rodent to Human Studies
Marcas M. Bamman

Comparative Genomics: Linking Noncoding DNA to Biology and Disease
Marcelo Nobrega

Microcirculatory Society President's Symposium: Frontiers of Microcirculation
Timothy W. Secomb

Connexins and the Kidney
Janos Peti-Peterdi and Klaus Willecke

MCS Young Investigator Symposium: Computational Microcirculation
Timothy W. Secomb

A. Clifford Barger Memorial Symposium: Control Mechanisms of Renin Synthesis and Release: a 21st Century Perspective
Pontus Persson and Heimo Ehmke

Muscle Mechanics: Molecular Properties to Contractile Function
Kenneth S. Campbell

Emerging Insights into the Purinergic Signaling in Renal, Pulmonary and Microvascular Physiology and Pathophysiology
Bellamkonda K. Kishore and Edward W. Inscho

Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine in SEBM's Second Century
Burton E. Sobel and Charles A. Blake

Endothelial Cell Mechanobiology: Pathologies and Mechanisms of Mechanotransduction
Peter J. Butler and John Tarbell

Neurocardiology – How a Big Heart Engaged Neural Complexity and Opened Our Eyes
Jeffrey Ardell

Engineering Vascular Cell Function Using Nanoscale Cues
Brian P. Helmke and Richard J. Price

Neuroimmuno Interactions
Valeria Rettori and José Antunes-Rodrigues

Epithelial Development, Disease, and Regeneration
Caroline R. Sussman

New Horizons in Cardiovascular Aging
Gabor Kaley and Zoltan Ungvari

Estrogen and the Cardiovascular System
Mark C. Chappell

Physiological Genomics: From Bench to Bedside
Susan Old and Melinda Dwinell

Exercise Hyperemia: Are there any Answers Yet?
Michael J. Joyner and Bengt Saltin

Protein O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc): Nutrient Sensor and Modulator of Cardiovascular Function
Amy J. Davidoff and Anne-Marie Seymour

Frontiers in the Cellular and Molecular Physiology of the Hepatic Microcirculation
Robert W. Brock and Alison Fox-Robichaud

Suspended Animation – Fact or Fiction?
Lisa R. Leon and Kathy L. Ryan

Functional Imaging of Autonomic Circuits: New Frontiers in Optical Approaches and Applications
Jeffrey Potts and Robert Rogers

Ultra Fast and Ultra Active: The Strange Life of Extraocular Muscles
Francisco Andrade

Heart Failure and Exercise: Autonomic and Cardiovascular Responses
Lawrence Sinoway

Understanding the Role of the Pancreas in Digestion: Placing Current Understanding in a Historical Perspective
John Williams and Joel Adelson

Intercellular Regulation of Smooth Muscle Contraction
Michael Sanderson and Susan Gunst

Use of Genome Variation in Understanding Complex Disease and Genomic Regulation
Anne Kwitek and Monika Stoll

Linking Molecular Profile to Physiology
Mingyu Liang and Norman H. Lee

What Have We Learned about Respiratory Control from the Use of Transgenic Models?
Judith A. Neubauer and Claude Gaultier

Mechanotransduction in Cell Migration
Song Li

 

 

Additional Featured Topics

Activity-Dependent Gene Expression
David Hood

Hypertension: Integrated Mechanisms and Sequelae
Gabriel Navar and Joey Granger

Angiogenesis and Cell-Based Therapies
Hua (Linda) Cai and Joyce Bischoff

Muscle Fatigue
Jean-Marc Renaud

Carl J. Wiggers Award Featured Topic
Charles Antzelevitch

Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Seciton Trainee Featured Topic
TBA

Circadian Rhythms: From Animals to Humans
Roberto Refinetti

Neural-Glial-Vascular Communication in the Brain
Jessica Filosa and Eric A. Newman

Control of Coronary Blood Flow
William M. Chilian

New Insights on Adaptations to Environmental and Metabolic Stress From Genomics and Proteomic Studies
Severine Kirchner and Ronaldo Ferraris

Current Concepts in the Control of Skin Blood Flow in Humans
Craig Crandall and John Johnson

Osmoregulatory Function in Health and Disease
Sean D. Stocker and Ann M. Schreihofer

Diabetic Vascular Disease: Pathology and Mechanisms
K. Chitaley

Osmoregulatory Signaling
Maurice B. Burg

Disorders of the Enteric Nervous System
Shanthi Srinivasan

Phenotype and Functional Plasticity of Pulmonary Airway and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Health and Disease
Andrew J. Halayko and Kurt Stenmark

Donald Reis Memorial Featured Topic
Deborah A. Scheuer

Receptor Biology and Intracellular Signalling
Nicholas Flavahan

Emerging Properties and Concepts in Respiratory Rhythm Generation
Donald R. McCrimmon and William K. Milsom

Renal Section Young Investigator Award Featured Topic
Volker Vallon

Endothelial and Epithelial Signaling in Lung
Jahar Bhattacharya

Role of ATP Receptors in Respiratory Responses Point/Counter-point: ATP Receptors underlie Central CO2 Sensitivity (or not)
Gregory D. Funk and Estelle Gauda

Energy Balance, Cancer and Diabetes
Thomas Nosek

Role of L-Arginine Metabolism in Cardiovascular/Renal Disease
Fruzsina K. Johnson

Experimental and Computational Approaches for Integrating Genome, Phenome, Transcriptome, and Proteome
Pek Yee Lum

Sex Steroids in Cardiovascular-Renal Physiology
Jane F. Reckelhoff and Carmen Hinojosa-Laborde

Gap Junctions Mediating Cell-Cell Communication in the Vascular Wall
Brant E. Isakson

The Vascular Supply during Aging
Steven S. Segal

Growth Factors, Proliferation and Differentiation in the Gastrointestinal System
Yana Zavros