Education

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows Receive
tum Suden/Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Awards

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who were first authors on an abstract submitted to Experimental Biology 2006 in San Francisco, CA were eligible to apply for the Caroline tum Suden/Frances A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award. The APS Women in Physiology Committee, chaired by Siribhinya Benyajati, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, selected 36 awardees from a pool of 134 applicants. Applicants were chosen based on the quality and novelty of their abstracts, and letters written by the candidates describing their career goals, research, and why they were particularly deserving of the award. Each awardee received $500, a certificate of recognition, and complimentary registration for the EB 2006 meeting. Awards were presented during the APS Business Meeting. Awardees were:

Kyan J. Allahdadi, Univ. of New Mexico
Diego F. Alvarez, Univ. of South Alabama
Lavanya Balasubramanian, Univ. of South Florida
Jennifer M. Bomberger, Dartmouth Medical School
Brad Broughton, Univ. of New Mexico
Melissa A. Burmeister, Univ. of Iowa
Chin Chen, Stanford Univ.
Tom Cherng, Univ. of New Mexico
Emily Cordas, Dartmouth Medical School
F. Spencer Gaskin, Univ. of Missouri
Bryan G. Helwig, Kansas State Univ.
Darren Hoffmann, Univ. of Iowa
Lacy A. Holowatz, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Belinda L. Houghton, Univ. College Cork, Ireland
James C. Hunter, Univ. of Michigan
Eric Ispanovic, York Univ., Toronto
Sherry Kasper, Univ. of Tennessee Medical Center
Karen R. Kelly, Univ. of Southern California
Tarek M. Mousa, Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center
Stella A. Nicolaou, Univ. of Cinncinati
Carrie A. Northcott, Michigan State Univ.
Zsuzsanna Orosz, New York Medical College
Rebecca R. Quesnell, Kansas State Univ.
Marcella Raney, Univ. of Southern California
Paul A. Rogers, Louisiana State Univ. HSC
Jeffrey R. Scott, Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Center, Harvard
Guillermo Silva, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
Wook Song, Univ. of Texas HSC, San Antonio
Madelyn Stumpf, St. Louis Univ. School of Medicine
Wei Tan, Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
Janos Toth, New York Medical College
Johana Vallejo-Rodriguez, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Patricia Westmoreland, Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine
Julia E.R. Wilkerson, Univ. of Wisconsin
Paulette M. Yamada, Univ. of New Mexico
Weirong Zhang, Univ. of Texas HSC, San Antonio
 

2006 Caroline tum Suden/Frances A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Awardees and Siribhinya Benyajati, Chair, APS Women in Physiology Committee.

 

Undergraduate Students Receive David S. Bruce Awards for
Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Four undergraduate students who were first authors on abstracts submitted to Experimental Biology 2006 in San Francisco, CA received David S. Bruce Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. The APS Education Committee, chaired by Robert G. Carroll, East Carolina University, initially selected 12 finalists from a pool of 28 applicants. Finalists were chosen based on the quality and novelty of their abstracts and letters written by the candidates describing their career goals, their role in the research, and the significance of the research. The 12 finalists were:
Manasi Bhate, Oberlin College/Vanderbilt Univ.
Carol W. Y. Chan, Univ. of Calgary
Jennifer M. Edwards, Michigan State Univ.
Adrian A. Feijoo, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore/Tripler Army Medical Center
Jon C. Gonzales, Colorado State Univ.
David G. Ingram, Univ. of Missouri
Mary E. McCarty, Tulane Univ.
Robert A. Overton, Jr., Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte
Kate E.R. Russell. Bates College
Julia C. Simons, Bates College
Marissa L. Smith, Radford Univ.
Gillian L. Sowden, Williams College

These students then made oral presentations of their posters to a subcommittee chaired by Robin Looft-Wilson (The College of William & Mary). Four awardees were selected based on their knowledge of their research project. Each awardee received $500 and a certificate of recognition. Awards were presented by Carroll and President Douglas Eaton during a special APS Undergraduate Poster Session at EB 2006. The awardees were:
Manasi Bhate, Oberlin College/Vanderbilt Univ.
Jennifer M. Edwards, Michigan State Univ.
Jon C. Gonzales, Colorado State Univ.
Gillian L. Sowden, Williams College

APS congratulates all these students on the quality of their research and presentations.
The APS award is named in honor of APS member David S. Bruce (1939–2000), who served as Chair of the APS Teaching Section and was a professor of physiology at Wheaton College from 1978-2000. Bruce was a dedicated physiology educator who had a particular interest in engaging undergraduate students in scientific research. Bruce not only encouraged and supported his students in participating in research, but he also regularly brought undergraduate students to the Experimental Biology meeting, often to present their research findings. For more information, visit the APS website at http://www.the-aps.org/awards/student/bruce.htm.

 

The 2006 David S.Bruce Award Finalists.

   The 2006 David S. Bruce Award Awardees.

Luncheon and Presentations Honor APS Summer Research Teachers and Hosts

Twenty middle and high school science teachers joined thousands of researchers to learn about cutting edge research at EB 2006. The EB experience serves as the culminating activity of their 12-month fellowship as 2005 Frontiers in Physiology and Explorations in Biomedicine summer Research Teachers (RTs). During the meeting, teachers learned about the latest science research findings, met with physiologists, attended workshops, and toured the posters and exhibits. Several of the RTs also presented posters about their summer research projects along with their research hosts and lab teams.
The 2005 Summer Research Teachers and their APS member Research Hosts were honored at a luncheon during EB 2006. Teachers received certificates of achievement for completing the 12-month fellowship and their Research Hosts were presented certificates of appreciation for their participation. Robert Carroll, Chair of the Education Committee, served as the master of ceremonies. President Douglas Eaton and Executive Director Martin Frank offered their congratulations while presenting certificates to the teachers and their hosts. Also recognized were the six dedicated Mentor/Instructors, who, as former RTs, skillfully guided the 2005 Research Teachers through their fellowship year and the 2005 Physiologists-in-Residence, Andrea Gwosdow, Gwosdow Associates, and Rudy M. Ortiz, Univ. of California, Merced.
The Frontiers in Physiology and Explorations in Biomedicine programs are designed to create ongoing relationships between research scientists and middle and high school teachers; and to promote the adoption of the National Science Education Standards for K-12 science content and pedagogical techniques among middle and high school teachers. The Explorations in Biomedicine project works intensively with the science faculty at schools and tribal colleges that serve Native American students to create an atmosphere that encourages science studies, and the exploration and pursuit of biomedical research careers.
The Summer Research program offers teachers nationwide a full-time, hands-on laboratory experience for seven to eight weeks at APS members’ research labs. Teachers also attend a one-week workshop at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, VA, where they explore hands-on, inquiry based teaching strategies, consider classroom equity and technology-use issues, and begin to develop their own inquiry lab activities.
Frontiers in Physiology is sponsored by APS, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health. The Explorations in Biomedicine program is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS Grant #GM08634), Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program.
More information about these programs is available on the APS website at http://www.the-aps.org/education/edu_k12.htm.
 

2005 Research Teachers and their Research Hosts.

Undergraduate Research Highlighted at Special EB Session

EB 2006 provided the setting for the third annual APS Undergraduate Poster Session. This special session highlights the contributions of undergraduate students to physiology research. Students present their poster at both their regularly scheduled poster session and the special Undergraduate Poster Session. As in previous years, it was held Sunday afternoon of the EB meeting and culminated in the presentation of the David S. Bruce Awards.
Of the 114 undergraduate first authors invited to present at the APS Undergraduate Poster Session, 96 accepted the invitation, but more than 120 undergraduates came to the session and took advantage of the opportunity to display their poster and present it to interested scientists and guests. The session not only provided undergraduate students with an opportunity to highlight their research but also to meet faculty from many graduate schools and medical schools to discuss their future plans. Approximately 200 APS members and guests were in attendance at the session, with many comments heard as to the high quality of research being presented by the students. The students and their research were highlighted again this year in a special printed program distributed during the session.
For the first time, graduate departments were invited to sponsor the session and display promotional materials for their departments to those undergraduates considering graduate school. The Department of Physiology Graduate Programs at Georgetown University, the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the Department of Physiology at the University of Mississippi Medical School helped to sponsor the session. The departments received a list of undergraduate presenters who indicated they would be interested in attending graduate school.
APS looks forward to hosting APS Undergraduate Poster Sessions at future Experimental Biology meetings and encourages APS members’ undergraduate students to submit abstracts for EB, apply for the David Bruce award, and attend the poster session in 2007. Department chairs who are interested in sponsoring the 2007 Undergraduate Poster Session and displaying materials for their departments are encouraged to contact Melinda Lowy of the APS Education Office (mlowy@the-aps.org).

President-elect Dale J. Benos and APS member Rajiv Janardhanan talk with undergraduate students about their posters.

 

Faculty members from the Department of Physiology at the University of Mississippi Medical School, talk with an undergraduate student about their graduate program. The department was one of the session sponsors.

2006-2007 Porter Physiology Fellows Announced

The APS and Porter Physiology Development Committee congratulate the 2006-2007 APS Porter Physiology Fellows:
Andrew J. Clark, Univ. of California, Irvine
Lymari López-Díaz, Univ. of Michigan
Jeffrey B. Mason, Univ. of California, Davis
Kristy M. Nicks, Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Adrienne L. Orr, Stanford Univ.
Brandi A. Thompson, Univ. of Michigan
Ricardo A. Valenzuela, Stanford Univ.
LaShon C. Sturgis, Medical College of Georgia

LaShon Sturgis was named the 2006-2007 Merck Fellow in honor of Merck & Co., Inc., a Porter program contributor, highlighting the fact that she had the highest ranked application of all the new applicants to the program. Lymari López-Díaz, the 2005-2006 Merck Fellow, was named the 2006-2007 Eleanor Ison-Franklin Fellow in honor of Franklin, the past Co-Chair of the Porter Committee, indicating that she had the highest ranked application among the renewal applicants.

The Porter Physiology Fellowships for minorities are one-year fellowships that provide a stipend of $20,772. The fellowships are open to underrepresented ethnic minority applicants (African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Native Alaskans, or Pacific Islanders) who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its territories. Applicants must have been accepted into or currently be enrolled in a graduate program pursuing an advanced degree in the physiological sciences. For more information, see the APS website at http://www.the-aps.org/education/minority_prog/stu_fellows/porter_phy/ov_pp.htm or contact Melinda Lowy in the APS Education Office at education@the-aps.org or 301-634-7132. The deadline for 2007-2008 applications is January 15, 2007.

San Francisco Science Teachers and Students Explore Physiology at EB 2006
 
More than 160 San Francisco area high school teachers and students participated in the Physiology for Life Science Teachers and Students Workshop at EB 2006. The workshop included a keynote presentation, a careers panel discussion, lunch, and hands-on physiology workshops for the teachers and students. During this jam-packed day, participants learned about current research findings, explored hands-on, inquiry based lab activities, learned about education and careers in biomedicine, met with APS researchers, and toured the EB posters and exhibits. Education Committee member, Peter Farrell, East Carolina University, coordinated the day’s events and Robert Carroll, Eastern Carolina University, Chair of the Education Committee, served as the master of ceremonies.
 

Jim Pawelczyk explains physiological problems during space travel.

The keynote talk, “What Price a Martian? Human Limits to Exploring the Red Planet,” was given by APS member and former astronaut Jim Pawelczyk of Penn State University. Pawelczyk outlined the human physiology research questions that must be answered to launch a successful mission to Mars. He went on to challenge the high school students, pointing out that their generation would provide the physiologists and engineers who would find solutions to issues such as radiation exposure and osteoporosis. The keynote was followed by a Careers in Physiology Panel Discussion. APS members Ken Baldwin of Univ. of California, Irvine, Rudy Ortiz of Univ. of California, Merced, Jim Pawelczyk of Penn State, and Todd Trappe of Ball State University discussed the excitement of research careers in physiology and the training required to become a physiologist. Twenty APS members served as tour guides during lunch where they took teachers and students through exhibits and posters and shared a box lunch while discussing physiology careers.
The afternoon student session was led by Barb Goodman of Univ. of North Dakota with assistance from Peter Farrell, Jeff Osborn of Univ. of Kentucky, Robin Looft-Wilson of College of William & Mary, and Rayna Gonzales of Univ. of California, Irvine. Students used the “Elvis Experiments” from the APS “Physiology of Fitness” unit to learn about factors affecting flow of liquids through tubing (radius, length, viscosity). While students were conducting their experiments, their teachers (as well as the 2005 Research Teachers) participated in workshop activities on proprioception and the respiratory system, with presentations by Indianapolis teachers Greg McCurdy and George Potter. As in the past, feedback from both teachers and students was very positive and students were especially excited to meet physiologists one-on-one. The committee is planning to continue the program in 2007 in Washington.
The Frontiers in Physiology and Explorations in Biomedicine programs are designed to create ongoing working relationships between research scientists and middle/high school teachers via research and inservice experiences and electronic communications. Additionally, these programs promote the adoption of national standards for K-12 content and pedagogical techniques among middle and high school science teachers through ongoing inservice activities developed collaboratively by teachers and physiology researchers.

 

Students explore the effects of viscosity on flow rates.


Frontiers in Physiology is a program of APS, and is sponsored by APS, the National Center for Research Resources, Science Education Partnership Awards, and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. The Explorations in Biomedicine project works intensively with the science faculty at Montana schools and tribal colleges that serve Native American students to create an atmosphere that encourages science studies, the exploration and pursuit of biomedical research careers, and opportunities for students to interact with biomedical researchers in their geographic area and across the nation. The overall goal of this project is to increase interest and participation in biomedical research careers among Native American students. Explorations in Biomedicine is a collaborative program of APS and the American Indian Research Opportunities Consortium and is supported by a grant from the NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences Minority Access to Research Careers Program.
For more information about these APS programs, please visit the APS website at: http://www.the-aps.org/education.htm.

 

 

 

Teachers design a tool to measure vital lung capacity.

  

Rudy Ortiz describes his career as a physiologist.

 

Navar Receives Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award
The APS Women in Physiology Committee hosted a reception at Experimental Biology 2006 to honor L. Gabriel Navar, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and co-Director of the Tulane Renal and Hypertension Center of Excellence at Tulane University School of Medicine, as the third recipient of the Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award.
More than 75 trainees, EB awardees, and colleagues gathered to celebrate the award and hear Navar’s award lecture entitled, “From Mentee to Mentor: Lessons Learned Along the Way.” The talk will be published in a future issue of The Physiologist and posted on the APS Mentoring web site (http://www.the-aps.org/career). Lisa Harrison-Bernard (Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center), who coordinated the nomination of Navar for the award, was present to introduce him. The award was presented to Navar by Siribhinya Benyajati, Chair of the Women in Physiology Committee, and Douglas Eaton, President of the APS.
Navar received his PhD at the University of Mississippi under the direction of Arthur Guyton. He served as a faculty member at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham prior to his appointment as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology at Tulane University in 1988. Navar has a highly successful research program, contributing significantly to fundamental research in the fields of renal hemodynamics and hypertension. Navar’s excellence in scientific research has been honored with awards from the American Physiological Society, the American Heart Association, and the American Society of Hypertension.
Navar’s career as a mentor has been exemplary, having mentored 21 predoctoral students, 42 postdoctoral fellows, and four visiting scientists over the past 40 years. These mentees have gone on to a wide variety of positions in both academia and medicine and are leading successful scientific careers. Many of those who wrote the supporting recommendation letters attested to Navar’s unique mentoring style, his commitment to life-long mentoring of trainees, his scientific integrity, his love of science, his role in introducing trainees to experts in the field, and his ability to make his trainees feel like family. As summed up by one of Navar’s mentees, “Despite his considerable scientific contributions, his most important, and enduring legacy can be found in the lives, careers and contributions of the people he has trained and shaped throughout his career. These individuals were set upon their career paths after having been prepared and nurtured under Dr. Navar’s supervision.” 
APS congratulates Dr. Navar on this well-deserved honor.
APS members are encouraged to nominate members for the 2007 Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Award. For more information, see the APS website (http://www.the-aps.org/awards/society/schmidt-nielsen.htm). Application deadline is September 15, 2006.

APS President Douglas C. Eaton presents the 2006 Bodil Schmidt Nielsen Distinguished Mentor Award to L. Gabriel Navar.

New Program Improves Trainees’ Writing and Reviewing Skills

Nearly 80 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from four biomedical fields honed their writing skills at two three-day APS Professional Skills Workshops on “Writing and Reviewing for Scientific Journals” (January 12-15 in Orlando, FL; May 4-7 in Denver, CO). The courses were supported by a grant to the APS from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH Grant #GM073062-01).

The workshops allowed attendees to:
Ź improve their skills at writing and submitting manuscripts;
Ź learn how to better respond to reviewer criticisms;
Ź learn how to be a good reviewer themselves;
Ź find out how their skills in these areas will impact their career advancement;
Ź discover how diversity issues can influence how they write and review manuscripts;
Ź learn about resources that can further develop their writing and reviewing skills.
The workshops were especially designed for underrepresented minority students. They brought together trainees from APS as well as from three partner societies: [American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Society for Developmental Biology (SDB), and Society for Neuroscience (SfN)].
Trainee participants worked in small groups of four matched with an established biomedical researcher in their field from one of the four societies to better enable them to receive individualized training and hands-on training at writing and reviewing their own writing and that of their colleagues, as well as allowing for networking opportunities within their field of study.
APS thanks the following group leaders for their hard work and dedication to the students:
Kim Barrett, Univ. of California, San Diego (both workshops)
Françoise Chanut, Univ. of California, San Francisco (SfN)
Robert Hester, Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
Barbara Horwitz, Univ. of California, Davis (both workshops)
Mark Knuepfer, Saint Louis Univ. (both workshops)
Charles Lang, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Larry McDaniel, Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center (ASM)
Lori McMahon, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
Mary Montgomery, Macalester College (SDB)
Jo Morello, The Univ. of Chicago (ASM)
Judith Neubauer, UMDNJ, RW Johnson Med. School (both workshops)
Joan Slonczewski, Kenyon College (ASM)
Sharif Taha, Univ. of California, San Francisco (SfN)
Cathy Uyehara, Tripler Army Medical Center
R. Clinton Webb, Medical College of Georgia
Charles Wood, Univ. of Florida Coll. Med.
In addition, invited speakers offered plenary talks on specific topics associated with writing and reviewing for journals. They were:
Francis Belloni, New York Medical College
Dale Benos, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
Martin Farias, Univ. of Texas Southwestern
Gregory Florant, Colorado State Univ.
Yolanda George, AAAS, Deputy Director, Education and Human Resources
Irving Joshua, Univ. of Louisville, School of Medicine
Melinda Lowy, APS (both workshops)
Patricia Molina, Louisiana State Univ. HSC, New Orleans
Evangeline Motley-Johnson, Meharry Medical College
Rudy Ortiz, Univ. of California, Merced
Margaret Reich, APS (both workshops)
Alberto Roca, Co-chair, SACNAS Postdoc Committee
Irving H. Zucker, Univ. of Nebraska College of Medicine

In January and May 2007, the APS will hold its next Professional Skills workshops, focusing on presentation skills. The workshop will be developed by the members of the Professional Skills Advisory Board. For more information or to sign up for email notification of the next short course, see the Professional Skills website at http://www.the-aps.org/education/professionalskills/.
   
Patricia Molina, Sarif Taha (Society for Neuroscience), and Irving Joshua respond to questions on abstracts and titles at the second workshop.   Lori McMahon's group discusses a manuscript at the first workshop.   Mark Knuepfer's group discusses a manuscript at the second workshop.

2006 APS/NIDDK Minority Travel Fellows Attend Experimental Biology in San Francisco
 
The APS regularly awards Travel Fellowships for underrepresented minority scientists and students to attend APS scientific meetings with funds provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). These Fellowships provide funds for registration, transportation, meals, and lodging for travel to a meeting location, as well as complimentary meeting registration. Fifty-two Fellows attended the APS annual meeting, “Experimental Biology” (EB) in San Francisco, CA from April 1-5, 2006.

APS Executive Director, Martin Frank, thanks Rudy Ortiz, for his talk at the NIDDK luncheon.


Fellows in the NIDDK Minority Travel program not only received financial support to attend these meetings, but were also provided professional guidance through pairings with APS members who served as mentors to the Fellows for the duration of the conference. Thanks to the time and expertise offered by mentor volunteers, Fellows were able to maximize their time and more fully experience the many aspects of each conference.
During EB, Fellows attended an orientation and reception on Saturday afternoon and a luncheon on Wednesday. This year, the luncheon speaker was Rudy Ortiz, Univ. of California, Merced. Ortiz discussed opportunities for trainees within the APS and how membership in the Society is beneficial to them. An optional networking breakfast was also scheduled on Monday morning.
The travel awards are open to graduate students, postdoctoral students, and advanced undergraduate students from minority groups underrepresented in science (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders). Students must be US citizens or permanent residents. The specific intent of this award is to increase participation of pre- and postdoctoral minority students in the physiological sciences. For more information, contact Brooke Bruthers in the APS Education Office at 301-634-7132 or bbruthers@the-aps.org, or visit http://www.the-aps.org/education/minority_prog/index.htm on the APS website.
Fellows at “Experimental Biology 2006”:
Nancy M. Aguilar-Roca, Univ. of California, Irvine
Christophe Arteaga, Barry Univ.
Julio E. Ayala, Vanderbilt Univ.
Kimberly M. Benavidez, New Mexico State Univ.
Sydella Blatch, Arizona State Univ.
Jessica M. Bryant, Univ. of New Mexico
Sonya D. Coaxum, Medical Univ. of South Carolina
Nildris Cruz-Diaz, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Med. Sci. Campus
Marielly Cuevas-Torres, Ponce School of Medicine
Maria E. Davila, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center
Adetokunbo Omolola Enioza, Baylor College of Medicine
Natasha L. Escobar, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Med. Sci. Campus
Tina C. Franklin, Barry Univ.
Jose O. Garcia Colon, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Med. Sci. Campus
Shea Gilliam-Davis, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine
Anjelica L. Gonzalez-Simon, Baylor College of Medicine
James E. Harris, Auburn Univ.
Raelina Howell, Univ. of Maryland-Baltimore County
Nikki Jernigan, Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
Alie Kanu, Univ. of Tennessee Health Science Center
Dexter L. Lee, Medical College of Georgia
Lymari Lopez-Diaz, Univ. of Michigan
Alberto W. Mares, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio
Christopher Mendias, Univ. of Michigan
Raissa Menendez-Delmestre, Univ. of Puerto Rico
Javier A. Pagan Gutierrez, Ponce School of Medicine
Beatriz Pagan-Ortiz, Ponce School of Medicine
Phillip D. Palmer, Meharry Medical College
Myla M. Patterson, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Karl Pendergrass, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine
Arnaldo Michel Pica, Univ. of Med. & Dentistry of New Jersey
Manu O. Platt, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rhonda Prisby, West Virginia Univ. School of Medicine
Edelmarie Rivera De Jesus, Ponce School of Medicine
Jesus Salazar, Univ. of Michigan
Juliana K. Sampson, Univ. of California at Davis
Hiromi Sanders, East Carolina Univ.
Olga I. Santiago-Maldonado, Ponce School of Medicine
Cariluz Santiago-Ortiz, Ponce School of Medicine
Geidy E. Serrano, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Med. Sci. Campus
Haroldo Souza Silva, Florida International Univ.
Aerial L. Singleton, New Mexico State Univ.
Mesia Moore Steed, Univ. of Louisville
Keshari Thakali, Michigan State Univ.
Candice Thomas, Univ. of Louisville
Samantha N. Torres, Univ. of New Mexico
Johana Vallejo-Rodriguez, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Wanda H. Vila-Carriles, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Julia E. R. Wilkerson, Univ. of Wisconsin
Keisa Williams Mathis, LSU Health Sciences Center
Brett J. Wong, Univ. of Iowa
Paulette M. Yamada, Univ. of New Mexico.
APS Mentors at “Experimental Biology 2006”:
Alice R. Villalobos, Univ. of Rochester School of & Dentistry
Johana Vallejo-Rodriguez, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Rudy Ortiz, Univ. of California, Merced
Stephen C. Wood, Ross Univ. School of Medicine
Siribhinya Benyajati, Univ. of Oklahoma HSC
Rolando E. Rumbaut, Baylor College of Medicine &
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Merry L. Lindsey, Univ. of Texas HSC, San Antonio
Jerrold R. Turner, The Univ. of Chicago
Catherine F.T. Uyehara, Tripler Army Medical Center
Asrar B. Malik, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Peter A. Farrell, East Carolina Univ.
Stephen J. Crozier, The Univ. of Michigan
Catherine M. Fuller, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Cynthia Ann Jackson, Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center
Rayna J. Gonzales, Univ. of California, Irvine School of Med.
Thomas C. Herzig, Medical Service Corps, US Navy
Keshari Thakali, Michigan State Univ.
Virginia M. Miller, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Judy M. Delp, West Virginia Univ.
Margaret Brosnan, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
David Robertshaw, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Gregory L. Florant, Colorado State Univ.
Patricia E. Molina, Louisianna State Univ., HSC
Dexter L. Lee, Medical College of Georgia
Christian Lytle, Univ. of California, Riverside
David M. Pollock, Medical College of Georgia
Kathleen H. Berecek, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Sonya D. Coaxum, Medical Univ. of South Carolina
Jennifer S. Pollock, Medical College of Georgia
Roy L. Sutliff, Emory Univ./Atlanta VAMC
Thomas C. Resta, Univ. of New Mexico
Mark M. Knuepfer, St. Louis Univ. School of Medicine
Evangeline D. Motley, Meharry Medical College
Gina Schatteman, Univ. of Iowa
William R. Galey, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Barbara T. Alexander, Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
Adebayo O. Oyekan, Texas Southern Univ.
Morton I. Cohen, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Marco E. Cabrera, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Nansie A. McHugh, Huntingdon Life Sciences
Lisa M. Harrison-Bernard, Louisianna State Univ., HSC
William Chilian, Louisiana State Univ.HSC
Kendall F. Morris, Univ. of South Florida College of Medicine
Ollie Kelly, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
Carole M. Liedtke, Case Western Reserve Univ.,
C. Subah Packer, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine
Charles H. Lang, Penn State College Medicine
John B. Buckwalter, Medical College of Wisconsin
Karen A. Carlberg, Eastern Washington Univ.

2006 APS/NIDDK Minority Travel Fellows.

Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows Attend EB
 
The 2005 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows (UGSRFs) came to the Experimental Biology meeting to report on their research findings from last summer.
Eleven of the 12 UGSRFs attended the meeting; the 12th was out of the country on an exchange program. Ten of the UGSRFs were authors on abstracts submitted to the meeting. Of those, nine were first authors on their abstracts.
As an orientation session, the UGSRFs met with William Galey, Chair of the Career Opportunities in Physiology Committee, and Cathy Uyehara, Committee member. They were joined by the finalists for the David S. Bruce Excellence in Undergraduate Research Awards and the undergraduate NIDDK Travel Fellows. Galey and Uyehara talked with the students about what occurs during a large scientific meeting and how to get the most out of being there, both in terms of science and career talks as well as social activities. They also talked about poster presentations and hints for making that a positive experience.
On Sunday, the UGSRFs participated in the APS Undergraduate Poster Session and presented their posters to APS members, in addition to their regularly scheduled scientific session.
Overall, the UGSRFs saw the EB meeting as being a very positive learning experience and appreciated the opportunity to come and present their research.

Teaching Section Awards

Mildred Hoover, Salem State College (MA), recipient of the Teaching Section's 2006 New Investigator Travel Award. On the right is Erica Wehrwein, PhD candidate at Michigan State University, who won one of the Teaching Section's Research Recognition Awards for her work on gender differences in learning style preference among undergraduate physiology students.
Francis L. Belloni, Chair of the Teaching Section presents the Bernard Lectureship plaque to Dee Silverthorn, University of Texas, Austin.
Francis L. Belloni, Chair of the Teaching Section presents a Teaching Section Research Recognition Award to Jennifer Lundmark of California State University, Sacramento, for her work on professional development in pharmacology for high school teachers.

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