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Gastrointestinal/Liver Section Newsletter
Fall 2002
SECTION ANNOUNCEMENTS
ELECTIONS
The GI/Liver Section would like to extend our sincere appreciation to our
outgoing members Ernie Wright and Ken Mandel. They both have done a
wonderful job during their tenure on the committee. Thank you very much!
Several members of our steering committee will be completing their
three-year terms on the committee by April 2003. A Nominating Committee
(Linda Samuelson, Nigel Bunnett, Helen Raybould and Matt Grisham) has been
formed to identify qualified candidates for election to the GI/Liver section
steering committee.
If you or anyone you know are interested in serving on the GI/Liver
section steering or programming committee, please contact Matt Grisham or
any one of the members of the Nominating Committee – We are anxious to hear
from you!
NEW STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
I am very excited about assuming the position of chair of the Section
Steering committee from Helen Raybould. Helen did an outstanding job of
promoting the Gastrointestinal/Liver Section for the Experimental Biology
meetings. Helen deserves our heart-felt thanks for a job well done. I would
also like to introduce our new steering committee members: Chris Cheesemon,
Curtis Okamoto and Ron Ferraris. Welcome aboard!
FALL PREVIEW – EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 2003
April 11-15 2003, San Diego, CA
Gastrointestinal Programming at EB 2003
Chris Cheeseman and the Programming Committee has done a great job of
organizing our Section Symposium and Featured Topics. Here is a listing of
the GI/Liver Section Program for EB 2003:
EB 2003
- Symposium Saturday, April 12th 3:15-5:15 pm
- Recent advances in the study of intestinal hexose transport
proteins.
- Chaired by Ron Ferraris and Chris Cheeseman.
- Speakers:
- Ernest Wright, UCLA. SGLT proteins.
- George Kellett, Univ. of York, UK. Trafficking of GLUT2
into the BBM.
- Ron Ferraris. New Jersey Medical School. Control of
fructose absorption.
- Edith Brot-Laroche, (France) Hexose transport in
intestinal GLUT2-/- mice.
- Chris Cheeseman, Univ. of Alberta, Canada. Putative new
GLUT isoforms in the small intestine.
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- Featured Topic number 1. Saturday, April 12th,
8:00-10:00 am.
- New Insights on neuro-immune interaction in autonomic
regulation
- Chaired by Yvette Tache, (Abbott Award winner)
- Speakers:
- Paul Sawchenko, Clayton Foundation Laboratories for
Peptide Research, The Salk Institute.
- Title: Circuits and mechanisms underlying immune
influences on HPA and other acute phase responses.
- Gerlinda Hermann, Pennington Biomedical Research Center,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- Title: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) and the
brainstem regulation of gastric function.
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- Featured Topic number 2. Tuesday, April 15th,
8:00-10:00 am.
- Trafficking of Membrane Transporters in the GI Tract and
Beyond.
- Chairs: John Forte and Chris Okamoto
- Keynote Speakers:
- Dr. Dennis Brown, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dept of
Medicine, Renal Unit.
- Other speakers to be announced.
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- Featured Topic number 3. Sunday, April 13th,
8:00-10:00 am.
- Abstract driven.
Featured Topics
DO YOU WANT TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT TO EB 2003? SUBMIT YOUR
ABSTRACT TO ONE OF THE FEATURED TOPICS ABOVE OR TO THE POSTER SESSIONS – SEE
LIST OF DESCRIPTIONS BELOW.
Award Lectures
We are pleased to announce that the Davenport Award for 2003 is awarded
to Jeffrey Gordon, M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine. His
lecture will be presented at EB 2003. In addition, we are fortunate to have
Yvette Tache`, Ph.D. receive the Abbott Award. Dr. Tache` will also present
her lecture at EB.
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 2003. In addition, APS funds several different types of travel
awards. Further details in the EB 2003 Call for Abstracts.
Descriptions 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 2003 abstract using one of these descriptors that designates
your presentation as GI/Liver related.
- 1118 – APS Epithelial channels, pumps and transporters
- 1119 – APS Epithelial-microbial interactions: lessons in
communication
- 1120 – APS Growth factors
- 1121 – APS Development and adaptation
- 1122 – APS Regulatory peptides and hormones
- 1123 – APS Motility
- 1124 – APS Secretion and absorption
- 1125 – APS Pancreas
- 1126 – APS Gastrointestinal pathophysiology
- 1127 – APS Liver physiology and pathophysiology
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE
NOVEMBER 13, 2002
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