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Elections for Steering Committee Member
The Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation (NCAR) Section of the American Physiological Society will be holding an election for a seat shortly after the EB meeting. Candidates will be announced at the NCAR Reception on April 22, 6:30 pm in the Hilton Hotel, Salon 15. In addition, candidates will be introduced on the ballot that will be mailed out after the meeting. Please take the time to vote for the candidate of your choice! |
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Donald J. Reis Memorial We will be announcing plans for the Donald J. Reis award this spring. There is still time to donate to the memorial. Tax deductible contributions to that fund can be sent to the Donald J. Reis Memorial Fund, c/o The American Physiological Society, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3991. Those seeking further information may contact Martin Frank at mfrank@the-aps.org, Jeanne Seagard at jseagard@mcw.edu, or Susan Barman at barman@pilot.msu.edu. |
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY MEETING- "Translating the
Genome"
- APRIL 20-24, 2002
- New Orleans, LA
Many events are planned for the annual
Experimental Biology Meeting. These include the Carl Ludwig Distinguished
Lecture on Sunday, April 21; a reception and business meeting on Monday,
April 22 and breakfast for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with
our distinguished lecturer on Tuesday, April 23. In addition, we have a lot
of interesting programming, including one symposium and three featured
topics sponsored by NCAR. These events
are outlined below. Check your program and the APS website for additional
information on these and other sessions. Make your plans now!
Sponsored Symposium
Neural Control of the
Cerebral Circulation, William T. Talman. Tuesday, April 23, 10:30 AM -
12:30 PM
Sponsored Featured
Topics
Hypothalamic PVN
Neuromodulatory Mechanisms in Autonomic Regulation, Glenn M. Toney and J.E.
Stern, Sunday, April 21, 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Sensory Afferents and
Cardiovascular Regulation, Donna Wang and Steven Mifflin. Monday, April 22,
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Chemoreflexes in Health and Disease: Recent Perspectives in Cardiovascular Control, Harold Schultz. Tuesday, April 23, 3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
The Carl Ludwig
Distinguished Lecture at Experimental Biology 2002 will be given by
Dr. Suzanne Oparil, University of Alabama, Birmingham. This
lectureship is named in honor of Carl Ludwig in recognition of his many
and important contributions to understanding autonomic regulatory
mechanisms. The lectureship is sponsored by the Neural Control and
Autonomic Regulation Section of the American Physiological Society.
The title of Dr. Oparil's
lecture will be "The Anterior Hypothalamic Area: Gatekeeper in the
Pathogenesis of Salt-Sensitive Hypertension." Dr. Oparil is Professor
of Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Research in Dr. Oparil’s laboratory spans
the gamut from molecular and cellular studies to the whole animal to
clinical trials. This work has two general themes: 1) the pathogenesis
of vascular disease, with particular emphasis on sexual dimorphism and
the protective effects of female sex hormones and 2) the pathophysiology
and treatment of high blood pressure. Dr. Oparil, in collaboration with
colleagues at UAB, has developed and characterized a model of
salt-sensitive hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR-S).
Using this model, they have demonstrated that the nervous system
contributes importantly to the development of salt sensitive
hypertension. Past studies have shown that in the SHR-S, excessive
dietary salt leads to a significant selective decrease in noradrenaline
release from nerve terminals in the anterior hypothalamic area. This in
turn causes decreased inhibition of sympathetic nervous system activity
and a resultant rise in arterial pressure. Current studies are
elucidating the mechanisms by which the anterior hypothalamus plays a
role in salt sensitive hypertension. Dr. Oparil will attend the NCAR Reception/Business meeting on Monday, April 22. Please attend and use this opportunity to meet Dr. Oparil and mingle with other NCAR members. She will also attend an informal breakfast with students and postdoctoral fellows on Tuesday, April 23. This will be a unique opportunity for young investigators to interact in an informal way with one of the leaders in our field. Please plan to attend the lecture and the meetings with Dr. Oparil. |
Everyone is invited to the NCAR reception on Monday evening. This will be your chance to meet with the distinguished lecturer and mingle with other NCAR members. We will have a short business meeting and announce the winners of our Brody and Young Investigator Awards. Please make plans to attend! |
All students and postdoctoral fellows are invited to an informal breakfast with Dr. Oparil on Tuesday morning, April 23, 7:30 am, in the Hilton Hotel. This is an opportunity to meet an outstanding individual who is involved in neurophysiological research. Please take advantage of this chance to talk to our distinguished lecturer. |
Twenty-five years ago, Buggy, Fink, Johnson, and Brody
published (Circ. Res. 40 (Suppl 1): 110-117, 1977) a seminal report
showing that electrolytic destruction of brain tissue surrounding the
antero-ventral aspect of the third cerebroventricle in rats eliminated
renal hypertension. Similar AV3V lesions, as they became known, were
shown subsequently to prevent and reverse a variety of forms of
experimental hypertension. Despite a flurry of work on this area in
the early 1980’s, the mechanisms underlying the remarkable effects of
these lesions have remained obscure. Curiously, research focused on
this antihypertensive effect of AV3V lesions has all but disappeared. The goal of this NCAR Special Topics Forum is to encourage
discussion of this effect of AV3V lesions. Discussants (Drs. A.K.
Johnson, S. Oparil, V. Brooks, and W.W. Blessing) have each been asked
to spend 5 minutes addressing the question: “In the year 2002, what,
if anything, should we think about the antihypertensive actions of
AV3V lesions?” The Discussants have been encouraged to provide
provocative views, in an effort to stimulate lively discussion.
Following the statements by each of the Discussants, plenty of time is
scheduled for open discussion. Please come and actively participate. This session will occur immediately following the Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lecture, to be delivered by Dr. Suzanne Oparil, at 10:30 am on Sunday, April 21, Convention Center Room 244. |
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SPECIAL EB PROGRAMMING BY THE WOMEN IN PHYSIOLOGY COMMITTEE The APS Women in Physiology Committee and ASPET Committee on Women in Pharmacology have co-organized a session for EB '02 entitled: "How to Be a Good Mentor; How to Be a Good Mentee" to be held Sunday, April 21, 9:00 AM- noon in Room 218 of the Morial Convention Center. This session is designed to provide mentors and mentees of both genders with advice on the importance of good mentoring to promote development from undergraduate through advanced stages of a scientific career. In addition to brief (5-10 min presentations) by 5 invited panelists, considerable time will be devoted to audience participation. This will include opportunities for attendees to offer their input on topics to be covered in the formal presentations and to submit questions to the panelists on issues related to mentoring. Attendees will also work in small groups (5-10 individuals) to discuss how they would respond to some real-life issues that involve interactions of mentors and mentees as presented in "mentoring vignettes." In addition, participants will be given a hand-out that will include valuable information on resources available to assist individuals in being good mentors and good mentees. |
NCAR PROGRAMMING FOR EB 2003
The EB 2002 meeting is rapidly approaching, but it is already time to
start thinking about EB 2003. Now is your chance to propose a Symposium or
Featured Topic session for that meeting. Organize your own session, and
make sure that the science you want to be presented at EB has a forum. This
is your opportunity to organize a great program around your primary research
interest.
NCAR is responsible for scheduling three Featured Topic sessions and one
Symposium at EB 2003. The programming of these sessions is entirely in the
hands of our section, and it is our responsibility to ensure that we have
high quality programming.
If you want to propose a Featured Topic or Symposium, please contact Alan
Sved (sved@pitt.edu or 412-624-6996), the
NCAR Programming Committee representative. More information regarding
Featured Topics and Symposia can be found on the APS website
http://www.the-aps.org/sect_groups/neural/auto.htm. The NCAR Programming
Committee is meeting just prior to the start of EB 2002 to discuss
programming for EB 2003, so the chance of your proposal being accepted is
best if we know of your intent prior to that meeting.
Guidelines for Programming
for APS
For symposium, each organizer will
be allocated monies for use in the reimbursement of relevant travel expenses
(airfare, per diem, housing, etc.) of invited speaker(s), both member and
nonmember. The amount provided to each organizer from APS funds will not
exceed $4,000. All APS-sponsored symposium speakers and chairs will receive
complimentary registration. The symposium organizer will direct the
allocation of speaker travel reimbursement. The organizer may raise
additional funds from outside sources. APS does not provide honoraria.
Featured topics
are similar to minisymposia in that they are pre-formed (prior to the
mailing of the Call for Papers) oral sessions including a session title,
chairperson and not more than two featured presenters. Featured
presenters, or invited speakers, may present work not represented by a
submitted abstract. All other presentations are selected from the submitted
abstracts. Abstract authors choose the preferred featured topic
category from the call for papers as an indication that they are willing to
present their research in both an oral and poster format. Either the
chairperson of the featured topic or the primary sponsoring section’s Joint
Program Committee Representative is responsible for selecting which
abstracts to include in the featured topic session. NCAR, via APS funding,
provides each featured topic organizer $750 for each featured topic to be
used in support of travel or activities related to the featured topic
session, including registration and travel expenses.
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FUTURE CARL LUDWIG DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
Each section has a Distinguished Lectureship, which is given each year at the EB meeting. The NCAR Distinguished Lectureship is the Ludwig Distinguished Lecture. This is a major focus of programming for the section. In addition to giving the lecture, the individual who is chosen also is asked to participate in several section activities, including an informal breakfast with students and postdocs. We are very interested in input from members of the section regarding who is chosen. Please contact any steering committee member with your suggestions for this distinguished lecturer for 2003 or future years. |