Key Dates

21 July 2013
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Further key dates

Monday 22 July

Keynote lectures

IUPS Keynote (Sponsored by ESM & EVBO)
8.30 - 9.15, Monday 22 July
Pathological development of brain microvasculature
University of Milan, Italy
IUPS Ernst Knobil Lecture
8.30 - 9.15, Monday 22 July
3R's: Reproductive Regulation Revised
Monash University, Australia

Symposia

Cellular senescence in cardiovascular disease

Paul Evans (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) and Michael Goligorsky (New York Medical College , United States)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July
David Sheppard (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) and Jeng-Haur Chen (University of Hong Kong, China)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Contributions of skeletal muscle myopathy to heart failure: Novel mechanisms and therapies

Mark Chapleau (University of Iowa, United States) and Elizabeth McNally (University of Chicago, United States)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Epigenetic and post-translational modification of the diseased heart

Loren E Wold (The Research Inst. at Nationwide Children’s Hospital/The Ohio State University, United States) and Lea Delbridge (University of Melbourne, Australia)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Hypoxia shows double faces -- Effects and mechanisms

Ming Fan (Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, China)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Neuronal inhibition dynamically regulates neuronal excitability

Bryndis Birnir (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Brandon Stell (Université Paris Descartes, France)
0930 to 1130, Monday 22 July
Denis Noble (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Physiomics of TRP ion channels

Joost Hoenderop (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands) and Thomas Voets (KU Leuven, Belgium)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Signalling mechanisms that regulate microvascular permeability

Paul Fraser (King’s College London, United Kingdom) and Dolly Mehta (University of Illinois, United States)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Stem cells and tissue homeostasis

Bettina Wilm (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) and Silvia Fre (Institut Curie, France)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Using technology to improve millennial students’ learning

Xian Wang (Peking University, China) and Jonathan Kibble (University of Central Florida, United States)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

What’s hot in brown adipose tissue biology?

John Speakman (Chinese Academy of Sciences (and University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom), China) and Helen Budge (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July

Plenary

FEPS Lecture
11.45 - 12.45, Monday 22 July
Health-promoting effects of exercise in diabetes and obesity: from molecular mechanisms to clinical action
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Lunch and Posters (12:45 to 14:15 - Hall 3)

Symposia

Ageing – epigenetic mechanisms underlying lifelong health and wellbeing

Susan Ozanne (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Wolf Reik (The Babraham Institute, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Central versus peripheral neural control mechanisms in man: Inputs and outputs

Michael White (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Martin Lakie (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Competency‐based education in physiology: A global perspective

William Galey (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States) and Dee U. Silverthorn (University of Texas, United States)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Epithelial Na channels – linking physiology, regulation and structure

David Cook (The University of Sydney, Australia) and Daniela Rotin (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July
David Paterson (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) and Alona Ben-Tal (Massey University, New Zealand)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July
James Hicks (University of California, Irvine, United States) and Antoon Moorman (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Hydrogen sulphide in the vascular system: Diverse roles and mechanisms

Ákos Koller (University of Pécs, Hungary) and Philip Aaronson (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Hypoxic pulmonary hypertension: Mechanisms of pulmonary vascular change and their effect on the right ventricle

Paul McLoughlin (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Jeremy Ward (King’s College London , United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Inhibitory synapses: Ionic shift plasticity

Melanie Woodin (University of Toronto, Canada) and Peter Blaesse (University of Münster, Germany)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Macrophage phenotype modulation in atherosclerosis

Klaus Ley (La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, United States) and Sussan Nourshargh (William Harvey Research Institute, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Obesity: Intergenerational programming and consequences

Lucy Green (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) and Robert Hester (University of Mississippi Medical Center, United States)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Physiological solutions in symbiotic systems

Mónica Medina (University of California, Merced, United States) and Michele Weber (University of California, Merced, United States)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July

Keynote lectures

IUPS Schmidt-Nielsen Lecture (Sponsored by SPS)
16.30 - 17.15, Monday 22 July
Brown adipose tissue: the mammalian prerogative
The Wenner-Gren Institute, Sweden
IUPS Keynote
16.30 - 17.15, Monday 22 July
Neuronal calcium channels and migraine
University of Padova and CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Italy
IUPS and ADInstruments Education Lecture
16.30 - 17.15, Monday 22 July
Teaching and research in physiology in Sub-Saharan Africa - achievements and challenges
University of Lagos, Nigeria

Posters (17:15 to 19:00 - Hall 3)

Plenary

Annual Public Lecture (The Physiological Society for publication in Experimental Physiology)
19:30 - 20:30, Monday 22 July
The Rhythms of Life – What your body clock means to you from eye disease to jet lag
University of Oxford, United Kingdom