Key Dates

21 July 2013
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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
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology
David Sheppard (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) and Jeng-Haur Chen (University of Hong Kong, China)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

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
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Human & Exercise Physiology

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
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

Hypoxia shows double faces -- Effects and mechanisms

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

Neuronal inhibition dynamically regulates neuronal excitability

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

Physiomics of TRP ion channels

Joost Hoenderop (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands) and Thomas Voets (KU Leuven, Belgium)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Metabolism & Endocrinology, Neuroscience, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

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
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Stem cells and tissue homeostasis

Bettina Wilm (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) and Silvia Fre (Institut Curie, France)
0930 - 1130, Monday 22 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Metabolism & Endocrinology, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

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
Education & Teaching

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
Metabolism & Endocrinology

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
Human & Exercise Physiology, Neuroscience

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
Human & Exercise Physiology, Neuroscience

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
Education & Teaching

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
Epithelia & Membrane Transport
David Paterson (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) and Alona Ben-Tal (Massey University, New Zealand)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology
James Hicks (University of California, Irvine, United States) and Antoon Moorman (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
1415 - 1615, Monday 22 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

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
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

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
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Inhibitory synapses: Ionic shift plasticity

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

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
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

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
Metabolism & Endocrinology

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
General Interest

An integrated approach to the physiology of organic cation transporters

Giuliano Ciarimboli (University of Münster, Germany) and Sophie Gautron (UMRS952/UMR7224, France)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

Bicarbonate transport in normal and cancerous tissues

Walter Boron (Case Western Reserve University, United States)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

Dysfunctional chemoreceptors: Cause or consequence of the symptoms of cardiorespiratory disease?

Prem Kumar (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Luciane Gargaglioni (Sao Paulo State University, Brazil)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

From perceiving to acting: Neurophysiological mechanisms of conscious visual perception

Erik Cook (McGill University, Canada) and Kristine Krug (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Neuroscience

Historical perspectives on early physiology, 1870‐1960

Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Education & Teaching, General Interest

Mammalian nutrient sensing

Daniela Riccardi (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) and Willis Samson (Saint Louis University School of Medicine, United States)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Metabolism & Endocrinology, Neuroscience

Perivascular fat: Role in metabolic and cardiovascular disease

Alfons Houben ( Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht - MUMC, Netherlands) and Etto Eringa (VU University Medical Centre, Netherlands)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Physiology of fasting and starvation

Marshall McCue (St. Mary’s University, United States) and Teresa Valencak (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Metabolism & Endocrinology

Stem and progenitor cells in vascular remodelling and repair

Neena Kalia (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Mark Majesky (Seattle Children's Research Institute, United States)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: New mechanisms of neuronal and glial signalling in the injured spinal cord

Anne King (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) and José Lopez-Garcia (University of Alcala, Spain)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Neuroscience

The role of toxic Ca signals in initiating pancreatitis and promoting pancreatic cancer

Ole Petersen (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) and Péter Hegyi (University of Szeged, Hungary)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Metabolism & Endocrinology

Transverse tubules in the heart: Normal physiology and involvement in disease

David Eisner (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and William Louch (University of Oslo, Norway)
0930 - 1130, Tuesday 23 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

Angiogenesis: Growth points

Stuart Egginton (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) and Kari Alitalo (University of Helsinki, Finland)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Development and functional organisation of neural circuits controlling breathing

Alexander Gourine (University College London, United Kingdom) and Muriel Thoby-Brisson (Université Bordeaux, France)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Neuroscience
Theophile Godfraind (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Penny Moody-Corbett (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
General Interest
Markus Sperandio (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Germany) and Paul Kubes (University of Calgary, Canada)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology
Anant Parekh (Oxford University, United Kingdom) and Barbara Niemeyer (Saarland University, Germany)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

Mother, placenta, fetus and life long health

Rohan Lewis (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) and Susan Greenwood (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Metabolism & Endocrinology

Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding synaptopathies

John Jefferys (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Sumantra Chattarji (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Neuroscience

New insights into the acid-base microclimate as an integral regulator of epithelial function in health and disease

Michael Gray (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Ursula Seidler (Hannover Medical School, Germany)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

Potassium channel complexes: Dynamic aspects of the assembly and regulation towards their physiological roles

Yoshihiro Kubo (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan) and Bernard Attali (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Neuroscience

The activation of skeletal muscles - implications for fatigue

Ole Bækgaard Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Janet Taylor (University of New South Wales, Australia)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Human & Exercise Physiology
Jun Chen (The Fourth Military Medical University (Xi’an), China) and Irene Tracey (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Neuroscience

Using narratives and stories to enhance learning

Frank Mojiminiyi (Usman Danfodio University, Nigeria) and Penelope Hansen (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
1415 - 1615, Tuesday 23 July
Education & Teaching

Generation of respiratory and sympathetic activities in health and diseases

Benedito Machado (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) and Ann Goodchild (Macquarie University, Australia)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Neuroscience

Insight into the physiological roles of membrane transporters from drug transport studies

Catriona Anderson (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Ikumi Tamai (Kanazawa University, Japan)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

Mechanical stress and vascular remodeling

Qingbo Xu (King's College London, United Kingdom) and Nanping Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Molecular basis of cardiac conduction system in disease

Halina Dobrzynski (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Dario DiFrancesco (University of Milan, Italy)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

Network oscillations: Binding brain areas to functional structures

Attila Sik (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Anton Sirota (University of Tübingen, Germany)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Neuroscience
Ricardo Leão (University of São Paulo, Brazil) and Ana Belén Elgoyhen (INGEBI-CONICET, Argentina)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Neuroscience

New advances in the physiome and systems biology

Andrew McCulloch (University of California, San Diego, United States) and Chae Hun Leem (University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea, Republic of)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, General Interest, Human & Exercise Physiology, Neuroscience, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Peptide modulation of hedonic food intake

Gareth Leng (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Zsolt Liposits (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Metabolism & Endocrinology, Neuroscience

Role of TRP channels in the cardiovascular system

Susan Brain (King's College London, United Kingdom) and Scott Earley (Colorado State University, United States)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

The glutamatergic synapse: A neurodegenerative and psychiatric disease target

David Wyllie (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Lynn Raymond (University of British Columbia, Canada)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Neuroscience
Annette Dolphin (University College London, United Kingdom) and Roberto Chiesa (Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research, Italy)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Neuroscience

Atomic structures and molecular mechanisms of voltage-gated and ligand-gated ion channels

Raimund Dutzler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and João Morais Cabral (IBMC, Portugal)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Neuroscience

Auxiliary AMPA receptor subunits: Their role in central synaptic transmission

Stuart Cull-Candy (University College London, United Kingdom) and Mark Farrant (University College London, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Neuroscience

Collateral vessels: Adaptive growth mechanisms and functional characteristics

Ulrich Pohl (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Gastrointestinal flexibility: Ecology, evolution and microbial symbiosis

Hannah Carey (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) and Stephen Secor (University of Alabama, United States)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

Mechanistic insights into genotype-to-phenotype relationships

Daniel Beard (Medical College of Wisconsin, United States) and Elena Marchiori (Radboud University, Netherlands)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

Molecular mechanisms of transmitter release

Jens Rettig (Saarland University, Germany) and Tao Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Neuroscience

Physiology of protein palmitoylation

Mike Shipston (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Masaki Fukata (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

The role of intrinsic electrical activity in the maturation and refinement of the auditory and visual systems

Michael Evans (Keele University, United Kingdom) and Corné Kros (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Neuroscience

The role of membrane transport in tumor cell growth and metabolism

Stefan Broer (Australian National University, Australia) and Yoshikatsu Kanai (Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
1430 - 1630, Wednesday 24 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Metabolism & Endocrinology
Godfrey Smith (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) and John Bridge (University of Utah, United States)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

Vascular calcification

Yvonne Alexander (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Cecilia Giachelli (University of Washington, United States)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Brain imaging – an ethical time bomb?

Joanna Wardlaw (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Hank Greely (Stanford University, United States)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
General Interest, Neuroscience

Epigenetics: A new regulator of gene expression and cardiovascular diseases

Seppo Ylä-Herttuala (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) and Loren Wold (Nationwide Children’s Hospital, United States)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

High resolution microscopy (nanoscopy) and correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM)

Katharina Gaus (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Jens Rettig (Saarland University, Germany)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
General Interest
Sergey Kasparov (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) and Maiken Nedergaard (University of Rochester, United States)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology
Richard Vaughan-Jones (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) and Yin Hua Zhang (Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

Membrane potential investigated with voltage sensitive dyes

Marco Canepari (INSERM U836, France) and Carl Petersen (EPFL, Switzerland)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Neuroscience

Microvascular networks: Causes and consequences

Axel Pries (Charité, Berlin, Germany) and Ed van Bavel (AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Myometrial physiology - time to translate?

Susan Wray (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) and Jorge Cavajal (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Physiology and mechanisms of the circadian control

Karl-Heinz Herzig (Oulu University, Finland) and Greg Atkinson (Teesside University, United Kingdom)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Human & Exercise Physiology, Metabolism & Endocrinology, Neuroscience

Recent advances in Renin-Angiotensin System and implications in health and disease

Mohan Raizada (University of Florida, United States) and Genevieve Nguyen (INSERM, Collège de France, France)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Solute and ion cotransporters and exchangers at atomic resolution

David Thwaites (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Olga Boudker (Weill Cornell Medical College, United States)
0930 - 1130, Thursday 25 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Neuroscience

An update on inherited renal tubular disorders

René Bindels (Radboud University , Netherlands) and Fiona Karet (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

Cardiovascular developments that changed the world

Holly Shiels (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Jonathan Stecyk (University of Alaska Anchorage, United States)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

Cardiovascular regulation by miRNAs

Giovanni Mann (King's College London, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Imaging mouse visual cortex function and plasticity

Mark Hübener (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany) and Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Neuroscience
A Mark Evans (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Maria Gomez (Lund University, Sweden)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Orchestrating signals towards early therapeutically relevant clinical measures of neurodegeneration

Graham Collingridge (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) and Paul Wren (Neurodegeneration DPU, GlaxoSmithKline, China)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Neuroscience

Pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation

Ulrich Schotten (University Maastricht, Netherlands)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

Physiological roles of non-coding RNAs

Andreas Werner (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Noora Kotaja (University of Turku, Finland)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
General Interest

The case for comparative and evolutionary physiology in clinical research

Michael Joyner (Mayo Clinic, United States) and Sandy Martin (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, General Interest, Human & Exercise Physiology, Metabolism & Endocrinology, Neuroscience

The physiology of rapid responses to estrogen

Brian Harvey (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland) and Ellis Levin (University of California, Irvine, United States)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport

Understanding the etiology of hypertension

Hidefumi Waki (Wakayama Medical University Sch. of Medicine, Japan) and Andrew Allen (University of Melbourne, Australia)
1415 - 1615, Thursday 25 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology
Paul Greenhaff (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) and Bettina Mittendorfer (Washington University School of Medicine, United States)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Human & Exercise Physiology, Metabolism & Endocrinology

Cardiac ß-adrenergic signalling in health and disease

Andrew Trafford (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Patrick Most (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology

Current advances in structure and regulation of epithelial tight junctions

Radhakrishna Rao (University of Tennessee Health Science Center, United States) and Sachiko Tsukita (Osaka University, Japan)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Metabolism & Endocrinology

Dendritic ion channel function and plasticity

Mala Shah (University College London, United Kingdom) and Michael Häusser (University College London, United Kingdom)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Neuroscience

Developmental programming of cardiovascular and renal disease in adulthood

Jennifer Pollock (Georgia Regents University, United States) and Abigail Fowden (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Cardiac & Respiratory Physiology, Metabolism & Endocrinology, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Hypometabolism, hypothermia and hibernation

Shi-Qiang Wang (Peking University College of Life Sciences, China) and Esa Hohtola (University of Oulu, Finland)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Metabolism & Endocrinology

Intercellular communications in the vasculature: From physiology to pathophysiology

Christelle Guibert (Bordeaux Segalen University / INSERM, France) and Cor De Wit (University of Lübeck, Germany)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

Neurotransmitter transporters: Impact on nerve cell excitability and function

Francisco Suárez (European University of Madrid, Spain) and Susan Amara (National Institutes of Health, United States)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Epithelia & Membrane Transport, Neuroscience

Shedding light in the neurophysiological black box

Hiromu Yawo (Tohoku University, Japan) and Georg Nagel (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Neuroscience

Understanding microcirculatory blood flow using quantitative approaches

Sylvie Lorthois (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France)
0930 - 1130, Friday 26 July
Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology