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The new secretariat - an introduction of ourselves

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From the left:

Markus Sjöblom (Meeting Secretary)

Markus was born in Karlskrona in the southeast corner of Sweden. He did his PhD at Uppsala University in Sweden working in the field of brain-gut communication and its role in regulation of intestinal secretion. He defended his thesis in 2003 and then did a first postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Ursula Seidler at Hannover Medical School in Germany and a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Neuroscience in Uppsala. In 2009 Markus became Assistant Professor at the Department of Neuroscience where he has now established his research group. Markus research is mainly focusing on the neuroendocrine regulation of proximal small intestinal functions, such as mucosal permeability, mucosal ion transport, mucosal secretion and fluid absorption and intestinal motility.

Hanna Taylor (Administrative Coordinator)

Grew up in Karlskoga and moved to Uppsala to study biology. She did her masters thesis in Zooecology in 2004. Before taking this position Hanna worked as a secretary for the head of the research department at the Swedish Museum of Natural Historyin Stockholm.

Bryndis Birnir (Secretary General)

Bryndis studied in the USA in Seattle (BS, UW) and Los Angeles (PhD, UCLA) where she focused on sodium-dependent cotransport in the laboratory of prof E.M. Wright. She then moved to Australia and did a postdoctoral fellowship with prof Peter Gage where she started to study GABA-gated ion channels. In 2000 Bryndis moved back to the Northern hemisphere and took up a position at Lund University in Sweden and in 2008 she became Chair in physiology at Uppsala University in the Department of Neuroscience. Bryndis research is focused on the role of GABA in a variety of physiological processes such as neuronal inhibition, metabolic homeostasis and immune modulation. Bryndis was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and currently holds a double citizenship, Icelandic and Swedish.

Anders Arner (President)

SPS - Now on Facebook!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Scandinavian-Physiological-Society/115958351797031

You can now find us on Facebook. Log in and press the "like" button, and you will receive updates about meetings and other events. Here you also have the opportunity to make suggestions to other members and to take part in diskussions.

ISRA 10th International Symposium on Resistance Arteries,Rebild, Denmark, 8-12 May 2011

http://www.israweb.org/

Abstract submission and registration is now open. Dealine for submissions and applications for scholarship is 28th of January 2011.

Joint SPS Annual Meeting in Bergen, Norway 12 - 14 August 2011

http://tinyurl.com/sps2011

The SPS annual meeting in 2011 will be held in Bergen, Norway, at the University of Bergen. The abstract submission and registration will open Jan 15, 2011.

There will be Acta Physiologica Travel grants available to this meeting.

Joint meeting FEPS and Turkish Society of Physiological Sciences, 3-7 Sept 2011

http://feps2011.org

This meeting will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, at Yeditepe University.You can now submit proposals for scientific symposia on the website. Deadline is 30 November 2010.

Some upcoming symposia:

2010: Dec 15th. PhD course/symposium on "Ion Transport and Cancer". Program and registration on www.ionchannel.ku.dk/PhDcourse. Registration open from Oct 1.

2011: May 16-18. 42nd Sandbjerg meeting on "Membrane Transport". Sandbjergs home page: http://www.sandbjerg.dk/. First call in February/March.

2011: May 26-27. Ion Channel Symposium. Program and registration on darc.ku.dk/symposium. Registration open from Dec 15.

Acta Physiologica

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Click here to read more about Acta Physiologica and for author guidelines.

Online ISSN: 1748-1716 Print ISSN: 1748-1708
Acta Physiologica
Volume200, Issue3, 2010, Page 203-289
Early View (Articles Available Online in Advance of Print)

CARDIOVASCULAR
Sex differences in the coronary vasodilation induced by 17 β-oestradiol in the isolated perfused heart from spontaneously hypertensive rats (pages 203–210)
R. L. Santos, E. B. Marin, W. L. S. Gonçalves, N. S. Bissoli, G. R. Abreu and M. R. Moysés
Article first published online: 22 JUN 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02140.x

Handgrip contraction induces a linear increase in arterial pressure by peripheral vasoconstriction, increased heart rate and a decrease in stroke volume (pages 211–221)
K. Toska
Article first published online: 1 JUL 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02144.x

ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
The adaptive compensations in endocrine pancreas from glucocorticoid-treated rats are reversible after the interruption of treatment (pages 223–235)
A. Rafacho, S. Quallio, D. L. Ribeiro, S. R. Taboga, F. M. M. Paula, A. C. Boschero and J. R. Bosqueiro
Article first published online: 22 JUN 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02146.x

Influence of supplementation with branched-chain amino acids in combination with resistance exercise on p70S6 kinase phosphorylation in resting and exercising human skeletal muscle (pages 237–248)
W. Apró and E. Blomstrand
Article first published online: 28 MAY 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1708.2010.02151.x

MUSCLE
Hypoxia preconditioning by cobalt chloride enhances endurance performance and protects skeletal muscles from exercise-induced oxidative damage in rats (pages 249–263)
S. Saxena, D. Shukla, S. Saxena, Y. A. Khan, M. Singh, A. Bansal, M. Sairam and S. K. Jain
Article first published online: 22 JUN 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02136.x

RENAL
Na+-independent, nifedipine-resistant rat afferent arteriolar Ca2+ responses to noradrenaline: possible role of TRPC channels (pages 265–278)
M. Salomonsson, T. H. Braunstein, N.-H. Holstein-Rathlou and L. J. Jensen
Article first published online: 22 JUN 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02141.x

RESPIRATORY
Exogenous ghrelin accentuates the acute hypoxic ventilatory response after two weeks of chronic hypoxia in conscious rats (pages 279–287)
D. O. Schwenke, J. T. Pearson, K. Kangawa, P. A. Cragg and M. Shirai
Article first published online: 1 JUL 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02142.x

Erratum
Erratum (page 289)
Article first published online: 11 OCT 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02185.x

This article corrects:
On functional motor adaptations: from the quantification of motor strategies to the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders in the neck–shoulder region

Vol. 199, , 1–46, Article first published online: 23 JUN 2010

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In this issue
The new secretariat
SPS - Now on Facebook!
ISRA 10th International Symposium
SPS annual meeting Bergen 2010
Joint meeting FEPS and the Turkish Society of Physiological Sciences
Other meetings of interest
Acta Physiologica

Important dates
30 November 2010 - Deadline for proposals for scientific symposa
28 January2011 - Deadline for abstract submission for ISRA

FEPS Newsletter
Read the latest news from FEPS here

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We hope you will enjoy this months newsletter. If you have any news you feel might be of interest, please send us an email.

Best regards,
Bryndis Birnir, Secretary General
Hanna Taylor, Secretary