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Dear member

Welcome to the SPS Newsletter for October 2011. With this issue we will start presenting some new additions to the society. You will be able to read more about one of our new members as well as our most recently formed SIG group. If you would like to be the next featured member, write a few words about yourself and send them to us!

Do not forget to hand in your symposia suggestions for next years meetings. The call for symposias are open for the FEPS meeting in Santiago de Compostela 2012, the IUPS meeting in Birmingham 2013 and for the SPS annual meeting in Helsinki 2012.

If you have some interesting news you would like to share, contact us and we will put it up on our webpage or Facebook Page . Do not forget that you also have the opportunity to advertise new positions here!

Also, soon all members will be registered at the new SPS website, so take the opportunity to log in and check your contact information when you have received your username and password. Thank you!

One of our new SPS members!

Cecilie Brekke Rygh is a postdoc in the Cardiovascular Research Group at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen.
Her research is focused on characterizing microvessel hemodynamics in both healthy tissues and in solid tumors, using preclinical models for glioblastoma multiforme and cancer mamma. Rygh apply imaging techniques, i.e. MRI and PET, which allow studies of physiological processes in the same animal longitudinally and noninvasively. Subsequent image data analyses provide sensitive and quantitative measures, which are invaluable in her work for characterizing phenotypes, evaluating tumor progression and monitoring treatment. By using differently sized tracers it is possible to determine the effective permeability size cutoff in tumors in different phases, as well as within the same tumor. Imaging also enables visualization of tracer distribution heterogeneity and therefore inform choices in drug vehicles. Rygh and her collaborators aim to link the physiological information with the underlying morphology through multispectral imaging and data analyses, and thereby improve the understanding of microvessel hemodynamics in different tumor sub-compartments and in tumor progression.

Establishment of a Special Interest Group on Cardiac Physiology

At the SPS summer meeting in Bergen, the SPS board approved the establishment of a Special Interest Group (SIG) for Cardiac Physiology. This SIG joins a number of existing SIGs focused on Membrane Transport, Molecular Physiology of Channels and Transporters, Nordic Neuroscience, Renal Physiology and Sensory Physiology. The objective of the Cardiac Physiology SIG is to improve networking between Scandinavian academic groups involved in clinical or experimental research in cardiac physiology in health and disease. The SIG will give particular attention to aiding PhD students and early career researchers to develop a Scandinavian research network, and to take leading scientific and administrative roles.

For its inaugural activity, the SIG on Cardiac Physiology organised a symposium on Calcium Homeostasis in Contractile Cells at the annual meeting in Bergen. The session included invited speakers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Belgium and Great Britain, and spanned a variety of topics, including Ca2+ handling in health and disease in both skeletal and cardiac muscle.

The SIG will apply for money for a summer meeting in 2012, which will feature lectures by renowned scientists as well as poster-based student presentations. With financial aid from the SPS, we hope that all PhD students and young group leaders can afford to participate. Future activities will include an educational programme for PhD students in basic cardiovascular physiology. Read more about the activities later at the SPS web page.

The stated goal of the SIG is to raise the level of cardiac physiology in the Scandinavian countries by creating a forum for nurturing ideas, promoting collaborations and exchange of students. We are eager to include as many Scandinavian centres as possible, with members from both experimental and clinical backgrounds. You are also invited to join the SIG of Cardiac Physiology by sending an email to either of the SIG chairmen:

Morten B Thomsen, PhD, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen,
Denmark, email: mbthom@sund.ku.dk

William E Louch, PhD, Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål,
Norway, email: w.e.louch@medisin.uio.no

Main Meeting of the Physiological Society, 3-5 July 2012

www.physiology2012.org

21 symposias have been selected as well as over 100 oral presentaions. The registration opens January 1^st and the abstract submission 1^st of March 2012. SPS will participate by sponsoring a symposium.

Joint FEPS and the Spanish Physiological Society Scientific congress, 8-12 August 2012

http://www.feps2012.org/

The meeting will take place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. SPS will participate by sponsoring a symposium. You can now send in your symposia proposal until November 15^th.

The Scandinavian Physiological Society Annual Meeting together with the Finnish Endocrine Society, 5-7 October 2012

http://www.oulu.fi/sps2012/

The next SPS meeting will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The meeting will be held together with the Finnish Endocrine Society. The general assembly will take place during Saturday 6^th. Call for symposia is now open, deadline is December 20^th. Registration and call for abstracts opens in February 2012 at the meeting website. Travel grants will be available for this meeting.

IUPS 37^th World Congress featuring the SPS Annual Meeting 2013

http://www.iups2013.org/

The 21-26^th of July 2013 it is time for the IUPS World Congress. This time, it takes place in Birmingham, UK. Symposium submission is now open until December 1^st 2011. SPS will hold the Annual meeting 2013 in connection with the congress. Travel grants will be available for this meeting.

Some other meetings and symposia:

2011: Nov 14-15. Ion Channels in Health and Disease. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. http://www.ncmls.eu/newfrontiers2011

2011: December 6-8. Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology Themed Meeting. Edinburgh, UK. The earliy registration deadline is 8th of November. www.physoc.org/vs2011

2012: March 19-21. Joint Meeting of The Physiological Society and The British Pharmacological Society together with the Journal of Physiology, Experimental Physiology, British Journal of Pharmacology and the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports: The Biomedical Basis of Elite Performance. London, UK. http://www.bbep2012.org/

2012: March 22-25. 91st Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft. Dresden, Germany. Deadline for abstract submission is December 18th. http://dpg2011.de/

2012: April 21-25. The American Physiological Society Meeting 125th Anniversary: Experimental Biology. San Diego, California. Abstract submission deadline is November 8th. http://experimentalbiology.org/

2012: June 26-29. 4th International Congress on Cell Membranes and Oxidative Stress – Focus on Calcium Signaling and TRP Channels. Isparta, Turkey .http://www.cmos.org.tr/2012/

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Online ISSN: 1748-1716 Print ISSN: 1748-1708
Acta Physiologica
Volume 203, Issue 3, Pages 343-400, November 2011
Early View (Articles Available Online in Advance of Print)

CARDIOVASCULAR
Effects on blood pressure and autonomic nervous system function of a 12-week exercise or exercise plus DASH-diet intervention in individuals with elevated blood pressure (pages 343-350)
K. M. Edwards, K. L. Wilson, J. Sadja, M. G. Ziegler and P. J. Mills
Article first published online: 1 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02329.x

CELL BIOLOGY
Post-translational modifications regulate signalling by Ror1 (pages 351-362)
M. Kaucká, P. Krejčí, K. Plevová, Š. Pavlová, J. Procházková, P. Janovská, J. Valnohová, A. Kozubík, Š. Pospíšilová and V. Bryja
Article first published online: 27 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02306.x

Recombinant WNTs differentially activate ß-catenin-dependent and -independent signalling in mouse microglia-like cells (pages 363-372)
M. B. C. Kilander, C. Halleskog and G. Schulte
Article first published online: 20 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02324.x

ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Exercise increases plasma levels of sphingoid base-1 phosphates in humans (pages 373-380)
M. Baranowski, M. Charmas, B. Długołęcka and J. Górski
Article first published online: 28 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02322.x

GASTROINTESTINAL
The G-protein on cholesterol-rich membrane microdomains mediates mucosal sensing of short- chain fatty acid and secretory response in rat colon (pages 381-389)
T. Yajima, R. Inoue, M. Yajima, T. Tsuruta, S. Karaki, T. Hira and A. Kuwahara
Article first published online: 1 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02331.x

RENAL
Role of l-arginine uptake mechanisms in renal blood flow responses to angiotensin II in rats (pages 391-400)
N. W. Rajapakse and D. L. Mattson
Article first published online: 12 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02330.x

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In this issue

One of our new SPS members!
Establishment of a Special Interest Group on Cardiac Physiology
Main Meeting of the Pysiological Society 2012
Joint FEPS and Spanish Physiological Society2012
Joint Meeting SPS and the Finnish Endocrine Society 2012
IUPS World Congress 2013
Some other meetings of interest
Acta Physiologica

Important dates

15^th of November - Deadline for symposia call FEPS 2012

1^st of December - Deadline for symposia call IUPS 2013

20^th of December - Deadline for symposia call SPS 2012

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