Message from the Section Chair,Michael Hedrick

Greetings! I hope everyone has made housing and travel plans for the ExperimentalBiology 2017 meeting in Chicago (April 22-26, 2017). As always, CEPS will be wellrepresented in Chicago with several Featured Topics, Poster Sessions and Symposia(see page 2) that are of interest to our section members. We will again sponsor aCEPS Abstract-Driven Trainee Featured Topics session and host the KroghDistinguished Lectureship, presented by Dr. Warren Burggren, University of NorthTexas, who will speak on “Developmental Plasticity, Epigenetics and Evolution: AComparative Physiologist’s Od(d)yssey.” Dr. Burggren’s lecture will be held TuesdayApril 25th, 3:15 – 4:15 pm.

In addition to the strong scientific program, the CEPS Trainee Advisory Committee will host the annual‘Trainee Mixer’ on Monday April 24th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the The Dawson (730 West Grand Avenue,Chicago, IL, 60654), followed by the CEPS Banquet/Business Meeting, 7:00 to 10:00 pm. This is an excitingevent that will give us a chance to socialize and to honor several members and trainees of our section on theirscientific accomplishments. I look forward to seeing you all at this event!

Our section has had some recent turnover on the Steering Committee. Dr. Tom Ecay (East TenneseeState University), CEPS Secretary, and Dr. Stanley Hillyard (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Committee onCommittees Representative, will both step down at the end of this year’s Experimental Biology meeting. Wewill honor both Tom and Stan at the Business meeting for their outstanding service to our section.

The XXXVIII International Union of Physiological Sciences Congress (www.iups2017.com) will be heldin Rio de Janeiro in August 1-5, 2017. Comparative physiology has always been well represented at the IUPSmeeting and this year’s IUPS meeting will be no exception. I hope many of you are planning to attend.

Safe travels; I look forward to seeing you in Chicago!

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COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY

Newsletter – Spring 2017 Edition

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Preview of CEPS Programming at EB2017

Sunday,April23

9:00AM–4:00PM

CEPSPosterSession

PostersfortheScholander AwardCompetition

Presentationtimes:

12:45– 3:00PM

Sunday,April23

3:15PM -5:15PM

CEPSFeaturedTopic

Abstract-Driven TraineeSession:Speakers:Rashpal S.Dhillon,LidiyaMisyura,

OliverWearing,SergeyMorozov,MelissaReiterer,AlexanderFunk,Kassia Santos,CorneliaE.Fanter

RoomW192A

Chairs: CorneliaE.Fanter,AllysonHindle

Monday,April24

10:30 AM–

12:30PM

CEPSSymposium

Consequencesofphysiologicalstressorsonthedevelopment andfunctionofthe

cardiovascularsystemSpeakers: BillMilsom,ToddGillis,JordiAlimiras,MatthewAndrews

RoomW192B

Chair: ToddGillis

Monday,April24

9:00AM–4:00PM

CEPSPosterSession

Presentationtimes:

12:45– 3:00PM

Tuesday,April25

8:00AM–10:00AM

CEPSSymposium

Developmentalprogrammingofvertebratehealthanddiseasebyhypoxia

Speakers:DinoAGiussani,SonnetJonker,BrianBagatto, IsaLindgren

RoomW192B

Chair:GinaGalli

Tuesday,April5

3:15 PM–4:15PM

AugustKroghDistinguished

Lecture

DevelopmentalPlasticity,EpigeneticsandEvolution:AComparativePhysiologist’s

Od(d)ysseySpeaker:WarrenBurggren

RoomW196B

Chair: SinyaBenyajati

Tuesday,April25

9:00AM–4:00PM

CEPSPosterSession

PresentationTimes:

12:45PM-3:00PM

Wednesday,April 26

10:30AM– 12:30PM

CEPSFeaturedTopic

Comparativeperspectivesonhypoxiasignaling

andtoleranceSpeakers: GabrielHaddad,GrahamScott,

MatthewE.Pamenter,LesBuck,JeffRichards,Michael ScottTift,AllysonHindle

RoomW190B

Chair: GrahamScott

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2017 August Krogh Distinguished LectureshipThe Section’s Distinguished Lectureship for 2017, the August Krogh Award, will

be presented to Dr. Warren W. Burggren, Professor of Biology at the University ofNorth Texas.

Dr. Burggren received his Ph.D. in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiology in1976 from the University of East Anglia, UK. He spent his earlier professional career atthe University of Massachusetts and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr.Burggren’s research has been at the forefront of comparative respiratory andcardiovascular physiology of a wide range of species, from fish to reptiles to crabs. Hisresearch has demonstrated the importance of early-life perturbations due to stressorssuch as hypoxia in defining developmental trajectories and future performance and

fitness. One of Dr. Burggren’s most recent advancements is the recognition of the need to incorporateepigenetics in the study of comparative and evolutionary developmental physiology.

Dr. Burggren has disseminated his work and ideas in over 10 authored or co-authored books, 7 edited orco-edited books, 34 book chapters, and 182 peer reviewed publications. He is a co-author of the widely usedcomparative physiology textbook Animal Physiology. Dr. Burggren has trained many high school students andundergraduates in STEM research; he mentored 18 M.S students, 23 PhD students and 15 postdoctoralfellows. He has given 16 plenary lectures and named lectureships.

Dr. Burggren’s accomplishments have been widely recognized (for example, Rector Honoris Causa(Honorary University President), The Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico; Medal ofthe University of Helsinki, Finland; elected Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). Many of Dr.Burggren’s research accomplishments took place while he was either serving as Dean of the College of Artsand Sciences (1998-2010) or Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, (2010-2015) at the University ofNorth Texas. He currently serves as the President’s Special Advisor for STEM and International Activities.

From Treasurer: Heidy ContrerasI look forward to seeing everyone at the annual Comparative

and Evolutionary Physiology Section Dinner-Business Meeting.,Monday, April 24 at The Dawson, 730 W. Grand Ave. We havea delicious three course menu planned. See it at the link below.Dine and network with fellow comparative physiologists and

celebrate this year's Krogh Distinguished Lecturer and honoredguest, Dr. Warren Burggren from the University of North Texas.We will also celebrate achievements of the 2017 recipients ofthe CEPS New Investigator Award, Research RecognitionAwards, Scholander Awards, and the Novo Nordisk FoundationTravel Fellows.

There will be a limited number of tickets sold on-site in the APS office. Tickets will be sold on a first-come/first-served basis. The on-site EB APS office will be located in the Jackson A Room, Hyatt McCormickPlace Hotel. Ticket services begin Saturday, April 22nd at 8:00 AM and daily through Tuesday, April 25th from7:30 AM until 5:00 PM.

Formoreinfo:http://www.the-aps.org/mm/hp/Audiences/Sections/banquets/CEPSBanqWeb.pdf

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CEP Section Award WinnersCongratulationstothe2017Comparativesectionawardrecipients.AwardeeswillberecognizedattheCEPSSectiondinneronMonday,April.

NewInvestigatorAward: MatthewPamenter UniversityofOttawa,Canada

ResearchRecognitionAward: ClaradoAmaral UniversityofDaytonWilliamIsraelson UniversityofTexasSouthwestern

NovoNordiskTravelAwards: JosephSantin WrightStateUniversityMichaelTift ScrippsInstitutionofOceanography

Congratulations to Jinae Roa of Scripps Institute of Oceanography for winning a second year of the PorterFellowship, which runs through the end of June 2017. Jinae was also named the Eleanor Ison FranklinFellow for the 2016-17 period for the highest ranked renewal application. Join Jinae at the SectionBanquet and Monday, April 24.

You're invited! Come meet, eat, and socialize with your fellow physiologists who are working in thecorporate, industrial, academic, or government sector. The 16th Annual Physiologists in Industry CommitteeMixer will be held on Sunday, April 23, 6:45 – 8:00 pm, in room Grant Park A of the Hyatt Regency McCormickPlace and will feature a cash bar and free hors d’oeuvres. This is a great opportunity to network with industryand academic APS members alike. We hope to see you there!

Finally, the annual APS PIC meeting is Sunday, April 23, 2:30 - 4:00 PM. This is the committee’s annualopportunity to have a face-to-face meeting to discuss committee business and new initiatives. Please feel freeto contact your PIC section representative if there are issues to be brought to the attention of the PIC.

Physiologist in Industry Ken Olson, CEPS RepresentativeThe Physiologists in Industry Committee is sponsoring an exciting

symposium with Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section at EB 2017, Chicago,entitled "Nitric Oxide Pathway Modulation for Therapeutic Intervention andExercise Enhancement," on Sunday, April 23, 10:30-12:30 PM at ChicagoConvention Center. This symposium will explore recently discovered therapeuticcompounds and nutritional supplementation as a way to enhance NO pathwaysignaling in health and disease. It will provide a great opportunity for interactionand knowledge exchange between our academia and industry colleagues. Thissection will be chaired by Dr. John Mattson and co-chaired by Dr. Kavaljit Chhabra.

The PIC Novel Disease Model Award is a postdoctoral and also a doctoralstudent award. This award recognizes a trainee whose investigation into a noveldisease model has been designated by the Physiologists in Industry Committee asan outstanding example of experimental research.

The winner of the postdoctoral award is Dr. T. Dylan Olver, University of Missouri, Columbia, for theproject entitled “Elucidating the Mechanisms of Pial and Paraenchymal Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in aNovel Porcine Model of HFpEF”. The winner of the predoctoral award is Ms. Kasi McPherson, University ofMississippi Medical Center, for the project entitled “Treatment with Lisinopril Delays the Early Progressionof Proteinuria in a Novel Model of Prepubertal Obesity”. Both awards will be presented at the APS BusinessMeeting on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 from 5:45 - 7:30 PM.

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KickStartyourfunding:LookingbeyondNIHandNSFSymposium— Wednesday,April26,2017— 10:30AM- 12:30PM— ,RoomW192CTraineeAdvisoryCommittee— Chair:JenniferSteiner— Co-Chair:KristiStreeterFunding for scientific research is becoming progressively harder to obtain and competition continues togrow. Despite the increased challenge to gain federal funding (i.e. NIH), many universities and otherinstitutions require their applicants to have funding when applying for faculty positions, regardless of theircareer stage. As such, an enormous amount of pressure is placed on trainees to obtain funding prior tolooking for a position as an independent scientist. In addition, early career investigators who have alreadytransitioned to independent positions also experience similar pressures and difficulties obtaining funding. Inrecognition of the funding crisis as well as the increasingly competitive job market for trainees and earlycareer investigators, the goal of this symposium is to provide information on funding sources outside of theNIH and NSF. We will have four speakers with each representing less tradition funding mechanisms including1) industry, 2) private foundations, 3) crowd-funding, and 4) military funding. Each speaker will identify howto find funding within their genre, provide information and tips for writing successful grant proposals, andcompare and contrast their organization with how other funding mechanisms (i.e. NIH) work. To providesuch information we have invited speakers who have successfully obtained funding (Dr. Leon, military) aswell as a representatives from companies or private foundations that either have grant programs or regularlyfund product research. We will also have a representative to discuss fund raising opportunities via crowdfunding websites. This symposium will be conducted in the typical format of 25 min presentations followedby 5 minutes of questions with additional interactions to be encouraged following all 4 speakerspresentations.SpeakersSeekingFundingOutsidetheNorm:UniqueOpportunitieswithinMilitaryResearchProgramsLisaLeon— ThermalMountainMedicineDivision,ThermalMountainMedicineDivisionSuccessfullySecuringFundingandCollaboratingwithindustryWai Man(Eugene)Shek — ,LillyChinaResearchandDevelopmentCo.,LtdCancerFundingfromaPrivateFoundationCharlesSaxe— n/a,TheAmericanCancerSocietyCrowdFundingYourScienceMelissaWilsonSayres — AssistantProfessor,ArizonaStateUniv.

News from the Trainee Advisory Committee Rep. Joseph SantinTrainees are invited to attend the Trainee Mixer on Monday, April 24 beginning at 5:30pm. The Mixer is heldimmediately prior to the CEP Dinner-Business meeting at The Dawson (730 W. Grand Ave). Meet, mingle andnetwork with fellow trainees and the 2017 Krogh Distinguished Lecturer and honored guest, Dr. WarrenBurggren from the University of North Texas. Also present will be recipients of the CEPS New InvestigatorAward, Research Recognition Awards and Novo Nordisk Foundation Travel Fellows. Hors d’oeuvres and yourfirst drink is on us!TRAINEES: APS operates an effective and easy to use communication bulletin board called APS Connect.Follow this link http://connect.the-aps.org/home to set up your account and stay connected with the latesttrainee news from the Trainee Advisory Committee.ADVISORS: If you have trainees in your lab or department, please encourage them to join the APS andbecome members of the CEP section. Undergraduates can join for free! Membership fees are reduced forgraduate students and postdocs.

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From Our Program Chairs Dane Crossley and Scott KirktonExperimental Biology 2018 will be held in San Diego, CA April 21-25, 2018. It is not too early to think

about ideas for symposia or featured topic proposals for the 2018 meeting. Our section is scheduled for 2Symposia and 1 Featured Topic. Support for speakers is very generous.

We are happy to provide help or guidance creating your proposal. Past proposals with broad interestsreceived the most support from the Steering Committee. In addition, topic that appealed to other APSsections drew the largest audiences. We are eager to work with any proposal (before or after selection) toimprove its interest from other APS sections.

For more information about submitting proposals see http://www.the-aps.org/mm/Conferences/EB orcontact us at dane.crossley@unt.edu or kirktons@union.edu. Proposals for symposia and featured topicsshould be submitted by ASAP. Proposals will be discussed and decided upon at the CEPS Steering Committeemeeting at the EB 2017 meeting.

From the Joint Program Committee (JPC)The American Physiological Society invites you to submit ideas for the Integrative Physiology

Symposium Series which will take place during Experimental Biology 2018, April 21-25, in San Diego, CA.DeadlineforsubmissionisApril7,2017!

Clickheretoenterthesubmissionsite. (www.surveymonkey.com/r/GBY6N9K)

Integrative Physiology Symposia should cover broad topics of interest to constituents of several APSsections and interest groups. Submitters provide a session topic and up to eight suggested speakers. The JPCwill evaluate submissions and assist submitters in identifying speakers if necessary. Submitters are stronglyencouraged to work with your JPC representatives, Dane Crossley (dane.crossley@unt.edu) or the JPCrepresentative (http://www.the-aps.org/mm/hp/Audiences/APS-Committees/jpc/members.pdf) most alignedwith the program topic to get guidance on the integrative requirements for the topic or for help identifyingspeakers.

Looking Ahead to EB 2018 San Diego, CA April 21-25, 2018

UPDATE: Intersociety Meeting in 2018Dane Crossley, Program Chair

The theme for our next intersociety meeting (October 2018) is Comparative Physiology: Complexity andIntegration. Based on feedback from past attendees and CEPS members we have targeted Austin TX as ournext meeting site. We are reaching out to CEPS members for potential symposium topics and gatheringsuggestions over the next several months. In addition, we plan to program abstract-driven sessions to expandthe breadth of the topics during the meeting. Please contact any of the committee members if you havesuggestions or questions. Looking forward to hearing from you.

MichaelHedrick michael.hedrick@csueastbay.edu DaneACrossleyII dane.crossley@unt.eduArthurWoods art.woods@mso.umt.edu LynnHartzler lynn.hartzler@wright.eduScottKirkton kirktons@union.edu TobiasWang tobias.wang@biology.au.dkCassondraWilliams cassondra8888@gmail.com BridgetMartinez bmartinez26@ucmerced.eduDanielWarren dwarren4@slu.edu CarolineWilliams cmw@berkeley.eduAllysonHindle allyson.hindle@gmail.com

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The Career Opportunities in Physiology Committee supports a number of APS programs to foster the careerdevelopment of physiologists of all ages:EBSymposium:“TheManyFacetsofa"TeachingCareer"”Teaching has become a desired and required component of many academic careers. Join us for this year’sCareer Opportunities in Physiology symposium at Experimental Biology to help you identify teachingexpectations at different institutions and insight into strategies for successful teaching. Monday April 24,10:30am -12:30pm in Room W192C.Experimental Biology Undergraduate Orientation and Poster SessionsOpen to all undergraduate students attending EB, the Undergraduate Orientation session serves as a primerto help the students get the most out of their EB experience, and includes award presentations for variousAPS-sponsored undergraduate research programs. This will be held in the Regency Ballroom CDE at the HyattRegency McCormick Place from 3:30-5:30pm on Saturday, April 22. There is also a special poster session forundergraduate students at EB, held from 3:30-5:30pm on Sunday April 23 in McCormick Place (ConventionCenter) – please stop by and meet the next generation of physiologists!APS Video Contest – VOTE NOW!!Each year we encourage undergraduate and graduate students to creatively connect with physiology andbring it the broader public through a short video contest. In addition to a first place prize of $750 plus travelmoney to help the winners attend EB, there is a $250 viewer’s-choice award – YOU be the judge! The videowith the most views before April 22 wins! To view this year’s entries, go to: http://bit.ly/1nmGEWfScience Fair PrizesKnow of a science fair near you? The APS has FREE prizes to give away! Just fill out a simple online requestform and APS members can present one award per science fair. Student winners receive an APS t-shirt and acertificate for the best physiology project. The teachers of the winning students will receive an APS teachingresource packet. Follow this link for further details: http://bit.ly/1BkhnLu

Career Opportunities in Physiology Committee

AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Willis Samson, Editor-in-ChiefAJPRegu UpdateSpring2017:Therearecurrentlyfive,activeCallsforPapers.

HypertensiveDisordersofPregnancy:EffectsonMotherandBaby-SubmissionDeadlineApril15,2017(GuestEditor:B.LaMarca)

GProtein-CoupledReceptorSignalinginMetabolicDisease-SubmissionDeadlineDecember31,2017(GuestEditorGYosten)

ExploitingEnvironmentalFactorstoImproveHealthandPerformance-SubmissionDeadlineMarch31,2017(GuestEditorS.Romero)

ModelSystemsoftheStudyofIntegrativePhysiology:TheRebirthofTranslationalBiology-SubmissionDeadlineMay1,2017

(GuestEditorJMorrison)OxygenSignaling-SubmissionDeadlineDecember31,2017

(EditorREvans)NewInvestigatorReviewAward-SubmissionDeadlineJune30,2017

(AllEditors)In particular the Editors encourage submissions for the New Investigator Review Award Call, which willinclude up 5 awards of $1,000 each for the best review articles submitted by investigators within 7 years ofreceipt of their terminal degree. For details go to: http://ajpregu.physiology.org/

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Chair andSACRepresentativeMichaelS.Hedrick,Ph.D.DepartmentofBiologicalSciencesCaliforniaStateUniversity,EastBayHayward,CA94542Voice: 510-885-7443Email: michael.hedrick@csueastbay.edu

SecretaryTomW.Ecay,PhDDepartmentofBiomedicalScienceQuillen CollegeofMedicine– ETSUPOBox70583,JohnsonCity,TN36714Voice: 423-439-2046 Fax:423-439-2051Email: ecay@etsu.edu

TreasurerHeidy Contreras,PhDDepartmentofBiologyUniversityofLaVerne19503rd Street,LaVerne,CA91750Voice: 909-448-4016Email: hcontreras@laverne.edu

CEPSProgramCommitteeChairandJPCRep.DaneAlanCrossley,PhDDepartmentofBiologicalSciencesUniv ofNorthTexas1155UnionCircle,#305220,Denton,TX76203-5017Voice: 940-369-7327Email: dane.crossley@unt.edu

CommitteeonCommitteesRepresentativeStanleyD.Hillyard,PhDSchoolofDentalMedicine,UniversityofNevada-LasVegas1001ShadowLane,MS7410,LasVegas,NV89106-4124Voice: 702-774-2624 Fax:702-774-2721Email: stanley.hillyard@unlv.edu

PhysiologistinIndustryCommitteeRepresentativeKennethR.Olson,PhDIndianaUniversitySchoolofMedicineSouthBendCenter,IN46556-5607Voice: 574-631-7560 Fax:574-631-7821Email: kolson@nd.edu

TraineeAdvisoryCommitteeRepresentativeJosephM.Santin,MSBiologicalSciences,WrightStateUniversity3640ColonelGlennHwy.Dayton,OH45435Voice: 937-775-2163 Fax:937-775-3320Email: santin2@wright.edu

AwardsCommitteeChairSiribhinya Benyajati,PhDDepartmentofPhysiologyUniversityofOklahomaHealthScienceCenter940StantonL.YoungBlvd.,OklahomaCity,OK73104Voice: 405-271-2132Email: siribhinya-benyajati@ouhsc.edu

exofficioAJP:Regulatory,Integrative,andComparativePhysiology,AssociateEditorKennethR.Olson,PhDIndianaUniversitySchoolofMedicineSouthBendCenter,IN46556-5607Voice: 574-631-7560 Fax: 574-631-7821Email: kolson@nd.edu

Councilor– InternationalAffarisBerryPinshow,PhDDept.ofDesertEcology,Ben-GurionUniversityofNegev84990Midreshet Bengurion,IsraelVoice: +972-8-6596787Email: pinshow@bgu.ac.il

Councilor-GeneralSectionAffairsGaryH.Laverty,PhDDept.ofBiol.Sci.,UniversityofDelawareWolfHall,Newark,DE19716Voice: 302-831-8180Email: laverty@udel.edu

SciencePolicyAdvocacyLiaisonDanielE.Warren,PhDDept.ofBiology,St.LouisUniversity3507LacledeAve,St.Louis,MO63103Voice: 314-977-2043Email: dwarren4@slu.edu

TraineeSubcommitteeCassondraWilliams,PhDEcologyandEvolutionaryBiologyUniversityofCaliforniaIrvine321Steinhaus,Irvine,CA92697Voice: 858-337-4525Email: cassondw@uci.edu

BridgetMartinez,PhDDept.ofMolecularandCellularBiologyUniversityofCalifornia– Merced221E.22nd Street,Merced,CA95340Voice:209-276-8813Email: bmartinez26@ucmerced.edu

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