Society Communications 2009 and before

Updates from International Society of Pathophysiology

Executive Committee & Council Membership

Report on the 4th World Congress of Pathophysiology

IUPS Policy

NEW The IUPS Council has become aware of a potentially serious problem concerning scientific research, particularly in the field of physiology, at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC). As reported in Science on 4th September 2009 (vol 325, p. 1190), more

Reflections - Kyoto 2009

Closing Ceremony, Saturday 1 August, Speech of Professor Denis Noble, President of the IUPS. This speech followed a performance of music (from the Jupiter suite of The Planets, the theme of “I vow to thee, my country”) more

Opening Ceremony, Monday 27 July, In the presence of His Imperial Highness, the Crown Prince of Japan,  Speech of Professor Denis Noble, President of the IUPS more

Meeting announcements

NEW 7th FAOPS (Federation of Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies) Congress in Taipei 2011 more

*Epithelia & Membrane Transport Themed Meeting* with a focused symposium on 'Epithelial form, function and transport'. 6 - 8 September 2009, Newcastle, UK. more

*Joint International Meeting - Woods Hole USA*,
with the Society of General Physiologists, including a focused symposium on 'Basic biology and disease of muscle'. 9 - 13 September 2009,  Woods Hole, USA. more

NEW *Cellular & Integrative Neuroscience Themed Meeting*
with a focused symposium on 'Sensory processing: From transduction to behaviour'. 14 - 16 December 2009; Cardiff, UK. more

XXIII Congress of the Latino American Physiological Sciences Association, II Iberoamerican Congress of Physiological Sciences
The Chilean Physiological Society has agreed to organize the next XXIII Congress of the Latino American Physiological Sciences Association (ALACF), to be held in the city of Pucón, Chile from November 16 to 21, 2009. more

FEPS 2009
Joint meeting of The Slovenian Physiological Society and The Austrian Physiological Society and The Federation of European Physiological Societies. 12 - 15 November 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Check for the Call for symposia. more


2nd Congress of Physiological Sciences of Serbia with International Participation will be held in Kragujevac (central part of Serbia) at the Faculty of Medicine University of Kragujevac, September 17-20, 2009. more

Physiology Editiorials

NEW The International Union of Physiological Sciences IUPS Editorial VIII
The 36th International Congress of Physiological Sciences took place in Kyoto, Japan this past summer. The general consensus is that the Congress was a great success,
but what are the criteria for success? A comprehensive physiological congress...
more

The International Union of Physiological Sciences IUPS Editorial VII
IWe are now very close to the start of the 2009 IUPS Congress of Physiological Sciences to be held in Kyoto’s magnificent International Conference Center, beautifully situated at the foot of Mount Hiei, only a 20-minute subway ride from Kyoto’s city center. more

The International Union of Physiological Sciences IUPS Editorial VI
ISince our last IUPS editorial (1), the programme for the 2009 IUPS Congress in Kyoto, Japan has been completely finalized. more

IUPS Council News

From IUPS: the article series by IUPS Council Members  more on IUPS2009 website
Or see the individual contributions:
Akimichi Kaneko (English version)
Ole H Peterson
Irene Schulz-Hofer
Pierre J. Magistretti
Tai Yao
Yung E. Earm
Ann J. Sefton & Penelope A. Hansen

Malcolm S. Gordon
Cecilia Hidalgo

Antonio C. Campos de Carvalho

Marjan Rupnik

In memoriam - After Dick Taylor (1995) and Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (2007), two more of the driving forces in comparative physiology, Liana Bolis and Pierre Dejours, have now been lost. more

Beijing Joint Conference of Physiological Sciences - summary of the meeting held between October 20 - 22, 2008 in Beijing, China. more

Professor Ole Petersen, who is the George Holt Professor of Physiology, has been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).  more

See IUPS Support for Universality of Science  ( ICSU Statute 5 )

Physiology Teaching Workshops and Activities

NEW Documenting Thirty Years of Physiology Education Workshops,
A report prepared by the Education Committee for the Council of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, by Ann Jervie Sefton and Penelope Hansen, Co-chairs, IUPS Education Committee

Long Range Planning Committee

IMPORTANT The Long Range Planning Committee has been established by the Council in April 2005. The committee has worked during the past three years to prepare the report which was reviewed with Council at their meeting in December 2007. We now would like to present it to you the member societies of our Union. Several of the recommendations have already been implemented or will be in the near future, but there are others that will be further discussed at the next Council meeting and presented to the 2009 General Assembly for approval prior to implementation... more