The IUPS Commissions
IUPS has established eight scientific commissions which cover major fields of research. The commissions play an important role in generating the scientific program of the IUPS Congresses, organizing IUPS symposia at other scientific meetings, as well as preparing consensus papers and guidelines on matters related to their field of expertise. The IUPS Council can suggest further tasks for the commissions.
Scientific focusses of the commissions
The 8 commissions ( C-I – C-VIII ) cover the broad field of physiology as follows:
- C-I Locomotion
- C-II Circulation & Respiration
- C-III Endocrine, Reproduction & Development
- C-IV Neurobiology
- C-V Secretion & Absorption
- C-VI Molecular & Cellular Physiology
- C-VII Comparative Physiology: Evolution, Adaptation & Environment
- C-VIII Genomics & Biodiversity
Commission I
The commission “Locomotion” is chaired by Laszlo Csernoch (HUngary
Members of the commission are
Sonja Buvinic (Chile),
Bruno Grassi (Italy),
Johanna Lanner (Sweden),
Robyn Murphy (Australia),
Marco Narici (Italy) ,
Maria Jolanta Redowicz (Poland) and
Hidetoshi Sakurai (Japan)
Commission II
The commission “Circulation and Respiration” is chaired by William F Jackson (USA)
Currently commission members are being recuruited
Commission III
The commission “Endocrine, Reproduction Development is chaired by Janna Morrisson, (Australia).
Currently commission members are being recuruited
Commission IV
The commission “Neurobiology” is chaired by Ying Shing Chan (Kong Kong China)
Currently commission members are being recuruited
Commission V
The commission “Secretion and Absorption” is chaired by Linda Chia-Hui (Taipei).
Commission members are
Hirotada Akiho (Japan),
Peter Bay (Hungary)
Melanie Gareau Colin (USA)
Burcu Gemici (Turkey)
Peter Hegyi (Hungary)
Wei-Ting Kuo (Taiwan)
Jens Georg Leipziger (Denmark)
Yasmin Nasser (Canada) and
Li Zuo (China)
Commission VI
The Commission “Molecular & Cellular Physiology” is chaired by Yasushi Okamura (Japan). Chairs (C) and members (M) of the several sub-commissions (SC) are:
SC1 Membrane proteins and trafficking:
Fredrik Elinder (C, Sweden), Florian Lesage (M, France), Laura Swan (M, UK), Jamie Vandenberg (M , Australia), Derek Bowie (M , Canada), Birgit Liss /M, Germany) and Akiyuki Taruno (M, Japan)
SC 2 Organelles, endocytosis/exocytosis:
Ruth Murrell-Lagnado (C, UK), Vincent Jacquemond (M, France) and Nicolas Demaurex (M, CH)
SC 3 Signal Transduction
Eitan Reuveny (C, Israel), Reinhold Penner (M, USA), Jose Lopez Barneo (M, Spain), Silvia Carolina Guatimosim Fonseca (M, Brazil) and Vyung-Chang Suh (M, South Korea).
SC 4 Structure Biology & Physiology:
Jian Yang (C, China), Juan Du (M, USA), Raimund Duzler (M, CH), Hyung Ho Lee (M, South Korea), and Shujia Zhu (M, China)
SC 5 Cell differentiation/death, Stem /IPS cells, Ageing, disease models:
Insuk So (C, South Korea), Stephen C. Cannon (M, USA) and Yashushi Okamura (Japan)
Commission VII
The commission “Comparative Physiology: Evolution, Adaptation and Environment is chaired by Sjannie Lefèvre Nilsson (Norway)
Commission members are
De-Hua Wang (China),
Nicholas Wu (Australia)
Susana Clusella-Trullas (South Africa)
Till Harter (Germany)
Gina Galli (United Kingdom)
Martin Jastroch (Sweden)
Allyson Hindle (USA),
Cynthia J Downs (USA)
Kênia Cardoso Bícego (Brazil) and
Enrico Rezende (Chile)
Commission VIII
The commission “Genomics and Biodiversity” is chaired by Suchinda Malaivijitnond (Thailand)
Commission members are
Yiming Bao (China),
Sree Kanthaswamy USA,
Kornsorn Srikulnath (Thailand),
Darren K Griffin (UK),
Jude Ejikeme Obidiegwu (Nigeria) and
Vorthon Sawaswong (Secretary,
Thailand)
The IUPS Committees
IUPS has currently established four committees. Other than commissions, the committees work in overarching areas, namely Ethics in physiological science, physiological Education, Physiome and Publication activities of IUPS.
Ethics Committee
The ethics committee is chaired by Andrea Calkovskà (Slovakia)
Committee members are
Katja De Angelis (Brazil)
Catherine B Chan (Canada)
Mangal Gunatilake (Sri Lanka),
Lamis Kaddam (Sudan),
Kenji Knasaku (Japan) and
Bill Yates (USA)
Education Committee
The education committee is chaired by Fernanda Klein Marcondes (Brazil)
The members of the committee are currently recruited
Physiome Committee
The Physiome Committee is chaired by Merryn Tawhai (New Zealand)
Committee members are
Members of the committee are Jim Bassingthwaighte (USA), Colleen Clancy (USA), Andrew Greene (USA), Peter Hunter (New Zealand), Virginia Huxley (USA), Fumihiko Kajiya (Japan), Richard Kitney (UK), Nigel Lovell (Australia), Rossana Occhipinti (USA), Stig Omholt (Norway), Aleksander Popel (USA), Axel Pries (Germany), Rod Smallwood (UK) and Hans V.Westerhoff (Netherlands)
Publications Committee
The Publications Committee is chaired by Walter Boron (USA)
The committee members are currently recruited