Abstracts are grouped by subcategories within broader areas of research. Select from the main topics below to view additional subcategories. A limited number of high-scoring abstracts will be scheduled into oral sessions.

Cross Disciplinary Oral Presentation Categories
  • From Omics to People: Circadian Transduction of Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Health (Esser)
  • Adipose in Action: The Interface of Inflammation, Metabolism, and Multisystem Physiology (Boerman/Brooks)
  • Pushing Boundaries: Integrative Physiology of Extreme Environments (Roberts)
  • Tissue Regeneration and Cellular Plasticity (Samuelson/Quintero)
  • Can Exercise be Replaced? Exercise Adaptations Mimetics (Richey)
  • Vascular, Neural, and Muscular Adaptations to Exercise Across the Female Reproductive Lifespan and Beyond (Miller/Moir)
  • Immune and Cardiometabolic Affects of Weight Gain, Weight Loss, and Weight Regain (Caslin/Jacks)
  • Microglia at the Crossroads: Regional Diversity and Roles in Brain Health and Disease (Klempin/Biancardi)
  • Neural, Endocrine, and Renal Influences on Cardiovascular Pathology (DeLeon-Pennell)
  • Interoception and Regulation of Respiratory, Cardiovascular, and Gastrointestinal Physiology (Fregosi)
  • Not Your Typical Environmental Physiology: Uncovering the Cardiometabolic Toll of Modern Environments (Wolf/Robinson)
  • Beyond the Vessel Wall: Perivascular Tissue Rewrites Vascular Physiology (Gomes/Watts)
  • Organ-Associated Adipocytes in Physiology and Disease (Ruan)
  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Metabolically Active Tissues: From Mechanisms to Disease (Simon)
Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Oral presentation: Not all HFpEF models are created equal (Bruns)
  • Oral presentation: Critical Role of Endothelial Cell Metabolism in Cardiovascular Disease
  • Cerebral circulation
  • Microcirculation & lymphatics
  • Vascular ion channels
  • Endothelial cell (patho)physiology
  • Vascular smooth muscle (patho)physiology
  • Blood pressure regulation
  • Hypertension and Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Cardiac function and dynamics
  • Heart failure and cardiomyopathy
  • Diabetes, insulin resistance and obesity
  • Myocardial ischemia
  • Cardioprotection
  • Cardiovascular development and aging
  • Sex and gender in the cardiovascular system
  • Exercise and the cardiovascular system
  • Inflammation and immunity in the cardiovascular system
  • Sleep and circadian rhythms in the cardiovascular system
  • Cardiovascular physiology: other
Cellular and Molecular Physiology
  • Oral Presentation: Cellular Mechanisms of Stress, Inflammation and Metabolism (Dash / Fuqua)
  • Oral Presentation: Cellular Signaling: Proteins, Pathways and Mechanisms (Zhou / Hibbert)
  • Oral Presentation: Channels, Transporters, and Pumps in Health and Disease (Cho / Strause)
  • Cell physiology: emerging topics, concepts and methods
  • Cellular targets for translational medicine: disease related physiology
  • Channels, transporters, pumps, and pH homeostasis
  • Molecular mechanisms of intracellular signaling and transduction
  • Inflammation, oxidative stress, apoptosis, autophagy, and metabolism
  • The cellular environment and intercellular communication
  • Subcellular organelles and membrane structural physiology
  • Cancer: proliferation, metastasis and aberrant cell signaling
Central Nervous System, Neuroscience and Neurophysiology
  • Blood-Brain Barrier, Cerebral Blood Flow, and Neurovascular
  • Neuroimmunology, Neuroendocrinology & Brain Metabolism
  • Neurodevelopmental, Neurodegenerative, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
  • Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury, and Reparative Plasticity
  • Central Nervous System, Neuroscience and Neurophysiology: Other
  • Nutrition/Central Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight
  • Central Regulation of Cognition and Social Behavior
  • Neuroexcitability, Synaptic Transmission, Neuroplasticity
  • Exercise and the Brain
  • Neurobiology of Stress, Fear, and Arousal
  • Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
  • CNS regulation of pain & Endocannabinoids in the CNS
  • Drugs of Abuse: Addiction, Sensitization and Tolerance
Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology
  • Comparative cardiovascular and respiratory physiology
  • Comparative digestive physiology
  • Comparative metabolic, cellular and molecular physiology
  • Comparative muscle physiology, locomotion and behavior
  • Comparative neurobiology
  • Comparative osmotic, ionic, and acid-base regulation
  • Comparative immunology and endocrinology
  • Comparative evolutionary physiology: other
Endocrinology and Metabolic Physiology
  • Oral presentation: Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Lectureship of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Section (Yanes Cardozo/Barr)
  • Oral presentation: Hot Topics in Endocrinology and Metabolism and the New Investigator Award (Levitt/Eissa)
  • Obesity and adipose tissue biology
  • Muscle, mitochondria, and fuel utilization
  • Diabetes, pancreatic and gastrointestinal hormones
  • Reproductive endocrinology
  • Endocrinology and Metabolism: Miscellaneous topics
Environmental and Exercise Physiology
  • Oral presentation: Countermeasures for Operational Environments: Physiology and Performance (Giersch/Keeler)
  • Chronic/long-term adaptations to exercise training in health and disease
  • Acute responses to exercise in health and disease
  • Environmental stress (oxygen, gravity, barometric pressure, blood volume, sleep, pollution, etc.)
  • Thermal stress, thermoregulation and hydration
  • Integrative physiology of muscle, adipose, bone, and connective tissue
  • Physiological responses to exercise and environmental stressors in diverse populations (sex/gender, race/ethnicity)
  • Integrative physiology
  • Environmental and exercise physiology: other
Epithelial Transport
  • Oral Presentation: The Hans Ussing Lecture of the Epithelial Transport Group (Woodward)
  • Epithelial transport in kidney
  • Epithelial transport in intestine, lung, and other tissues
Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
  • Oral Presentation: The Hans Ussing Lecture of the Epithelial Transport Group (Woodward)
  • Epithelial transport in kidney
  • Epithelial transport in intestine, lung, and other tissues
  • Oral presentation: Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology Section (Edelblum)
  • Oral presentation: Impact of the Microenvironment on Stem Cell Fate and Regeneration
  • Developmental physiology and aging
  • Effects of diet and metabolites
  • Gastric physiology and pathophysiology
  • Enteric nervous system physiology and pathophysiology
  • Gastrointestinal physiology and pathophysiology
  • Immunology and microbiome
  • Intestinal inflammation and pathophysiology
  • Liver physiology and pathophysiology
  • Pancreatic physiology and pathophysiology
  • Gastrointestinal and liver physiology: other
History of Physiology
  • History of physiology
Hypoxia
  • Oral presentation: Lahiri-Cherniak Symposium
  • Gene transcription and translation in hypoxia
  • Intermittent hypoxia/oxidative stress
  • Physiology and pathophysiology of hypoxia
  • Responses to acute or chronic hypoxia
  • Hypoxia: other
Muscle Biology and Physiology
  • Cardiac muscle; physiology and metabolism in health and disease
  • Muscle regeneration, sarcopenia, aging and nutritional regulation of muscle atrophy
  • Skeletal muscle; physiology, pathology and metabolism in health and disease
  • Smooth muscle; physiology, pathology and metabolism in health and disease
  • Muscle biology and physiology: other
Neural Control of Autonomic Physiology
  • Oral presentation: DATA NCARnation
  • Oral Presentation: Emerging Neural Insights into Interoception and Cardiorespiratory Control: From Homeostatic Regulation to Disease Pathogenesis
  • Autonomic mechanisms in diabetes, obesity, and metabolism
  • Autonomic mechanisms in blood pressure and cardiovascular regulation
  • Autonomic mechanisms in aging and neurodegeneration
  • Circadian rhythms and autonomic function
  • Neuroendocrine-autonomic interactions
  • Neuroimmune-autonomic interfaces
  • Gut-brain axis and autonomic regulation
  • Sex differences in autonomic regulation
  • Reflex control of autonomic regulation
  • Central control of autonomic physiology
  • Autonomic balance: sympathetic and parasympathetic
  • Parasympathetic physiology and pathophysiology
  • Sympathetic physiology and pathophysiology
  • Autonomic physiology: technology
  • Autonomic physiology: translational physiology & therapetuics
  • Artificial intelligence and computational modeling in autonomic neuroscience
  • Neural control of autonomic physiology: other
  • New advances in autonomic physiology
Nutrition Physiology
  • Nutrient regulaton of health and chronic disease
  • Dietary regulation of metabolism
  • Nutrition physiology: other
Physiological-Omics
  • Oral presentation: The Role of Non-genetic Factors in Autism Spectrum Disorder Development (Campbell)
  • Genetics, genomics, gene expression and epigenetics in health and disease
  • Functional omics: genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics
  • Translational omics: from model organisms to humans
  • Systems biology, computational modeling and bioinformatics
Renal Physiology
  • Oral presentation: Advances in Renal Physiology (Van Beusecum/Venegas)
  • Oral presentation: Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Renal Section (Gumz/Peti-Peterdi)
  • Oral presentation: Renal Mid-career Investigator Award Lecture (Rinschen/Staruschenko)
  • CKD, diabetic nephropathy and AKI: mechanisms, treatments and models
  • Renal pathophysiology: genetics, hypertension, preeclampsia and (auto)immunity
  • Renal hemodynamics, glomerular, vascular and tubular physiology
  • Cardiorenal, hepatorenal and kidney crosstalk with other organs
  • Sex differences in renal physiology and pathophysiology
  • Renal ion, water and urea transport and regulation
  • Transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and lipidomic profiling of the kidney
Respiratory Physiology
  • Oral presentation: Lung Cell Fate as a Determinant of Health and Disease (Rounds)
  • Airway biology
  • Control of breathing: integrated responses
  • Control of breathing: neurotransmission and modulation: neural, glial and inflammatory mechanisms 
  • Control of breathing: plasticity and clinical disorders
  • Control of breathing: respiratory motoneurons and muscles
  • Development, biomechanics, surfactant and gas exchange
  • Vascular biology and pulmonary hypertension
  • Respiratory physiology: other
  • Sex and gender in respiratory physiology
Sex and Gender Research Interest Group
  • Sex and Gender
Teaching of Physiology
  • Oral presentation: Using the Power of Comparative Physiology to Improve Human Physiology Teaching (Kirkton/Beason-Abmayr)
  • Teaching, learning and testing in the biological and biomedical sciences
  • Teaching of Physiology: other
Translational Physiology
  • Translational Physiology
Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis
  • Sex differences and pregnancy disorders
  • Water and electrolyte balance: cell, organ and whole organism physiology
  • Microbiota, metabolites and physiology
  • Contributions of immune function to disease
  • Transporters and channel physiology
  • Blood pressure and hypertension
  • Cardiac, vascular and renal mechanisms
  • Aging
  • Salt, sugar, fats and other diets and disease
Microcirculatory Society
  • Microcirculatory function
  • Microvascular exchange/permeability
  • Microvascular inflammation and leukocyte-endothelium interactions
  • Microvascular development and remodeling
  • Lymphatic function