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
Summit Menu
- Abstracts
- Awards
- Dates and Deadlines
- Keynote Speaker, Opening—Tracy L. Bale, PhD, FAAAS
- Keynote Speaker, Closing—Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD, FBS, FRMS, FASCB
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