Meet the 2024 Game Changers
The eight game-changer sessions at the American Physiology Summit feature some of the biggest topics impacting life and health today. Top scientists from around the world will come together to present on these vital issues.
Circadian Clock | Artificial Intelligence | Drug Targets | Cell Function | Interorgan Crosstalk | Cognitive Decline | Immunometabolism | Nontraditional Models
The Molecular Circadian Clock: Understanding Its Role in Homeostasis
This session, chaired by David Pollock, PhD, FAHA, FAPS, and Ming Gong, MD, PhD, will examine the cutting-edge advances in understanding molecular circadian clocks and how circadian rhythm function is integrated across physiological systems to maintain homeostasis.
Speakers
Satchidananda Panda, PhD
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego
Karen Gamble, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Karyn Esser, PhD
University of Florida
AI Unbound: Challenging Scientific Boundaries in Physiology Research and Data Science
This session, chaired by Stephanie Abo, PhD, and Ari Berman, PhD, will discuss how advances in technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning are pushing boundaries in science and health care.
Speakers
Danielle Cherrice Loving, PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ray Dorsey, MD, MBA
University of Rochester Medical Center, New York
G Protein-coupled Receptors as Drug Targets: Novel Insights and New Approaches
This session, chaired by Jennifer Pluznick, PhD, and John Janetzko, PhD, will address G protein-coupled receptors and their application as drug targets and approaches in identifying GPCR-regulating proteins in the cardiovascular system.
Speakers
Paul Insel, MD, FAPS
University of California, San Diego
Kathleen Caron, PhD
University North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nikoleta “Nina” Tsvetanova, PhD
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Harnessing the Power of Spatial Omics: Innovative Approaches and Insights into Cell Function
This session, chaired by Thomas Cunningham, PhD, and Elaine C Lee, PhD, will examine the promise of novel insights into cell function in systems biology and how cells organize and interact across the tissue landscape to drive disease progression.
Speakers
Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jasmine Plummer, PhD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
Gina L.C. Yosten, PhD
Saint Louis University
Interorgan Crosstalk: Exploring Communication Axes and Their Relevance in Health and Disease
This session, chaired by Wolfgang Kuebler, PhD, MD, FAPS, and Venkataramana K Sidhaye, MD, will discuss a new, rich body of epidemiological and pre-clinical evidence that highlights the relevance of interorgan crosstalk in homeostasis and disease.
Speakers
Ilia Droujinine, PhD
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Nicola Wilck, MD
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Bente Klarlund Pedersen, MD, MDSc
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Cognitive Decline: Collateral Damage of Cardiometabolic Syndrome
This session, chaired by Ann Schreihofer, PhD, FAHA, FAPS, and Liz Simon, PhD, will present findings that could prompt preventive and counteractive remedies for the loss of cognitive function in people with obesity and metabolic syndrome.
Speakers
Alexis M. Stranahan, PhD
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University
Scott Kanoski, PhD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Eva Feldman, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Immunometabolism: At the Crossroads of Novel Gut-Neural-Cardiorenal Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Disease
This session, chaired by Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD, will span basic to applied and clinical science in diverse animal and human models, including underrepresented populations, and introduces immunology from an integrative physiological perspective.
Speakers
Richard Flavell, PhD, FRS
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
John Cryan, PhD
University College Cork, Ireland
Quynh Nhu Dinh, PhD
La Trobe University, Australia
Physiology in Nontraditional Model Systems: Exploring Species Diversity to Reveal Adaptations with Translational Potential
This session, chaired by Scott Kirkton, PhD, will highlight the study of non-traditional models for mechanisms of unique adaptations that can enhance understanding of how other species respond to internal and external physiological challenges.
Speakers
Gary Lewin, PhD
Max Delbrück Center, Germany
Joanna Kelley, PhD
University of California, Santa Cruz
Karin Allenspach, DVM, PhDUniversity of Georgia, Athens
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