The Physiological Society
| Formation | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Support the advancement of physiology |
| Headquarters | London, England |
Membership | 3500 Members |
President | Bridget Lumb |
CEO | Dariel Burdass |
President-Elect | David Paterson |
| Website | www.physoc.org |
The Physiological Society, founded in 1876, is a learned society for physiologists in the United Kingdom.
Contents
1 History
2 Present day
3 Prizes
3.1 Annual Review Prize Lecture
3.2 International Prize Lecture
3.3 Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture
3.4 Biller Prize Lecture
3.5 G L Brown Prize Lecture
3.6 G W Harris Prize Lecture
3.7 Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture
3.8 Joan Mott Prize Lecture
3.9 Michael de Burgh Daly Prize Lecture
3.10 Otto Hutter Teaching Prize
3.11 The Paton Lecture
3.12 Annual Public Lecture
3.13 Sharpey-Schafer Lecture and Prize
3.14 Wellcome Prize Lecture
3.15 GSK Prize Lecture
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links
History
The Physiological Society was founded in 1876 as a dining society "for mutual benefit and protection" by a group of 19 physiologists, led by John Burdon Sanderson and Michael Foster, as a result of the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and the subsequent 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act.[1] Other founding members included: William Sharpey, Thomas Huxley, George Henry Lewes, Francis Galton, John Marshall, George Murray Humphry, Frederick William Pavy, Lauder Brunton, David Ferrier, Philip Pye-Smith, Walter H. Gaskell, John Gray McKendrick, Emanuel Edward Klein, Edward Schafer, Francis Darwin, George Romanes, and Gerald Yeo. The aim was to promote the advancement of physiology. Charles Darwin and William Sharpey were elected as The Society's first two Honorary Members. The Society first met at Sanderson's London home. The first rules of The Society offered membership to no more than 40, all of whom should be male "working" physiologists.[2] Women were first admitted as members in 1915 and the centenary of this event was celebrated in 2015 [3][4]
Michael Foster was also founder of The Journal of Physiology in 1878, and was appointed to the first Chair of Physiology at the University of Cambridge in 1883.
The archives are held at the Wellcome Library.[5]
Present day
The Society consists of over 3500 members, including 14 Nobel Laureates and over 700 affiliates (younger scientists) drawn from over 50 countries. The majority of members are engaged in research, in universities or industry, into how the body works in health and disease and in teaching physiology in schools and universities. The Society also facilitates communication between scientists and with other interested groups.
The Physiological Society publishes the academic journals The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology, and with the American Physiological Society publishes the online only, open access journal Physiological Reports.[6] It also publishes the membership magazine Physiology News.
The Society's current president is Bridget Lumb.[7]
The post of president was established in 2001. Past holders include:[8]
- 2001 (2001) – 2003 (2003): Colin Blakemore
- 2003 (2003) – 2006 (2006): Richard A. North
- 2006 (2006) – 2008 (2008): Ole H. Petersen
- 2008 (2008) – 2010 (2010): Clive H. Orchard
- 2010 (2010) – 2012 (2012): Kenneth M. Spyer
- 2012 (2012) – 2014 (2014): Jonathan F. Ashmore
- 2014 (2014) – 2016 (2016): Richard Vaughan-Jones
- 2016 - 2018: David A. Eisner
Prizes
The Society awards a number of prizes for meritorious achievement.[9]
Annual Review Prize Lecture
The society considers its Annual Review Prize Lecture, first awarded in 1968, to be its premier award.[9] Recipients of the prize, and their lectures, have included:[10][11]
- 1968 (1968): William D.M. Paton
- 1969 (1969): Geoffrey W. Harris
1970 (1970): W. A. H. Rushton - Pigments and signals in colour vision[12]- 1971 (1971): Henry Barcroft - An enquiry into the nature of the mediator of the vasodilatation in skeletal muscle in exercise and during circulatory arrest
- 1972 (1972): John Eccles - The cerebellum as a computer: patterns in space and time
- 1973 (1973): Andrew F. Huxley - Muscular contraction
- 1974 (1974): A. A. Harper
- 1975 (1975): Hugh Davson - The blood–brain barrier
- 1976 (1976): Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - Chance and design in electrophysiology: an informal account of certain experiments on nerve carried out between 1934 and 1952
- 1977 (1977): Raymond Michael Gaze
- 1978 (1978): K. W. Cross - La Chaleur Animale and the infant brain (lecture delivered 1979)
- 1979 (1979): Geoffrey Burnstock - Neurotransmitters and trophic factors in the autonomic nervous system
- 1980 (1980): P. B. C. Matthews - Evolving views on the internal operation and functional role of the muscle spindle
- 1981 (1981): H. H. Loeschke - Central chemosensitivity and the reaction theory (Loeschche was unable to deliver his lecture owing to ill-health, but it was published)
- 1982 (1982): G. S. Dawes - The central control of fetal breathing and skeletal muscle movements
- 1983 (1983): Denis Noble - The surprising heart: a review of recent progress in cardiac electrophysiology
- 1984 (1984): Roger C. Thomas - Experimental displacement of intracellular pH and the mechanism of its subsequent recovery
- 1985 (1985): Daniel J. C. Cunningham - Studies on arterial chemoreceptors in man
- 1986 (1986): David M. Armstrong - The supraspinal control of mammalian locomotion
- 1987 (1987): Christopher C. Michel - Capillary permeability and how it may change
- 1988 (1988): Pierre Dejours - From comparative physiology of respiration to several problems of environmental adaptations and to evolution
- 1989 (1989): J. V. G. A. Durnin
- 1990 (1990): Olga Hudlická - What makes blood vessels grow?
- 1991 (1991): Ole H. Petersen - Stimulus-secretion coupling: cytoplasmic calcium signals and the control of ion channels in exocrine acinar cells
- 1992 (1992): Ian M. Glynn - All hands to the sodium pump
- 1993 (1993): Kenneth M. Spyer - Central nervous mechanisms contributing to cardiovascular control
- 1994 (1994): C. B. Wollheim
- 1995 (1995): Colin Blakemore
- 1996 (1996): Michael J. Berridge - Elementary and global aspects of calcium signalling
- 1997 (1997): Lily Yeh Jan - Voltage-gated and inwardly rectifying potassium channels
- 1998 (1998): Nancy J. Rothwell - Cytokines – killers in the brain?
- 1999 (1999): Richard Alan North
- 2000 (2000): Francisco Bezanilla
- 2001 (2001): Stephen O'Rahilly
- 2002 (2002): John Sulston
- 2003 (2003): Frances M. Ashcroft
- 2004 (2004): Robin F. Irvine - Inositide evolution – towards turtle domination?
- 2005 (2005): Graham J. Dockray
- 2006 (2006): M. Fishman (Fishman was unable to deliver his lecture)
- 2007 (2007): T. B. Bolton
2008 (2008): Robert G. Edwards (Edwards was unable to deliver his lecture)- 2009 (2009): Stephen G. Waxman
- 2010 (2010): Roger Y. Tsien
- 2011 (2011): Carla J. Shatz
2012 (2012): Peter J. Ratcliffe - Oxygen sensing in animals[13]
2013 (2013): Eric Gouaux - The molecular mechanisms of signaling at chemical synapses (lecture delivered at the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Congress)[14]
2014 (2014): Richard W. Tsien - Excitation-transcription coupling: novel mechanisms and implications for brain disease
2015 (2015): Annette Dolphin - From trafficking of neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels to neuropathic pain
2016 (2016): John O'Keefe - The Cognitive Map Theory of Hippocampal Function: An update[15]
2017 (2017): David Eisner- "Ups and downs of calcium in the heart". (at IUPS Congress, Rio de Janeiro)- 2018: Juleen Zierath - "Skeletal muscle mediators and exercise-induced adaptations governing insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetes"
International Prize Lecture
- 2001 (2001): Nicholas B. Standen
- 2002 (2002): David I. Cook
- 2003 (2003): Jonathan F. Ashmore
- 2004 (2004): David J. Beech
- 2005 (2005): Simon C. Gandevia
- 2006 (2006): Mark J. Dunne
- 2007 (2007): David Allen
- 2010 (2010): David Attwell
- 2011 (2011): Giovanni E. Mann
- 2013 (2013): Richard Vaughan-Jones
- 2014 (2014): Kenneth M. Spyer
Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture
Named for William Bayliss and Ernest Starling.[10]
- 1963 (1963): Charles Lovatt Evans
- 1966 (1966): Ivan De Burgh Daly
- 1969 (1969): Archibald Hill
- 1973 (1973): Roderic Alfred Gregory
- 1976 (1976): Henry Barcroft
- 1979 (1979): David Whitteridge
- 1982 (1982): J R Pappenheimer
- 1985 (1985): Bernard Katz
- 1988 (1988): John Zachary Young
- 1991 (1991): James Black
- 1994 (1994): John Vane
- 1997 (1997): David A. Brown
- 2000 (2000): Salvador Moncada
- 2004 (2004): Gerhard Giebisch
- 2006 (2006): Roderick Flower
- 2009 (2009): Gero Miesenböck
- 2011 (2011): Jerome A. Dempsey
- 2013 (2013): Graham J. Dockray
- 2014 (2014): Steven Bloom
2015 (2015): Kim Barrett - Endogenous and exogenous control of gastrointestinal epithelial function: building on the legacy of Bayliss and Starling[16]- 2016 (2016): Lisa Heather
- 2017 (2017): Helen E. Raybould
- 2018 (2018): Katrin Schröder
Biller Prize Lecture
Named in memory of Kathy Biller.[10]
- 2002 (2002): Louise Robson
- 2006 (2006): Matthew Bailey
- 2004 (2004): Donald T. Ward
- 2008 (2008): Gavin Stewart
G L Brown Prize Lecture
Named for George Lindor Brown.[10]
- 1975 (1975): G S Brindley and R J Linden
- 1976 (1976): P F Baker and Patrick A. Merton
- 1977 (1977): Eric Neil
- 1983 (1983): John Nicholls
- 1984 (1984): John S. Gillespie
- 1985 (1985): Michael de Burgh Daly
- 1986 (1986): Graham J. Dockray
- 1987 (1987): Semir Zeki
- 1988 (1988): Anthony Angel
- 1989 (1989): Colin Blakemore
- 1990 (1990): Nicholas B. Standen
- 1991 (1991): Roger N. Lemon
- 1992 (1992): Jonathan F. Ashmore
- 1993 (1993): Annette Dolphin
- 1994 (1994): Richard Vaughan-Jones
- 1995 (1995): Stuart Cull-Candy
- 1996 (1996): Frances M. Ashcroft
- 1997 (1997): Ian D. Forsythe
- 1998 (1998): Peter Lipp
- 1999 (1999): David J. Paterson
- 2000 (2000): Stephen B. McMahon
- 2001 (2001): Chris Peers
- 2002 (2002): Mark J. Dunne
- 2004 (2004): Michael J. Rennie
- 2005 (2005): Godfrey L. Smith
- 2006 (2006): C. A. Richard Boyd
- 2007 (2007): Nina Balthasa
- 2009 (2009): J Graham McGeown
- 2010 (2010): Lucilla Poston
- 2011 (2011): James Deuchars
- 2012 (2012): Anant B. Parekh
- 2013 (2013): David A. Eisner
- 2014 (2014): Mike Tipton
- 2015 (2015): Molly Stevens
- 2016 (2016): Rachel Tribe
- 2017 (2017): Andrew Parker
G W Harris Prize Lecture
Named in memory of Geoffrey Wingfield Harris.[10]
- 1987 (1987): George Fink
- 1990 (1990): Ernest M. Wright
- 1993 (1993): Graham J. Dockray
- 1996 (1996): Iain C. A. F. Robinson
Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture
Name after Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley and Bernard Katz.
- 2000 (2000): Roderick MacKinnon
- 2002 (2002): Bert Sakmann
- 2004 (2004): Denis Noble
- 2006 (2006): Thomas J. Jentsch
- 2008 (2008): Eric Kandel
- 2010 (2010): Roger Nicoll
- 2012 (2012): Cori Bargmann
- 2013 (2013): Erin M. Schuman
2015 (2015): Karin Sipido - Calcium microdomains in cardiac myocytes- 2017 (2017): Jack L. Feldman
Joan Mott Prize Lecture
Named for Joan Mott.[10]
- 1996 (1996): Maria Fitzgerald
- 1998 (1998): Janice M. Marshall
- 2000 (2000): Lucilla Poston
- 2002 (2002): Helen Skaer
- 2004 (2004): Barbara Casadei
- 2006 (2006): Susan Wray
- 2008 (2008): Abigail L. Fowden
- 2010 (2010): Kay Davies
- 2012 (2012): Diane Lipscombe
- 2013 (2013): Eleanor A. Maguire
- 2014 (2014): Linda Partridge
2015 (2015): Hannelore Daniel - Intestinal absorption of sugars and peptides: from textbook to surprises- 2017 (2017): Rhian Touyz
Michael de Burgh Daly Prize Lecture
Named for Michael de Burgh Daly.
- 2002 (2002): Janice M. Marshall
- 2005 (2005): James F X Jones
- 2007 (2007): Michael J. Joyner
- 2009 (2009): Colin A. Nurse
- 2011 (2011): Tobias Wang
- 2013 (2013): Peter Carmeliet
- 2016 (2016): Nanduri R. Prabhakar
Otto Hutter Teaching Prize
Named for Otto Hutter.[10]
- 2010 (2010): Mary Cotter
- 2011 (2011): Neil Morris
- 2012 (2012): Eugene Lloyd
- 2014 (2014): Dave Lewis
2015 (2015): Judy Harris - Engaging students and valuing teachers- 2016 (2016): Prem Kumar
- 2018: Louise Robson - Harnessing digital technologies to enhance student learning
The Paton Lecture
Named for William D.M. Paton.[10]
- 1994 (1994): John Wendell Severinghaus
- 1995 (1995): Hans Ussing
- 1996 (1996): Patrick D. Wall
- 1997 (1997): Vernon B. Mountcastle
- 1998 (1998): Daniel P. Todes
- 2005 (2005): John H. Coote
- 2007 (2007): Denis Noble
- 2008 (2008): Kenneth M. Spyer
- 2009 (2009): Diethelm W. Richter
- 2010 (2010): Murray Esler
- 2011 (2011): John B. West
- 2012 (2012): Jere Mitchell
- 2013 (2013): Geoffrey Burnstock
- 2014 (2014): Peter Sleight
- 2015 (2015): Tilli Tansey
- 2016 (2016): Bert Sakmann
- 2017 (2017): Tom Kirkwood
- 2018 (2018): Josephine Arendt
Annual Public Lecture
- 2005 (2005): Julian F. R. Paton
- 2006 (2006): David Attwell
- 2008 (2008): Peter Weissberg
- 2009 (2009): Stephen O'Rahilly
- 2010 (2010): Nancy J. Rothwell
2011 (2011): Russell Foster- How your body clock makes you tick[17]
2012 (2012): Gareth Leng - The loving brain[18]- 2013 (2013): Russell Foster
- 2014 (2014): Robert Winston
2015 (2015): Sophie Scott -The science of laughter- 2016 (2016): John F. Cryan
2018 (2018): [Daniel Martin] -'From mountains to the bedside: Lessons learnt from Everest'
Sharpey-Schafer Lecture and Prize
Named after Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.[10]
- 1983 (1983): Torsten Wiesel
- 1986 (1986): David Attwell
- 1989 (1989): Bertil Hille
- 1992 (1992): Graham Collingridge
- 1995 (1995): Judah Folkman
- 1998 (1998): Julian F. R. Paton
- 2002 (2002): Erwin Neher
- 2005 (2005): Neville H. McClenaghan
- 2008 (2008): Walter Boron
- 2011 (2011): Walter Marcotti
- 2013 (2013): William A. Catterall
- 2016 (2016): Emma Hart
Wellcome Prize Lecture
- 1986 (1986): Kevin A. C. Martin
- 1988 (1988): David A. Eisner
- 1990 (1990): Andrew J. King
- 1992 (1992): Hugh R. Matthews
- 1994 (1994): Wolf Reik
- 1996 (1996): Stewart O. Sage
- 1998 (1998): Leon Lagnado
- 2000 (2000): Daniela Riccardi
- 2002 (2002): Anant B. Parekh
- 2004 (2004): Alexander V. Gourine
- 2006 (2006): Helen Kennedy
- 2008 (2008): Andrew W. Trafford
GSK Prize Lecture
- 2010 (2010): Josef Kittler
- 2011 (2011): Not awarded
- 2012 (2012): Holly Shiels
- 2013 (2013): Mala M. Shah
References
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^ Sharpey-Schafer, E. History of the Physiological Society during its first Fifty Years 1876-1927, Oxford University Press, London, 1927
^ "Series of livecasts 'Celebrating 100 years of Women's Membership of The Physiological Society'". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 16 September 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ Helen Burgess (Spring 2015). "100 years of women members: The Society's centenary of women's admission" (PDF). Physiology News: Issue 98. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
^ "The Physiological Society". Catalogue. Wellcome Library. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
^ "Physiological Reports". Journals. American Physiological Society. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
^ "Council". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
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^ Rushton, W. A. H. (February 1972). "Pigments and signals in colour vision" (PDF). J Physiol. The Physiological Society. 220 (222): 99P–118P. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1972.sp009719. PMC 1331666. PMID 4336741.
^ Oxygen sensing in animals on YouTube
^ The molecular mechanisms of signaling at chemical synapses on YouTube
^ The Cognitive Map Theory of Hippocampal Function: An update on YouTube
^ Barrett, Kim E. (2017-01-15). "Endogenous and exogenous control of gastrointestinal epithelial function: building on the legacy of Bayliss and Starling". The Journal of Physiology. 595 (2): 423–432. doi:10.1113/JP272227. ISSN 1469-7793. PMC 5233669. PMID 27284010.
^ How your body clock makes you tick on YouTube
^ The loving brain on YouTube
Further reading
Tansey, Tilli; Wray, Susan, ed. (1 July 2015). Women Physiologists: Centenary Celebrations and Beyond, The Physiological Society.
ISBN 978-0-9933410-0-7
External links
- The Physiological Society
- The Journal of Physiology
- Experimental Physiology
