Talk:Society of General Physiologists

Society of General Physiologists
The Society of General Physiologists is a scientific organization whose purpose is to promote and disseminate knowledge in the field of general physiology and otherwise to advance understanding and interest in the subject of general physiology, and to engage in general scientific research in any field relating to general physiology. The Society’s main office is located at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, where the society was founded in 1946.

Membership
The Society’s international membership is made up of nearly 1000 career physiologists who work in academia, government, and industry. Membership in the Society is open to any individual actively interested in the field of general physiology and who has made significant contributions to knowledge in that field. The Society has become known for promoting research in many subfields of cellular and molecular physiology, but especially in the fields of membrane transport and ion channels, cell membrane structure, regulation, and dynamics, and cellular contractility and molecular motors.

Activities
The major activity of the Society is its annual symposium at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Society of General Physiologists symposia cover the forefront of physiological research and are small enough to maximize discussion and interaction. Abstracts of the annual meeting are published in The Journal of General Physiology.

Recent past symposium topics include:

2011 Mitochondrial Physiology and Medicine

2010 New Optical Methods in Cell Physiology

2009 Muscle in Health and Disease

2008 Calcium Signaling and Disease

2007 Membrane Biophysics of Fusion, Fission, and Rafts in Health and Disease

2006 Chemotaxis, Invasion, and Phagocytosis: From Bacteria to Humans

2005 Na,K-ATPase & Related Cation Pumps: Structures, Mechanisms, & Diseases

2004 Lipids Signaling in Physiology