This blog is part of our Research Roundup series, hearing from the Editors-in-Chief of our three journals, Physiology Reports, Experimental Physiology and The Journal of Physiology each month. Their blogs are featured in our Research Roundup, a monthly newsletter, summarising the recent research published in our family of journals.
Professor Josephine C. Adams
Editor-in-Chief, Physiological Reports
As EiC for an open access journal co-owned by two not-for-profit professional Societies, I am pleased that Physiological Reports can give back each year to the physiological research community through a (modest) awards budget. In 2024 to date, this has included awards at major Physiology conferences for early career researchers, chosen on the basis of their poster abstract or poster presentation. The selection of awardees is typically carried out by a judging panel at the conference or is based on Society or Section abstract ranking processes, and is thus somewhat devolved from the journal editors. Overall, the scientific question, experimental design, results, data analysis and clarity of presentation are considered, in line with the mission of Physiological Reports to publish sound science.
I am delighted to congratulate all of the 2024 presentation awardees and wish them continuing success in their future careers: Kento Ohbayashi (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan) and Yu Yamada (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan) at the Physiological Society of Japan conference in March; Madison Ives (Augusta University, US) and Sara Sherman (The University of Illinois at Chicago, US) at the APS American Physiology Summit in April; Peder Berg (Aarhus University, Denmark), Maria Roxana (University of Aberdeen, UK) and Giang M. Dao (Deakin University, Australia) at The Physiological Society and The Scandinavian Physiological Society joint conference Physiology in Focus in July. A list of winners over time can be found at the journal’s awards page.
For anyone looking for excellent reading material to brighten their travels (whether to exciting conferences or on a daily commute), I would like to bring to the attention of The Physiological Society members some invited Reviews published recently in Physiological Reports. These include “Impact of environmental air pollution on respiratory health and function”, which is published in association with our ongoing Call for Papers on “Physiological Effects of Atmospheric Pollution” and is co-authored by Karl Sylvester, Associate Editor Oliver Price, and colleagues; “Exercise-induced appetite suppression: An update on potential mechanisms” from Tom Hazell’s laboratory, which is published in association with our ongoing Call for Papers on “Exercise and Diet”, and “Olfactory cilia, regulation and control of olfaction”, a standalone review by Hiroko Takeuchi. Between these diverse topics, any physiologist should find something of interest, whether within the depth of their field or as a gateway to unfamiliar “pastures new”.