If you’ve never been to an Experimental Biology (EB) meeting, then nothing will have prepared you for the scale of the congress, or the centre that hosts it. The annually staged conference visits a different US city every year. This year, over 11,000 scientists converged on the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, for a five-day celebration of recent developments in the biological sciences.
The American Physiological Society (APS) is one of the seven societies that together comprise the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB). The APS is structured so that each section within the society contributes a selection of symposia titles to the program, which includes lectures, workshops, and poster sessions.
The Comparative Physiological Section of the APS is responsible for hosting three featured topic sessions and one symposium. This year’s topics included sessions on subjects from signalling in cell stress, circadian organisation in vertebrates, evolution of the...
