AuPS is the professional association for Australian physiologists which was founded in 1960.

Physiology is a key life science essential to our understanding of how humans and animals function.

With the increasing specialisation of biomedical research, physiology provides an essential framework within which new knowledge of cells and molecules can be applied to improving human health.

Key Objectives of AuPS are:

• To promote the advancement of the science of Physiology
• The encouragement of all aspects of research and teaching in this discipline
• The general dissemination of knowledge of this and related disciplines

• Latest newsletter March 2012

• 2012 Sydney AuPS/ASB/PSNZ Joint Meeting,

  2 - 5 December, 2012, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia. Contact: Christine Riordan, Conference Secretary.

• 2012 American Thoracic Society International Conference,

  May 18-23, 2012 San Francisco, California. Topics include diagnosis & treatment of respiratory diseases, critical illnesses and sleep disorders. For more information, email ATS International Conference Department or go to www.thoracic.org Advance program with registration form available.

• 15th International Biochemistry of exercise (IBEC) Congress

  Stockholm, Sweden, June 17-21, 2012. Program

• Main Meeting of The Physiological Society (UK)

  3-5 July 2012, Edinburgh, UK.

• American Physiological Society Meeting.

  Autonomic Regulation of Cardiovascular Function in Health & Disease July 7-10, 2012, Omaha, Nebraska (USA).
  Abstract Deadline 30 March, 2012.

• Australia and New Zealand Society of Nephrology Meeting. Kidney in Health and Disease Research theme.

  Translational Nephrology : from Mechanisms to Therapeutics. 24-26 August, 2012. Novotel Lakeside, Queenstown, New Zealand.
  For more information contact: jennifer.bedford@otago.ac.nz or rob.walker@otago.ac.nz.

• Australian Early Origins of Hypertension Workshop

  27-29 September, 2012, Stamford Grand Hotel, Glenelg, Adelaide, Australia.
  Abstract submission deadline 23 March 2012. Super early bird registration 23 March, Early bird registration 1 July. Program

• 17th International Congress of the World Muscle Society.

  9-13 October 2012, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
  Registration and abstracts open 1 December 2011
  Abstract submission closes 31 March 2012
  Early bird registration closes: 30 April 2012

• IUPS 2013 Congress