Calls for reform in science education have promoted active learning as a means to improve student engagement (SENG). SENG is generally acknowledged to have a positive effect on student learning, satisfaction, and retention. A validated 14-question survey was used to assess SENG in a variety of upper- and lower-level physiology courses, including 100-level Anatomy and Physiology 1, 300-level Ani...

The XI International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology (ISRP2009) was held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, from 6 to 9 September 2009. The previous meetings were held in Nottingham, UK (1960), Ames, USA (1965), Cambridge, UK (1969), Sydney, Australia (1974), Clermont-Ferrand, France (1979), Banff, Canada (1984), Sendai, Japan (1989), Willingen, Germany (1994), Pretoria, South Africa (1999) and Cope...

S OF PAPERS AT THE SEVENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGISTS Genetic and Animal Models for Ion Channel Function in Physiology and Disease Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, Massachusetts

MiRNAs are assumed to be important in animal development and physiology, but their specific roles in vivo are still poorly understood. New bioinformatic and genetic studies are setting the stage for unraveling the specific biological functions of miRNAs.

Microbiome constitutes an important axis of individual variation that, together with genes and the environment, influences individual's physiology fitness. Microbiomes are dependent not only on body condition but also external factors, such as diet or stress levels, can be involved into feedbacks between ecological factors internal physiology. In our study, we used a wild population blue tits C...

Spiders are useful models for testing different hypotheses and methodologies relating to animal personality behavioral syndromes because they show a range of types unique physiological traits (e.g., silk venom) that not observed in many other animals. These characteristics allow understanding how physiology, plasticity, interact across contexts affect spider's individual fitness survival. Howev...

Cardiac physiology is emphasized in many undergraduate physiology courses, but few nonmammalian vertebrate model systems exist that 1) can be studied fairly noninvasively, 2) are well suited for controlled experimentation, and 3) emphasize principles characteristic of the vertebrate heart. We have developed an inquiry-based undergraduate/graduate-level laboratory in cardiac physiology and elect...

BACKGROUND The human gut microbiota interacts closely with human diet and physiology. To better understand the mechanisms behind this relationship, gut microbiome research relies on complementing human studies with manipulations of animal models, including non-human primates. However, due to unique aspects of human diet and physiology, it is likely that host-gut microbe interactions operate dif...