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News: ASGBI Guest Society of the AAA, New Orleans, 18th -22nd of April 2009
** Archived news item...
Posted: Thursday 30 April 2009
ASGBI in New Orleans
ASGBI was delighted to participate as an American Association of Anatomists (AAA) Guest Society at the Experimental Biology FASEB) meeting in New Orleans, 18th to 22nd April. This was an opportunity for ASGBI members to network scientifically, educationally and socially with fellow professionals whose work we know well but who we rarely meet face to face. It was also an opportunity to meet many industry colleagues at the exhibition, including Wiley-Blackwell, the publishers of our two Journals (Journal of Anatomy and Aging Cell).
ASGBI members delivered a wide range of excellent presentations and posters. They included:
- Professor John Morris (ASGBI Membership Secretary and Past President) and Professor Michael Benjamin (former ASGBI Honorary Treasurer) who contributed to a Master Class on teaching the functional anatomy and microanatomy of the lower respiratory system to medical students.
- Professor Darrell Evans (former ASGBI Honorary Treasurer) who contributed to two educational sessions including a Plenary Symposium on proactive approaches to anatomical education in the contemporary medical curriculum.
- Professor Diana Lawrence Watt (former ASGBI Honorary Secretary) and Dr Stefan Przyborski (ASGBI Councillor) who organised and co-chaired a Stem Cell Mini-Meeting on a synergistic approach to stem cell dynamics and bioengineering, which also included a contribution from Dr Stefan Przyborski and Dr Ketan Patel.
- Ms Gabrielle Finn presented her work on anatomical body painting in a session on teaching innovations in anatomy – this session stimulated considerable interest amongst our American colleagues!
- Professor Richard Greene (ASGBI Councillor) described his neuroanatomical models in a Refresher Course on The Limbic System.
- Professor David Brynmor Thomas (Past President and President IFAA) contributed to another Stem Cell Mini-Meeting which explored the biology and potential therapeutic applications of stem/progenitor cells.
- Dr Martin Collinson who organised, chaired and spoke at a symposium on testing developmental biology paradigms with new anatomical models.
- Dr Mohammad Hajihosseini contributed to a session on development and evolution.
Colleagues attended the AAA Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award Lecture given by Professor Duane E. Haines ‘The changing landscape of anatomical education: one opinion on how we might increase the value of our stock’. One of the take home messages from this talk was that we should ensure that the neuroanatomical images we use in our teaching are oriented to map onto axial CT and MRI images (unlike the traditional views presented in most, if not all, current textbooks).
Away from the lecture theatres we enjoyed the AAA/HCS/ASGBI Socializer Event sponsored by Wiley Blackwell, the AAA/HCS/ASGBI Student Poster Reception, the AAA Reception and Banquet and a paddlesteamer trip along a short stretch of the Mississipi.
ASGBI Officers and Councillors attended a Leadership Meeting with members of the AAA Board of Directors and AAA executive staff. This provided an interesting forum in which to exchange ideas not only about developing our joint training programme for anatomists but also in terms of thinking about how our two societies can build further mutually beneficial partnering opportunities.
A full report of the meeting will appear in the next edition of Anastomosis.
Susan Standring
President, ASGBI
 President outside the Ernst N.Morial Convention Centre, New Orleans
Councillor Professor Richard Greene in the engine room on the Mississippi Steamer 'Natchez'
Professors Fraher, Standring and Moxham at the AAA Banquet
The Paddle on the Paddle Steamer
The President and Councillor Richard Greene
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