Welcome to the April issue of Anastomosis. In this issue, we bring you the latest news from our members and keep you up-dated on upcoming deadlines. We also highlight some interesting news articles from the past month. You can sign up to Aging Cell ETOCS Alerts via the Wiley website. 

IFAA World Congress August 2019
The next world congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA) will be held at the ExCel Conference Centre, London from August 9-11, 2019. More information is available at www.ifaa2019.com. The Society has increased it support under the Symington Bequest Awards and Barclay Smith awards to assist members participate (present an abstract) in the IFAA 2019 Congress. Limits for Symington Bequest funding increases to between £400-1000 while Barclay Smith funding increases up to £400.
 
Deadlines
Mark your diary! 
The next deadline for the Society's Best Image Prize is 31 May 2019. The size limit for submitted images is 3.0MB. 

Prizes and Awards
Congratulations to the following who have received Symington Bequest Awards: Professor Anthony Graham, Dr Nobue Itasaki, Dr Stuart Morton - to participate in the 19th Congress of The International Federation of Association of Anatomists (IFAA 2019), 9-11 August 2019, London; Jesse James Hennekam, Emily Hunter - to participate in the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), 21-25 July 2019, Prague, Czech Republic. 

Research
Anatomy PhD Studentships 2019/20
The Anatomical Society offers up to 4 well-funded, high quality, PhD Prize Research Studentships to be held in departments undertaking research in anatomical sciences in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Funding is provided for three years to cover the stipend of the student (currently comparable to MRC funding levels), tuition fees, generous contribution towards project running costs, and a travel allowance for attendance at Anatomical Society meetings and to one international meeting. More information at www.anatsoc.org.uk. Closing date for applications is Friday 23 August 2019.

Royal Society Schemes
Three international exchange schemes for scientists based in the UK (or US for the Kan Tong Po programme) who want to stimulate collaborations with leading scientists overseas through either a one-off visit or bilateral travel. These are the Standard program, Cost Share program, and Visiting Fellowship. More information at royalsociety.org. Closing date 30 May 2019. 

Awardee Reports
Many thanks to Dr Joanna Matthan and to Dr Iain Keenan for reporting following participation in the Trans-European Pedagogic Anatomical Research Group (TEPARG), 2nd March 2019, Paris; Adit Magudia of the Sheffield Neuroscience Society who received Student Societies support for a National Conference, 'The Brain in Flux', 2nd March 2019; Dr Eva Sweeney, Queens University, Belfast following a departmental seminar by Professor James Pickering on 'Evidence - Informed Practice as a tool for Educational Interventions'.

Graduate Centre
Support for Student Societies Awards
The Society provides up to 6 competitive awards (maximum funding £200) to support Student Societies. More details at www.anatsoc.org.uk

Journals
Journal of Anatomy: to the heart of the mass
Does the size of the heart depend on the size of the body? Edward Snelling and colleagues at universities in South Africa, Australia, Ethiopia, Canada, UK, and the US were intrigued enough to start digging into the issue. They found a biphasic relationship when heart mass was scaled against body mass, with a conspicuous 'breakpoint' around the time of birth. Details of their study and findings are outlined in their paper "Scaling of cardiac morphology is interrupted by birth in the developing sheep Ovis aries" in the early view issue of the Journal of Anatomy at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.12990

Aging Cell: calcium, pores and the brain
The complex relationship between pore formation, calcium channels and brain function was explored by You-Jie Lai and colleagues at universities in China and the US. The extent to which involvement of estrogen receptors, and the ubiquitin-proteasome system play roles in the relationship was examined in their study "Estrogen receptor α promotes Cav1.2 ubiquitination and degradation in neuronal cells and in APP/PS1 mice". You can read more about their study and findings in the early view issue of the journal Aging Cell at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.12961
 
Opportunities
Job Vacancies
The University of York - Hull York Medical School is inviting applications for an Associate Lecturer in Anatomy. The successful candidate will contribute to the administration and delivery of core clinical and topographical human anatomy lectures, laboratories, seminars and tutorials in addition to contributing to scholarship and special interest programmes in functional morphology within the undergraduate (MBBS) programme. Closing date: 9 May 2019.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) is delighted to invite applications for the position of Lead in Anatomy for the PU-RCSI undergraduate medical programme based at Perdana University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The successful candidate will deliver the RCSI curriculum in Kuala Lumpur and liaise with RCSI Dublin on curriculum delivery, examinations and research matters, ensuring academic quality and consistency across the RCSI campuses. Further details can be found at www.rcsi.ie/careers. Closing date is the 10 May 2019.

Applications are invited for a Teaching Associate (Comparative Anatomy Demonstrator) at the University of Bristol - Centre for Applied Anatomy. The successful candidate will teach clinically relevant comparative anatomy across the Medical, Dental, Veterinary, Applied Anatomy or Functional and Clinical Anatomy programmes, and will be expected to contribute substantially by demonstrating comparative anatomy in practicals. Closing date: 12 May 2019.

Applications are invited for a Senior Lecturer in Applied Human Anatomy and Physiology at University of Lincoln - School of Health and Social Care. The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching Anatomy and Physiology primarily to students in Nursing programmes but will also contribute to teaching across the university portfolio of healthcare programmes. Closing date: 12 May 2019.

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Full Professor in Anatomy at Qatar University - College of Medicine. The successful candidate will contribute to building and enhancing an innovative College of Medicine, and should have a strong commitment to teaching, with proficiency in teaching in the relevant field for medical students. Closing date: 12 June 2019
 
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Best Image Prize Deadline 
31 May 2019
  
The next deadline for the Society's Best Image Prize is 31 May 2019. The size limit for submitted images is 3.0 MB. For more information click here  

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April Table of Contents Journal of Anatomy
 The electronic table of contents of the April issue of the Journal of Anatomy is available
 here   


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