Welcome to the February issue of Anastomosis. In this issue, we bring you the latest news from our members and keep you updated 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, 9-11 August 2019, ExCel Centre, London. 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 2018. The size limit for submitted images is 3.0MB. 

Prizes and Awards
Congratulations to Patrick Warren who was awarded the Young Investigator Oral Presentation Prize at the 2018 Winter Meeting of the Society at York University for his talk "The morphology of the human prefemoral fat pad suggests that it aids patellar stabilisation in knee extension".

Reports
Many thanks to the following: Professor Jeremy Green and Martyn Cobourne, King's College London; and Professor Simon Parson and Dr. Paul Brown, Aberdeen University -- for submitting research project resumes; Johnny Rishi Varma for submitting a report following a Support for Student Societies award.

Research
Announcing the start of the new SYNTHESYS+project under the current European Commission's Horizon 2020-funded Integrating Activities funding scheme. SYNTHESYS Access funding is available to provide scientists (users) to undertake short visits to utilise the infrastructure (comprising the collections, staff expertise and analytical facilities) at one of the 21 partner institutions (see full list below) for the purposes of their research. There will be an annual call for applications for the next four years. Access Call 1 will officially open for applications on 1st February 2019. The Call 1 deadline will be 17:00 (UK time) Friday 12 April, 2019 and awarded visits must take place within 12 months of results being announced. More information at  www.synthesys.info.

Applications open for Travel Grants (£500): Student and early career members of the Royal Society of Biology can now apply for a £500 travel grant to be used towards overseas travel in connection with biological study, teaching or research. Individuals can apply for both membership and the travel grant simultaneously. The application deadline is 1 March 2019.

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: constructing real skin
There are so many good uses to which skin can be put: for example, skin grafting in burn victims. Constructing realistic skin in vitro has therefore been an important scientific goal and now Mathilde Roger and colleagues at research centers in Durham and Newcastle (UK) and in Cincinnati (USA) report the results of their efforts to create skin using inert porous scaffolds, fibroblasts and keratinocytes. The model demonstrates microanatomical features of native skin and you can read more of their study "Bioengineering the microanatomy of human skin" in the early view issue of the Journal of Anatomy at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.12942 
 
Aging Cell: think differently about antioxidants and aging
The naked mole-rat lives much longer than regular rats or mice with few age-related pathologies. One theory points to reactive oxygen species as one suspect (accumulation or reduced production). However, Daniel Munro and colleagues at Winnipeg and Ottawa thought differently and explored the possibility of increased consumption of reactive oxygen species as an explanation for longevity in naked mole-rats. You can read more about their finding of significantly elevated consumption of reactive oxygen species in naked mole-rats in their study "The exceptional longevity of the naked mole-rat may be explained by mitochondrial antioxidant defenses" in the early view issue of the journal Aging Cell at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.12916

Opportunities
Job Vacancies 
Applications are invited for a Anatomical Society PhD Studentship in the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at Kings College London. The successful candidate will work on Signalling Pathways Controlling the Generation of the Pharyngeal Arches and will be funded for 3 years. Closing date: 4 March 2019.

Applications are invited for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology (Maternity Cover) at the University of Dundee - Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver teaching in forensic anthropology, forensic art and related subjects and to supervise student projects at both undergraduate and taught MSc levels. Closing date: 10 March 2019.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow - Neuronal Cell Biology and Imaging at the University of Otago - Department of Anatomy. The successful candidate will work in a research group, led by Dr Laura Gumy, that combines state-of-the-art neuronal cell biology and high resolution live cell imaging to understand mechanisms of cellular trafficking within neurons. The project is funded by the Marsden Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand. Closing date: 14 March 2019.

University of Aberdeen - School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition is inviting applications for a Teaching Fellow (Anatomy) who will provide inspiring teaching for students on undergraduate courses and assist with development of new courses and programmes for undergraduate, postgraduate and professionals. Closing date: 15 March 2019.

The University of Hong Kong - School of Biomedical Sciences is inviting applications for a Lecturer. The successful candidate should have good teaching skills in gross anatomy and histology for the medical, nursing, pharmacy, and biomedical sciences programmes, and an excellent command of spoken and written English, organisational and interpersonal skills. Closing date: 31 March 2019.

The Centre for Applied Anatomy at the University of Bristol is inviting applications for two exciting opportunities -  for a Teaching Associate in Comparative Anatomy and a Teaching Associate in Veterinary Anatomy. The successful candidates will be expected to teach clinically relevant comparative anatomy across the Medical, Dental, Veterinary, Applied Anatomy or Functional and Clinical Anatomy programmes.  Closing date: 3 March 2019.