Welcome to the July 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 IFAA World Congress in Anatomy 2019 will be held from 9-11 August 2019 at the ExCel Conference Centre, London. More information is available at www.ifaa2019.com. 

Society Journals: Impact factors for 2018
New impact factors for 2018 for the Society's journals have been released in the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation report. 
Aging Cell 7.346   
Journal of Anatomy 2.638
 
Deadlines
Mark your diary!
The next deadline for the Society's Best Image Prize is 31 Oct 2019. The size limit for submitted images is 3.0MB. 

Awards and Prizes
Congratulations to the following who have received the following awards:

Best Image Award: Dr Francesca Pieropan for the image 'Cerebellar slice culture'.
Runner-Up Award to Professor Evelyne Sernagor for the image 'Warhol retinal clusters'.

Barclay-Smith Awards: Ms Hazel Allardyce, Ms Fiona Cronin, Dr Ahmad Elmansouri, Ms Catherine Geoghegan, Ms Sophie Gray, Mr Adam Ismail, Ms May Sallem, Ms Kudighe Udoh, Ms Prarthana Venkatesh -- to participate in the 19th Congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists  (IFAA ), 9-11th August 2019, ExCel Centre, London.

Symington Bequest Funding: Dr Zubeyde Bayram-Weston, Professor Andy Chirculescu, Dr Declan McLaughlin, Ms Olivia Murray, Professor Debra Patten -- to participate in the 19th Congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA ), 9-11th August 2019, ExCel Centre, London; Dr Neal Anthwal - to participate in the 12th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, 21-25th July 2019, Prague, Czech Republic; Professor Albert Basson - to participate in the Genome Architecture in Cell Fate and Disease Gordon Research Conference, 4-9th August 2019, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, China; Professor Gabrielle Finn - to participate in the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME), 3-5th July 2019, Glasgow; Dr Juan Fons Romero, Dr Isabelle Miletich - to participate in the Tooth Morphogenesis and Differentiation Conference, 1-6th September 2019, Worcester College, Oxford; Dr Salman Goudarzi - to participate in the XIV European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, 10-13th July 2019, Porto, Portugal; Associate Professor Lopa Leach - to participate in the International Federation of Placental Associations (IPFA 2019), 10-13th September 2019, The Catholic University, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mr Pritishkumar Tidke - to participate in the Microscience Microscopy Congress (MMC), 1st to 4th July 2019, Manchester, UK.

PhD Prize Research Studentships: Ms. Charlotte King; 
supervisors: Dr Susannah Thorpe, Professor William Sellers (Birmingham and Manchester Universities).

Public Engagement and Outreach Award: Ms Ines Boehm -- Provision of Interactive Body Painting Workshops, Midlothian Science Festival, 5-19th October 2019, Midlothian, Scotland.

Awardee Reports
Many thanks to Dr Sara Sulaiman, Dr Eiman Abdel Meguid -- for their reports (Symington Bequest) following participation at the 36th annual meeting of the Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA). 11-14th June 2019, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; Dr. Zubeyde Bayram-Weston, for her report (Public Engagement and Outreach) on Snap Anatomy.

Departmental Seminar Awards 2018/19 
The Society invites applications for Round 6 of the Departmental Seminar Awards 2018/19. Information and ap-plication forms at anatsoc.org.uk. Deadline for receipt of applications is 5 September 2019. 
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 anatsoc.org.uk. Closing date for applications is Friday 23 August 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: long flexor and hidden pulley
The long flexor of the big toe runs in a tunnel under the talus that is sealed by a fibrous pulley that restrains physiological movement. What the pulley is made of has been unresolved until Chris Tzioupis and colleagues at medical centers and universities in Switzerland examined the histological characteristics. You can read more about their report "Identification of the retrotalar pulley of the Flexor Hallucis Longus tendon" in the early view issue of the Journal of Anatomy at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.13046

Aging Cell: reducing muscle change during aging
Muscle starts becoming fibrous with age and this appears to be associated with activation of enhancers that up regulate extracellular matrix production. To reverse this fibrous conversion of muscle, Jiajian Zhou and colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Jinan University, China examined inhibitors of enhancer activation and report data that suggest restoration of myogenic differentiation potential. They report their findings in their paper "Elevated H3K27ac in aged skeletal muscle leads to increase in extracellular matrix and fibrogenic conversion of muscle satellite cells" in the early view issue of the journal Aging Cell at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.12996

Opportunities
Job Vacancies
The Queen's University Belfast - School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Biomedical Sciences Education is inviting applications for a Teaching Associate. The successful candidate will teach histology/embryology to undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Sciences, and contribute to related administrative, and outreach activity. Closing date: 5 August 2019.

The Queen Mary University of London - Institute of Health Sciences Education is inviting applications for a Lecturer in Anatomy. The successful candidate will lead, develop and deliver to MBBS students, high quality teaching, learning and assessment in the clinically relevant basic sciences, with an emphasis on the anatomical sciences. Closing date: 14 August 2019.

Applications are invited for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Anthropology (Physical, Forensic) at University of Dundee - Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification. The successful candidate will participate in the development and delivery of research and high quality programmes of education and training in undergraduate and postgraduate forensic and physical anthropology, osteology, anatomy and/or related subjects. Closing date: 15 August 2019.

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor - Anatomy/Medical Sciences at the University of Nottingham - Medical Science & Graduate Entry Medicine. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading anatomy teaching to Graduate Entry Medicine students and contribute to the delivery of lectures, workshops and seminars to students on other medicine programmes. Closing date: 16 August 2019.

Applications are invited for a Lecturer in Medical Sciences Anatomy at the University of Central Lancashire - School of Dentistry. The successful candidate will contribute to teaching, course co-ordination and the development of research and knowledge transfer opportunities across the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy / Biomedical Sciences. Closing date: 18 August 2019
 
 Best Image Prize Deadline 
31 October 2019
The next deadline for the Society's Best Image Prize is 31 October 2019. The size limit for submitted images is 3.0 MB. For more information click here
    
 August Table of Contents Journal of Anatomy
      
The electronic table of contents of the August issue of the Journal of Anatomy is available here

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