Welcome to the May 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 the following awards:

Barclay Smith Awards to participate in the 19th Congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists  (IFAA ), 9th to 11th August 2019, ExCel Centre, London: Maclyn Augustine, Michael Graham, Orla McCorry, Oscar Romilly, Joanna Tomlinson.

Symington Bequest Funding to participate in the 19th Congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists  (IFAA ), 9th to 11th August 2019, ExCel Centre, London:
Dr Sarah Allsop, Dr Daniel Baumgardt, Dr Sarah Beth Channon, Dr Lemonia Chatzeli, Dr Mandeep Gill Sagoo, Professor Jeremy Green, Dr Larissa Kennel, Dr Clemens Kiecker, Dr Scott Paterson, Dr Katherine Sanders, Dr Alison Thomson, Dr Paula Vickerton; Dr Samuel Cobb - to participate in the 12th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), 21-25 July 2019, Prague, Czechoslovakia; Dr Helen Dodson - to participate in the Microscience Microscopy Congress (MMC), 1-4 July 2019, Manchester, UK; Dr Sara Sulaiman - to participate in the 36th Annual Meeting of The Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) and the associated Postgraduate Course: Neuroanatomy of adolescent brain cognitive development and mood disorders, 11-14 June 2019, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

Undergraduate Student Summer Vacation Research Scholarship Awards:
Melody Cui Sun (Supervisor Denis Bar-ry), Simon Kershenbaum (supervisor Elia Benito-Guitierrez), Amy Wilkinson (supervisor Graham Burton), Morven Burton (supervisor  Eilidh Ferguson), Ambreen Muhammad (supervisor Charlotte Dean), Victoria Ward (supervisor Helen Dodson), Emily Gaul (supervisor Juan Fons Romero), Amit Kalra (supervisor Oran Kennedy), Rebecca Eden (supervisor Matthew Mason). 

Best Paper Prizes
Congratulations to Nutmethee Kruepunga and colleagues who have been awarded the Journal of Anatomy Best Paper Prize 2018 for their paper entitled "The development of the cloaca in the human embryo". Runner-up prize went to David Dora and colleagues. Congratulations to Monica Elmore and colleagues who have been awarded the Aging Cell Best Paper Prize 2018 for their paper entitled "Replacement of microglia in the aged brain reverses cognitive, synaptic and neuronal deficits in mice".

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. 
Awardee Reports

Many thanks to Dr Tarimbo Otobo for his report following participation at the American Association of Anatomists (AAA), Experimental Biology meeting 6-9 April 2019, Orlando, Florida, USA.

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: guided developmental loops of Henle  
Loops of Henle may be V-shaped (rather than U-shaped) extensions of the developing renal tubule that head to-wards the "centroid" of the kidney. That is the conclusion that C-Hong Chang and Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh and Yale University reach in their study using cultured kidney rudiments. The cues for directional growth appear to be medullary in location. You read more about their study in their paper entitled "In developing mouse kidneys, orientation of loop of Henle growth is adaptive and guided by long-range cues from medullary collecting ducts" in the early view issue of the Journal of Anatomy at  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.13012

Aging Cell: food, age, exercise and health
With increasing age and obesity, the risk of morbidity and disability grow. Is there a way to reverse these risks? Marissa Schafer and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in the US report that exercise and time-restricted feeding in mice improved physical function and metabolism respectively. You can read more about their study and findings in their paper entitled "Late-life time-restricted feeding and exercise differentially alter healthspan in obesity" in the early view issue of the journal Aging Cell at  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.12966

Opportunities
Job Vacancies
The National University of Ireland, Galway is inviting appli-cations for a Lecturer in Radiology (Anatomy). The successful candidate will contribute to the teaching mission in Anatomy and to oversee the successful MSc/PG.Dip in Multidisciplinary Radiology and further integrate medical imaging into the teaching of the Discipline of Anatomy. Closing date: 5 June 2019.

Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship in: Detecting Small Nerve Fibre Function using Conductive Microneedle Arrays at Newcastle University - Faculty of Medical Sciences - Neuroscience. The successful candidate will help to develop a novel diagnostic device for detecting damage to small nerve fibres in diabetes. The candidate will develop a microneedle based system that uses carbon-nanotube doped polymers to create an array of individually addressable sensing electrodes. Closing date: 5 June 2019.

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Full Professor in Anatomy at the Qatar University - College of Medicine. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to, and proficiency in, teaching to medical students, and will be expected to contribute to the enhancement and development of other curricular activities. Closing date: 12 June 2019.

Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship examining Muscle physiology and its dependence on healthy microstructure at University of Surrey - Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences. For the successful candidate, the project will consider novel ways to characterise muscles so that the physiological response is linked to their underlying structure, enabling short- and long-term effects of trauma to be simulated and better understood. Closing date: 31 July 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 May issue of the Journal of Anatomy is available
here