Society of General Physiologists

The deadline to apply for the next round of SGP's $500 Rising Star Travel Awards is 1 August! These awards recognize individuals with the potential to make significant contributions to the field. Trainees can use the awards for both meetings and courses. See sgpweb.org/awards/risings….

Join us to hear talks by Ripla Arora, Ramón Lorca, Joris Vriens, and many other great speakers at the SGP Annual Meeting. This year's topic is "Membrane Excitability and Reproductive Biology." Submit your abstract by 7 August to be considered for a short talk and/or travel award. sgp2026.com.

Our annual meeting is less than 2 months away! Join us at "Membrane Excitability and Reproductive Biology," with 9 sessions featuring 20 outstanding speakers. Several travel awards and speaking opportunities are available. Submit your abstract by 7 August to be eligible.

Join us for the next SGP EpIC Seminar on Tuesday, 7 July 2026, at 12:00 pm Eastern featuring a talk by Shanna Hamilton @S_HamiltonLab on “The cardiac ryanodine receptor: effects of calcium release beyond excitation-contraction coupling." As ever, registration is free and all are welcome: sgp-epic-seminars.com

We are so looking forward to Dr. Mariana Wolfner's Friends of Physiology lecture at the #sgp2026meeting. Join us! Submit an abstract by 1 August to be considered for a short talk and travel award. Visit sgp2026.com.

Join us for the next SGP EpIC Seminar on Tuesday, 2 June 2026, at 12:00 pm Eastern featuring a talk by Wojciech Kopec on “Computational electrophysiology of potassium channels.” As ever, registration is free and all are welcome: sgp-epic-seminars.com

Join us for the next SGP EpIC Seminar on Tuesday, 5 May 2026, at 12:00 pm Eastern featuring a talk by Laurie Peverini on “Protein semi-synthesis uncovers NaV1.5 intracellular conformational landscape and regulation.” As ever, registration is free and all are welcome. sgp-epic-seminars.com

Join us for the next SGP EpIC Seminar on Tuesday, 7 April 2026, at 12:00 pm Eastern featuring a talk by Sri Shanmugam @sri__26 on “Engineering cardiac ion channel trafficking: Molecular mechanisms to therapeutic insights.” As ever, registration is free and all are welcome. sgp-epic-seminars.com

Starting a new lab and trying to navigate your science, papers, grants, and institutional duties? Want to meet people in the same situation and connect with established scientists who can their perspectives? Join the SGP-JGP Junior Faculty Network! sgpweb.org/programs/jfn.

Join us for the next SGP EpIC Seminar on Tuesday, 3 March 2026, at 12:00 pm Eastern featuring a talk by Wang Zheng, “Structural and functional basis of mechanosensitive TMEM63 channelopathies.” As ever, registration is free and all are welcome. sgp-epic-seminars.com

SGP congratulates Sho Horie on receiving the 2026 Cranefield Student Award for his outstanding JGP paper, “A mechanism for pathological oscillations in mouse retinal ganglion cells in a model of night blindness” doi.org/10.1085/jgp.20… @JGenPhysiol

SGP congratulates Dr. Rosa Scala on receiving the 2026 Cranefield Postdoctoral Fellow Award for her outstanding JGP paper, “Muscle fatigue arising intrinsically from SUR2- but not Kir6.1-dependent gain-of-function in Cantu syndrome mice” doi.org/10.1085/jgp.20…. @JGenPhysiol

Join us Sunday night in San Francisco at the 2026 JGP-SGP Mixer! Connect with colleagues for a few hours in a fun, festive atmosphere. There is no charge, but to attend you must be an SGP member and register at jgp-sgp2026mixer.eventbrite.com. Visit sgpweb.org/membership to join or rejoin SGP.