Physiologic

Subscription package providing access to primary research journals published by the American Physiological Society with open access publishing guarantees for corresponding authors.

Discounted annual membership for students and trainees pursuing physiology education.

A training program designed by the American Physiological Society to provide clear and practical advice to researchers for improving the quality of peer reviews and introducing key principles to newcomers.

An e-learning course on integrating sex and gender to improve human health, with CME credits available.

Editors from American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Comparative and Integrative Physiology will discuss best practices and strategies for reviewing manuscripts and providing constructive feedback to authors.

Purchase an APS Early-Career Membership as a gift to support an early-career physiologist.

An assessment tool based on Bloom’s Taxonomy to assist science faculty in better aligning their assessments with teaching activities.

Discounted annual membership for postdoctoral fellows and early-career professionals in physiology.

Joint membership combining American Physiological Society and Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology memberships for department chairs.

APS student membership providing access to professional networking, career resources, awards, fellowships, journals, and educational events.

Registration for the Comparative Physiology Conference taking place on September 17, 2026.

Trainee Symposium (EB 2022) speakers share tips on how to effectively respond to peer reviewer comments during the publishing process.

Access to over 3,700 issues from 13 peer-reviewed research and review journals under the APS Journal Legacy Content, going back to the first issue of each of the APS journals.

An on-demand webinar exploring skeletal muscle circadian clocks and systemic health.

An on-demand webinar exploring neural network-inspired models for metabolism-behavior interactions.

A premier resource equipping current and future physiology educators with over 800 curated resources, learning modules, and interactive teaching materials.

This training series will comprise a comprehensive collection of videos and activities designed to equip educators with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct rigorous and impactful research in physiology education.

Merry Lindsey, PhD, presents recent research on MI LV remodeling, proteomic advances focused on the ECM compartment, and cardiac ECM research evolution.

Mentoring Symposium speakers share tips from their EB 2022 talks on navigating challenges in ethics of research design and publishing.

A collection of recordings from the Journal Club presentations 2024-2025.

Center for Physiology Education Career Development Hours 2024-2025 recording collection.

A virtual training course for early-career participants, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows interested in preparing for academic positions requiring teaching, featuring individualized mentorship and biweekly virtual workshops.

E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, presents recent studies revealing mechanisms by which perturbed metabolism of glucose and pyruvate contribute to heart failure pathophysiology.

Homeostasis Learning Module helps educators understand how and when homeostasis occurs and its essential role in learning and teaching integrative physiology.

This learning module provides an essential framework for understanding the ANS by addressing these key facts, misconceptions and core concepts in physiology relevant to the ANS.

Peer-reviewed review journal covering comprehensive physiological topics.

An on-demand webinar exploring the neuroendocrine mechanisms and the Melted KaNDy model.

An e-learning course introducing sex- and gender-related differences in health and disease.

Open to current regular members that wish to continue to be a part of the Society’s mission post-retirement.

Course designed to provide essential skills for making the most of your attendance at a scientific meeting.

An on-demand webinar about the implementation of organ chips in translational physiology research.

Stefano Gaburro, PhD, and Brun Ulfhake, MD, PhD, present the Digital Ventilated Cage (DVC) technique to study circadian rhythms and spontaneous home-cage behavior in mice.

E-learning courses providing thorough understanding of sex and gender influences on health and disease and NIH requirements on factoring sex as a biological variable.

Journal publishing peer-reviewed articles on physiological education, instructional design, and pedagogy.

An on-demand webinar covering physiological resilience and translational insights using novel animal models.

In this learning module, educators will be provided the tools to help students apply their knowledge of flow down gradients across physiological systems.

Sue Bodine, PhD, FAPS, discusses the neuromuscular system and its response to stressors including aging, focusing on cellular and molecular mechanisms.

Dr. Camilla Schéele and Dr. Christian Wolfrum discuss broader aspects of brown adipose tissue and share late-breaking research relating to the role of BAT in whole body metabolic regulation.

Michael Czech, PhD, discusses adipose tissue browning as a treatment for metabolic disease and presents recent data using light sheet microscopy.

Dr. Zhen Yan presents mechanisms underlying adaptation to resistance exercise, and Dr. Diego Bohorquez describes the role of neuropods and how nutrient sensing in the gut affects behavior.

Rizwan Qaisar, MBBS, PhD presents muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum stress and calcium dysregulation contributions, and Matthew Borkowski presents experimental equipment.

Dudley Lamming, PhD, discusses how diets affect metabolic health and longevity, calorie restriction, and branched-chain amino acids.

Suzanne de la Monte, MD, MPH, discusses classic features of neurodegeneration and ways to reverse the switch for neurodegenerative disease prevention.

Dr. Marshall McCue reviews stable isotope biochemistry, standard nomenclature, unit conversions and simple calculations.

CCMC for Medical Educators

Helps trainees and early-career researchers evaluate their options across academia, industry, government, military and nonprofit sectors and identify the path that aligns with their goals and values.

Dr. Katsu Funai shares how his team is utilizing a sophisticated mitochondrial diagnostics platform to examine the role of IMM lipids on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation.

The first of seven learning modules focusing on the physiology of hemorrhage through integrative physiology.

Dr. Fred Beasley presents a broad-level overview of factors to consider when deciding on an appropriate preclinical rodent model for studying obesity and its treatments.

Dr. Lee Kaplan presents late-breaking research about the role of the gastrointestinal tract and gut microbiota in obesity.

An introductory e-learning course on sex as a biological variable.

Dr. Matt Kaeberlein presents recent advances in understanding the mechanisms linking biological aging to disease (geroscience).

Charlotte A. Peterson, PhD and Jack Guralnik, MD, PhD, MPH, present the challenges of sarcopenia, defining the disease and detailing underlying mechanisms.

A train-the-trainer e-learning course focusing on the SABV primer.

Dr. Lora Heisler presents why for many people is it so difficult to lose weight and yet all too easy to gain those extra pounds, discussing brain circuitry that is the master controller of body weight.

Dr. Kevin Hall presents the physiology of body weight regulation and how we adapt to various changes in diet.

Dr. Ania Jastreboff discusses the current use of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy, mechanisms involved, and agents in various stages of development.

Joy Wu, MD, PhD, presents the pathophysiology of bone loss with aging, focusing on the imbalance between bone formation and resorption.

Online course to help scientists at all career stages develop professional skills to communicate with elected officials and agency representatives.

A webinar featuring a first-person perspective on living with a spinal cord stimulator and a live demonstration of hind limb negative pressure in a mouse model.

An on-demand webinar detailing technical methods for neuronal cell isolation from rodent nervous systems.

The first of seven learning modules in this series focuses on the physiology of hemorrhage, one of the world’s top causes of death after traumatic injuries.

A monthly curation of the most influential articles published across APS journals, selected by an expert editorial panel to increase visibility and recognition.

An on-demand webinar exploring dynamic metabolic testing for elite athletes and tactical performance.

Core Concepts Module-Video Two Slide Deck

The Center for Physiology Education (CPE) is organizing and will present a mini-course on introducing core concepts in an undergraduate physiology course.

Course focusing on navigating career interruptions.

This resource provides conference materials from the 2024 From Concept to Classroom Educator Conference.

A multi-part industry career preparedness course from the American Physiological Society designed to equip graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers with practical skills for transitioning into life sciences industry roles.

Peer-reviewed journal publishing studies that deal with functional genomics and systems biology.

Professional development course intended for Porter Fellows.

Summer Seminar course specifically for the 2025-26 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF).

The recordings for Huddles that occurred in late 2023-2024 can be found in this collection.

Professional development course intended for Porter Fellows to help prepare for a scientific career.

A validated conceptual framework for the core physiology concept of “cell membrane.”

The Definitions and Explanations of the 14 Core Concepts of Physiology.

APS offers numerous award and career development opportunities and gives top reasons to submit to APS journals.

Core Concepts Module-Video Three Transcript

Core Concepts Module-Video Two Transcript

This document contains conceptual frameworks for five physiology core concepts that have been constructed and validated as of April 2021.

Core Concepts Module-Video Four Transcript

In this article, we offer revised definitions and explanations of the core concepts, propose an additional core concept, and describe three broad categories.

Learning module sharing tips on how to leverage social media to advance your career.

A four-part video series providing answers and options to help educators teach and assess in the age of generative artificial intelligence (genAI).

A custom promotional service for APS authors providing visual highlights for their published research through journal website features, social media promotion, and physical poster prints.

Trainee Symposium (EB 2022) speakers share tips from their talks on navigating the publishing process from the early writing stages to the review process.

This book provides practical recommendations/examples for using core concepts in the design, implementation and assessment of novel approaches to physiology instruction.

Trainee Symposium (EB 2022) speakers share tips from their talks on creating graphical abstracts.

Trainee Symposium (EB 2022) speakers share tips from their talks on navigating the publishing process.

In this article, we present a standard model for homeostatic mechanisms to be used at the undergraduate level.

Fellowship aimed at fostering physiology development.

A checklist recommended by APS for authors to report experimental methods in sufficient detail to allow for transparency of data and replication.

Magazine publication featuring leading scientists, research spotlights, and society news.

Fellowship focused on early-career advocacy training and experience.

Award supporting translational research efforts.

Educational material and discussion prompt regarding the use of core concepts in physiology education.

Travel award to attend the APS Summit.

Research award for physiology trainees.

Awards honoring excellence in integrative physiology research.

An undergraduate summer research fellowship program designed for students with little or no previous research experience to conduct research in any area of physiology.

Fellowships supporting undergraduate research during the summer.

Travel support for the Comparative Physiology Conference covering dependent care.

Young investigator award for physiology researchers.

Travel support award for attending the APS Summit with dependent care considerations.

Travel awards presented to international graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members living and working outside the United States to assist with travel expenses incurred while attending the American Physiology Summit.

An award recognizing early career professional service.

Year-round research awards for undergraduate physiology students.

Fellowships funded by the National Science Foundation Integrative Organismal Systems Biology Division for underrepresented students to work in IOSP-related research areas.

Young investigator award recognizing research contributions.

Memorial awards recognizing excellence in respiratory physiology and medicine.

Consensus document providing a blueprint for change in teaching approaches across a broad range of institutions and subfields in biology education.

A research fellowship program funded by the NHLBI for underrepresented students with or without previous research experience to work in NHLBI-related research areas.

Awards recognizing outstanding undergraduate abstracts.

Curriculum rubric including 11 criteria considering the degree to which life science program curriculum addresses core concepts for biological literacy.

Educational resource discussing start of semester traditions.