Summit
Thursday, April 23, 2026
4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CDT
Opening General Session

MCC, Auditorium 2

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
TBD
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Adipose in Action: The Interface of Inflammation, Metabolism and Multisystem Physiology
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CDT
Estrogen: Focus on Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Health
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CDT
TBD
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Pushing Boundaries: Integrative Physiology of Extreme Environments

MCC, Room 101 D

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Tribute to Stefan P. Mortensen: Celebrating His Scientific Contributions to the Field of Skeletal Muscle Blood Flow Regulation in Humans

MCC, Auditorium 2

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
From Omics to People: Circadian Transduction of Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Health

MCC, Room L100 J

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Channeling Change: Exploring Vascular Ion Dynamics in Obesity and Diabetes

MCC, Room M100 H

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Adipose in Action: The Interface of Inflammation, Metabolism, and Multisystem Physiology

MCC, Auditorium 3

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Estrogen: Focus on Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Health

MCC, Room 200 F

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Using the Power of Comparative Physiology to Improve Human Physiology Teaching

MCC, Room 200 E

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Lung Cell Fate as a Determinant of Health and Disease

MCC, Room L100 F

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment Across Disease

MCC, Room 200 H

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Gastrointestinal & Liver Physiology Section

MCC, Room M100 E

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Renal Mid-career Investigator Award Lecture

MCC, Auditorium 1

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Hot Topics in Endocrinology and Metabolism and the New Investigator Award

MCC, Room M100 F

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Regeneration Reimagined

MCC, Room L100 J

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CDT
The Role of Exercise in Brain Aging

MCC, Room L100 F

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Redefining Resilience Through Exercise Science

MCC, Room L100 F

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CDT
Consider the Lung as a Sensory Organ

MCC, Room 200 H

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
The Sixth Sense: Examining Interoception

MCC, Room 200 H

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM CDT
Unraveling Chronic Pain

MCC, Room M100 H

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM CDT
Postprandial Snake Intestinal Regeneration without Crypts Illuminates Conserved Vertebrate Regenerative Mechanisms

MCC, Room L100 J

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Biological Resilience: A Conceptual Overview

MCC, Room L100 F

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
The Little Brain on the Heart

MCC, Room 200 H

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
Quantifying Resilience

MCC, Room L100 F

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Chronic Pain

MCC, Room M100 H

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Unraveling Chronic Pain

MCC, Room M100 H

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Regeneration Reimagined

MCC, Room L100 J

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Control of Satiation by the Caudal Brainstem

MCC, Room 200 H

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Exercise as Modulator of Physical Resilience

MCC, Room L100 F

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Engineered Muscle Tissues and Organoids: New Tools for Neuromuscular Disease Modelling and Drug Discovery

MCC, Room 101 D

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
The Hans Ussing Lecture

MCC, Room M100 E

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
The Role of Non-genetic Factors in Autism Spectrum Disorder Development

MCC, Room L100 F

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
TBD
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Autonomic Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Hot Topics in Muscle Biology
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
More Insights into Physiology from Nature

MCC, Auditorium 3

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Translational Neurocardiology: Sympathetic Neuromodulation Therapies for Cardiac Diseases

MCC, Room 200 H

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Not All HFpEF Models Are Created Equal

MCC, Room M100 H

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Tissue Regeneration and Cellular Plasticity

MCC, Room L100 J

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
From Bench to Bedside: Putative Roles of Neuropeptides in the Pain Modulation

MCC, Room 200 F

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Opioids: Navigating the Intersection of Pain, Breathing and Reward

MCC, Auditorium 1

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Myogenic Stem Cells: From Single Cell Biology to Clinical Physiology

MCC, Room 200 E

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Mitochondria in the Life and Death of Pancreatic Beta-cells

MCC, Room M100 F

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Can Exercise be Replaced? Exercise Adaptations Mimetics

MCC, Auditorium 2

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Countermeasures for Operational Environments: Physiology and Performance

MCC, Auditorium 3

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Vascular, Neural and Muscular Adaptations to Exercise Across the Female Reproductive Lifespan and Beyond

MCC, Room L100 F

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Immune and Cardiometabolic Affects of Weight Gain, Weight Loss and Weight Regain

MCC, Room L100 J

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Microglia at the Crossroads: Regional Diversity and Roles in Brain Health and Disease

MCC, Room M100 E

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Critical Role of Endothelial Cell Metabolism in Cardiovascular Disease

MCC, Room M100 H

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Renal Section

MCC, Auditorium 1

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Painful Discoveries in the Gut

MCC, Room 101 D

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Novel Concepts in Gut-brain Axis Regulating Bodily Homeostasis

MCC, Room 200 H

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Julius H. Comroe Jr. Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Respiration Section

MCC, Auditorium 2

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Lectureship of the Endocrinology & Metabolism Section

MCC, Room M100 F

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Role of Gasotransmitters in Tolerance to Extreme Environments and Avoidance of Disease and Injury

MCC, Room 200 E

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Channels, Transporters and Pumps in Health and Disease

MCC, Room 200 F

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Immune and Cardiometabolic Effects of Weight Gain, Weight Loss and Weight Regain
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
TBD
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Emerging Neural Insights into Interoception and Cardiorespiratory Control: From Homeostatic Regulation to Disease Pathogenesis
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
TBD
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Excellence in Translational Science and 3rd Annual Gutterman Award

MCC, Room M100 F

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Hot Topics

MCC, Auditorium 2

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Advances in Renal Physiology

MCC, Room 200 H

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Interoception and Regulation of Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Gastrointestinal Physiology

MCC, Room L100 J

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Unconventional Mechanisms of Tissue Repair

MCC, Room 101 D

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Brain Lipid Metabolism: Novel Implications for Cerebrovascular, Metabolic and Neurodegenerative Diseases

MCC, Room M100 E

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Mechanisms and Consequences of Metabolic Suppression

MCC, Room 200 F

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Neural, Endocrine and Renal Influences on Cardiovascular Pathology

MCC, Room M100 H

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Leveraging Simulations to Enhance the Teaching of Integrative Physiology

MCC, Room 200 E

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
State of Flow: The Brain’s Microvascular Control Systems in Health and Disease

MCC, Auditorium 3

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Not Your Typical Environmental Physiology: Uncovering the Cardiometabolic Toll of Modern Environments

MCC, Auditorium 1

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Immunology of Heart Failure

MCC, Room L100 F

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Digital Twins in Human Physiology

MCC, Room L100 J

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM CDT
The Importance of Nutrition for Lifelong Brain and Cognitive Development

MCC, Room L100 F

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Charting the Central Nervous System

MCC, Room L100 F

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CDT
New Frontiers in Mitochondrial Function and Dysfunction

MCC, Room 200 H

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
New Frontiers in Mitochondrial Function and Dysfunction

MCC, Room 200 H

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CDT
Oncofertility: From Bench to Bedside to Babies

MCC, Room M100 H

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Are We an Endangered Species? Rethinking Human Fertility Through Physiology

MCC, Room M100 H

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CDT
Digital Twins in Human Physiology

MCC, Room L100 J

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
Leveraging Physiological Whole Heart Electromechanical Finite Element Models to Refine Clinical Trial Protocols for Medical Devices

MCC, Room L100 J

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
Hemochorial Placentation – Trophoblast Cell-guided Transformation of the Uterus

MCC, Room M100 H

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
New Frontiers in Mitochondrial Function and Dysfunction

MCC, Room 200 H

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Charting the Central Nervous System

MCC, Room L100 F

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
New Frontiers in Mitochondrial Function and Dysfunction

MCC, Room 200 H

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Phenotypic Screening of Human Spermatozoa to Identify New Non Hormonal Contraceptives

MCC, Room M100 H

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Integrating Real-World Data and Virtual Physiology to Uncover Racial Differences in the Response to GLP-1 Therapy

MCC, Room L100 J

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Lectureship of the Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section

MCC, Auditorium 3

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Cellular Signaling: Proteins, Pathways and Mechanisms

MCC, Room L100 J

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
TBD
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
August Krogh Distinguished Lectureship and Trainee Highlights
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Best Ways to Understand and Incorporate Metabolomics into Physiological Research

MCC, Auditorium 1

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Beyond the Vessel Wall: Perivascular Tissue Rewrites Vascular Physiology

MCC, Room L100 F

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Systems Physiology of Pregnancy: Adaptation, Failure and Fetal Signals

MCC, Room 101 D

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Before the Point of No Return: Strategies and Struggles of Identifying and Intervening/Remediating Academically At-risk Students in Classes and Curriculum Associated with Physiology

MCC, Room 200 E

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lecture and Linda F. Hayward Achievement Award

MCC, Auditorium 2

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
2026 Annual Marion J. Siegman Award Lectureship

MCC, Room M100 F

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Animal Models in Respiratory Science: Past, Present and Future

MCC, Room M100 H

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Impact of the Microenvironment on Stem Cell Fate and Regeneration

MCC, Room 200 F

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
The Proximal Tubule at the Crossroads of Cardiorenal and Metabolic Diseases

MCC, Room 200 H

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Metabolic Mechanisms Regulating Mitochondrial Function

MCC, Room M100 F

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Cellular Mechanisms of Stress, Inflammation and Metabolism

MCC, Room M100 H

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Lahiri-Cherniak Symposium

MCC, Auditorium 1

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Joseph Erlanger Distinguished Lectureship of the Central Nervous System Section

MCC, Auditorium 2

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section New Investigator, Mid-career and Starling Awards

MCC, Auditorium 3

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Leveraging Omics and Big Data to Understand Brain Diseases

MCC, Room L100 J

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Underappreciated Determinants in Environmental Physiology: Forever Chemicals, Microplastics, Extreme Heat and Beyond

MCC, Room 200 E

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Translating Omics, Transcending Barriers: Functional Advances in Epithelial Research

MCC, Room M100 E

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Kidney Crosstalk with Other Organs in Systemic Metabolic and Monogenic Disorders

MCC, Room 200 H

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
TBD
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Robert M. Berne Distinguished Lectureship of the Cardiovascular Section, Kaley and Carl J. Wiggers Awards

MCC, Room L100 F

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
August Krogh Distinguished Lectureship and Trainee Highlights

MCC, Room 101 D

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
TBD
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CDT
TBD
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CDT
Uncovering Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms Through Large-scale Biomedical Data Analysis
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Uncovering Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms Through Large-scale Biomedical Data Analysis

MCC, Room L100 J

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Organ-associated Adipocytes in Physiology and Disease

MCC, Auditorium 3

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Endocannabinoid System: A Gatekeeper of Alcohol Behavioral and Physiological Effects

MCC, Room M100 E

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Metabolically Active Tissues: From Mechanisms to Disease

MCC, Room M100 F

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Look Who's Talking: Is There Bidirectional Communication Between the Brain and the CV System?

MCC, Auditorium 1

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Title TBD

MCC, Room M100 H

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Advancing Health Equity: Physiological Insights into Marginalized Populations

MCC, Room 200 F

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Science Advocacy: A Call for Physiologists to Make a Difference

MCC, Room 200 E

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Glucagon Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: Sex, Lipids, Inflammation and the Vasculature

MCC, Room 101 D

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Closing General Session

MCC, Auditorium 2