Publications

As originally published in The Physiologist
Volume 45, Number 4, August 2002, page 217-219 

Find Full-Text Articles, Free and Fast
 Marder New Editor of Journal of Neurophysiology
 Brown New Editor of American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 

Find Full-Text Articles, Free and Fast

In the February 2002 issue of The Physiologist (1), we introduced the new portal site of the HighWire Library of the Sciences and Medicine (HWLSM), which allows you to search all of Medline plus 300 journals’ full-text at once—including all the APS journals, of course! In this issue, we begin a series of short articles highlighting important tools or features of this new site. The new site is at http://highwire.stanford.edu.

The search results page in the new HWLSM contains much more information and many more functions than other sites’ search result pages. In this article we’ll look at how the page helps you spot the full-text articles to which you can get immediate, online access.

If you do a search for “high altitude respiration,”notice the text under the journal cover next to each citation. You’ll see that HWLSM now tells you which articles are:

If there is no indication under the cover image, then you will need your own personal subscription to gain access . . . or maybe a trip to the library!

As always, readers of HWLSM-based full-text articles also get free access to most of the full-text of articles that are cited in over 300 other HWLSM-based journals, whether or not you or your institution have a subscription. So from any APS journal article, you can link immediately to cited articles if they say [Full Text] in the online reference section.

HWLSM hopes these accessibility indicators will help busy researchers select articles for which they can be assured of getting full-text access online. If you are interested in knowing which HWLSM-based journals your institution has subscribed to, click on [Institutional Subscriptions] on the new HWLSM home page; if you are interested in which journals make back articles free to the world, click on [Free Back Issues] on the home page; and if you are interested in which journals’ articles are available via online purchase, click on [Pay Per View] on the home page.

And even when the full-text article is not online, the [Abstract] link that is available will give you access to more than just the abstract. For example, you can see a list of full-text articles that have cited that article, and link to those articles easily. So there’s a good reason to visit the abstract page on the HWLSM site even if you think you might have already seen the abstract in PubMed.

In the next issue we’ll look at some of the other features of the search result page that will help you speed your literature review.

Reference
1. Frank, M. Creating a Better Mousetrap. The Physiologist, 45(1), 3, February 2002.

Marder New Editor of Journal of Neurophysiology

Eve Marder

Eve Marder is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience in the Biology Department and Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University. Marder received her PhD in 1974 from UCSD, and subsequently conducted a one-year postdoc at the University of Oregon and then a three-year postdoc at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France. She became an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Brandeis University in 1978, and was promoted to professor in 1990. During her time at Brandeis University, Marder has been instrumental in the establishment of both undergraduate and graduate programs in neuroscience.

Marder has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Neurophysiology since 1989. For almost six years she was a reviewing editor for the Journal of Neuroscience. Additionally, she now sits on the editorial boards of Physiological Reviews, Journal of Neurobiology, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Current Biology, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Journal of Experimental Biology, and Journal of Comparative Physiology. Marder has served on numerous study sections and review panels for the NIH, NSF, and other funding agencies. She also has served on the Council for the Society for Neuroscience, Council of the Biophysical Society, and several APS committees.

Marder is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a trustee of the Grass Foundation. She was the Forbes Lecturer at the MBL in 2000 and the Einer Hille Lecturer at the University of Washington in 2002.

Marder has studied the dynamics of small neuronal networks using the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system. Her work was instrumental in demonstrating that neuronal circuits are not "hard-wired" but can be reconfigured by neuromodulatory neurons and substances to produce a variety of outputs. Together with Larry Abbott, her laboratory pioneered the “dynamic clamp.” Marder was one of the first experimentalists to forge long-standing collaborations with theorists and has for almost 15 years combined experimental work with insights from modeling and theoretical studies. Her work today focuses on understanding how stability in networks arises despite ongoing channel and receptor turnover and modulation, both in developing and adult animals. 

Brown New Editor of American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 

Dennis Brown

Dennis Brown, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Program in Membrane Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, will succeed Kim Barrett as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology, Cell Physiology, on July 1, 2002. Born in Grimsby, a small fishing port on the East coast of England, he obtained his PhD from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich in 1975, in the area of the hormonal control of glycogen metabolism. He moved to Geneva, Switzerland later in the same year to work in the Department of Morphology under the guidance of the renowned cell biologist Lelio Orci. After working for a few weeks on pancreatic islets, a fortuitous collaboration drew his attention to the role of microtubules in vesicle trafficking, secretion, and Golgi organization. Based on this work, he developed his continuing interest in epithelial cell structure, membrane function, and vesicle/protein trafficking, and he learned many of the imaging and immunolabeling techniques that are applied in his research. Living and working in Geneva also provided him with the opportunity to become fluent in French, a skill which he has used to give native language research seminars in Montreal and Paris, albeit with a Swiss accent. While in Geneva, he was promoted to the permanent position of Chargé de Recherche, and could indeed have spent the rest of his research life in Switzerland. However, a meeting with Dennis Ausiello (then Chief of the Renal Unit and now Chief of Medicine at the MGH) at an epithelial transport meeting in the mountain resort of Arolla in Switzerland, persuaded him that exciting opportunities for academic and personal growth existed in the USA. After patiently waiting for a green card, his wife and two children moved across “The Pond” to Boston in December 1986. 

Since then, his work on the regulation of membrane protein recycling has placed him at the forefront of research aimed at integrating cell biology with physiology, particularly with respect to renal epithelial cells. The roles in protein trafficking of phosphorylation events, the cytoskeleton and accessory coat proteins on transport vesicles are central themes of his research. He is most well-known for his studies on the intracellular trafficking and recycling of aquaporins in collecting duct principal cells, and proton pumps in renal intercalated cells, but his studies have also addressed similar questions related to a variety of membrane proteins and cell types. Indeed, current studies in the Program in Membrane Biology use an integrated in vitro and in vivo approach to address the regulation of epithelial cell transport processes throughout the urogenital tract. He has been an Editorial Board member and Associate Editor for both AJP-Renal and AJP-Cell Physiology over the past several years, and was the Carl Gottschalk Distinguished Lecturer at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington in 2000. He is currently also on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and the Journal of Histochemistry and Cell Biology.

In addition to his work in the scientific arena, Brown is a soccer fanatic and coached his son’s select travel team to five Massachusetts State Championships and three USA Region I Championships in the mid-1990’s. He currently coaches his younger daughter’s team and is hoping for the same level of success. By the time this biographical sketch appears, the World Cup will be over and the fate of his beloved England team will have been sealed. 

Finally, his plans for the Cell Physiology section of the journal are simple—to make it the number one place to publish physiologically-relevant cell biology. The focus of the journal will be on cell signaling (hormone-receptor interactions, cell-matrix interactions, pH and Ca++ signaling etc.), intracellular events that result from these signals (including vesicle trafficking, cytoskeletal modulation, signal transduction cascades, gene regulation etc.), and the ultimate cellular response at the physiological level (membrane transport/ion channel function, secretion, cell division, apoptosis, migration, contraction etc.). 

The composition of the new team of Associate Editors reflects this push towards cell signaling (Paul Insel, University of California, San Diego) and its consequences in muscle cells (Bill Gerthoffer, U. Nevada), vascular tissue (Kathy Griendling, Emory Univ.), and epithelial cells (Jennifer Stow, U. Brisbane). Continued emphasis will be placed on transport processes and molecular interactions in a variety of mammalian and alternative experimental systems (Kathy Sweadner, MGH; Seth Alper, Beth Israel/Deaconess; Kevin Strange, Vanderbilt). The inclusion of Jenny Stow from Brisbane, Australia also reflects a need and a desire to attract more submissions and interest from her part of the World, and to give the journal more International impact. The composition of the modified editorial board will also emphasize the aims outlined above. Dr. Brown is excited by the possibility of building on the excellent work of his predecessors Dale Benos and Kim Barrett, and working with his team of talented Associate Editors to push the journal to still greater heights.

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