Dear Members and Friends of ISPNE,
We hope this message finds you in good health. As a valued member of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE), we greatly appreciate your ongoing support and engagement in our community. We continue to be excited by your contributions to research and scholarship in Psychoneuroendocrinology, and always look forward to seeing you at our meetings, in print in our journal, Psychoneuroendocrinology, on social media @ISPNE and at our website at ISPNE.net. We also hope you will join us for upcoming new sessions of our recently launched Webinar series (conceptualized and organized by our strong early career scholar’s network).
We would like to apologize for our delay in sending out this membership renewal request for 2024. As a society, we have been undergoing a transition in our management, and also navigating considerable financial challenges. We are pleased that our efforts have led to the successful resolution of these issues, thanks in large part to the generous support of our sponsors, who will be featured on our website, webinar series and at our annual conference.
We would like to invite you now to renew your ISPNE membership for 2024 that will allow exciting opportunities, benefits and access to services and events. Renewing your membership will also help to ensure our society is in a strong financial position moving forward.
All membership levels include electronic subscription of Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Besides the invaluable benefit of extending your academic network by communicating with your fellow colleagues at the Annual Congress of ISPNE, there are a number of additional benefits for our members:
Your continued support is vital to the success of our society, and we look forward to your ongoing membership. Thank you for being part of our community and helping us achieve our mission of promoting and showcasing the best basic, applied and translational science in the field of Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Thank you for your loyalty and commitment to ISPNE. We appreciate your continued partnership.
Sincerely,
Emma K. Adam
ISPNE President [email protected]
On behalf of the ISPNE executive committee
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Jonathan Seckl, PhD
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Professor Jonathan Seckl trained in medicine at University College London. After a number of busy medical training posts in London, he undertook a PhD at Imperial College studying how the brain controls stress hormones. He then joined the University of Edinburgh and has been a consultant physician in Edinburgh since 1989, first at the Western General Hospital and for the last decade at the Royal Infirmary. He was made Professor of Endocrinology in 1996 and was elected to the Moncrieff-Arnott Chair of Molecular Medicine in 1997.
Professor Seckl's clinical work focuses on endocrinology. He has particular expertise in disorders of the hypothalamus (notably diabetes insipidus), pituitary and adrenal glands and has an interest in the genetics and molecular basis of endocrine disorders.
In research, Professor Seckl has worked for 30 years on the hormonal underpinnings of stress, the role of glucocorticoid hormones and their metabolism in understanding how events before birth 'programme' the risks of later disorders of the brain and body, on new approaches to understand and treat age-associated disorders of memory and how glucocorticoid hormones may cause obesity and metabolic disease. More than 40 doctors and scientists have completed PhDs in his laboratory. He has written over 400 papers and is one of Scotland's most cited medical scientists. He has spoken widely at academic meeting, to the press and lay audiences.
In Edinburgh, Professor Seckl set up and led the Molecular Medicine Centre at the Western General Hospital, initiated and led the Centre for the Study of the Ageing Brain, was inaugural Head of the School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, and Executive Dean and Director of Research for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. He is now Vice Principal for Research at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Seckl currently co-chairs grant committees at the Wellcome Trust and the Technology Strategy Board-MRC. He has been elected to the Councils of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Society for Endocrinology. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Academy of Medical Sciences and The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Robert Kumsta was appointed Professor of Biopsychology at the University of Luxemburg in May 2021. He studied psychology at the University of Trier, Germany, and received his Ph.D. in Psychobiology from the University of Trier in 2007. Funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, he joined the MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, to study the effects of severe institutional deprivation in the English and Romanian Adoptees Study. From 2010 until 2013, he held a Research Fellow position at the Laboratory for Biological and Personality Psychology at the University of Freiburg. Since October 2013, Robert Kumsta has been Professor and Chair of Genetic Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum.
One of his major research goals is to establish a better mechanistic understanding of how early psychosocial risk is ‘biologically embedded’ and increases the risk of long term health problems. A particular focus is on the role of stress physiology and the oxytocin system. Furthermore, he is interested in mechanisms of gene-environment interplay and epigenetic processes.
Using a range of methods, including the study of genetic variation, gene expression patterns, epigenetics, multi-comics integration, as well as the characterization of stress physiology, he is trying to understand how genetic and environmental factors work together to shape developmental trajectories and outcomes across the life-span.
Elizabeth A. (Birdie) Shirtcliff, PhD
University of Oregon
Elizabeth A. (Birdie) Shirtcliff, PhD, is a research professor at the University of Oregon and director of the Stress Physiology in Teens (SPIT) laboratory in the Center for Translational Neuroscience. Dr. Shirtcliff received her doctorate in biobehavioral health from Pennsylvania State University and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in affective neuroscience. In 2023, Dr. Shirtcliff became the editor in chief of the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology and consulting editor for Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology. Dr. Shirtcliff uses a variety of noninvasive tools to investigate the interplay of biological and behavioral factors unfolding across children's lives, especially in adolescence. Dr. Shirtcliff's focus is on hormones because the endocrine system is stress responsive, often mirroring a child's social environment. This interdisciplinary research examines both short-term stress responses, as well as biological changes that can consistently or even permanently change an individual's biology. Dr. Shirtcliff’s interdisciplinary leanings are revealed in this manuscript as it shows collaborative efforts between engineering, neuroscience and social science by exploring Virtual Reality Stressors.
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