Leaf senescence constitutes the last stage of leaf development in plants and proceeds through a highly regulated program in order to redistribution of micro- and macro-nutrients from the senescing leaves to the developing/growing plant organs. Initiation and progression of leaf senescence is accompanied by massive sequential alterations at various levels of leaf biology including leaf morpholog...

Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology • mcb.illinois.edu/departments/mip GREETINGS FROM THE HEAD Milan Bagchi Welcome to the 2015 edition of the MIP newsletter. As you turn its pages, you will come across an article that describes the early history of our department. You will be impressed that physiology has a long and rich tradition at the University of Illinois. The University op...

In a 2002 lecture to the American Physiological Society (APS) Respiration Section, former APS president Norman Staub, Sr. presents, as his first slide, two images. The first image is labeled ‘Molecular Biology’ and features a gleaming silver bullet train speeding into the distance. The second is labeled ‘Clinical Medicine’, and depicts a rickety wooden caboose standing alone. Staub uses this si...

Assessing the variety and quality of the articles presented in the biennial national congresses of physiology and pharmacology is important to investigators in these fields. Analytic assessment of these presentations are of great use to know the stand points of physiology and pharmacology departments in different universities, and also can be informative for policy makers in higher education...