International
Colloquia & Symposia
1st International IAP- Colloquium: Physiology
and Spaceflight
2nd International IAP-Colloquium
3rd International IAP-Colloquium: Transport systems
and physiology of extremes
4th International IAP-Colloquium: Approaches
towards integrative cardiovascular studies
5th International IAP-Colloquium: Sferics - Biological
effects?
6th International IAP-Colloquium: Telemedicine
and the future
7th International IAP-Colloquium: Earth and Mars
- Environment, biospherics, habitability
8th International IAP-Colloquium: Physiological
state in simulated and real weightlessness
9th International IAP-Colloquium: Cardiac function
on Earth and in space
10th International IAP-Colloquium (iapc10),
June 2, 2006: Integrative Physiology and Interdisciplinarity
1st
Colloquium - Physiology and Spaceflight
Welcoming
address, presentation of the Institute
Aims
and goals of ASM (M. Mossaheb)
Identifikation
des Biosystems ”Mensch” durch Störgrössenaufschaltung (W. Wehrmann)
Orientation
and body posture in early life (H. Prechtl)
Experimental
procedures in space medicine - methods and results (K. Kirsch)
ESA
and life sciences - development, programs and goals (H. Oser)
2nd
Colloquium - Mixed themes
The Clinical
and Physiological Effects of Lower Body Pressure (R. Pelligra)
Influence
of Lp(a) on platelet aggregation (A. Gries)
Assembly
of Lp(a) (G. Kostner)
Effect
of lower-body positive pressure on postural fluid shifts in men (S.E. Kravik)
3rd
Colloquium - Transport systems and physiology of extremes
Hemostaseology
and muscular exertion (L. Röcker)
Man
in extreme environment - soldiers on duty: Investigations within the Austrian
army (P. Wittels)
Oxygen
saturation - ist significance in anesthesia (W.F. List)
J.S.
Lee’s ”microvascular volume shift” (H. Hinghofer-Szalkay)
4th
Colloquium - Approaches towards integrative cardiovascular studies
Volume-homeostatic
variables during microgravity and ground-based simulation studies (P. Norsk)
Biomechanical
perspectives on cardiovascular adaptation to weightlessness (G. Pantalos)
Can
exercise training during bed rest ameliorate deconditioning? (J.E. Greenleaf)
LBNP-induced
hemodynamic and hormonal changes with and without head-down bed rest deconditioning (H. Hinghofer-Szalkay)
Changes
in osteocalcin levels in rats exposed to weightlessness or mental stressors
(P. Patterson-Buckendahl)
5th
Colloquium - Sferics - Biological effects?
Electromagnetic
hypersensitivity (N. Leitgeb)
Biological
effects of technical ELF fields (B. Kunsch)
Automatic
thunderstorm detector based on RF sferics (H. Scharfetter)
Investigations
of 10-kHz-Sferics by the Federal Research and Testing Center Arsenal (M. Friedmann)
Biological
effects of low intensity extremely low frequency (ELF) electric and magnetic
fields and amplitude level of the natural ELF background (C. Polk)
6th
Colloquium - Telemedicine and the future
Challenges
and potentials for medical education (H. Hinghofer-Szalkay)
Thoracic
and hyperbaric medicine as users - needs and expectations (F-M. Smolle-Jüttner)
New
potentials of transatlantic and global telemedicine (K.P. Heiss)
7th
Colloquium - Earth and Mars - Environment, biospherics, habitability
Arguments
for a present water reservoir on Mars (S.J. Bauer)
Historical
and philosophical background of biospherics (J. Allen)
The
reaction mechanism of Haertel’s turbidity test (H. Pfeifhofer)
Scientific
research under confined conditions: problems and challenges (A. Alling)
Physiology
of hypoxia (R. Roach)
8th
Colloquium - Physiological state in simulated and real weightlessness
Experiences
of a physiologist and spaceflight physician (V.B. Noskov)
Hormone
determinations and long-term spaceflight (A. Rothaler, IAP Graz)
Stress-dependent
hormones and spaceflight: Which information do they provide? (D. Jezova)
Potential
pitfalls with interpretation of electrical body impedance (H. Scharfetter)
Clinical
aspects of immobilization and bed rest (S. Moazedi-Schwarzl)
Plasma
hyaluronic acid concentration with time of day (A. Rössler)
9th
Colloquium - Cardiac function on Earth and in space
Physical
modelling of cardiovascular function (G. Pantalos)
Mathematical
approaches to assess biological variabilities (E. Kvas)
The
nature of fluctuations in heart rate dynamics (N. Szilagyi)
QT-interval
in long-term ECG (B. Rotman)
Clinical
observations in non-linear characteristics of heart rate variability (T. Fenyvesi)
Hemodynamic
changes with graded passive and simulated orthostasis measured by impedance
cardiography (Z. László)
Names & Institutions
Allen John Polk, The Planetary Coral
Reef Foundation, Bonsall, California, USA
Alling Abigail, former Biospherian,
The Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, Bonsall, California, USA
Bauer Siegfried J, Institut
für Meteorologie und Geophysik, KFUG Graz
Fenyvesi T, 3rd Department
of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis-University Budapest, Hungary
Friedmann M, Federal
Research and Testing Center Arsenal, Vienna
Greenleaf John E, Gravitational
Research Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA
Gries Anna, Physiologisches
Institut KFUG Graz
Heiss Klaus Peter, Oecotel
Telekommunikationsnetz Betriebs GmbH, Wien & Arlington, Virginia, USA
Hinghofer-Szalkay Helmut,
founder and director, IAP Graz
Jezova Daniela, Institute
for Experimental Endocrinology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
Kirsch Karl, Physiologisches
Institut, FU Berlin, Germany
Kostner Gerhard, Med.-Chemisches Institut der KFUG Graz
Kravik Stein, University
of Oslo, Norway
Kunsch B, Austrian
Research Center Seibersdorf
Kvas Erich, IAP Graz
László Zoltán, IAP - on
leave from the 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis-University
Budapest, Hungary
Leitgeb Norbert, Institut
fuer Elektro- und Biomedizinische Technik, TU Graz
List W F, Universitätsklinik
für Anästhesiologie, LKH Graz
Mossaheb Massud, ASM Vienna
Noskov Viktor B, IMBP Moscow,
Russia
Moazedi-Schwarzl S,
IAP Graz
Norsk Peter, DAMEC Research,
National University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oser Heinz, ESA headquarters,
Paris
Pantalos George, Artificial Heart Research
Laboratory, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, The University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Patterson-Buckendahl P, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ
& Ames RC, Moffett Field, California, USA
Pelligra Ralph, Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, California, USA
Pfeifhofer A, Institut
für Pflanzenphysiologie, KFUG Graz
Polk Charles, Dept. Electrical
Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
Prechtl Heinz F R, University
Groningen and University Graz
Roach Robert, The Lovelace Institutes, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA,
and CMRC Denmark
Röcker Lothar, Berlin,
Germany
Rothaler Andreas, IAP Graz
Rössler Andreas, Physiologisches
Institut, KFUG Graz
Rotman B, I.Medizinische
Klinik, University-LKH Graz
Scharfetter Hermann, Institut
für Elektro- und Biomedizinische Technik, TU Graz
Smolle-Jüttner Freyja-Maria,
Universitätsklinik für Chirurgie, LKH Graz
Szilagyi N, Eötvös
Lorand University of Sciences, Department of Comparative Physiology, Budapest,
Hungary
Wehrmann W, Institut
für Elektrotechnik, BFPZ Arsenal, Vienna
Wittels P, Heeresspital Vienna