title: Report on the Women in Physiology Symposium in IUPS 2009.
abstract: A symposium entitled "Women in Physiology" was held on 30 July 2009 during IUPS in Kyoto. Seven female researchers from five countries presented their views. This article includes the summary of each speaker's talk. Figures are not included here because they have been uploaded to the web site of Women Physiologists of Japan (WPJ) ( http://square.umin.ac.jp/wpj/ ) with the permission of each speaker. Please visit this internet site, download the files freely, and use them for presentations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan. jkimura@fmu.ac.jp
authors.forename: Junko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Kazue
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizumura
authors.forename: Chika
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Katagiri
authors.forename: Kazumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Azuma
authors.forename: Li-ying
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Kamalesh K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Gulia
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wray
authors.forename: Sanae M M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Iguchi-Ariga
authors.forename: Kim E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Barrett
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010827:Physiology / Q000639:trends*; D012958:Societies, Scientific