Address: Dana Science Center   Rooms 345, 316 Department of Biology Skidmore College 815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs, New York, 12866-1632 Telephone: (518) 580-5079 (office) (518) 580-4390 (lab) Fax: (518) 580-5071 E-mail: rmeyers@skidmore.edu Web: http://placid.skidmore.edu/human
	photo: CFG

Biology As it Should Be! Students of Aaron Townshend '00 Cardigan Mountain School	Mammalian Physiology '03 Max Ruby '05 and Kristin Near '04, Hand AG or RSM photo: Leo Geoffrion

Current regular courses

• Bio 306 - Mammalian Physiology 2008 (Fall '08) - Respiratory, Renal/Fluid Balance & Neural Systems medical physiology.
• Bio 351M? - Physiology of the Heart and Circulation (Spring '10) - The medical, clinical and comparative systems physiology of the cardiovascular system [no lab].
• Bio 244 - Comparative Vertebrate Physiology 2009 (Spring '09) - Adaptation of vertebrate (systems) function to life's major environmental challanges.
• Bio 110 - Biology of the Mind ( Spring '09) - Introduction to neurobiology for non-majors including a weekly subsection on Neuroethics and a 3 week self-directed final research project.
• BI 275. INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH 1 - Comparative cardiorespiratory physiology
• BI 385. RESEARCH METHODS IN BIOLOGY 4 - Comparative cardiorespiratory physiology

Other 'recent' courses

• Bio 305 - Cardiovascular Physiology 2003 - The medical, clinical and comparative systems physiology of the cardiovascular system [with lab].
  
• Bio 370 - Introduction to Computer Modeling in Biology (2002)
• Bio 110 - Biology of the Mind (On-Line, Summer '04) - including a combined on-line & in-residence laboratory.
  
  

Other Resources

Web-HUMAN on-line interactive systems physiology simulation [ See below for more. Click & try it out! ]

In brief

Roy S. Meyers, Professor of Biology, holds a Ph.D. in Physiology from Downstate Medical Center and has held additional research appointments at the Manhattan Veterans Hospital, Brown University and RPI. His Skidmore (and Brown) research has focused largely on the evolutionary physiology of transitional vertebrate cardio-respiratory systems and the neural control of the heart in transitional vertebrates. He teaches courses in Introductory Neurobiology (non-majors), Comparative Vertebrate Physiology, Cardiovascular Physiology, Mammalian Physiology and a course in Computer Modeling in Biology and also maintains the on-line systems physiology teaching simulation web-HUMAN. [rmeyers@skidmore.edu]

Selected publications

Meyers, Roy S. (2007). Using web-HUMAN To Teach Basic Classical Physiological Relationships.
HAPS Educator, Summer, 2007, Volume 11(4), 16-18.

Meyers, Roy S. and Geoffrion, Leo. (2004) Web-HUMAN: A Comprehensive Systems Physiology Teaching Simulation. Advances in Physiology Education (Abstr.) 28:122, 2004.

Shi, H., Hamm P.H., Meyers, R.S., Lawler, R.G. and Jackson, D.C. (1997). Mechanisms of pHi recovery from NH4Cl-induced acidosis in anoxic isolated turtle heart: a 31P-NMR study. American Journal of Physiology 272 (Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 41), R6-R15.

Watson, C.L., Meyers, R.S. and Jackson, D.C. (1993). Intracellular pH regulation by acidotic turtle cardiomyocytes. The
FASEB Journal (7): (Abstr.).

Selected presentations & workshops

Meyers, R. and Geoffrion,L. (2002) Web-HUMAN: A comprehensive systems physiology teaching simulation is available on the web. Society For Integrative and Comparative Biology, Jan. 5, 2002. (presentation)

Meyers, Roy S. (2002) Use of the web-HUMAN Simulation to Teach Systems Physiology Concepts. Human Anatomy and Physiology Society. May 28, 2002. (workshop)

Meyers, Roy S. (2003) Use of the web-HUMAN Simulation to Teach Clinical Physiology Concepts. Human Anatomy and Physiology Society. June 4, 2003. (workshop)

Meyers, Roy S. (2004) Teaching Systems Physiology and Pathophysiology Concepts with web-HUMAN. Human Anatomy and Physiology Society. June 16, 2004. (workshop)

Meyers, Roy S. (2005) Using Normalized Data Plots in web-HUMAN To Teach Integrated Systems Responses. Proceedings- 19th Annual Conference of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (Abstr), June, 2005. (workshop)

Meyers, Roy S. (2006) Using web-HUMAN To Teach Classical Physiological Relationships. Proceedings- 20th Annual Conference of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (Abstr), May, 2006. (workshop- University of Texas At Austin)

Meyers, Roy S. (2007) Using The Familiar To Hook Students: Simulate Exercise As A Systems Physiology Teaching Tool. Annual Conference Proceedings. Human Anatomy and Physiology Society. May, 2007. (workshop)

Meyers, Roy S. (2008) Teaching Renal Physiology with the web-HUMAN Application. Annual Conference Proceedings. Human Anatomy and Physiology Society. May, 2008. (workshop- LSU Medical Center, New Orleans)

The web-HUMAN Physiology Simulation

Skidmore College's web-HUMAN web site (http://placid.skidmore.edu/human/) provides educators with a no-fee, web browser-accessible and interactive full implementation of Tom Coleman's classic systems physiology teaching simulation, HUMAN. The web-HUMAN model is comprehensive, encompassing 6 major core systems (cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, fluid balance, acid-base balance and thermoregulatory) and aspects of 3 other systems (nervous, endocrine and muscle metabolism). In each one 1 minute iteration 137 user-assessable physiological variables can be monitored and simulated experiments can be run by changing one or more of 67 user-alterable physiological and clinical parameters. A range of diagnosable and "treatable" patients are also available. The newest version (7.0) has 6 variable plotting (see below), save-retrieve experiment capability and on-line help.

The site has run almost 40,000 simulation sessions by non-Skidmore users in the past year (Dec. 2007- Dec. 2008). Users range from secondary school advanced placement and Health Professions (e.g. nursing) Anatomy and Physiology courses on up through medical school lab use.The web site was created (and is maintained and upgraded) by Roy Meyers and Leo Geoffrion along with contributions from a range of Skidmore computer science students.