The 45th conference of the Physiological Society of Southern Africa was hosted at the Groenkloof Campus in 2017. The conference attracted 694 national and international delegates. Topics were of high quality and included interdisciplinary research in the field of physiology. Several researchers from the Department of Physiology were awarded accolades for their research.

Ms T Jurgens (PhD student) was awarded 3rd place in the Wyndham podium competition, as well as 1st place for research methodology, Ms B van Heerden (MSc student) was awarded 1st prize in the Johnny van der Walt poster competition category and Ms Y Pather (Hons student) was runner-up in this category. Ms S Marais (MSc student) received the best poster award. Mr T Sagar (MSc student) who also recently visited the Bone Laboratory research group in Dresden, Germany, received an accolade in the ‘best publication’ category for his worked published in an internationally accredited peer-reviewed journal.