Saturday, March 15, 5:30 PM–9:00 PM Sponsored by: Committee for Diversity Initiatives Chairperson(s):Vicente Santa Cruz, CDI Chair, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LP, The
Woodlands, TX, and Charles Miller, III, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
This event is for undergraduate students and advisors receiving MARC and SOT travel funding, and the SOT program volunteers.
5:30 PM–6:00 PM
Orientation for SOT Hosts, Peer Mentors, and Advisors
6:00 PM–6:15 PM
Registration for Students
6:15 PM–7:00 PM
Opening Event
7:00 PM–7:45 PM
Dinner
7:45 PM–8:30 PM
Opening Lecture: "What is Toxicology?"
Craig Marcus, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM
8:30 PM–9:00 PM
Dessert and Networking
Undergraduate Education Program
Sunday, March 16, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Sponsored by: Committee for Diversity Initiatives Chairperson(s):Vicente Santa Cruz, CDI Chair, Chevron Phillips
Chemical Company LP, The Woodlands, TX, and Charles Miller, III,
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
This Sunday program is open to undergraduate students who registered for this event on the Annual Meeting Regstration Form, the undergraduate students and advisors receiving MARC, SOT and Pfizer travel funding, and the SOT program volunteers.
All Participants:
8:00 AM–8:15 AM
Introductions
8:15 AM–8:50 AM
Maternal Smoking and Cancer: Are your Children Paying the Price? Judy elikoff, New York
University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY
8:50 AM–9:10 AM
Questions and Discussion
9:10 AM–9:20 AM
Break
9:20 AM–9:55 AM
Nano-a-Nano: The Good, the Bade and the Ugly, Martin Philbert, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI
9:55 AM–10:20 AM
Question and Discussion
10:20 AM–10:35 AM
Undergraduates and Research—TBA
10:35 AM–11:30 AM
Interactive Session: Receptor-Mediated Toxicity, Charles Miller, III, Tulane University, New
Orleans, LA
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Lunch and Networking
For Students: Breakout Sessions
12:30 PM–1:55 PM
40 minutes concurrent sessions, each offered at 12:30 PM–1:10 PM and 1:15 PM–1:55 PM
A. What is Graduate Schoo and What Can I Expect? TBA
B. How to Get into Graduate School: An Academic Advisor's Perspective, TBA
Advisors Sessions:
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
Tips for Advising Prospective Graduate Students, TBA
1:15 PM–1:55 PM
Best Practices: Idea Sharing about Keepting Students on a Science Path, TBA
All Participants:
2:00 PM–2:40 PM
Career Opportunities in Toxicology—Panel Discussion
Academia: Alice Villalobos, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Government: Marquea King, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC
2:40 PM–3:00 PM
Break
3:00 PM–5:00 PM
Open time with Academic Toxicology Program Directors and Internship Sponsors
Undergraduate Education Program
Monday, March 17, 7:30 AM–2:00 PM Sponsored by: Committee for Diversity Initiatives Chairperson(s):Vicente Santa Cruz, CDI chair, Chevron Phillips
Chemical Company, LP, The Woodlands, TX, and Mari Stavanja,
RTR Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC
This event for undergraduate students and advisors receiving MARC and SOT travel funding, and the SOT program volunteers.
7:30 AM–8:10 AM
Meeting for Students, Advisors, Peer Mentors and SOT Hosts
8:15 AM–9:15 AM
Plenary Lecture
9:30 AM–11:15 AM
Poster Session for Visiting Students
11:15 AM–12:15 PM
Selected Scientific Sessions
12:15 PM–1:30 PM
In Vitro Lucheon: Development of In Vitro Screening Tools to Test for Drug-Induced Mitochondrial Toxicities, Yvonne Will, Pfizer, Inc., San Diego, CA
1:30 PM–2:00 PM
Closing Session
SOT Educational Exhibits
Monday, March 17, 9:15 AM–4:30 PM,
Tuesday–Wednesday, March 27–28, 8:30 AM–4:30PM
Exhibits of materials suitable for use in public outreach and in classrooms by SOT members and other scientists and educators will be displayed by the Animals in Research Committee and the Committee on K–12 Education. These exhibits will be in the special SOT Resource Pavilion on the Skybridge between the North and South Halls.
TEAMS—Toxicolgists Education and Mentoring Students
Tuesday, March 18, 8:30AM-12:00 NOON and 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM Chairperson(s): Kate Sprugel, Amgen, Seattle, WA and Vanessa Fitsanakis, King College, Bristol, TN
Continuing the tradition of providing public outreach in conjuction with the Annual Meeting, the Committee on K–12 Education will host a symposium for high school students by videoconferencing from the Annual Meeting to classrooms around the state of Washington. Twelve groups of students will present their prjects to one another and to a panel of toxicologists in a morning and an afternoon session. Other students will have the opportunity to submit an electronic version of their project for a virtual poster session. The presentations will educate other students about a health or environmental health issue of importance to the students or their community. Toxicologists from SOT will also serve as mentors in the months preceding the meeting as the students develop their presentations.
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