Scientific Sessions

(Monday, March 6-Thursday, March 9)

Symposia

• Advancing Toxicology by Improving Linkage of Traditional Toxicity and Pathology Endpoints with Toxicogenomics
  
• Air Pollution: Vanguard Toxicological Approaches Considering Atmospheric Aging
  
• Alternative Model Organisms for the Analysis of Developmental and Molecular Toxicology
  
• Application of Genomics to Evaluating Mechanisms of Genotoxicity and Carcinogenicity
  
• Development of Safety Qualification Thresholds and Their Use in Drug Product Evaluation
  
• Determinants of Manganese Neurotoxicity: From Worms to Man
  
• Gene Nutrient Environment Interactions as Risk Factors for Birth Defects: Fumonisin, Folate, Genetic Variation, and Neural Tube Defects
  
• Idiosyncratic Hepatotoxicity: Non-Clinical Predictive Toxicology for Liver Injury Potential
  
• Indirect Mechanisms of Toxicity: Advancing Our Understanding of Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions
  
• Lipidomics of Cell Death
  
• Mechanisms of Low Solubility Particle-Induced Lung Tumors
  
• Metabonomics: Moving Beyond the Profile
  
• Mode of Action Associated with Induction of Endothelial Cell Tumors — Hemangiosarcoma
  
• Models and Mechanisms of Occupational/Environmental Asthma
  
• New Concepts in the Neurotoxicology of Lead
  
• New Insights into Mechanisms of Cell Death and Survival
  
• Obesity as a Modulator of Chemical Toxicity
  
• Obesity: Developmental Origins and Environmental Influences
  
• Regulation of Phase II Xenobiotic Metabolizing Enzymes: Implications for Health and Disease
  
• Risk Assessment Implications of Direct Nose-To Brain Transport of Inhaled Xenobiotics
  
• Risk Assessment and Regulatory Implications of Convulsive Neurotoxicity
  
• Role of Epigenetics in the Fetal Basis of Adult Disease
  
• Role of Mitochondria in Toxic Oxidative Stress
  
• Role of the Kupffer Cell in Mediating Hepatic Toxicity and Carcinogenesis
  
• The Bases for Inter-Individual Differences In Susceptibility to Allergic Disease
  
• The Biological Matrix of In Vitro Systems and Their Use in Toxicology
  
• The Path for Assessing Human Relevance and Advancing New Safety Biomarkers for Drug Induced Vascular Injury
  
• The Role of MAP Kinases in Metal Toxicity
  
• The War on Ozone in the 3rd Millennium: Toxicology and Health Effects Update
  
• Using Structure-Based Approaches for Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
  

  Workshops

• Advances in Asbestos Toxicology and Exposure Assessment
  
• Advanced Technologies and Approaches for Quantitative Biological Monitoring and Modeling for Chemical Exposures
  
• Comprehensive Responses of Lipids Classes to Toxicants and Involvement in Diseases
  
• Dendritic Cells and Skin Sensitization: Biological Roles and Uses in Hazard Identification
  
• Discovery Toxicology: Strategies in the New Drug Discovery Paradigm
  
• Does the Methylation of Inorganic Arsenic Affect its Toxicity and Mode(s) of Action? A Critical Discussion
  
• Genomics in Risk Assessment: Utility for the Characterization of Mode of Action
  
• Hormesis: A Challenge to the Linear Dose-Response Model, and Its Implications in Risk Assessment, Regulatory Policy, and Biomedical Research
  
• Immunotoxicity Evaluation by Immune Function Tests
  
• Integrating Biomonitoring into Epidemiology and Toxicology Research
  
• New Food Ingredients Do Not Need New Food Regulations
  
• Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Leveraging Mammalian Data for in Determining Human Pharmaceutical Responses in Aquatic Vertebrates
  
• Potential Human Health Risk from Estrogenic Food and Consumer Product Additives: How Much is Real and How Much is Hype?
  
• Regulatory Application of the Mouse LLNA: New Challenges and Opportunities
  
• Screening Methods for Assessing Skin Toxicity of Nanomaterials
  
• Thermoregulation and Its Influence on Toxicity Assessment
  
• Towards the Virtual Human: Adding More Physiological Detail to Biologically Based Models
  

  Roundtables

• Food Safety and Security: Regulatory and Industry Safeguards
  
• Research and Development of Child Specific Protection in California
  
• The Complexities of Air pollution Regulation: The Need for an Integrated Research and Regulatory Perspective
  
• The Precautionary Principle — Implications and Applications
  
• USEPA's 2005 Cancer Guidelines
  

  Historical Highlight

• Historical Hightlight: Organophosphates from Nerve Gas to Insecticide

  Sunset Sessions

• Distance Learning in Toxicology: Effective Teaching through Technology
  
• Toxicology in the Courtroom: Establishing Causation—A Roundtable Discussion