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Upcoming SOT Sponsored Meetings Highlight the Importance of Toxicology
ARA Workshops Advancing Dose-Response Method to be Held March 16–18, 2010
The Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) is planning a series of public workshops to continue discussion on dose-response assessment issues set forth by the NAS’s 2008 document: Science and Decisions: Advancement of Risk Assessment (the silver book). A key component of the workshops will be case studies that illustrate potentially useful dose-response assessment techniques for human health risk assessments of chemicals. Example techniques include: (1) BBDR to address human health risk for a high production volume chemical (e.g., formaldehyde); (2) human health screening approach for data-poor chemicals, as used in U.S. EPA’s Sustainable futures program. We are seeking short proposals for case studies, by February 20. Late proposals may be offered in the meeting, and will also be posted on the Web prior to the meeting. See the Web site for details. Registration is now open for the first workshop, which will be held at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), Austin, Texas, on March 16–18, 2010. The meeting can also be attended by webcast. The succeeding two workshops will be held in Fall of 2010 and Spring of 2011. This series of workshops will be highly interactive, with participation from federal, state, industry, NGO, academia, and research institutes. See the Web site for more details. In addition to SOT, the workshop series currently has 18 other sponsors, including professional societies, state environmental agencies, nonprofits, private companies and consortia (see the Web site).
14th International Workshop on QSARs—Early Bird Registration Deadline March 15, 2010.
The 14th International Workshop on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSARs) in Environmental and Health Sciences will be held in Montrèal, Canada, May 24–28, 2010. QSAR-2010 intends to bring together modelers and practitioners at various levels to share emerging research results and viewpoints on in silico tools relating to SARs, QSARs and QSPRs for chemicals and pharmaceuticals in the environment regarding: physicochemical properties, environmental fate, toxicokinetics, toxicodynamics, toxicity prediction, and regulatory applications. As part of QSAR-2010, a half-day training course on QSAR-PBPK (physiologically-based pharmacokinetic) modeling, focusing on both ecotoxicology and human health applications, will be offered. The Scientific Program will contain feature presentations on QSARs in the context of the new toxicity testing paradigm and emerging regulatory challenges.
The early-bird registration deadline is March 15, 2010. More details regarding deadlines, accommodation and abstract submission can be found on the Web site or by contacting the Secretariat.
STP/IFSTP 2010 Joint Symposium to Address Neuropathology—June 20–25
The Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) in conjunction with the International Federation of Societies of Toxicologic Pathologists (IFSTP) will co-host a symposium on the fundamentals and recent innovations in the field of toxicologic neuropathology, June 20–25, 2010 at the Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. The focus of this international meeting is to correlate advances in the morphologic evaluation and interpretation of neuropathology findings with functional, cellular, and molecular knowledge in a series of plenary and poster sessions. The major goal of the meeting is to foster an open framework in which to discuss the current state of knowledge of neuropathology evaluations in conventional toxicology and specialized neurotoxicology studies. Foundational sessions will include fundamentals of neurobiology, modern pathology methods for neural investigations, and an interactive panel discussion on “best practices” for brain sampling. The meeting will also provide a unique forum to review the remarkable progress in gene expression, biomarkers, and the role of different glial cell populations in nervous system diseases. A “special problem” session will be dedicated to critical but less understood areas of neuropathology such as the blood-brain barrier, synaptic pathology, and exaggerated pharmacodynamics as a neurotoxic event. The Preliminary Program is available on the STP Web site.
To view all upcoming SOT Sponsored meetings visit the Calendar Events section of the SOT Web site.
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