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Events Upcoming Events The National Capital Area Chapter Fall 2018 Symposium: The Intersection of Predictive Toxicology Roadmaps - Tox21, FDA’s Predictive Tox Roadmap, and ToxCast The Symposium will take place on Thursday, October 25, 2018 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM at Lister Hill Visitor's Center, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD. There is no cost for registration and we plan to host a mentoring lunch for students and post-docs where you will have the opportunity to interact with experts in the field of toxicology. Please be sure to register before October 19, 2018 to ensure we have adequate space to accommodate everyone. Past Events The National Capital Area Chapter Spring 2018 Symposium: Consumer Products – Motivating and Promoting Toxicity Reduction May 24, 2018 Speaker Slide Presentations Dr. Michael Babich, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commision Dr. Jen Tanir, Toward Safer LLC and Dr. David Constable, American Chemical Society Dr. Pamela Spencer, ANGUS Mike Schade, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Terri Goldberg, Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association Dr. Brett Howard, American Chemistry Council (Demonstration of product selection computer program in development; no slides available) Boma Brown-West, Environmental Defense Fund (Slides unavailable) Dr. Meg Whittaker, ToxServices LLC
National Capital Area Chapter SOT (NCAC-SOT) and North Carolina Chapter SOT (NCSOT): Joint Reception/Mixer Monday, March 12, 2018 The National Capital Area Chapter Fall 2017 Symposium: TSCA: Best Practices in Toxicology, Risk, and Chemical Management Strategie October 13, 2017 Presentation Recordings and Slides: Nancy Beck Richard Engler Jennifer Sass and Bob Sussman Morning Speaker Q&A Panel Kimberly White Afternoon Speaker Q&A Panel The National Capital Area Chapter Spring 2017 Symposium: Safety Assessment of Over-the-Counter Botanicals and Nutraceuticals: Update and Challenges April 19, 2017 Speakers/Presentations: Steven J. Casper, PhD Jinhui Dou, PhD Hellen Oketch-Rabah, PhD Jeffrey D. White, MD James Harnly Barbara C. Sorkin, PhD and Adam J. Kuszak, PhD The National Capital Area Chapter of the Society of Toxicology (NCAC-SOT) and Johns Hopkins University Joint Mixer March 14, 2017 NCAC-SOT Spring Symposium April 20, 2016—Georgetown University Conference Center The Keynote Presentation by Dr. Allyn Howlett was available as a webinar. USA Science and Engineering Festival NCAC will also host a booth at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, a huge event at the Walter Washington Convention Center in DC on April 16–17, 2016. This event advances STEM education and inspires the next generation of scientists and engineers. Exhibitors, performers, speakers, partners, sponsors and advisors are from major academic centers, leading research institutes, government agencies, cutting-edge high tech companies, museums, and community organizations. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Family Science Day The NCAC will be hosting a booth at the AAAS Family Science Day Saturday and Sunday February 13–14, 2016 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC. The whole family and friends are welcome to this free event to explore interactive science exhibits, learn about cool science jobs, and have your questions answered by scientists! SOT 55th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo, March 13–17 New Orleans, Louisiana Regional Science Fairs March 11–19 different counties in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC
NCAC-SOT Fall Webinar “Looking Forward after 19 Years of the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program” September 18, 2015 Speakers/Presentations: David J. Dix SOT-NCAC and Mixtures Specialty Section Fall Symposium “Evaluating Toxicological Mixtures Using Molecular Approaches” November 20, 2014 Speakers/Presentations: Gladys Erives NCAC-SOT Fall Webinar “A Walk Through the National Academies Review of US EPA’s IRIS Process: Implications for Hazard Assessment” September 19, 2014 Speakers/Presentations: Jonathan M. Samet NCAC-SOT Fall 2013 Symposium “Toxicity Associated with Nanomaterials” December 16, 2013 NIH-NLM Lister Hill Auditorium (Bethesda, Maryland) Speaker Presentations & Meeting Agenda Weiss Presentation Student/Postdoc Speaker Abstracts 2013 Spring Symposium “Mechanisms of Cell Injury and Cell Death-Applications for Mode of Action Risk Assessment” May 23, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Dean Jones, PhD, Emory University Basic scientific interest in the field of mechanisms of cell injury / cell death involving processes such as apoptosis and cancer has grown greatly over the past 30 years. The roles of toxic chemicals in mediating these processes has also been increasingly appreciated and translation of this information for mode of action risk assessment approaches has grown rapidly. This meeting of the NCAC will focus on bringing together an international group of toxicologists with expertise in apoptosis, molecular biomarkers of adverse outcome pathways/systems biology and risk assessment to summarize the state of the science with regard to the increasingly inter-disciplinary field of mode of action (MOA) based chemical risk assessment. This meeting will hopefully provide a stimulating forum for advancing this very current area of scientific endeavor. Pre-2013 Events
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