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 Northern California Fall Meeting, October 16th, 2008, Roche Palo Alto, Palo Alto California. For more information, please view flyer.
Dear NorCal SOT Colleagues and Friends:
Annual Meeting of our Society of Toxicology is just around the corner. NorCal SOT will be hosting a joint reception with the Pacific Northwest Chapter, UC-Davis and UC-Berkeley from 4:30 to 6 PM on Monday at Sheraton Metropolitan B Room. If you are planning to attend the Annual Meeting please stop by to say hello to your fellow regional chapter members and friends. We’ll be giving away free drink tickets to first 75 people. We’ll also hold a raffle for two bottles of our world famous California wine. I hope to meet all of you at the reception.
We are also in the process of planning our Spring Meeting. This is typically a whole day meeting. This year’s meeting will be on April 10th at SRI (333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA) and the theme will be “Developmental Neurobehavioral Toxicology”. We have arranged for some well-known experts in the field to come and speak to us. Also we will have poster presentations at the meeting. So, if you are presenting a poster at the Annual Meeting of SOT please consider presenting it to your local colleagues in the Bay Area who may not have had a chance to see your poster at the Annual Meeting. We are considering doing the poster session for all our future NorCal SOT Spring Meeting, so it is important to make it successful at this meeting. Following the footsteps of SOT we are also trying another new program “Lunch with the Experts” to help the students and post-docs. The goal of this is provide an opportunity for the students and Post-docs to network with our world-recognized toxicologists from the Northern California Area. A flyer is attached with some initial information and more to follow soon. We have a lot of sponsorship for this meeting and we’ll try our best to keep the registration for the meeting to the minimum amount possible.
Participation by the local members is very important for the success of our local chapters. I have been contacted by some regional chapter presidents of SOT who wants to know the key to the success of NorCal SOT. I always tell them the key to success is participation of our members. It is you, the members, who volunteer your time and make time out of your busy workdays to attend the local meetings. I am hoping you will do the same again for our Spring Meeting on April 10th.
Hope to see you there.
Sanjay Chanda
President, NorCal SOT
2007 Fall Dinner Meeting—NorCal SOT had a
very successful Dinner Meeting on Nov. 8th at Roche Palo Alto. The meeting was attended by more than 100
scientists from the Bay Area. We had very good food and an excellent speaker (Bob Young from BioReliance).
This was a free event and made possible by generous sponsorship from Roche Palo Alto, LLC and BioReliance.
For more information download the meeting announcement (flyer) and
the PDF version of the presentation. Please feel free to
forward it to your colleagues who may have attended the event but who are not yet NorCal SOT members.
2007 Spring Symposium, June 7th, 2007,was held at SRI, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, California. For more information download the Meeting Announcement and Abstracts
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Stem Cell Application In
Pharmacology and Toxicology, May 24th, 2005, was held at SRI, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, California. For more information download a copy of the Meeting Announcement.
Mixer at the 44th Annual Meeting of the
Society of Toxicology in New Orleans, LA, was held and co-sponsored with the UC Davis alumni group, on March 8, 2005 from 6 to 8 PM in the Hilton Riverside, Grand Salon 18.
Fall 2004 Dinner Meeting of the Northern
California Chapter was held on October 27, 2004, at the Clarion Hotel, Millbrae. We had 46 attendees who
benefited from the well-organized and informative presentation of Craig January M.D., Ph.D., who spoke on
“Cardiovascular Safety Testing for Drug Candidates & Environmental Chemicals.” Dr.
January has conducted cardiac ion channel research and has a research program and extensive publication and
presentation on hERG and LQTS. His talk was useful to all attendees in helping to understand the underlying
mechanisms and often-unrecognized potential for cardiac arrhythmias from drug and, possibly, other chemical
exposures. Please see the February 2005 Newsletter for details.
Scientific Two-day Meeting Co-sponsored with
the Southern California Chapter of SOT was held on Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2004, at the Hyatt Regency
Islandia in San Diego. Our first joint meeting with SoCal SOT was an overwhelming success. Over 70
registrants from varied toxicology disciplines experienced a refresher course and hot topics in “
Reproductive & Developmental Toxicology: Pharmaceutical, Environmental, and Legal Considerations.
” Posters were presented and awards were given to three students. It was a great time for the
participants to network, share their experiences with DART-related issues, and “pick the brains
” of the speakers. Our current and past presidents, Susan Rice and Bob Howd, were both speakers.
Please see the February 2005 Newsletter for details.
Spring 2004 Scientific Symposium was held
Thursday afternoon, May 20, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Walnut Creek. Approximately 30 attendees heard
presentations on “Current Food Safety Issues: Chemicals, Microbes, Genetic Engineering”. The
speakers covered a broad range of topics that were very informative and gave toxicologists the opportunity
to learn the real issues and concerns from experts. Dr. Robert Brodberg of the Office of Environmental
Health Hazard Assessment, Cal/EPA, spoke on “PCBs and methyl mercury – not just in farmed
salmon”. Dr. Delia Bethell, the Vice President for Clinical Development, Ventria Bioscience,
Sacramento, told us about the “Production of human proteins in rice – safely!” Dr.
Maria Brandl of the Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, USDA,
Albany, spoke on “Human pathogens on crops, pre-harvest contamination of produce.” Dr. Tom
McDonald of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Cal/EPA informed attendees of “
PBDEs, PFOS, PFOA, and other chemicals of emerging concern – accumulating in the environment and our
bodies.” A panel and open discussion period followed the presentations.
Mixer at the 43rd annual meeting of the
Society of Toxicology in Baltimore, Maryland, March 21-25, 2004, was co-sponsored with the UC Davis alumni
group. This event, held on Tuesday evening from 7 to 9 pm at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, was quite
well-attended. It provided a great opportunity for renewing acquaintances with old friends, and making new
ones. Hors d’oeuvres were provided and a no-host bar was available. Members of the Southern
California and Midwest chapters were invited to drop by, and we were similarly invited to join their joint
mixer on Monday evening.
Fall 2003 Dinner Meeting of the Northern
California Chapter was held October 16, 2003, at the Clarion Hotel in Millbrae, CA. Approximately 40 people
attended. A stimulating presentation was provided after dinner by Dr. Alexandra Heinloth of the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Dr. Heinloth spoke to
us on “The Potential Role of Toxicogenomics in Mechanistic and Predictive Toxicology”.
Spring 2003 Scientific Meeting of the Northern
California Chapter was held June 12, 2003, at the UC Berkeley Faculty Club in Berkeley, CA, jointly with
the Northern California Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis. Approximately 50 people were in
attendance for this afternoon meeting. Four presentations were made on the subject of “Current
Topics in Cancer Research”, focusing on epidemiology and development of anticancer drugs. Dr.
Patricia Buffler of UC Berkeley School of Public Health described her investigations of “Childhood
Leukemia and Cancer Clusters,” while Dr. Scarlet Lin Gomez of the Northern California Cancer Center
spoke on “Evaluating Cancer Clusters in the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry: Breast Cancer in Marin
County.” This was followed by Dr. Teresa Reynolds of Protein Design Labs, who spoke on “
Challenges in the Nonclinical Development of Biotechnology-derived Therapeutics for Oncology,” and
Dr. Nancy Turner of Chiron, who spoke on “Safety Assessment of Small Molecule Cancer
Chemotherapeutics.”
Mixer at the 43rd annual meeting of the
Society of Toxicology, in Baltimore, Maryland, March 21-25, co-sponsored with the UC Davis alumni group.
This event, held on Tuesday evening from 7 to
9 pm at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, was quite well-attended. It provided a great opportunity for
renewing acquaintances with old friends, and making new ones. Hors d'oeuvres were provided and a no-host bar
was available. Members of the Southern California and Midwest chapters were invited to drop by, and we were
similarly invited to drop by their joint mixer on Monday evening.
42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Toxicology, Salt Lake
City, Utah - March 9-14, 2003, NorCal SOT - UC Davis Joint Reception - Tuesday, March 11, 6:00-7:30 pm
in Salon C at the Marriott Downtown
Dinner Meeting and Symposium Organized by Northern California
SOT On “Effects of Animal Rights Activism on Research" - Thursday, October 24th, 2002
Chemical and Biological Terrorism: The Role of Risk
Assessment - May 22, 2002
SOT Meeting, Nashville, TN- March 19, 2002: A
reception was held at the National SOT meeting in Nashville, organized jointly with the UC Davis alumni
group. The reception was on Tuesday, March 19, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, at the Opryland Hotel. Hors d'oeuvres
were served, and there was no-host bar. Dress was informal. A good time was had by all.
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