Become an integral part of the 2025 SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo by chairing a Platform or Poster Session. All SOT members are eligible to serve as a Platform or Poster Session Chair for the meeting, which is taking place March 16–20, 2025, in Orlando, Florida.
While the specific responsibilities vary slightly between the two session types, Chairs for both share two fundamental tasks:
- Familiarize themselves with all abstracts in their session to facilitate meaningful engagement with each presenter.
- Ensure the seamless and punctual execution of their session.
For a comprehensive understanding of Chair responsibilities, please review the Platform Session Chair and Poster Session Chair guidelines available on the SOT Annual Meeting website.
Want to help but are presenting an abstract yourself?
If your abstract has been accepted into a particular Platform or Poster Session, you may still serve as Chair for that session, as the time commitment of a Platform or Poster Session Chair is minimal during the session. The time commitment expected from Platform and Poster Session Chairs typically ranges from 45 to 60 minutes on-site during the SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo.
How to Sign Up
To volunteer as an SOT Platform or Poster Session Chair, please complete the Chair Volunteer Form. Take note that Chairs are often chosen to oversee sessions related to their expertise, so be sure to review the “Category List” in this blog before completing the Volunteer Form. If selected, you can anticipate an invitation to serve as a Chair, along with additional instructions, by mid-January 2025.
Category List
- ADME/Toxicokinetics
- Air Pollution Toxicology
- Air Pollution: Ozone
- Air Pollution: Particulate Matter
- Animal Models
- Autoimmunity/Hypersensitivity
- Bioinformatics
- Biomarkers
- Carcinogenesis
- Cardiovascular Toxicology/Hemodynamics
- Chemical Threats and Bioterrorism
- Climate Change and Effects
- Clinical and Translational Toxicology
- Computational Toxicology and Data Integration
- Developmental and Juvenile Toxicology
- Developmental Basis of Adult Disease
- Drugs of Abuse
- Ecotoxicology
- Educating Future Toxicologists and Communicating with the Public
- Endocrine Toxicology
- Epidemiology and Public Health
- Epigenetics
- Ethical, Legal, Social, Historical Issues
- Food Safety/Nutrition
- Genotoxicity/DNA Repair
- Human Exposure Assessment/Biomonitoring
- Immunotoxicity
- Inflammation
- Kidney
- Liver: In Vitro
- Liver: In Vivo
- Mathematical Modeling
- Medical Devices
- Metals
- Mixtures
- Nanotoxicology: In Vitro
- Nanotoxicology: In Vivo
- Natural Products
- Neurodegenerative Disease: Parkinson’s Disease
- Neurotoxicity: Developmental
- Neurotoxicity: General
- Neurotoxicity: Metals
- Neurotoxicity: Neurodegeneration
- Neurotoxicity: Pesticides
- New Approach Methods: Computational
- New Approach Methods: General
- New Approach Methods: In Vitro
- Ocular Toxicology
- Oxidative Injury and Redox Biology
- Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS)
- Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
- Pesticides
- Regulation/Policy
- Reproductive Toxicology
- Respiratory Toxicology
- Risk Assessment
- Safety Assessment: Non-pharmaceutical
- Safety Assessment: Pharmaceutical-Drug Development
- Safety Assessment: Pharmaceutical-Drug Discovery
- Skin
- Skin Sensitization
- Stem Cell Biology and Toxicology
- Systems Biology and Toxicology
- Tobacco and ENDS Toxicology
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