The development of proposals for the Society of Toxicology (SOT) 2019 Annual Meeting is underway with deadlines for pre-review by Specialty Sections (SS) in mid-April to early-May 2018 and deadline to submit proposals online to SOT on May 15, 2018. The SS Collaboration and Communication Group (SS-CCG), which represents all SOT SSs, has compiled a list of individuals serving as contacts for Session Proposal Pre-Review for the 2019 SOT Annual Meeting. As stated on the SOT webpage about preparing proposals for SOT 2019 found here, proposals that have undergone the pre-review process prior to submission tend to receive higher scores and ranks during the review. A pre-review also allows you to gauge the level of interest of the SS as a potential endorser. Below is a list of contacts with their email addresses and deadlines by which your submission should be provided for this pre-review process. Please be advised that a session pre-review is not a guarantee that the session proposal will be endorsed by the SS. In addition, some SS will continue to review after their deadline, but may not guarantee a timely response.
The SS-CCG has a special mission to support sessions that are cross-cutting and represent collaboration efforts across different sections. If you are putting together a 2019 SOT Scientific Session Proposal that spans interests of 3+SSs, you may send pre-submission inquiries to the SS-CCG by May 5, 2018, to Abby Li (abbyli@exponent.com).
Examples of cross-cutting sessions that have been identified by SS leaders for 2019 are as follows:
- Big data: Standards and quality criteria for in vivo and in silico data (includes issues of reliability within and across labs); and Approaches to mining molecular/in vitro data to be predictive of functional human health outcomes (includes relevance of short-duration assays to toxicity taking years to become observable in whole animal or human studies).
- Oxidative stress: What is an adverse effect?
- Particle-mediated toxicity from medical devices
- Social media as an opportunity for responsible communication of toxicology