The Scientific Program Committee (SPC) is pleased to sponsor the inaugural Frontiers for Toxicology Session at the 2013 SOT Annual Meeting in San Antonio. This new session has been designed to focus on a cutting-edge subject that will impact basic and applied toxicology research.
For the 2013 Annual Meeting, the session will be “Systems and Computational Biology As Foundations for Toxicology Research.” Systems and computational approaches are holistic methods to elucidate and understand the complex interactions among components of a biologic response network and are central to the comprehensive understanding of all biological processes. The field requires the integration of concepts from biology and physiology, computer science and applied mathematics, as well as physics and engineering. Toxicology also is a multidisciplinary science and application of systems and computational approaches can aid in unraveling the dynamic and complex nature of toxic responses. In light of the broad utility of systems biology approaches to toxicology and risk assessment, the goal of this session is to feature eminent scientists who have made seminal contributions and advances in systems and computational biology. The speakers in this session include: Trey Ideker, University of California San Diego; Avi Ma’ayan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Laszlo A. Urban, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research; and Robert F.Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University.
The Frontiers session will take place on Tuesday, March 13 from 9:00 am to 11:45 am in Grand Ballroom C1 in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. We hope to see you at this exciting new session!