The Graduate Student Leadership Committee (GSLC)-sponsored Tox ShowDown, to be held on Tuesday evening, March 25,
2014, is an engaging quiz game patterned off the popular long-running show It’s Academic. Three teams (The Endocrine Disruptors, The Free Radicals, The Toxic Metabolites) of contestants compete at answering questions concerning toxicology, not only in its scientific context, but also as it relates to society, history, the arts, and culture. The Tox ShowDown creates a truly festive atmosphere allowing the audience to participate with the teams. A cash bar will be available. Pictured on the right, Phil Wexler stumps the teams and the audience with a question at the 2013 Tox Showndown
Tox ShowDown debuted at the 2012 SOT Annual Meeting thanks to the efforts of volunteers such as those pictured, including from right to left: Jessica Placido, Sue Ford, Phil Wexler, as well as the Winning Team of Toni Hayes, Lou Trombetta, and Peter Goering, and Judge Marion Ehrich.
Although we are holding this competition in the air conditioned comfort of the Sheraton Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, sweat is sure to trickle down your brow no less profusely than if you were standing under the noonday Tombstone sun, as you struggle to answer challenging, enigmatic, and sometimes simply unanswerable questions.
If you are among the hardy and the foolhardy, the wise and the wiseguys, or the unflappable and the flabbergasted, we want you to volunteer as a contestant. Let’s face it, you’ve done crazier things in your life or, if you haven’t, here’s your chance. Think of it as a toxicologist coming of age quest.
Those who attended the 2013 Tox ShowDown in San Antonio will agree (despite the presence of the occasional rubber snake scattered in the room)—the ShowDown is a shootin’ good time. Door prizes are raffled off, and the winning team receives prizes that range from restaurant gift cards to toxicology books. Pictured on the right, The Free Radicals, winners of the 2013 Tox ShowDown.
Be a contestant and head for the ShowDown...If you are interested in becoming a contestant on one of the teams, please email Allessandro Venosa, GSLC Secretary, Phil Wexler, or David Rossé today!