The ever popular (okay, okay, so we’ve only done it once before) Tox ShowDown, sponsored by the Graduate Student Leadership Committee, will be back on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 7:30 pm, at the SOT Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. As always, we are looking for intellectually astute, or at least mentally competent, or at the very least awake, contestants to handle an onslaught of challenging toxicological questions, ranging from the serious and significant to the obscure and frivolous. You, too, can say you successfully completed game play as a member of the Endocrine Disruptors, Free Radicals, or Toxic Metabolites, our three teams, and maybe even come away as a member of the winning team.*
Prizes are awarded to all contestants.This is your chance. The prestige which will accrue to you as a result of listing Tox ShowDown Contestant among your curriculum vitae credits cannot be over exaggerated. Well, maybe a Nobel Prize is slightly better.
Some sample questions from the 2012 game, challenging teams’ knowledge of toxicological fact and fancy include:
By some accounts, the word “toxicology” derives from the Greek “toxon,” which is one component of an ancient two-piece weapon. What is the English name of this weapon?
What protein binds metals such as cadmium and zinc in the liver and kidneys?
Christopher P. Wild of the International Agency for Research on Cancer coined this term to encompass the concept, now gaining an increasing prominence in toxicology, of life-course environmental exposures from conception to death. What is the term?
See this Communiqué Blog for a review of the 2012 Tox ShowDown.
Please send expressions of interest with your full name, affiliation, Specialty Section membership(s), contact information, and a brief statement about why you want to join to Phil Wexler by December 15, 2012.
* The 2012 winning team was The Free Radicals (Peter Goering, US FDA; Lou Trombetta, St. John’s University; and Toni Hayes, Pfizer)