Blogs

Last week, we relived the continuing education and featured sessions from the 2014 Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting and ToxExpo. This week, we turn our sights to the more than 20 symposium sessions at this year’s event. Our reporters covered more than half of these scientific discussions. Meanwhile, other members took part in some of the Annual Meeting’s career development and research funding opportunities.

Symposium Sessions

• Lessons from the Computational Approaches to Predict Repeat-Dose Toxicity Session by Margaret H. Whittaker
• New Insights into Methylmercury Toxicity by Laurie Davenport
• Discussing Induced Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Their Differentiated Progeny Cells by Janet Leeds
• Symposium Session: Adverse Outcome Pathways as an Integrative Framework for Predicting Toxicology by Jason Michael Fritz
• SOT Symposium Session: Use of Stem Cells in Toxicity Testing by Yvonne Dao Hoang
• Children Are Not Just Small Adults by Izabela Korwel
• Talking about the Importance of Neuroimmune Crosstalk to Neurotoxicology by Janet Leeds
• Fatty Liver Disease Linked to Chemical Exposures by Michelle Werts
• Frontiers for Toxicology: Noncoding RNAs in Human Health, Therapeutics, and Environmental Disease by Jason Michael Fritz
• How Realistic Is Life on Plastic? by Maureen Bunger
• Symposium Session: Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Neuro/Glial Toxicity by Janet Leeds
• Connecting Air Pollution and Metabolic Syndrome by Michelle Werts

Career Development and Research Funding Activities

• Lively Discussion on Scientific Ethics in Research and Publications by Mary Beth Genter
• Mentee Insight into the SOT Mentoring Program by Christopher Matthew Harris
• Insight into the SOT Mentoring Program by Betina J. Lew
• SOT Annual Meeting Strategies for Funding Opportunities Included Two Recorded Webinars by Marcia G. Lawson

Next week, we’re wrapping up our walk down Annual Meeting memory lane with a look at the rest of the scientific sessions coverage (workshops, posters, etc.) and our education-focused events for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral toxicologists.