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Scientific Sessions

(Monday, March 17–Thursday, March 20)

Historical Highlights

• Ozone Toxicology: Historical Perspectives of the Science that Shaped the Regulatory Standards

Informational Sessions

• Cross-Cultural Understanding of Asian and Western Cultural Values in the Workplace
• Detection of Biological Free Radicals in Time and Space
• Future Paths for Puget Sound: Contaminants, Cultures, and Ecosystem Risk Characterization—A Special Regional Interest Session
• Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): A New Language for Toxicologists
• Implementation of the ICH S8 Immunotoxicity Testing Guideline
• Mentoring 101–How to Mentor, How to Be Mentored
• NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientists (ONES) Awardees
• Professional Career Development as a Toxicologist
• Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Job Interviewing Workshop for Early-Career Scientists
• Toxicological and Public Health Challenges in Africa
• REACH: Implementation, Chemical Safety, and Information Requirements
  

Platform Sessions

• Accelerating Discoveries in Toxicology Through 'Omics Research
• Advances in Biological Modeling
• Advancing the Science of Risk Assessment
• Altered Reproductive Development
• APC's, B Cells and Haematopoiesis
• Apoptosis: Cardiopulmonary Targets
• Arsenic Toxicity
• Chemical and Biological Weapons: Molecular Basis for Detection and Therapeutic Potential
• Developmental Basis of Disease
• Developmental, Immunotoxicology, Host Resistance and Genomics
• Disposition/Pharmacokinetics
• Ecotoxicity and Chemical Exposure
• Frontiers in Liver Toxicology
• Health Risks and Food Safety
• Immunotoxicology: T Cells
• Issues in Regulatory Risk Assessment
• Manganese Neurotoxicity: From Worms to Primates
• Mechanisms of Hypersensitivity
• Mechanisms of Pesticide
• Mechanisms of Reproductive
• Modulating Apoptosis for Beneficial Outcomes
• Nanoparticles: Cellular and Organ Disposition
• New Insights for Developmental Toxicology
• NRF2 Induced Gene Regulation
• Oxidative Stress, DNA Strand Breaks, and Applications of the Comet Assay
• Selective Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity: Genetics and Mechanisms

Poster Sessions

• Adverse Effects of Natural Products
• AHR Mechanisms
• Alternate Ocular and Dermal Models
• Alternatives to Mammalian Models
• Animal Models
• Apoptosis: Mechanisms and Methods
• Application of 'Omics Research Toos in Toxicology
• Applications of Biological Modeling
• Assessment of Ecological Toxicology
• Bioinformatics and Computational Toxicology
• Biomarkers
• Biomarkers: Methods
• Breast Cancer: Mechanisms, Biomarkers, and Chemoprevention
• Cardiovascular System: Cardiac Effects
• Cardiovascular System: Vascular Effects
• Chemical and Biological Weapons
• Chemoprevention
• Developmental Neurotoxicity
• Developmental Toxicology
• DNA Damage and Repair: Mechanisms and Agents
• Endocrine Mechanisms of Toxicity
• Epidemiology and Exposure Assessment
• Fish Alternative Models of Toxicity
• Food Safety I
• Food Safety II
• Gene Regulation and Genomic Approaches
• Genetic Polymorphisms
• High-Throughput, High Content Approaches to Assessing Genotoxicity
• Human Biomarkers
• Inhalants: Oxidative and Redox Mechanisms
• Inhalation Toxicology
• Immunotoxicology
• Juvenile Toxicity
• Kidney
• Liver I: In Vivo
• Liver II: In Vitro
• Mechanisms and Chemoprevention of PAH and Tobacco-Related Carcinogenesis
• Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
• Metals I
• Metals II
• Metal Neurotoxicology: Experimental Models and Mechanisms
• Method Development, Autoimmunity, and Disease Mechanisms in Immunotoxicology
• Modulators of Cell Proliferation in Chemical Carcinogenesis
• Nanoparticles: Inhalation and Respiratory Cell Injury
• Nanoparticles: Target Organs
• Nanoparticles: Testing Approaches, Geno- and Ecotoxicity
• Neurotoxicity: Micellaneous Compounds, Models, and Mechanisms
• Oxidative Injury and Redox Biology I: In Vivo
• Oxidative Injury and Redox Biology II: In Vitro
• Oxidative Stress Mechanisms in Chemical Carcinogenesis
• Particulate Matter and the Cardiovascular System
• Persistent Organic Pollutants
• Pesticide Metabolism and Toxicity
• Pesticide Neurotoxicity
• Pharmaceuticals
• Pharmacokinetics and Disposition
• Receptors
• Regulation/Policy
• Regulatory Risk Assessment
• Reproductive System
• Respiratory and Skin Hypersentivity
• Risk Assessment Applications
• Risk Assessment Research
• Safety Assessment, Non-Pharmaceutical
• Safety Assessment, Pharmaceutical—Liver, Kidney, Immune System
• Safety Assessment, Pharmaceutical—Techniques, Pulmonary, Cardiovascular
• Signal Transduction and Gene Regulation
• Skin Penetration and Toxicity
• Stem Cell Biology and Toxicology
• Xenobiotic Biotransformation I
• Xenobiotic Biotransformation II

Roundtable

• The 2007 Pet Food Related Toxic Nephropathy in Dogs and Cats
• Breaking the Log-Jam: Public-Private Partnerships as a Way to Discover and Advance Biomarkers of Drug-Induced Toxicity
• A Case Study on the Risks and Benefits of Deca-BDE, a Major Brominated Flame Retardant
• The Future Of Toxicology
• Hazard vs. Risk for Chemical Regulation
• Human Health Risk Assessment for Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (PIE)
• Immunotoxicity Testing: Should Elevated Antibody Responses Be Interpreted As An Indicator of Immunotoxicological Hazard?
• Biofuel Combustion: An Emerging Health Problem?
• Reconciling Scientific and Ethical Concerns in the Use of Animals for Toxicological Research
• Reproductive Toxicity Studies: One Generation versus Two Generations
• Risk Assessment for Biotherapeutics
• Toxicology Training Needs: New Faces and New Tools for the 21st Century
  

Symposia Sessions

• Arsenic and Cardiovascular Disease
• Cellular Redox Status and Zinc Signaling
• Drug-induced Mitochondrial Toxicity: Novel Insights—Novel Tools
• Endothelial Dysfunction: More than Just a 'No NO' Phenomenon
• Environmental Influence on Female Puberty and Breast Tumorigenesis
• Developmental Basis of Health and Disease
• Metals, Microglia, and Neuroinflammation
• Molecular and Genomic Insights into The Nrf2-Regulated Oxidative Stress Response: Impact On Carcinogenesis
• Molecular Basis for Susceptibility to Chemical Toxicity and Disease
• Nanomaterial Pharmacokinetics: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
• Neurotoxicant-Induced Alterations in Developmental and Adult Neurogenesis: Structure-Function Studies and Clinical Relevance
• New Concepts in the Etiology of Breast Cancer: From Genes to Environment and Back Again
• New Developments in Liver Tumor Biology
• Novel Biomarkers Of Drug-Induced Toxicity: Outcomes Of Predtox and The Predictive Safety Testing Consortium
• Oxidant Air Pollution and Childhood Asthma
• Particle Interactions with Biomaterials: Beyond Opsonization
• Perinatal Exposure to Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs) Induces Transplacental Genotoxicity and Mitochondrial Toxicity
• Stem Cells in Developmental and Reproductive Biology and Toxicology
• Stem Cells: New Tools for Neurotoxicologists
• Unusual Manifestations of On-Target and Off-Target Toxicity: Toxicity of Kinase Inhibitors
  

Workshop Sessions

• Advances in Technology and Increasing Acceptance for Zebrafish Use in Drug Discovery
• Chlorotriazine Herbicides and Their Common Degradation Products of Concern: Disposition and Potential Health Effects
• Current Perspectives on Ocular and Systemic Safety Risks of Therapeutics
• Dermal Toxicological Assessment of Nanomaterials and Nanodevices
• Drug-Related Torsades des Pointes: Advancements in Preclinical Modeling of Potential Cardiac Toxicity
• Genotoxicity Testing from Early Discovery Through Regulatory Submission: A Comprehensive Primer
• Host Susceptibility and Chemical Safety Testing: New Approaches to Estimate Risks in The Human Population
• Incorporation of Mode-of-Action into Mechanistically-Based Quantitative Models
• Interdisciplinary Approaches for Improving Chemical Hazard Testing Paradigms
• LLNA: False Positives, False Negatives and Alternative Endpoints
• Mixture Exposures to Metals/Metalloids and Related Health Effects
• Molecular Mechanisms and Molecular Biology of Metal Carcinogenesis
• Natural Killer Cells as Targets of Drugs, Toxicants, and Biologicals
• Pulmonary Toxicity Testing of Nanoparticles
• Safe Approaches to Topical Product Development
• Strategies for Assessing Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology of Bio-Pharmaceuticals
• The Allergic March: The Role of Chemicals in The Increasing Prevalence of Allergy and Asthma
• Threshold of Toxicologic Concern: Historical Perspectives and Future Applications
• To Dye or Not to Dye: Safety of Oxidative Hair Dyes
• Use Of Behavioral and Non-Routine Neurological Approaches in Drug Discovery Toxicology
• Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Current Application of Genomic Tools in Product Development and Decision Making