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Dear Colleagues:
I am sure that most of you are
preparing your abstracts for the 2009 Experimental Biology meetings in New
Orleans, due November 5, 2008. Please encourage your graduate students and
postdocs to submit their abstracts for consideration by the Division for
Toxicology Postdoctoral Best Poster Award and Graduate Student Best Poster
Awards. These are due November 17 at ASPET. The prizes are quite generous:
$500 for the single Postdoc award, and $500, $300 and $200 for 1st, 2nd and
3rd graduate student prizes, respectively. Please remember to choose
Toxicology at “Select Division” when applying online at the following links:
Graduate Student Best Paper Award (GSBPA)
Postdoc Best Paper Award
The Division for Toxicology of
ASPET is also soliciting proposals for Division-sponsored symposia for the
Experimental Biology 2010 meeting, to be held in Los Angeles. While it seems
early, we need your input now regarding topics that you would like to
develop and organize, or suggestions of cutting-edge science for the
officers of the Division for Toxicology to consider and pursue. The Program
Committee of ASPET will meet later this fall to begin planning and
developing symposia, with final decisions made in February. Please consider
organizing a symposium; this is an excellent opportunity to bring the
leaders of your field together for a timely session that could attract a
potentially large audience of Experimental Biology attendees. The Division
for Toxicology frequently co-sponsors symposia with other Divisions (e.g.,
Drug Metabolism, Neuropharmacology, or Cardiovascular Pharmacology), so feel
free to think broadly. Financial assistance is available from ASPET to help
cover the speaker registration and travel expenses. Clear and simple
guidelines and an on-line submission form are available on the ASPET web
site
HERE (again, please select Toxicology as the appropriate Division)
These forms will also soon appear
on the Division for Toxicology website, which is currently being
reconstructed:
http://www.aspet.org/public/divisions/toxicology
Please submit your preliminary
ideas and plans to me maryv@uky.edu) no
later than November 14 so that we can have a list of topics ready for the
fall meeting of the ASPET Program Committee.
I look forward to hearing from
you, and seeing you in New Orleans!
Best,
Dr.Mary Vore
Chair, Division for Toxicology
Professor and Chair
Graduate Center for Toxicology |
