A Message from the Student
Advisory Committee (SAC)
Greetings! The Student Advisory
Committee has decided to publish a student
e-mail newsletter periodically. The purpose
of this newsletter is to give all graduate and
post-doc students the most current
information in the Society of Toxicology. In
the last couple years, the SAC has received a
great deal of feedback from students stating
that they were unaware of many activities
that occurred during the annual meetings
and their local regional chapters.
With this in mind, this newsletter will
include information regarding annual
meetings, regional chapters, and the SAC in
general. SOT headquarters already sends
out announcements to remind members of
student-related activities, but the intent of
this newsletter is to do more than repeat
these announcements. Not only will the
newsletter broadcast information from SOT
headquarters, but it will also give all
students, regardless of membership or status,
a better overall sense of what is going on in
the SOT and their local chapters.
The SAC hopes the newsletter will serve as
a starting point for students to get more
involved in the SOT, and also serve as a
communication medium for students to
voice their ideas and questions. Enjoy!!
Miyun Tsai-Turton, SAC Chairperson
Important Deadline Reminders!!
Sept 15th – SOT Abstract Hardcopy Submission
Oct 1st - SOT Abstract Electronic Submission
Oct 9th – Deadline for SOT Awards
- SOT Student Awards
 Graduate Student Fellowship Awards
 Graduate Student Travel Awards
 Regional Chapter Awards (deadlines vary)
 Colgate-Palmolive/SOT Awards for Student
Research Training in Alternative Methods
(applications accepted until all funds disbursed)
 Colgate-Palmolive Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Award in In Vitro Toxicology
 Specialty Section Student Awards (application
requirements and deadlines vary)
- More details on these awards can be found at
http://www.toxicology.org/Information/AwardsFellow
ships/awards.html.
Dec 5th - Register for the Annual SOT Meeting
- Sign up for Lunch with an Expert
Jan 1st – Next SOT Student Membership Application Deadline
Jan 13th – Early Bird Registration for Annual Meeting
Feb 11th - Standard Registration for Annual Meeting
March 1st – Cancel annual meeting registration before this date
to receive refund
March 9th – 13th – 42nd Annual Meeting at Salt Lake City,
Utah
- Volunteer for SOT Activities
http://www.toxicology.org/memberservices/f
ormsapps/volunteerform.html
Regional Chapter
Announcements
There are SAC student representatives for
each regional chapter. If you have questions
concerning SOT regional chapter events, or
are interested in becoming more involved in
regional chapter activities, please contact the
student representative for your local chapter.
The SAC representatives name and e-mail
will be listed at the end of this newsletter.
Some regions may not post announcements
in every newsletter.
Allegheny-Erie Chapter-SOT, 2002 Fall
Meeting
AE-SOT will be having a fall meeting at the
Bayer Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA open to
members, non-members, student members
and student non-members. The general topic
is Endocrine Disruptors. There will be 2-3
speakers and food is included with the
registration fee. There are no poster
presentations or awards at this meeting but
there will be at the spring meeting.
Gulf Coast Chapter-SOT, 2002 Annual
Meeting
Dates: October 24-25
Location: Texas A&M University, College
Station
The meetings include symposiums, platform
presentations by post docs and students and
poster sessions. Awards will be given in all
categories.
Michigan-SOT, Fall Meeting,
Nov 1, Kellogg Center at Michigan State
University
Topic: Endocrine disruption
Speakers: TBA
Stay tuned for details!
Northland Chapter-SOT, Fall Meeting
Tue. Nov. 5, 2002
9:00 A - 4:30 P
MN Department of Health,
Snelling Office Park
1645 Energy Park Drive
Saint Paul, MN 55108
For more information, contact Northland SOT
Tala Henry
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
6201 Congdon Blvd
Duluth, MN 55804
218-529-5159
218-529-5003 (fax)
henry.tala@epa.gov
Pacific Northwest Chapter-SOT, Fall Meeting
Sept. 19-20, 2002
Location: EMSL building at the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington
A "Proteomics Short Course" will be offered on
Thursday afternoon, Sept. 19th. A series of seminars
on "Cellular and Organismal Responses to Oxidative
Stress" will be presented on Friday, Sept. 20th.
Registration is $50 for students, $100 for all others.
There is a special session for graduate students’
platform presentations. Topics can be the student’s
choice.
For updated information contact Rick Zangar
(richard.zangar@pnl.gov) or Tom Weber
(thomas.weber@pnl.gov).
Come
one!
Come all!
Southern California and
Mountain West Joint Fall
Meeting 2002!!
Children’s Health Issues
Program Information
Mountain West and Southern California
Chapters SOT Meeting
26-27 September, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada
Treasure Island Resort
Additional Questions?
For MWSOT
R. Clark Lantz, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
P.O. Box 245044
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85724-5044
Phone: (520) 626-6716
Fax: (520) 626-2097
Email: lantz@email.arizona.edu
For SCCSOT
Tina Leakakos, Ph.D.
FeRx Inc.
9171 Towne Centre Dr., Ste. 575
San Diego, CA 92122
Phone: (858) 677-7788
Fax: (858) 677-9898
Email: tleakakos@ferx.com
SAC Announcements
The SAC held a conference call in the
beginning of the August to discuss the many
student events that occurred at the annual
meeting in March. Representatives who are
involved in six SOT committees (Web,
Placement Committee, Education, Women
in Toxicology, Membership, Continuing Ed) gave
updates.
The goal of having SAC representatives on SOT
committees is to give graduate students a voice on
committees at the national level. Udayan Apte
works closely with the Web Committee to improve
the visibility of student information on the site, and
updates the SAC webpage periodically.
Christine Palermo is our new representative on the
Placement Committee. Last year, the Placement
seminar, talking about different career choices after
school, was a very popular one for grad students for
those who were there.
Miyun Tsai-Turton communicates with Education
Committee in various issues such as student award
applications.
Julie Kern is the representative on the Women in
Toxicity Committee, which supports women in this
field.
Jim Luyendyk communicates with Membership
Committee with regards to membership application
processes as well as student recruitment and
retention issues.
Amy Wang works with Continuing Education
Committee in issues such as topic choices for
Continuing Education courses that might be more
appealing to students.
The SAC has also started to plan next year’s studentrelated events such as the Student Mixer and Lunch
with an Expert at the annual meeting. If you
participated in last year’s Lunch with an Expert,
please fill out the survey provided under the Student
Services Section on official SOT website. We will
provide more details about these events later in our
next newsletter. Stay tuned!
Extra! Extra!
Do you know undergraduates who would be
good candidates for graduate school and are
members of a group under-represented in the
sciences? The Subcommittee for Minority
Initiatives has an Undergraduate Education
program which includes travel funds and a
special program for the SOT annual meeting
in Salt Lake City. If you know any
undergraduates that may qualify, please
direct them to the application for the SOT
Undergraduate program at
http://www.toxicology.org/MemberServices/
FormsApps/MinStud2003.pdf.
Deadline is October 9
Questions, Comments &
Suggestions
The SAC would love to hear any comments
students have. If you have anything to offer,
please contact Miyun Tsai-Turton at
tsaimm@uci.edu
Michigan – Jim Luyendyk, luyendyk@msu.edu
Mid-Atlantic - Heather Conway,
conwayheather@hotmail.com
Midwest*
Mountain West - Andrew Burdick, dburdick@unm.edu
National Capital – Amy Wang,
amywant@vt.edu
North Carolina – D. Wade Lehman,
dwlehman@unity.ncse.edu
Northeast*
Northern California - Shelley Brown
DuTeaux, sbduteaux@ucdavis.edu
Northland – Tim O’Brien, obri0150@d.umn.edu
Ohio Valley*
Pacific Northwest - Kristen Mitchell,
kmitchell@wsu.edu
South Central – Udayan Apte, audayan@yahoo.com
Southeastern – Lonnie Williams,
williamslonnie@hotmail.com
SAC Regional Chapter
Representatives
Allegheny-Erie*
Central States – Susan Buist,
sothq@toxicology.org
Gulf Coast*
Lake Ontario*
Southern California – Miyun Tsai-Turton,
tsaimm@uci.edu
* Contact information is posted with the permission of
the individual representatives. If you do not see a
contact for your region, please contact the SOT
Headquarters to either obtain the contact
information, or your message will be forwarded to the
appropriate representative.