Editor, Katie Cottingham
Message from the Chair, Professor Lisa A. Peterson
 National Meeting Update. In two short months, we will be gathering at the National ACS meeting in Boston. The exciting program, developed by Kaushik Mitra and the symposia co-organizers, is outlined below. We have more than 100 contributed papers from the membership, and I am looking forward to hearing about all the interesting work. This year, we are hosting Linda Birnbaum, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, on Monday evening, August 23. In her talk, she will tell us about the future priorities of the NIEHS. Another new initiative at the National Meeting is a workshop titled "Liquid Chromatography-Coupled Mass Spectrometry with Applications in Drug Development and Toxicology." The details of the workshop are presented below. This workshop will be held on Saturday, August 21, from 1 to 5 PM. The workshop is a ticketed event, which will be free to TOXI members. Information regarding workshop registration is below. We are looking forward to a good turnout for this new TOXI activity. The workshop will be immediately followed by a TOXI member networking reception with a cash bar and snacks. The reception is open to all members. Also, please plan to attend the TOXI business meeting, which will be held immediately prior to the Tuesday evening poster session. We'll have another cash bar and more snacks at the business meeting. Come to hear the latest update of the Division's activities.
Bylaws Election. The bylaws changes passed. Thanks to all of you who participated in the ballot! Thanks to Tom Spratt for formatting the ballot and the bylaws! It wasn’t a simple task.
Call for Nominations. This fall we will be voting for a new Chair-elect, a treasurer-elect, the nominations committee members and a member-at-large. If you are interested in nominating someone for these positions, please send your recommendations to Judy Bolton, chair of the nominations committee (judy.bolton@uic.edu).
Kudos. Tom Spratt applied for and received an Innovation Grant from the National ACS organization for the update and redesign of our website. If you have ideas regarding the website, please forward them to Tom (tes13@psu.edu).
Dan Liebler applied for and received funding from the NIEHS to partially fund our division’s activities at the National Meeting in Boston.
Griff Humphreys, Fred Guengerich, and Kaushik Mitra taught a short course on Chemical Toxicology on June 5 in conjunction with the National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Minneapolis, MN. The course was well-received and they raised several thousand dollars for TOXI.
Other Newsletter Highlights. Please make sure you read the rest of the newsletter. In the latest installment of the Career Corner, Peter Dedon talks about the nitty gritty of writing a research paper. Manjori Ganguly (a 2009 travel grant recipient) is the author of the Quarterly Chemical Report on N3-methyladenine. There is also a research report by Kathryn Pietsch (also a 2009 travel grant recipient) on her experiences at the last ACS national meeting. In addition, we have initiated a new Point of View column that will allow members to offer their viewpoints on issues of Chemical Toxicology. The first installment is written by Bailus Walker Jr. If you have a point of view that you wish to communicate, please send your ideas to Katie Cottingham (fka33@att.net).
As always, please contact me with any questions or suggestions you have about the division.
See you in Boston!
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