Towards 21st Century Toxicology

3-4 November 2011

Athlone Institute of Technology

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All attendees are welcome, especially students in the biological sciences and those with a particular interest in toxicology.

Admission on the day is €100 (this includes the €40 fee for IST membership, attendance on both days of the conference, lunch on day 1, teas/coffees during the course of each day) and advance booking is recommended. Admission is €30 for students (includes IST membership). The cost for the conference dinner in the Sheraton Hotel will be extra at €35 per head.

3 November

09.00     Registration & Refreshments

09.45     Welcome & Introduction

              Dr Sharon McGuinness, President of the Irish Society of Toxicology

              Dr Paul Tomkins, ShareBiotech & Head of Bioscience Research, Athlone Institute of Technology

Current Problems & Potential Solutions

10.00     Lessons learned from alternative methods for Tox-21c: Mapping the human toxome

              Prof Thomas Hartung, Director, John Hopkins Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing, USA

10.45     The increasing role of toxicology in early decision making processes

              Dr Eckhard von Keutz, Senior VP, Head of Global Early Development, Bayer Healthcare, Germany

11.30     Tea & coffee break

11.45     Impact of regulatory environment on toxicology development

              Dr Annette Bitsch, ITEM Fraunhofer, Germany

12.30     Roundtable Q&A

13.00     Lunch with Postgraduate Poster Session

GenoToxicology, Systems Biology & Robotics

14.00     Screening chemicals using Tox21 data to build predictive and systems models of toxicity

              Dr David Dix, Deputy Director National Center for Computational Toxicology, Office of R&D, US EPA, NTP, USA

14.45     Integrated analysis of distinct molecular and phenotypic data types in disease and xenobiotic response modelling

              Dr Richard Brennan, DABT, Thomson Reuters, San Diego, CA, USA

15.30     Tea & coffee break

15.45     Genetic toxicology in the 21st century: Struggling to face old problems, reluctantly embracing the new

              Prof Richard Walmsley, University of Manchester, Gentronix Ltd, UK

16.30     Panel discussion

16.45     Conference close Day I

              [AGM for Irish Society of Toxicology 16.45-18.00]

18.00     Conference dinner, Sheraton Hotel

4 November

In Vitro Models

09.05     Welcome and introduction to Day 2

09.15     3D cell culture models

              Dr Salwa Barkwan, Dr Colm McGee, Dr Eileen Lane, Philip McGuire, Denis Looby, Dr Paul Tomkins, AIT

09.45     Development of nano specific testing policy in areas of emerging risks

              D Skinner, R Abreu, A Gormley, RA Dorey, Dr Sophie. A. Rocks, University of Cranfield, UK

10.30     Tea & coffee break

10.45     Phyto-oestrogen signalling pathways and breast cancer cell toxicity

              Brenda Gaffey, Dr Warren Thomas, Dr Sheila Faherty, AIT

11.00     Nanoparticle-toxicology, a review of TiO2 toxicity on skin

              Carmel Doherty, Dr James Kennedy, Dr Brendan Wilkins, Dr Paul Tomkins, Dr Anne Mulvihill, AIT, NUI Galway

11.15     Epigenetic toxicants and gap junction intercellular communication

              Haroon Rashid, Dr Paul Tomkins, Dr Sinead Devery, AIT

11.30     Core facilities impact on toxicology – ShareBiotech

              Vincent Walsh, Dr Paul Tomkins, AIT

11.45     IST Travel Scholarship Winner (1)

12.00     IST Travel Scholarship Winner (2)

Summary

12.15     Final overview

12.30     Conference close