Published April 4, 2016
MONROE, La. — Six Ph.D. and three B.S. students from the ULM Toxicology Department participated
at the 2016 meeting of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) in New Orleans last month.
The SOT is an international organization of professional toxicologists working in
academia, industry, government regulatory agencies, risk assessment and consulting.
This was the 55th annual meeting and approximately 7,000 attended the annual meeting.
Bree St. Germain, Taylor Snell and Sydney Wade from Donaldsonville, Farmerville and
Bogalusa, LA, respectively, participated in several networking and recruiting events
hosted by the SOT for undergraduate students and viewed cutting-edge research in scientific
sessions and posters.
Graduate student Vivekkumar Dadhania was the 3rd place recipient of the 2016 Graduate
Student Award from the Molecular and Systems Biology Specialty Section. Mr. Dadhania
also received a Supplemental Training for Education Program Award from the SOT Graduate
Education Subcommittee.
Graduate student Joshua T. Salley won the outstanding poster award from the Mixtures
Specialty Section for his poster “Use of Partial Least Squares Regression to Identify
GC/MS Spectral Peaks Correlated with Toxicity Outcomes in Rats of Crude Oil from Various
Sources.
Graduate students Hanin F.A. Hussin and Vivekkumar Dadhania won the SOT Graduate Student
Travel Support Awards. Ms. Hussin and Mr. Dadhania presented posters “Comparison of
1H-NMR Fingerprints of Echinacea Purpurea Extracts with Stimulation of Myelopoiesis
in Rat to Identify Active Constituents” and “Wnt/Catenin Signaling Drives Thioacetamide-Mediated
Heteroprotection against Acetaminophen-Induced Lethal Liver Injury,” respectively.
The major professor of Mr. Dadhania is Dr. Harihari M. Mehendale, and of Mr. Salley
and Ms. Hussin, Dr. Sharon A. Meyer of the ULM Department of Toxicology.
According to Meyer, “This meeting was an extraordinary opportunity for the Toxicology
students to present their research to leaders of the field and network for the purposes
of being recruited for employment and for exploring career options. The ULM Toxicology
Department is very proud of the outstanding performance of our students before this
prestigious international audience.”
