Career and Professional Development Opportunities

Let ASPET help bring your career to the next level. Some of the ways we are doing that include:

• PEER MENTORING PROGRAM (openings are still available for graduate student and postdoc level mentors. Mentee slots are full.)

• SESSIONS such as: o Thinking Outside of the Box: Career Paths for Pharmacologists o Journals Workshop: Let's Get Interactive with ASPET Editors o Pharmacology in Color Symposium o The NIH Blueprint for Neurotherapeutics Network o Science Policy and You: How Pharmacologists Can Become Science Advocates o Guppy Tank Translational Science Pitches (speaking slots are full but come cheer on your peers)

• CAREER CENTER TABLES to visit with universities who want to connect with potential students, labs looking for scientists, or employers scouting for new team members

• NETWORKING LUNCH FOR TRAINEES for Careers in Drug Metabolism and Disposition (ticket required / limited seating)

• NIGHTLY NETWORKING in the poster hall

SUNDAY, MAY 21

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Conversations with Awardees

Featuring Drs. Carrie Ferrario, Walter Koch, Lynette Daws, Ian Blair, David Sibley, and Daniela Salvemini

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Concurrent Sessions

• Julius Axelrod Lecture and Symposium: Melatonin Receptors: Molecular Pharmacology and Role in the Modulation of Circadian Disorders

• Space: The Final Frontier for cAMP Signaling

• Muscarinic Receptors in Stages of Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders

• Embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Pharmacology Curricula

10:30 am – 11:00 am

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Break

Concurrent Sessions

• Pharmacology-based Tools Opening New Frontiers in Biological Research

• Impact of the Microbiome and Pathobiome in Drug Metabolism and Disposition

• Therapeutic Targeting Myeloid Cells in Cancer

• Recent Insights into Ion Channel Modulation by Plant Extracts

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Awards Presentation Lunch

Celebrate our Scientific Achievement Awardees and learn who has won Poster Awards

Visit www.aspet.org/meeting/program/program-details for full session and speaker information.