Organization:North American Society of Toxinology

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North American Society of Toxinology
Years active2012–present
Websitewww.nastox.org/index.html

The North American Society of Toxinology (NAST) is a North America-based, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the advancement of the science of all things venomous. It was founded in 2012 and is a 501(c)(3) organization under the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.[1]

Origin

The progenitor meeting of Venom Week Symposiums, "Snakebites in the New Millennium," was held in 2005 in Omaha, NE.[2]

The first meeting named as Venom Week was held in 2007 in Tucson, AZ .[3] and subsequent meetings were held on an ad hoc basis until 2012, when NAST was founded at the combined Venom Week IV/International Society on Toxinology meeting in Honolulu to take on the organizing, and become the primary sponsor of, future Venom Week Symposiums.[4]

Foundation

At the Venom Week VI meeting (Kingsville, TX, 2018), in recognition of their roles in the founding of NAST, the "Founder Award" was given to James Armitage, Leslie Boyer, Sean Bush, Dan Keyler, Steven Seifert and Carl-Wilhelm Vogel.[5]

Organization and Membership

Members include medical clinicians, veterinarians, basic scientists, zoo and collection managers, animal scientists, herpetologists, antivenom researchers and developers, and others with an interest in venomous animals and their venoms. Additional information regarding membership can be found on the membership page of the Society's website.[6]

The officers of the Society are elected by the members.[7]

Venom Week Meetings

Venom Week Symposiums have been held in 2005 (Omaha, NE), 2007 (Tucson, AZ), 2009 (Albuquerque, NM),[8] 2012 (Honolulu, HI)),[9] 2016 (Greenville, NC),[10] 2018 (Kingsville, TX),[11][12] and 2020 (Gainesville, FL).[13] Venom Week 2022 will be held in Scottsdale, AZ, July 18 - 21, 2022.[14]

Publication

Toxicon is the official journal of the North American Society of Toxinology.[15] The journal was started in 1963. It became the official journal of NAST in 2017 and is published monthly by Elsevier.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "North American Society of Toxinology Website Home Page". http://www.nastox.org/index.html. 
  2. ↑ "Abstracts from Snakebites in the New Millennium, Omaha, NE". 18 October 2005. https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=2401. 
  3. ↑ "Abstracts of Venom Week 2007". Journal of Medical Toxicology 4 (1): 43–63. 2008. doi:10.1007/BF03160951. PMC 3661863. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF03160951.pdf. 
  4. ↑ "North American Society of Toxinology President's Report 2018". http://www.nastox.org/uploads/3/4/4/9/34492394/president-2018-vw-vi-texas-a_m.pdf. 
  5. ↑ "North American Society of Toxinology Website Past Meetings Page". http://www.nastox.org/past-meetings.html. 
  6. ↑ "North American Society of Toxinology Website Membership Page". http://www.nastox.org/membership.html. 
  7. ↑ "North American Society of Toxinology Website Board of Directors and Contact Page". http://www.nastox.org/board--contact.html. 
  8. ↑ Seifert, S. A. (2010). "Venom Week 2009 Abstracts". Journal of Medical Toxicology 6 (2): 234–266. doi:10.1007/s13181-010-0094-6. 
  9. ↑ "Venom Week 2012 Abstracts". https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/toxicon/vol/69. 
  10. ↑ "North American Society of Toxinology Website Past Meetings Page". http://www.nastox.org/past-meetings.html. 
  11. ↑ "Rokyta Labs Goes to Venom Week 2019". 15 November 2018. https://drokyta.com/2018/11/15/venom-week-2018/. 
  12. ↑ "Venom Week VI". http://www.tamuk.edu/artsci/departments/nntrc/Venom-Week-VI.html. 
  13. ↑ "Venom Week 2020". http://reg.conferences.dce.ufl.edu/VENOM/1566. 
  14. ↑ "Venom Week VIII". https://venomweek.org.  LLC
  15. ↑ "Toxicon Homepage". https://www.journals.elsevier.com/toxicon/. 
  16. ↑ Rosenberg P (1987). "Happy 25th birthday Toxicon". Toxicon 25 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1016/0041-0101(87)90147-4. 

External links

  • [1] | NAST Home Page
  • [2] | Toxicon Home Page



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