Logeswari ponnusamy Ponnusamy

Professional Societies  Graduate Student Representative, Carcinogenesis Specialty Section, SOT 2016 - 2017  Graduate Student Representative, Comparative and Veterinary Specialty Section, SOT 2016 - 2017  Career Resource and Development (CRAD) Student Representative, SOT 2016 – 2017  Graduate Student Leadership Committee: Professional Development Sub-committee, SOT 2016 - 2017  Co-leader, Communications committee, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2015-2016  Vice Graduate Student Representative, Carcinogenesis Specialty Section, SOT 2015 - 2016  Member, K-12 Outreach Committee, Lone Star chapter of SOT, Texas 2014 - Present PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP  Society of Toxicology (SOT) 2013 - Present  Society of Toxicology-Indian Chapter (STOX) 2010 - Present  European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTV) 2014 – Present  American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2014 - Present  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014 - Present PROFESSIONAL SERVICE INVOLVEMENT Course developer/Reviewer/Content writer  Course development for Introduction to Toxicology, Professional Education Testing and Certification Organization International (PEOI), 2016 - Present  Adhoc Reviewer, Open Veterinary Journal, 2016 – Present  Adhoc reviewer, Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2017– Present  Adhoc reviewer, Environmental Toxicology And Pharmacology, 2017 – Present  Invited Talk on “Women in Science” Women Graduates-USA Annual Meeting, MD, 2015  Invited Talk (Webinar) on “Increasing Women in STEM”, Graduate Women International (GWI), 2016  Technical Advice/ Expertise in Toxicology, HIV/AIDS policy project reports, UNDP Democratic Republic of Congo and United Nations Organization, 2015 - 2016  Invited opinions (SOT-Carcinogenesis Specialty Section)  Ponnusamy L, Gadhia S. Invited opinion: Emergence of novel techniques, assays, and tools in carcinogenesis research. SOT- Carcinogenesis Specialty Section (CSS) Newsletter. Summer 2016  Ponnusamy L, Dunnick K. Invited opinion. Intestinal microbiota in carcinogenesis. SOT-CSS newsletter. Summer 2017 STEM Mentor/ Instructor (National and University level)  Peer Mentor - Undergraduate Education Program, SOT Committee on Diversity Initiatives (CDI), 2015  SOT-Committee on Diversity Initiatives (CDI) Representative for Texas Tech University, Director and Host meeting on Academic Toxicology program, SOT annual meeting 2016 and 2017  Graduate Student Mentor, Undergraduate summer research, NIH funded “The Plains Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program”, TTU, 2015  Presenter, Research Carnival- Inspiring high school students to scientific research, TTU, 2014 - 2016  Science Outreach Instructor, Instructor/ Mentor, Science Summer Camps on Toxicology, 2014-2017 Conference Reviewer/ Volunteer and Judge (Regional and Local)  Graduate Research Poster competition, TTU, 2016  Annual Under Graduate Research Conference, TTU, 2014 - 2015  Regional South Plains Science and Engineering fair and local schools’ science fair, 2013 - 2016