ASPET provides unparalleled opportunities to engage with others in the pharmacology community.

Poster Receptions

Enjoy a drink and snacks while exploring the latest science or presenting it yourself! (Abstract submission deadline is January 16). Poster presentations are held every evening and during Saturday's lunch. Posters are grouped by divisional topic area and every night includes student and postdoc finalists competing for poster awards. Hear their presentations and discuss the latest research advances.

Opening Night Reception

On Thursday, April 3rd ASPET welcomes everyone to Portland where you can connect with each other on the conference’s opening night in a fun and inspiring location outside of a hotel ballroom. A free ticket is included in your registration fee.

Shared Meals

The program is designed to allow plenty of opportunities to share a meal with other scientists focused on pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. You can network and enjoy a meal with your colleagues.

Generous Breaks Between Sessions

The schedule includes 30-minute breaks between sessions. You don’t have to rush to find the next session room.  Take the time to linger to meet the speakers or chat with other attendees in the session or compare notes with a colleague who attended a different session.

Pre-Conference Activities

Since the opening session on Thursday, April 3^rd doesn’t start until 2:30 pm, you can have the morning to join in a smaller ASPET group for site-seeing tours or a community service project.  Learn More.

Take advantage of several opportunities to take your career to the next level:

• 1:1 appointments with coaches/mentors
  
• ASPET Online Job Board plus physical job boards at the meeting
• Peer mentoring program for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs
• Career focused networking lunches for trainees sponsored by divisions
• Interactive concurrent sessions
• 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
• Nightly networking in the poster hall
• and more!

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Many ASPET committees take advantage of the annual meeting to hold face-to-face committee meetings. The tentative list of committee and board meetings schedule can be found here so you can plan your travel accordingly.

Also, ASPET’s 2025-2026 Call for Volunteers is scheduled to open in January of 2025. Your time, talent, leadership and willingness to help advance ASPET's mission is welcome.

Learn about openings on committees and other opportunities to volunteer at: Get Involved with ASPET. Express your interest in the application form.

Community Service Project

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Join ASPET at 9:00 am on Thursday, April 3 to serve the Portland area community. Since 2009, ASPET members attending the annual meeting have given their time to volunteer in the local communities.  ASPET’s Division for Behavioral Pharmacology will again sponsor a volunteer opportunity at ASPET 2025 in Portland at Transition Projects.

Transition Projects is a leader in transitioning people from homelessness and living on the streets into housing in the Portland metropolitan area. The agency offers programs, resources, and tools to individuals through access to social services including caseworkers, healthcare, mentorship, and housing.

Volunteers will be spread out amongst various tasks in Doreen's Place Short-Term Housing and the Resource Center. The Doreen Short-Term Housing provides beds for up to 90 men, half of which are dedicated to US military veterans. Tasks for volunteers may include deep cleaning, sorting donations in the warehouse, and putting together sacked lunches to be handed out on the streets by their outreach team. Space is limited, so it is first-come, first-serve.

Sign up when you register for the meeting. Space is limited and further details will be provided to those who volunteer.