Molecular Epidemiology Special Interest Group

Breakfast Meeting Program

This meeting will focus on health effects of ambient pollution in the Czech Republic. The topics will include: environmental monitoring for exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and other pollutants, effects of these exposures on the health of children in polluted areas, and genotoxic damage, as evidenced by three different types of biomarkers, in placenta samples from a highly-polluted area.

Talks will be approximately 15 minutes long, and in addition there will be discussion of new topics that members of the Molecular Epidemiology SIG might wish to have presented at future meetings.

1. Jan Topinka  (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic)
   “Genotoxicity of PAH mixtures in the ambient air: an in vitro model.”
   
   
2. Radim Sram  (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic)
   “Genotoxicity of Air Pollutants—Impact on Childrens’ Health”
   
   
3. Margaret Pratt  (National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD)
   “Assessment of Multiple Types of DNA Damage in Human Placentas from
   Women in the Czech Republic”