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Environmental Impacts on the Genome and Epigenome: Mechanisms and Risks

EMS President: Jeffrey L. Schwartz
Program Chair: Catherine B. Klein

(Information is subject to change.)

Friday, October 14, 2011
4:00 PM–6:00 PM Registration
Saturday, October 15, 2011
11:00 AM–6:00 PM Registration
10:00 AM–12:30 PM EMS Executive Board Meeting
1:00 PM–4:30 PM EMS Council Meeting
3:00 PM–6:00 PM Speaker Ready Room Open
3:30 PM–5:00 PM Saturday Workshop
Mentoring: Skills Development
5:00 PM–5:30 PM NIH Funding Opportunities Forum
5:30 PM–7:30 PM Welcome Reception and Student/New Investigator Poster Session

 

Sunday, October 16, 2011
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Registration
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room Open
7:00 AM–8:30 AM Breakfast Meetings
8:30 AM–9:30 AM Plenary Lecture 1 (PL1)
The Cancer Epigenome
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 1
Epigenetics: DNA Modifications and Repair
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 2
Application of Toxicogenomics in Reulatory Decision-Making
12:00 NOON–4:00 PM Access to Exhibit Hall to Affix Posters
12:15 PM–2:00 PM Lunch on your own
12:30 PM–1:45 PM Student and New Investigator Brunch
2:00 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 3
Etiology of Autism: Genetics, Epigenetics, Epigenetics, and the Environment
2:00 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 4
Genotoxic Impurities: The Current Environment and Future Possibilities
4:30 PM–6:30 PM Poster Session 1 and Exhibits
6:30 PM

Committee Meetings

7:30 PM

Committee Meetings

 

Monday, October 17, 2011
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Registration
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room Open
7:00 AM–8:30 AM Breakfast Meetings
8:30 AM–6:30 PM Posters and Exhibits Open
8:30 AM–9:30 AM Plenary Lecture 2 (PL2)
DNA Damage and Repair in Cancer: From Basic Science to Anti-Cancer Treatments
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 5
Mechanisms and Roles of PARP in Response to Environmental Genotoxins
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 6
Environmental Exposures’ Impact on Male Germ Cells and Consequences to the Embryo: Is the Predominant Damage Genetic/Epigenetic?
12:15 PM–2:00 PM Lunch on you own
12:15 PM–12:30 PM Boxed Lunch Pick-up
(for EMS Business Meeting and Town Hall)
12:30 PM–1:45 PM EMS Business Meeting and Town Hall
2:00 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 7
Application of Epigenetics and Epigenomics Approaches in the Investigation of Human Disease
2:00 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 8
Site of Contact and Systemic Effects of Formaldehyde Exposure
2:00 PM–4:30 PM Platform Session 1
DNA Repair
4:30 PM–6:30 PM Poster Session 2 and Exhibits
6:30 PM–8:30 PM

Committee Meetings

 

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Registration
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room Open
7:00 AM–8:30 AM Breakfast Meetings
8:30 AM–9:30 AM EMS Award Lecture (PL3)
Human Exposure
Unraveling the Mystery of a Global Environmental Disease
8:30 AM–12:00 NOON Posters and Exhibits Open
Last Chance to View Posters and Exhibits!
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 9
Whole Genome Mutational Profiling of Environmentally Induced Cancer
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 10
Transcription and Genetic Instability
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 11
Low Dose Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis
12:15 PM–2:00 PM Lunch on your own
12:30 PM–1:45 PM Lunch Meeting
2:00 PM–3:15 PM Symposium 12
Risks Associated with Inadvertent Exposures to Pharmaceutical and Prescription Drugs
2:00 PM–3:15 PM Symposium 13
Using DNA Adducts in Risk Assessment: Approaches, Considerations, and Significance
2:00 PM–4:45 PM Platform Session 2
Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis Mechanisms
3:15 PM–3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Symposium 14
Environmental Oil Contamination: Effects on Marine Life and Human Life
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Symposium 15
Intestinal Microbiota: A Key Player in Obesity, Genomic Instability, and Lymphoma
5:30 PM–6:50 PM Public Lecture (PL1)
Cancer in Beluga Whales from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Québec, Canada: A Case of “One Health, One Medicine”

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
7:00 AM–1:00 PM Registration
7:00 AM–9:30 AM Speaker Ready Room Open
7:00 AM–8:30 AM Breakfast Meetings
8:30 AM–9:15 AM Plenary Lecture 4 (PL4)
Mechanistic Basis of Resistance to PCBS and Dioxin in Atlantic Tomcod from the Hudson River
9:30 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 16
The Multiplicity of DNA Polymerases: A Strategy for Maintaining Genome Stability
9:30 AM–12:45 PM Symposium 17
Perspectives on the Evaluation and Interpretation of Mutagenicity and Genotoxicity Data
12:45 PM–6:30 PM Free Afternoon
2:00 PM–5:00 PM EMS Council Meeting
6:30 PM–10:30 PM EMS Banquet