Plenary Lectures

There will be 12 plenary lectures presented throughout the 9^th ICEM. Two lectures will be presented each morning between 8:30 AM–10:00 AM and one lecture on Monday and Tuesday afternoon from 5:30 PM–6:15 PM.

Sunday, September 4, 2005
8:30 AM–9:10 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—LAWRENCE A. LOEB

Introduction

Hai Won Chung, President of the Korean Environmental Mutagen Society (KEMS), Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

GENERATION OF MULTIPLE MUTATIONS IN CANCER

Lawrence A. Loeb, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

9:10 AM–9:15 AM 10TH ICEM ANNOUNCEMENT

Silvio De Flora, University Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Sunday, September 4, 2005
9:15 AM–10:00 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—NADRIAN C. SEEMAN

Introduction

Martina Veigl, President-Elect of the Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

#5 NANOTECHNOLOGY AND THE DOUBLE HELIX

Nadrian C. Seeman, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Monday, September 5, 2005
8:30 AM–9:15 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—RITA R. COLWELL

Introduction

Helena Groot de Restrepo, Vice President of the Latin American Association of Mutagenesis, Teratogenesis, and Carcinogenesis (ALAMCTA), University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia

#216 CLIMATE AND HUMAN HEALTH: ENVIRONMENTALLY MEDIATED INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Rita R. Colwell, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

Monday, September 5, 2005
9:15 AM–10:00 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—LOUIS J. GUILLETTE, JR.

Introduction

Amelia Guevara, President of the Philippine Environmental Mutagen Society (PEMS), University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines

#217 CONTAMINANTS, GENES, AND HEALTH: LESSONS FROM WILDLIFE

Louis J. Guillette, Jr., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

Monday, September 5, 2005
5:30 PM–6:15 PM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—JOHN S. MATTICK

Sponsored by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Center for Rodent Genetics

Introduction

Liza Snow, Vice President of the Mutagenesis and Experimental Pathology Society of Australasia (MEPSA), Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

#454 RNA REGULATION: A NEW GENETICS

John S. Mattick, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Tuesday, September 6, 2005
8:30 AM–9:15 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—MARY-CLAIRE KING

Introduction

Wagida Anwar, President of the Pan-African Environmental Mutagen Society (PAEMS), Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

A GENOMIC VIEW OF HUMAN HISTORY

Mary-Claire King, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Tuesday, September 6, 2005
9:15 AM–10:00 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—ALAIN SARASIN

Introduction

Micheline Kirsch-Volders, President of the European Environmental Mutagen Society, Free University, Brussels, Belgium

#455 MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF SUNLIGHT-INDUCED SKIN CANCER

Alain Sarasin, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

Tuesday, September 6, 2005
5:30 PM–6:15 PM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—JAN HOEIJMAKERS

Introduction

Toshihiro Ohta, Secretary General of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society (JEMS), Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Tokyo, Japan

CANCER AND AGING

Jan Hoeijmakers, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Wednesday, September 7, 2005
8:30 AM–9:15 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—EUGENIA DOGLIOTTI

Introduction

Silvio De Flora, President of the 10^th ICEM, University of Genoa, Italy

#666 CELL-TYPE SPECIFICITY IN DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE:
THE EXAMPLE OF SKIN CELLS

Eugenia Dogliotti, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Rome, Italy

Wednesday, September 7, 2005
9:15 AM–10:00 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—INDER M. VERMA

Introduction

C. K. K. Nair, Representative of the Indian Environmental Mutagen Society (IEMS), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

#667 THE PROMISES AND PITFALLS OF GENE THERAPY

Inder M. Verma, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States

Thursday, September 8, 2005
8:30 AM–9:15 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—TAKEHIKO NOHMI

Introduction

Jia Cao, Vice President of the Chinese Environmental Mutagen Society (CEMS), Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

#691 ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS: FROM MOLECULES TO MAN

Takehiko Nohmi, NIHS, Tokyo, Japan

Thursday, September 8, 2005
9:15 AM–10:00 AM
Grand Ballroom

PLENARY LECTURE—SAM H. WILSON

Introduction

Malyn Chulasiri, President of the Thai Environmental Mutagen Society (TEMS), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

#692 ROLE OF POLYMERASES IN MUTAGENESIS AND DNA REPAIR

Sam H. Wilson, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States