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Complex Systems in Biology and Risk Assessment

EMS President: Michael J. Plewa
Program Chair: Jeffrey L. Schwartz

(information subject to change)

Friday, October 22, 2010
4:00 PM–6:00 PM Registration
Saturday, October 23, 2010
8:00 AM–6:00 PM Registration
8:00 AM–12:15 PM Advancements in Applied Genetic Toxicology Workshop
9:00 AM–12:00 NOON EMS Executive Board Meeting
9:30 AM–4:30 PM Career Development Workshop
12:30 PM–5:00 PM Genotoxicity of Nanomaterials: Refining Strategies and Tests for Hazard Identification Workshop
12:30 PM–4:00 PM EMS Council Meeting
4:30 PM–6:30 PM Welcome Reception and Student/New Investigator Poster Session
Sunday, October 24, 2010
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Registration
7:00 AM–8:30 AM Breakfast Meetings
8:30 AM–9:30 PM Plenary Lecture 1
DNA Repair
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 1
Replication Stress: Environmental Causes, Cellular Responses, and Mutational Consequences
9:45 AM–12:30 PM Symposium 2
Is Tobacco Smoke a Germ-Cell Mutagen?
12:30 PM–2:00 PM Lunch on your own
12:45 PM–2:00 PM Town Hall Meeting
2:15 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 3
DNA Interstrand Crosslinks: Repair, Cell Signaling, and Therapeutic Implications
2:15 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 4
Telomeres, Aging, and Human Disease
2:15 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 5
Next Generation Sequencing Technology and Applications/Molecular Analyses
4:30 PM–6:30 PM Poster Session 1 and Exhibits
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Committee Meetings

 

Monday, October 25, 2010
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Registration
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
Chronic Cell Stress, Cancer, and The Epigenome
9:45 AM–12:15 PM  Symposium 6
RNA Silencing: Mechanism, Biology and Responses to Environmental Stress
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 7
Cognitive Consequences of Fetal and Early Postnatal Exposure to Environmental Contaminants
12:15 PM–1:00 PM Business Meeting
1:00 PM–2:00 PM Student and New Investigator Brunch
1:00 PM–2:15 PM Lunch on your own
2:15 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 8
Mitochondria Mutagenesis and Disease
2:15 PM–4:30 PM Symposium 9
Advances and Use of Toxicogenomics in Risk Assessment
2:15 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 26, 2010
7:00 AM–5:00 PM Registration
7:00 AM–8:30 AM Breakfast Meetings
8:30 AM–11:30 AM Posters and Exhibits
OPEN
8:30 AM–9:30 AM Plenary Lecture 3
Genetic Toxicology
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 10
Inflammation: From Molecules to Human Populations
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 11
Biomarkers of Exposure
12:15 PM–2:00 PM Lunch on your own
12:30 PM–2:00 PM WEMS Luncheon
The Leaky Pipeline of Women in Science: Patching the Pipe or Rebuilding the Infrastructure?
12:45 PM–2:00 PM Hollaender Commttee Meeting (Lunch on your own)
2:15 PM–4:15 PM Symposium 12
DNA Repair, Epigenetics and Genomic Stability
2:15 PM–4:15 PM Platform Session 2
Heritable Mutations/Cancer
2:15 PM–4:15 PM Platform Session 3
Toxicology
4:30 PM–5:45 PM Symposium 13
Cytogenetics and EMS: The Shelly Wolff Legacy
6:15 PM–7:15 PM

EMS Award Lecture
Base Excision Repair and Environmental Mutagenesis

7:30 PM–11:00 PM EMS Banquet

 

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
7:00 AM–11:30 AM Registration
7:00 AM–8:30 AM Breakfast Meetings
8:30 AM–9:30 AM Plenary Lecture 4
WEMS Interdisciplinary Collaborations: A Big-Picture Approach toward Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Childhood Cancer
9:45 AM–12:15 PM Symposium 14
Fragile-X Syndrome: Genes to Therapy
9:45 AM – 12:15 PM Symposium 15
Genetic Toxicology of Wildlife and Other Indicator Species
12:30 PM–1:45 PM Committee Meetings
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Council Meeting