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EMS the Next Generation

EMS President: Catherine B. Klein
Program Chair: Mats Ljungman

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Tuesday, September 11
7:00 AM–5:00 PM
  Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:00 AM–5:00 PM
  Speaker Ready Room Open Grand Ballroom E
7:00 AM–8:30 AM
 

Executive Board Meeting

Larch
7:00 AM–8:30 AM
  Breakfast Meetings
Breakfast Pick-Up for Meetings
(Ticket Required—Breakfast Available at 6:45 AM)
Evergreen Ballroom Foyer
 

Environmental Genetic Toxicology Special Interest Group
Leaders: Christopher M. Somers, University of Regina and Carol D. Swartz, Integrated Laboratory Systems

Evergreen Ballroom A
 

Risk Assessment Special Interest Group
Leaders: David A. Eastmond, University of California, Riverside and Nagu Keshava, US Environmental Protection Agency

Evergreen Ballroom B
 

Transgenic and In Vivo Mutagenesis Special Interest Group
Leaders: Mugimane G Manjanatha and Nan Mei, National Center for Toxicological Research, US FDA

Evergreen Ballroom C
8:30 AM–12:00 Noon
  Posters and Exhibits Open Evergreen Ballroom E
8:30 AM–9:30 AM
 

Keynote Lecture 5
The ATM-Mediated DNA Damage Response: Moving between the Forest and the Trees
Chairperson: Mats Ljungman, The University of Michigan
Lecturer: Yosef Shiloh, Tel Aviv University

Grand Ballroom I
9:45 AM–12:30 PM
  Symposium 5
DNA Damage-Mediated Gene Regulation

Chairpersons: Mats Ljungman, The University of Michigan and Bruce C. McKay, University of Ottawa
Grand Ballroom A
9:45 AM–10:15 AM S21 Upstream and Downstream of Wild Type and Mutant Forms of p53
Carol Prives, Columbia University
 
10:15 AM–10:45 AM S22 Posttranscriptional Regulation of the p53 Response
Bruce C. McKay, University of Ottawa
 
10:45 AM–11:00 AM Break (Grand Ballroom Foyer)  
11:00 AM–11:30 AM S23 Regulation of HuR Function by DNA Damage Stress-Response Kinases
Miriam Gorospe, National Institute on Aging, NIH
 
11:30 AM–12:00 Noon S24 Stress-Induced Regulation of the Transcriptome and RNA Stabilome
Jayendra Prasad, University of Michigan
 
12:00 Noon–12:30 PM S25 Toxtracker Assays: Advanced Mechanism-Based GFP Reporter Systems for Toxicity Profiling of Chemicals
Harry Vrieling, Leiden University Medical Center Member
 
9:45 AM–12:30 PM
 

Symposium 6
Mechanisms of Germ Cell Aneuploidy: Do Environmental Exposures Play a Role?

Chairpersons: Francesco Marchetti, Health Canada and Kristine L. Witt, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Primary Sponsor:March of Dimes Foundation Grant 4-FY12-536

Grand Ballroom I
9:45 AM–10:15 AM S26 Making Cross-Overs: Meiotic Recombination in Human Males and Females
Terry Hassold, Washington State University
 
10:15 AM–10:45 AM S27 Endocrine Disruptors and Gametogenesis
Patricia Hunt, Washington State University
 
10:45 AM–11:00 AM Break (Grand Ballroom Foyer)  
11:00 AM–11:30 AM S28 Sperm Aneuploidy Associated with Lifestyle and Work Exposures
Wendie A. Robbins, University of California Los Angeles
 
11:30 AM–12:00 Noon S29 Xenoestrogens Cause Aneuploidy in the Sperm and Offspring of Fish
Irvin R. Schultz, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
 
12:00 Noon–12:30 PM S30

Gene-Environment Interactions in Transplacental Ovarian Toxicity and Tumorigenesis
Ulrike Luderer, University of California, Irvine

 
12:30 PM–2:00 PM
  Lunch on Your Own  
12:30 PM–2:00 PM
 

Women in the EMS Special Interest Group Lunch Meeting
(Advance Registration Required)
Leaders: Barbara L. Parsons, National Center for Toxicological Research, US FDA and Kristine L. Witt, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Evergreen Ballroom A
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
 

Platform Session 5
Mutagenesis, Environmental Genomics, and Cancer
Chairpersons: Lawrence A. Loeb, University of Washington and Dong Wang, University California, San Diego

Underlined author indicates presenter.

Grand Ballroom A
2:00 PM–2:30 PM 29 Cancer: An Evolving Challenge
Lawrence A. Loeb, University of Washington
 
2:30 PM–2:45 PM 30 Mutation Rate As a Therapeutic Target in Cancer
Fox EJ, Shen J-C, Prindle MJ, Kaur-Rayar J, Essigmann JM, Loeb LA
 
2:45 PM–3:00 PM 31 Mutational Consequences of Altered DNA Precursor Pools
Schaaper RM, Ahluwalia D, Bienstock RJ
 
3:00 PM–3:15 PM 32 Dissecting Chemical Interactions and Impact of DNA Lesions on RNA Polymerase II Transcriptional Fidelity
Wang D
 
3:15 PM–3:30 PM 33 The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Cisplatin Cytotoxicity
Marullo R, Degtyareva NP, Werner E, Ramalingam SS, Doetsch PW
 
3:30 PM–3:45 PM 34 Digital Quantification of Random Mitochondrial Deletions
Taylor SD, Ericson NG, Prolla TA, Bielas JH
 
3:45 PM–4:00 PM 35 Profiling DNA Damage Pathways Activated by Chemicals with Different Mechanisms of DNA Damage
Clewell R, Sun B, Thomas A, Carmichael P, White A, Andersen M
 
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
 

Platform Session 6
Chromosome Instability
Chairpersons: Ofelia A. Olivero, National Cancer Institute, NIH and Martin Arlt, University of Michigan

Underlined author indicates presenter.

Grand Ballroom I
2:00 PM–2:30 PM 36 Chromosomal Instability and Aneuploidy Induced by Nucleoside Analogs
Ofelia A. Olivero, National Cancer Institute, NIH
 
2:30 PM–2:45 PM 37 Mre11 Interacts with Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 to Regulate Double-Strand Break Repair
Ferguson D
 
2:45 PM–3:00 PM 38 Separation of Intra-S Checkpoint Protein Contributions to DNA Replication Fork Protection and Genomic Stability in Human Fibroblasts
Smith-Roe S, Patel S, Zhou Y, Simpson D, Rao S, Ibrahim J, Cordeiro-Stone M, Kaufmann W
 
3:00 PM–3:15 PM 39 The Lowest Detectable Dose of Ionizing Radiation by the Cytokinesis-Block Micronucleus Method
Tucker J, Vadapalli M, Joiner M, Fenech M, Bonassi S
 
3:15 PM–3:30 PM 40 Telomere Dysfunction and DNA Repair Deficiency: Markers of Sensitivity to Mutagens and Carcinogens?
Lim HK, Hande MP
 
3:30 PM–3:45 PM 41 De Novo CNV Formation in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Occurs in the Absence of XRCC4-Dependent Nonhomologous End Joining
Arlt M, Rajendran S, Birkeland S, McSweeney K, Wilson T, Glover T
 
3:45 PM–4:00 PM 42 Male Germ Cells Mediate Untargeted Mutations to the Maternal Genome of Offspring: Comparison of Transgenic Rodent and Fish Models
Gresham CS, Norris MB, Alworth LC, Winn RN
 
4:15 PM–5:15 PM
 

Keynote Lecture 6
The Emergence of Proactive P4 Medicine: A Revolution in Healthcare
Chairperson: Lawrence A. Loeb, University of Washington Lecturer: Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology

Grand Ballroom I
5:15 PM–6:15 PM
 

EMS Award Lecture
Oxidative DNA Damages: Search and Destroy
Chairperson: Mats Ljungman, The University of Michigan
Lecturer: Susan S. Wallace, University of Vermont

 

Grand Ballroom I
7:00 PM–12:00 Midnight
 

Banquet

Awards Presentations by Catherine B. Klein:

Alexander Hollaender Award
EMS Award
EMS Service Award
EMS Emerging Scientist Travel Awards
Student and New Investigator Travel Awards

Evergreen Ballroom E