Past Meeting Topics

Here you will find topics covered in past meetings GETA has held.

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2012 |2011 |2010 |2009 |2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993

2012

Spring     “Food Safety and Health in a Global Setting: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Presentations: Traditional Analytical Approaches and New Challenges | Toxicity and Detection of Biothreat Toxins in Food: Botulinum Neurotoxins | Dietary Restriction and the Oxidative Stress Response | Plant Food Constituents That Inactivate Pathogens and Reduce Formation of Heterocyclic Amines | Regulated Imported Foods: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
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2011

Spring     “Current Issues Related to Bisphenol A and Phthalates” Presentations:
Fall   “Biomonitoring”Presentations: Exposure Bimonitoring: Current Practice and Future Opportunities | Generations at Risk: Biomonitoring of Pregnant Women, Children, and Other Vulnerable Populations | When Pollution Gets Personal: Developing Results Communication Protocols in Biomonitoring Research with Input from Study Participants

2010

Fall     “Toxicological Challenges and Green Chemistry” Presentations: Method Greenskeeping, People Against Dirty | Green Chemistry at the Local Level: Precautionary Policies to Reduce Toxic Chemicals | Information Needs in Green Chemistry & Chemicals Policy
Summer   “Epigenomics and Human Health”

2009

Winter     “Children's Health--Protecting Our Future”- Presentations: Genetic Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia | Melamine: Pet Food, Infant Formula, and More | Traffic, Asthma, and Lung Development-Living Near Busy Roads: What do the Health Studies Tell Us?
Summer   “  Science and GETA in the Future”- Presentations: Biomarkers, Environment, and Children's Health | Epdemiologic Studies of Temperature and Mortality in California | Stem Cells: Toward Engineering Therapies of the Future | Health Effects of Inhaled Engineered and Incidental Nanoparticles
Fall     “Assault to Our Environment, or How to Prevent Them in the First Place&rdquo         

2008

Spring     “Strategies to Predict QT Prolongation and Arrhythmias: Assessing hERG and Other Cardiac Ion Channels Early in Drug Development”
Summer     “Chemicals...Chemicals...Everywhere! Evaluating the Potential Exposure to Chemicals in Consumer Products”
Fall          “The Clinical Relevance of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Brain Imaging Research”

2007

Winter     “Delaying (or Accelerating) Degenerative DIseases: DNA Damage”
Spring     “Genetics and Environmental Risk Factors for Autistic Spectral Disorders” - Presentations: Autism | Asberger's Syndrome
Fall          “Environmental The New Generation of Contaminants That Could Affect the Bay: Flame Retardants, Pharmaceuticals, Perfluorinated Compounds” - Presentation: SFEI

2006

Winter     “Health on the Brink of….Opportunity, Collapse, New Science What?  The 21st Century and Toxicology?”
Spring     “Aging and Older Adults”
Fall          “Green Chemistry: Coloring California Green” - Presentations: Green Buildings | Green Chemistry - Slides , Notes

2005

Winter     “Marin County Breast Cancer Rate:  Myth and Reality”
Spring     “Stem Cell Application in Pharmacology and Toxicology”
Fall          “New Frontiers in Biotechnology Drug Development”

2004

Winter     “Genetic and Environmental Clues in Parkinson’s Disease Research”
Spring     “Ultrafine Particles and Nanomaterial – Common Toxicity Concerns”
Fall          “Toxicity to the Developing Brain: Recent Research and Mechanisms of Effect”

2003

Winter     “Things that go Bump in the Night:  Tropical parasites and the Challenge of Tropical Disease”
Fall          “Infectious Diseases – From Discovery to Drug Development to Biodefense”

2002

Winter     “Pediatric AIDS Prevention in Zimbabwe”
Spring     “Current Issues in DNA Repair: Models and Mechanisms”
Fall          “Contemporary Issues in Human Health Assessment”

2001

Winter     “Human Xenobiotic Metabolism: Is Man a Rat?”
Spring     “The Promise of the Genomics Revolution”
Fall          “Children’s Health – Issues in Assessing Impacts of Chemical Exposures”

2000

Winter     “Ethical Guidelines for Biotechnology”
Spring     “Inhalation Toxicology: The Impact of Environmental Exposure on Public Health”
Fall          “Contemporary Issues:  the Scientific Basis of Hexavalent Chromium Toxicity”

1999

Spring     “Old Problems for a New Millennium: Controversial Issues in Human Exposure to Radiations and Chemicals”
Fall          “Epidemiology With a Local Angle

1998

Winter     “Exercise, Estrogens and Breast Cancer”
Spring     “Progress on Model Genomes Human Genetic Polymorphisms: Susceptibility and Risk”
Fall          “Emerging Research on MTBE”

1997

Winter     “Challenges of Gulf War Veterans Illnesses”
Spring     “Environmental Estrogens and Endocrine Disruptors”
Fall          “Fish & Chips: New Technologies in Toxicology and Epidemiology”

1996

Winter     “Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Toxicology and Pharmacology”
Summer   “The Human Genome Project” – and – “Recent Developments in Risk Assessment”
Fall          “Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery and Development” – and – “The Drug Development Process; from Concept to FDA Approval”

1995

Winter     “Direct Sperm Injection into Eggs: New Hope for the infertile Couple”
Spring     “Forensic Toxicology and New Methods for Assessing Human Variability” - and – “Advances in the Assessment of Human Exposure, Susceptibility and Health Effects”
Fall          “Particulate Exposure and Health Effects: Epidemiology, Toxicology, and Cellular Mechanisms”

1994

Spring     “Race, Poverty, and the Environment”
Summer   “Recent Advances in Cancer Genetics”
Fall          “Topics in Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology” – and – “Molecular Biology of DNA Repair”

1993

Spring     “Innovation vs. Regulation”
Summer   “The Immune System: Biology and Toxicology”
Fall          “Genetic Toxicology and Regulatory Issues”