Environmental Mutagenesis & Genomics Society
48th Annual Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina
September 9-13, 2017 - Raleigh Convention Center
Environmental Health Sciences Bridging the Gap between
Exposure, Mechanism and Public Health
Welcome
The EMGS welcomes members and attendees from across the US and around the world. Our diversity is essential to our success, and as your national professional society, we are committed to providing a safe and supportive forum for the communication of world-class science. The EMGS Diversity and Inclusion committee sends a special welcome to members of the LGBT community. Please reach out to any member of the EMGS Diversity and Inclusion Committee with your comments or concerns.
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EMGS Special Symposium
September 13-14, 2017, Raleigh Marriot City CenterDNA Repair Mechanisms & Consequences
A Tribute to Philip C. Hanawalt
Opening Keynote: Aziz Sancar, Nobel Laureate
Keynote Talks: Wim Vermeulen, Jan Hoeijmakers
Organizers: Priscilla Cooper, Mats Ljungman, Leona Samson, Susan Wallace, Robert W. Sobol
You can save $50 on registration cost for the Special Symposium by first registering for the EMGS Annual Meeting and using the discount code you receive in your confirmation email.
August 15th is the deadline to submit your poster presentation abstracts.
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Wednesday, September 13
Thursday, September 14
NER-related
Orlando Schärer, IBS Center for Genomic Integrity, UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea
Wei Yang, NIH / NIDDK, USA
Karen Vasquez, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, USA
Excision Repair Visualized
Ben Van Houten, Hillman Cancer Center, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA
Poster Highlights
(all poster presenters; 2 min each)
TCR-related
Leon Mullenders, Leiden Univ. Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Priscilla Cooper, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA
Mats Ljungman, Univ. of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor MI, USA
Excision Repair Defects, Cancer, & Aging
Vilhelm Bohr, Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, NIH / NIA, Baltimore MD, USA
Joann Sweasy, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
Leona Samson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
Jan Hoeijmakers, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Philip C. Hanawalt
Sponsors
American Association for Cancer Research
Burroughs Welcome Fund
Cell Press
Elsevier
Morningside Foundation
National Cancer Institute
New England BioLabs
NIEHS
Nucleic Acids Research
Stanford Univeristy
Trevigen