Environmental Mutagenesis & Genomics Society
49th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
September 22-26, 2018 - Hyatt Regency San Antonio
Maintaining Genomic Integrity in the Face of Environmental Insult
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2018 EMGS Annual Meeting
Maintaining Genomic Integrity in the Face of Environmental Insult
Monday, September 24, 2018
6:30- 7:00 AM
Breakfast for SIG/Committee meeting attendees
7:00- 8:15 AM
SIG Meeting
Epigenetics
Genetic Integrity is a Function of Epigenetic Programming in Germ Cells and Pluripotent Cells
John McCarrey, University of Texas at San Antonio
Regency East 2
SIG Meeting
Applied Genetic Toxicology
Regency East 1
Committee Meeting
Membership & Professional Development/Education, Student and New Investigator Affairs
Regency East 3
8:30- 9:30 AM
Keynote 3
Why and How Systems Biology is Revolutionizing our Science
Elaine Faustman University of Washington
Regency West
10:00- 12:00 PM
Symposium 4: Adverse Human Health Effects of Diesel Engine Exhaust
Chairpersons: David M. DeMarini and Daniel K. Carder
10:00-10:30
Diesel Engine Exhaust and Lung Cancer Risk
Michael D. Attfield, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
10:30-11:00
Ischemic Heart Disease and Diesel Engine Exhaust
Sadie Costello, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley
11:00-11:30
Mutagenicity Of Emissions From Petroleum Diesel And Biodiesel: Mechanistic Insights From Bioassay-Directed Chemical Fractionation
David M. DeMarini, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, RTP, NC
11:30-12:00
Nitrous Oxides and Particulate Matter from Diesel Exhaust: Regulatory Challenges in the Aftermath of the Volkswagen Scandal
Daniel K. Carder, Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines, and Emissions
Regency West 6
Symposium 5: Interactions among diet, metabolic status, and DNA repair: impacts on the genome and epigenome
Chairpersons: Jeffrey K. Wickliffe and Mark J. Wilson
10:00-10:40
Micronutrient Imbalance and Impacts on the Epigenome
Jaclyn Goodrich, University of Michigan School of Public Health
10:40-11:20
Enhanced Expression of Mitochondrial OGG1 Protects Against High Fat Diet-induced Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
R. Stephen Lloyd, Oregon Health & Science University
11:20-12:00
Obesity Increases the Risk of Both Endogenous and Xenobiotic-Induced Mutagenesis
Rebecca C. Lichtler, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Regency West 4/5
Platform 2: Technologies, New Assays, and Computational Toxicology
Chairpersons: Jan van Benthem and Mark Wilson
10:00 - 10:05
Introduction
10:05 - 10:20
Applying Cell Tracking Dyes and Multiplex Flow Cytometry to Increase the Throughput of the In Vitro Pig-a Gene Mutation Assay
Mark Wilson, Tulane University
10:20 - 10:35
Integration of CometChip® and TempO-Seq™: A High-Throughput 96-Well Platform to Measure and Classify DNA Damaging Agents in Human HepaRG™ Cells
Carole L. Yauk, Health Canada
10:35 - 10:50
Measurement Interference of Barcoded DNA to Determine CYP-Mediated Toxicity When Using a Direct Lysis Method
Emily A. Woolard, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
10:50 - 11:05
The HET-MN (Hen´s Egg Test for Micronucleus-Induction): Pre-validation Results
Stefan Pfuhler, Procter & Gamble
11:05 - 11:20
Development Of An Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) Network For Carcinogenicity
Alex Nigel Cayley, Lhasa Limited
11:20-11:35
A new tool to study the formation of oxidative base damage at telomeres
Ryan Barnes, University of Pittsburgh
11:35-11:50
Untangling Adverse Outcome Pathway Networks: Extracting, Benchmarking, and Applying Emerging AOP Knowledge
Jason O'Brien, Environment and Climate Change Canada
11:50-12:00
Discussion
Regency East 3
12:00- 1:30 PM
Women in the EMGS Luncheon
Maintaining work-life balance in a scientific career
Susan Mooberry, UT Health San Antonio
Regency East 1
1:30- 3:30 PM
Symposium 6: Xenobiotic exposures and fetal health
Chairpersons: Patricia Ostrosky and Maria Eugenia Gonsebatt
1:30-2:00
Transplacental Exposure to Air Pollution
Maria Eugenia Gonsebatt, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, UNAM
2:00-2:15
Elucidating the Role of Epigenetics in Fetal Epigenetic Reprogramming: Maternal Exposure to Bisphenol-A
Carolyn McCabe, University of Michigan
2:15-2:45
Transplacental Effects of Hypercaloric High-Fat Diets
Patricia Ostrosky, Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, UNAM
2:45-3:00
Xenobiotic exposure and fetal health
Radim J. Sram, Institute of Experimental Medicine
3:00-3:30
Genotoxic and epigenetic effect of organophosphorus pesticides: a possible link between pesticides and their transgenerational effects
Elizabeth Rojas-García, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit
Regency West 4/5
Symposium 7: Decline in Sperm Count and Quality: The Role of Genotoxicity and Epigenotoxicity
Chairpersons: Jackie Goodrich and Carole Yauk
1:30-2:00
Associations between Environmental Chemicals, Spermatogenesis and Non Disjunction
Melissa Perry, George Washington University
2:00-2:30
Flow cytometric measurements of acridine orange stained male germ cells is a powerful tool for determining toxicant induced cell DNA damage
Don Evenson, SCSA Diagnostic
2:30-3:00
The Male Epigenome: Chromatin Modifications and the Impact on Male Fertility and the Next Generation
Sarah Kimmins, McGill University
3:00-3:30
Do Genotoxicity Measures in Sperm Predict Genetic Effects in Offspring?
Carole Yauk, Health Canada
Regency West 6
Platform 3: Genomics and Sequencing: Technologies and Applications in Mutagenesis and Toxicology
Chairpersons: Thomas E. Wilson and Christopher Faulk
1:30-1:50
Mutation at CpG sites: The Evolution of the Epigenome and Lifespan Assessed by CpG Frequency in Conserved Promoters
Christopher Faulk, University of Minnesota
1:50-2:10
Quantification of cancer driver mutations in human lung tissues using error-corrected next-generation sequencing
Kelly Harris, US Food and Drug Administration
2:10-2:30
Gene expression profiling and epigenetic changes in healthy newborns from diverse localities in the Czech Republic
Katerina Honkova, Institution of Experimental Medicine CAS
2:30-2:50
Comparison of transcriptomic signatures in the duodenum of mice exposed to hexavalent chromium, captan, or folpet reveal similarities that inform a non-genotoxic adverse outcome pathway for small intestine cancer
Julia E. Rager, ToxStrategies, Inc.
2:50-3:10
Adapting A Mouse Genotyping Technology To Survey Dynamics of Rodent Genomic Diversity
Rachel Kelly, University of Western Ontario
3:10-3:30
High-throughput Screening for Food Carcinogen Resistance Genes in Budding Yeast Identifies Mechanisms in DNA damage Tolerance of Carcinogen-associated DNA adducts
Michael T. Fasullo, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute
Regency East 3
3:45- 4:45 PM
Plenary Lecture: Hollaender Award Lecture
My Forty Years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Robert H. Heflich, U.S. Food and Drug Administration