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
EMGS 2018
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2018 EMGS Annual Meeting
Maintaining Genomic Integrity in the Face of Environmental Insult
Friday, September 21, 2018
7:00- 9:30 PM
EMGS Executive Board Meeting
Directors Room
Saturday, September 22, 2018
1:00- 2:30 PM
2019 Program Committee Meeting
Live Oak
2:30- 5:00 PM
Council Meeting
Live Oak
5:30- 6:45 PM
President's Welcome Reception
Rio Grande Ballroom
7:00- 8:30 PM
Keynote 1
The Flint MI Water Crisis: A Failure of Government at All Levels Reveals What a new Dark Age Would Look Like
Marc Edwards Virginia Tech
Regency West
Sunday, September 23, 2018
7:00- 8:15 AM
SIG Meeting
New Technologies
Regency East 2
SIG Meeting
Heritable Mutation & Disease
Regency East 1
Committee Meeting
Awards & Honors/Young Scientists Award
Regency East 3
8:30- 9:30 AM
Keynote 2
Signatures of Mutational Processes in Human Cancers
Ludmil Alexandrov University of California San Diego
Regency West 4/5
10:00- 12:00 PM
Symposium 1
Early Life Exposure to Lead and Adverse Health Effects in Children
Regency West 6
Symposium 2
Chromosome Positioning: How the Nuclear Neighborhood Impacts DNA Repair and Gene Expression
Regency West 4/5
Platform Session 1
Epigenomics and the Environment
Regency East 3
12:00- 1:30 PM
Lunch
Student and New Investigator Luncheon
Regency East 1
12:00- 1:30 PM
Lunch
EMM Board Meeting and Lunch
Live Oak
1:30- 3:30 PM
Symposium 3
Cancer: Bad Luck? Bad Environment? Bad Mutation? Or Something Else?
Regency West 4/5
3:30- 4:30 PM
Flash Talks
Regency West 4/5
4:30- 6:30 PM
Poster Session 1
Regency Center 1/3 and Foyer