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


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

Monday, September 24, 2018

7:00- 8:15 AM

SIG Meeting

Epigenetics

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 4/5

10:00- 12:00 PM

Symposium 4

Adverse Human Health Effects of Diesel Engine Exhaust

Regency West 6
Symposium 5

Interactions Among Diet, Metabolic Status, and DNA Repair: Impacts on the Genome and Epigenome

Regency West 4/5
Platform Session 2

Technologies New Assays and Computational Toxicology

Regency East 3
12:00- 1:30 PM
Lunch

Women in the EMGS Luncheon

Regency East 1

1:30- 3:30 PM

Symposium 6

Xenobiotic Exposures and Fetal Health

Regency West 4/5
Symposium 7

Decline in Sperm Count and Quality: The Role of Genotoxicity and Epigenotoxicity

Regency West 6
Platform Session 3

Genomics and Sequencing: Technologies and Applications in Mutagenesis and Toxicology

Regency East 3
3:30- 4:30 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

Regency West 4/5

4:45- 6:00 PM
Poster Session 2

Regency Center 1/3 and Foyer

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

7:00- 8:15 AM

SIG Meeting

Risk Assessment

Regency East 2
SIG Meeting

Transgenics & In Vivo Mutagenesis

Regency East 1
Committee Meeting

Annual Meeting Publicity

Regency East 3
8:30- 9:30 AM
Plenary Lecture

EMGS Award Winner
Xeroderma pigmentosum – When the lifeguard for the gene pool goes on strike
Kenneth Kraemer, National Cancer Institute

Regency West 4/5

10:00- 12:00 PM

Symposium 8

Environmental Exposure, Genotoxicity and Cancer Risk in Whales

Regency West 4/5
Symposium 9

Defining the Spectrum of Human Germline Variability, and Exploring its Environmental Stimulation

Regency West 6
Platform Session 4

Mutagenesis

Regency East 3
12:00- 1:30 PM
SIG Meeting

Environmental Genetic Toxicology

Regency East 1
SIG Meeting

Molecular Epidemiology

Regency East 2
SIG Meeting

DNA Repair

Regency East 3

1:30- 3:30 PM

Symposium 10

Assessing, Understanding and Managing the Risks Posed by Carcinogenic PAH Mixtures

Regency West 4
Symposium 11

The Power and Promise of in vitro 3D Models for Toxicological Testing

Regency West 5
Platform Session 5

DNA Repair 1

Regency West 6
3:30- 4:30 PM
Plenary Lecture: Young Scientist Award Winner

Structural and biochemical studies to assess protein interactions and classify VUSs
Aishwarya Prakash, Mitchell Cancer Institute

Regency West 4/5

4:30- 5:45 PM
Business Meeting

Regency West 1/3
7:00- 11:00 PM
EMGS Banquet

Regency East 1/3

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

7:00- 8:15 AM

Committee Meeting

Hollaender Outreach

Pecos Room
Committee Meeting

Diversity and Inclusion

Frio Room
Committee Meeting

Publication Policy

Nueces Room
8:30- 9:30 AM
Keynote 5

How a Carcinogen Works: Skin Cancer from the Ground-State Up
Douglas Brash Yale University

Regency West 4/5

10:00- 12:00 PM

Symposium 12

Mechanisms of UV-Mutagenesis: Where the Rubber Meets the Road During Environmental Carcinogenesis

Regency West 4/5
Symposium 13

Quantitative Analysis of Genetic Toxicity Dose-Response Data for Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making

Regency West 6
Platform Session 6

Genetic Toxicology

Regency East 3
12:00- 1:30 PM
Committee Meeting

Finance and Fundraising

Pecos Room
Committee Meeting

Endowment Board

Frio Room
Committee Meeting

SIG Chairs

Nueces Room

1:30- 3:30 PM

Symposium 14

Controversies and Challenges in Risk Assessment: Examples of Regulatory Decision Making

Regency West 6
Symposium 15

Non-Clinical Applications of Next-Generation Sequencing for Mutation Detection and Cancer Risk Assessment

Regency West 4/5
Platorm 7

DNA Repair 2

Regency East 3
3:30- 5:30 PM
Program Committee Meeting

Pecan Room