Breakfast Meetings

EMS Executive Board

Molecular Epidemiology Special Interest Group

Risk Assessment Special Interest Group

Symposium 12
The U-Shaped Curve: When More is Not Better

Chairpersons: David J. Waters, Purdue University and Michael D. Waters, Integrated Laboratory Systems

The U-Shaped Curve for Environmental Exposures
Speaker: Michael D. Waters, Integrated Laboratory Systems

The U-Shaped Curve in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Speaker: To be Announced

Cancer-Fighting Nutrients
Speaker: David J. Waters, Purdue University

Exercise Training and Physical Activity in a U-Shaped World
Speaker: Michael Flynn, Purdue University

Symposium 13
Low Dose Radiation-Induced Genome and Epigenome Instability

Chairpersons: William F. Morgan, University of Maryland, Baltimore and Matthew Coleman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Low Dose Radiation Induced Genomic and Epigenomic Instability
Speaker:  William F. Morgan, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Role of Epigenetic Deregulation in Targeted and Non-Targeted Radiation Responses
Speaker: Olga Kovalchuk, University of Lethbridge

Radiation-Induced Bystander Effects Following Low Dose Exposure to Non-Human Biota
Speaker: Carmel Mothersill, McMaster University

The Effects of In Utero Irradiation on Mutation Induction and Transgenerational Instability in Mice
Speaker: Yuri Dubrova, University of Leicester

Low Dose Ionizing Radiation-Induced Genomic Regulation of Pathways Critical to Altering the Chromatin
Speaker: Matthew A. Coleman. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Cellular Response to Base Damage Involves the Interplay of Base Excision Repair and NAD Metabolism Proteins
Tang J., Trivedi R.N., Goellner E.M., Wang X.H., Gaudi A.R., Sobol R.W.

MicroRNA-373 Regulates the Nucleotide Excision Repair Factor, RAD23B
Crosby M.E., Glazer P.M.

TFIIH Recruitment to Specific UV-Induced DNA Lesions is Dependent on the Type of XPD Mutations in TTD Patients
Sarasin A., Lima-Bessa K., Stary A., Menck C., Chigancas V.

A Third Complementation Group of UV-Sensitive Syndrome With a Mutation in the CSA Gene
Nardo T., Oneda R., Spivak G., Mortier L., Thomas P., Orioli D., Laugel V., Stary A., Hanawalt P.C., Sarasin A., Stefanini M.

A Regulatory Role for ATM in Preservation of DNA End-Stability and Repression of Error-Prone Repair at a Double-Strand Break Site
Rahal E.A., Henricksen L.A., Li Y., Turchi J.J., Pawelczak K.S., Dixon K.

Artemis Nuclease Function at Blocked DNA Termini and Intervention to Sensitize Breast Cancer Cells to Radiation and Chemical Therapies
Langland G., Khan I.S., Cowan M.J., Povirk L.F., Yannone S.M.

Pathways Maintaining Embryonic Stem Cell Genomic Integrity
Tichy E.D., Stambrook P.J.

Human POLQ and POLN as DNA Damage Tolerance Enzymes
Takata K., Seki M., Wood R.D.

Society Banquet and EMS Awards Presentation