| KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
| Her Royal Highness
Professor Dr. Princess Chulabhorn:
Opportunities and challenges on environmental health
in Southeast Asia. President, Chulabhorn Research
Institute, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| Dr.
Henry Falk:
Improvement of public health, a national and international
priority. Director, Coordinating Center for Environmental
Health and Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. USA. |
| Dr. William Suk: Strategies
for Addressing Global Environmental Health Concerns.
Director, Center for Risk and Integrated Sciences and
Director, Superfund Basic Research Program, National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, RTP, North
Carolina, USA. |
| Dr. James Gentile:
President, Research Corporation: Education and training
for future research biologists AND 2. Opportunities and
challenges in developing future biomedical scientists,
Research Corporation, Tucson, Arizona, USA. |
| INVITED SPEAKERS AND THEIR TALKS |
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Diana Anderson: The WHO/ICPS guidelines for Human Monitoring. University of Bradford, United Kingdom.
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William
Au: Biomarker monitoring of populations for exposure
to mutagenic substances and for risk assessment. The
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,
TX, USA.
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Nursen
Basaran: Risk of genotoxicity by occupational crystalline
silica exposure in Turkey. Hacettepe University,
Ankara, Turkey.
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Douglas
Bell: Discovery and functional analysis of variation
in human damage response pathways. National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research
Triangle Park, NC, USA.
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| Claudia
Bolognesi: Demographic and exposure variables affecting
buccal MN frequency in adults. National Cancer Research
Institute, Genoa, Italy. |
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Stefano
Bonassi: Susceptibility
and susceptible populations in environmental health
- SNP’s, haplotypes, and exposure to asbestos in
the etiology of respiratory tract cancers. National
Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy.
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Rakhmetkaji
Bersimbaev: Cold
war legacy health effects from nuclear tests in
Kazakhstan. Al-Farabi Kazakhstan National University, National
University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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| Sema
Burgaz: Use of the buccal MN assay in genotoxin
exposure studies in Turkey. Gazi University Faculty of Pharmacy,
Department of Toxicology, Ankara, Turkey. |
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Henry Falk: Good science makes good decisions.
Director, Coordinating Center for Environmental Health
and Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.USA
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Silvio
De Flora: 1.Threshold
mechanisms in chromium(VI) genotoxicity and carcinogenicity. AND 2.Birth related genomic changes and neonatal
carcinogenesis. University of Genoa, Genoa,
Italy.
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David
DeMarini: Mutagenic basis of biomarkers and their relationship
to carcinogenesis. US Environmental Protection
Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. USA.
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Christopher
DeRosa: Human
health research and policy development – fish consumption
and exposure to toxic substances. ATSDR,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Eugenia
Dogliotti: Mechanisms
of oxidative DNA damage repair and relevance to
human pathology. Istituto Superiore di Sanita,
Rome, Italy.
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Azeddine
Elhajouji: Use
of biomarkers for genotoxicity screening in the drug
industry. Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.
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Salih
Emri: Gene-environment interaction in the pathogenesis
of malignant mesothelioma patients from Cappadocia
region of Turkey. Hacettepe University, Ankara,Turkey.
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Peter
Farmer: Use of biomarkers to identify health risk from
exposure to hazardous environmental pollutants. Cancer
Biomarkers and Prevention Group, Leicester, United
Kingdom.
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Michael
Fenech: HUMN Project workshop on the buccal micronucleus
assay (Workshop). CSIRO Health Sciences
and Nutrition, Adelaide, Australia.
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Arthur
Frank: Prevention of exposure to hazardous substances
- social and ethical issues. Drexel University,
Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Alexandra
Fucic: Genetic toxicity in children after exposure
in radiochemical environment. Istitute for
Medical Research and Occupational Health, Croatia.
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Ashok Giri: Arsenic-induced health problems in India – involvement
of genetic susceptibility and chromosome aberrations. Kolkata, India.
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Hikoya
Hayatsu: Overview
of New Aspects in Environmental Mutagenesis. Shijitsu
University, Okayama, Japan.
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Zdenko
Herceg: Epigenetic events induced by environmental factors
for the development of cancer in populations. International
Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
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Nina
Holland: Genetic and Immunological Biomarkers in Children. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
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Howard
Hu: Metal Mixtures and Children's Health: Mining Waste
as a Case Study. Harvard
University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Robert
Johnson: Environmental health training in international
medical specialist. University of Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
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Hiroshi
Kasai: 4-Oxo-2-hexenal,
a mutagen formed by ω-3 fat peroxidation:
occurrence, detection and adduct formation. University
of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu,
Japan.
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Bernd
Kaina: Genotoxic and apoptotic responses triggered by DNA alkylation damage University
of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
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Tom
Kensler : Protection against cell injury and health effects
from environmental toxic substances. Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Micheline
Kirsch-Volders: On
comparison of repair capacities in mothers and
new-born daughters. Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Brussels, Belgium.
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| Siegfried
Knasmueller: Important effects of staining
methods and scoring criteria on the observed result in
the buccal
MN assay. Institute of Cancer Research, Inner Medicine
I, Medical University, Vienna, Austria. |
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Lawrence
Loeb: Generation of multiple mutations in cancer. University
of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Myron
Mehlman: Benzene – a multipotential carcinogen. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas,
USA.
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Pamela
Meyer: Global approach to reducing lead exposure and poisoning. ATSDR,
Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Kei
Nakachi: Hiroshima 60 Years: Monitoring of Survivors. Radiation
Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan.
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Takehiko
Nohmi: DNA Lesions and Repair – Asbestos and Other Environmental
Toxic Chemicals. National Institute of Health
Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
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Taisei
Nomura: Transgenerational effects from exposure to environmental
toxic substances. Osaka
University, Osaka, Japan.
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Hannu
Norppa: Relationship between genetic susceptibility, biomarker
expression and risk for development of cancer. Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki,
Finland.
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Sharon
Petronella : Community
outreach approaches to address asthma health problems. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
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Leona Samson: Genomic approaches for gene expression that is indicative
of human exposure to environmental toxic substances. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.
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Alain
Sarasin: Molecular mechanisms of sunlight-induced skin
cancer. CNRS, Villejuif, France.
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Semra
Sardas: Assessment of DNA damage in child workers in small
workshops in Turkey. Marmara University, Ýstanbul,
Turkey.
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David Sedwick: Epigenetic and imprinting problems as causes for
developmental abnormalities and adult disease. Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Albrecht
Seidel: Determination
of urinary chemical metabolites for assessment
of exposure of the general population to environmental
toxic PAH. Biochemical Institute for Environmental
Carcinogens, Grosshansdorf, Germany.
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Radim
Sram: Air pollution and risk for human disease and reproductive
problems. Institute of Experimental Medicine,
Prague, Czech Republic.
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Peter
Stambrook: Cellular
mechanisms for preserving genomic integrity. University
of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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Young-Joon Surh: Inflammation-associated cancer and its chemoprevention. Seoul
National University, Korea.
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A.
Murat Tuncer: Environmental
Effect on Child Health in Turkey. Cancer
Control Department, Ministry of Health, Turkey.
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Martina
Viegl: DNA repair and instability in the development
of colon cancer. Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH, USA.
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Carole
Yauk: Germline mutation, DNA damage and epigenetic modification in response to exposure to particulate air pollution. Health
Canada, Canada.
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Chris
Wild: Environmental exposures and child health in developing
countries: the example of aflatoxin. Leeds University, United Kingdom.
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Michael
Wilhelm: The
Duisburg birth cohort study: Influence of the prenatal
exposure to PCDD/Fs and dioxin like PCBs on thyroid
hormones in newborns and neurodevelopment of infants. Abteilung Hygiene, Sozial- umd Umweltmedizin, Bochum,
Germany.
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