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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

Diana Anderson:  The WHO/ICPS guidelines for Human Monitoring. University of Bradford, United Kingdom.

William Au: Biomarker monitoring of populations for exposure to mutagenic substances and for risk assessment. The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.

Nursen Basaran: Risk of genotoxicity by occupational crystalline silica exposure in Turkey. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

Douglas Bell: Discovery and functional analysis of variation in human damage response pathways. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.

Claudia Bolognesi: Demographic and exposure variables affecting buccal MN frequency in adults. National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy.

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.

Rakhmetkaji Bersimbaev: Cold war legacy health effects from nuclear tests in Kazakhstan. Al-Farabi Kazakhstan National University, National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Sema Burgaz: Use of the buccal MN assay in genotoxin exposure studies in Turkey. Gazi University Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology, Ankara, Turkey.

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

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.

David DeMarini: Mutagenic basis of biomarkers and their relationship to carcinogenesis. US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. USA.

Christopher DeRosa: Human health research and policy development – fish consumption and exposure to toxic substances. ATSDR, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Eugenia Dogliotti: Mechanisms of oxidative DNA damage repair and relevance to human pathology. Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy.

Azeddine Elhajouji: Use of biomarkers for genotoxicity screening in the drug industry. Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.

Salih Emri: Gene-environment interaction in the pathogenesis of malignant mesothelioma patients from Cappadocia region of Turkey. Hacettepe University, Ankara,Turkey.

Peter Farmer: Use of biomarkers to identify health risk from exposure to hazardous environmental pollutants. Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention Group, Leicester, United Kingdom.

Michael Fenech: HUMN Project workshop on the buccal micronucleus assay (Workshop). CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition, Adelaide, Australia.

Arthur Frank: Prevention of exposure to hazardous substances - social and ethical issues. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Alexandra Fucic: Genetic toxicity in children after exposure in radiochemical environment. Istitute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Croatia.

Ashok Giri: Arsenic-induced health problems in India – involvement of genetic susceptibility and chromosome aberrations. Kolkata, India.

Hikoya Hayatsu: Overview of New Aspects in Environmental Mutagenesis. Shijitsu University, Okayama, Japan.

Zdenko Herceg: Epigenetic events induced by environmental factors for the development of cancer in populations. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

Nina Holland: Genetic and Immunological Biomarkers in Children. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

Howard Hu: Metal Mixtures and Children's Health: Mining Waste as a Case Study. Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Robert Johnson: Environmental health training in international medical specialist. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.

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.

Bernd Kaina: Genotoxic and apoptotic responses triggered by DNA alkylation damage University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Tom Kensler : Protection against cell injury and health effects from environmental toxic substances. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Micheline Kirsch-Volders: On comparison of repair capacities in mothers and new-born daughters. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

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.

Lawrence Loeb: Generation of multiple mutations in cancer. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Myron Mehlman: Benzene – a multipotential carcinogen. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.

Pamela Meyer: Global approach to reducing lead exposure and poisoning. ATSDR, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Kei Nakachi: Hiroshima 60 Years: Monitoring of Survivors. Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan.

Takehiko Nohmi: DNA Lesions and Repair – Asbestos and Other Environmental Toxic Chemicals. National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.

Taisei Nomura: Transgenerational effects from exposure to environmental toxic substances. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

Hannu Norppa: Relationship between genetic susceptibility, biomarker expression and risk for development of cancer. Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland.

Sharon Petronella : Community outreach approaches to address asthma health problems. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.

Leona Samson: Genomic approaches for gene expression that is indicative of human exposure to environmental toxic substances. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.

Alain Sarasin: Molecular mechanisms of sunlight-induced skin cancer. CNRS, Villejuif, France.

Semra Sardas: Assessment of DNA damage in child workers in small workshops in Turkey. Marmara University, Ýstanbul, Turkey.

David Sedwick: Epigenetic and imprinting problems as causes for  developmental abnormalities and adult disease. Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

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.

Radim Sram: Air pollution and risk for human disease and reproductive problems. Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.

Peter Stambrook: Cellular mechanisms for preserving genomic integrity. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Young-Joon Surh: Inflammation-associated cancer and its chemoprevention. Seoul National University, Korea.

A. Murat Tuncer: Environmental Effect on Child Health in Turkey. Cancer Control Department, Ministry of Health, Turkey.

Martina Viegl: DNA repair and instability in the development of colon cancer. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Carole Yauk: Germline mutation, DNA damage and epigenetic modification in response to exposure to particulate air pollution. Health Canada, Canada.

Chris Wild: Environmental exposures and child health in developing countries: the example of aflatoxin. Leeds University, United Kingdom.

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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