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Oxidative Stress – Role of Metals and Metalloids in Cancer

Chapel Hill, NC

Oxidative Stress – Role of Metals and Metalloids in Cancer

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Oxidative Stress – Role of Metals and Metalloids in Cancer

Tuesday, November 8, 2011


8:00 AM – 8:45 AM          Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:45 AM – 9:00AM        Welcome: Stephen Little, M.Tox., GEMS President

                                    Introductions: Nagu Keshava, Ph.D., GEMS President-elect

 

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM        Linking arsenic metabolism and toxic effects

    David Thomas, Ph.D., National Health and Environmental

    Effects Research Laboratory, Environmental Protection

    Agency

 

9:45 AM –11:30 AM       Posters, sponsor exhibits and coffee

 

 

11:30 AM –12:15 PM    Does oxidative damage play a role in the carcinogenicity

                                    of hexavalent chromium?

 

    Michelle Hooth, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental

    Health Sciences, National Institute of Health

 

12:15 PM –1:45 PM     LUNCH

                                   (short business meeting, election results, & sponsors)

 

1:45 PM  – 3:00 PM    Talks by students/post docs

 

 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM     Nickel carcinogenicity: bioavailability of nickel ions and

                                   indirect genotoxic effects

                                   Adriana Oller, Ph.D., Nickel Producers Environmental

                                   Research Association

 

3:45 PM                      Announcement of Awards

 

4:15 PM                     Adjourn

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The Friday Center at UNC-CH
100 Friday Center Drive
Chapel Hill, NC

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Genetics and Environmental Mutagenesis Society



GEMS is a regional science/technology society initiated in 1982 to provide a forum for current topics relevant to environmental mutagenesis.  The Society presents two annual meetings and other related events for its members, sponsors in central North Carolina.