Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Session: Our Stolen Future? Reflections on the Past, Present
and Future of EDC Research |
| Reflections on the past, present
and future of EDC research as the EED-GRC Celebrates its 10th anniversary. |
| Discussion Leader: Heather Patisaul (North Carolina State University, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Jerrold Heindel (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA) "Endocrine Disruption: History and Reflections" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 9:15 pm | Melissa Perry (George Washington University, USA) "The New EDC Frontier: What Is Known About the Endocrine Disrupting Properties of Neonicotinoid Pesticides?" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Evidence for and Mechanisms of Transgenerational
Inheritance of EDC Effects |
| Discussion Leaders: Vasantha Padmanabhan (University of Michigan, USA) and David Crews (University of Texas at Austin, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Piroska Szabo (Van Andel Institute, USA) "Germline Epigenetic Remodeling and Endocrine
Disruptors" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Jodi Flaws (University of Illinois, USA) "Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals on Female Reproduction" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Folami Ideraabdullah (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) "Use of Mouse Models to Identify and Characterize Gene-Epigenome Interactions that Influence Epigenetic Stability and Inheritance" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Patrick Allard (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) "Multi-Model Approaches for the Investigation of Epigenetic and Transgenerational Effects" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Power Hour |
| The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring. |
| Organizer: Heather Stapleton (Duke University, USA) |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EDC Impacts on the Global Community |
| Discussion Leaders: Joe Braun (Brown University, USA) and Jane Muncke (Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Switzerland) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Leonardo Trasande (New York University School of Medicine, USA) "Health and Economic Costs of Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Exposures" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | David Aylor (North Carolina State University, USA) "Genetic Susceptibility to Diethylstilbestrol (DES) Exposure in Mice" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Frank von Hippel (Northern Arizona University, USA) "Protecting the Health of Future Generations: Assessing and Preventing Exposures to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Two Alaska Native Arctic Communities on St. Lawrence Island" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Neural and Behavioral Impacts |
| Discussion Leaders: Andrea Gore (University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Thaddeus Schug (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Deborah Kurrasch (University of Calgary, Canada) "Hormone Control of Neural Progenitors During Embryonic Brain Development, and Interference by EDCs" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Valerie Hu (George Washington University, USA) "An Integrative Genomics Approach Towards Understanding Sex Bias and Gene-Environment Interactions in Autism" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Joe Braun (Brown University, USA) "Neurotoxicity of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals:
Beyond BPA and the Prenatal Window" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Ross Gillette (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) "The Effects of Low Dose Fetal PCB Exposure on Social and Anxiety Behavior and Gene Expression in the Stress Neural Circuit of Male and Female Rats" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Late-Breaking Topics |
| Discussion Leaders: Folami Ideraabdullah (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) and Scott Belcher (North Carolina State University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Christopher Kassotis (Duke University, USA) "Characterization of Potential Obesogens In Vitro and Implications for Reproducibility" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Justin Conley (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA) "EDC Mixtures: Synergy or Dose Additivity" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Sheldon Krimsky (Tufts University, USA) "The Legacy of Wingspread '91 on Science, Policy, and the Media" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Endocrine Disruption of Cellular Energy Balance and
Metabolism |
| Discussion Leaders: Daniel Zalko (INRA, France) and Ana Soto (Tufts University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Robert Sargis (University of Chicago, USA) "Metabolic Disruption by the Phenylsulfamide Fungicide Tolylfluanid" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Andrea Baccarelli (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, USA) "Environmental Mitochondriomics: Missing Link Between Environmental Exposures and Disease?" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Paloma Alonso-Magdalena (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain) "The Diabesogenic Behaviour of Endocrine Disruptor Chemicals: Windows of Susceptibility" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Fabien Jourdan (TOXALIM Research Centre in Food Toxicology, INRA, France) "Metabolic Network Modeling: Assessing and Deciphering the Modulatory Impact
of EDC on Metabolism" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Assessing the Risks: New Directions in
EDC Assessment and Public Policy |
| Discussion Leaders: Carol Kwiatkowski (TEDX - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, USA) and Patience Browne (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Russell Thomas (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA) "Developments in the EPA Computational Toxicology Program to Identify Environmental Endocrine Disruptors" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Douglas Bell (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA) "Integrating Data from 1000 Genomes Project, GWAS, ENCODE and eQTL Databases to Explore the Functional Link Between Genetic Variation and Endocrine Associated Diseases" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Tracey Woodruff (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "How to Make Science Matter in the Real World" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Surveying the Landscape: Emerging EDCs |
| Discussion Leaders: Jerrold Heindel (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA) and Suzanne Fenton (National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Susan Nagel (University of Missouri, USA) "Health Effects After Developmental Exposure to a Mixture of Chemicals Associated with Oil and Gas Extraction" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Kim Anderson (Oregon State University, USA) "Bridging Passive Sampling Technology to Measure External Chemical Mixtures" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Heather Stapleton (Duke University, USA) "Brominated Flame Retardants in Placenta Tissues and Associations with Thyroid Deiodinase and Sulfotransferase Activities" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Sagi Gillera (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA) "Latent Health Outcomes Following TBBPA Developmental Exposures: Focus on Female Reproductive Tissues" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Keynote Session: Our Reclaimed Future? Precedents and Priorities |
| Discussion Leader: Ann Petersen (Oregon State University, USA) |
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | Frederica Perera (Columbia University, USA) "The Role of Endocrine Disruptors in Children's Heath and Development" |
6:15 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Megan Romano (Brown University School of Public Health, USA) "Variability and Predictors of Urinary Concentrations of Replacement Flame Retardants Among Pregnant Women in Rhode Island" |
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Tegan Horan (Washington State University, USA) "The Kids Are (Not) Alright: Multiple Generational Estrogen Exposures Disrupt Meiosis and Reproductive Tract Morphology in Male Mice" |
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |