Conference Description
The Environmental Endocrine Disruptors community is thrilled to participate in the GRC Connects 2.0 pilot program in 2024. GRC Connects 2.0 matches a long-time attendee
at a Gordon Research Conference with a first-time attendee to ensure new attendees feel welcomed and included as a member of the community.
Mentors and mentees will be invited to meet at a reception from 5:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. on Sunday immediately prior to dinner and the Sunday
evening session. Funding has been generously provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the 2024 pilot program. If you are
interested in participating, please contact connects@grc.org. Space is limited and available on a first come, first serve basis.
ATTENTION: The GRC bus picks up and drops off at the Florence Airport (FLR) only. GRC no longer has bus service to / from the Pisa Airport.
The Environmental Endocrine Disruptors GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The 14th Gordon Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors (EDs) will be held at the Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort in Tuscany, Italy. This conference addresses the role of environmental EDs in planetary health, the transdisciplinary field that addresses the impacts of human activity on the health of humans and all life on Earth. Chemical pollution is one of the planetary boundaries transgressed due to high rates of production and release of hazardous chemicals. Chemical pollutants are widely distributed in the environment due to human activities such as plastics manufacturing, pesticides and industrial processes. A significant proportion of chemicals disrupts the action of hormones and are therefore considered EDs. The scientific evidence accumulated since the term endocrine disruption was coined thirty years ago leaves no doubt about their negative impact on human health and wildlife. For the environment, marine and terrestrial exposure has negative effects on animal species affecting biodiversity. In humans, environmental EDs are linked to reproductive disorders, obesity and diabetes, hormone-sensitive cancers in women, and prostate cancer, as well as negative impacts on thyroid, neuroendocrine and neurodevelopmental systems and, more recently, the immune system.
In the GRC 2024 we will focus on four cutting-edge multidisciplinary topics, providing insights into the latest advances in the science of environmental EDs from leading scientists, rising stars and selected trainees. 1) The latest advances on how environmental EDs affect the etiology of human diseases. 2) Current data on how they affect wildlife and biodiversity. 3) Advances in methods for identifying environmental EDs and 4) Solutions from regulation, science and industry.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by February 24, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Human Exposure and Health Consequences of Environmental Endocrine Disruptors
Discussion Leaders
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Laura Vandenberg (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
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Ana Soto (Tufts University, United States)
Speakers
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Nicolas Olea (University of Granada. Spain, Spain)
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Gail Prins (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)
Mechanisms of Environmental Endocrine Disruptor Action
Discussion Leaders
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Raquel Chamorro-Garcia (University of California Santa Cruz, United States)
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Daniel Zalko (INRAE, France)
Speakers
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William Bourguet (Center for Structural Biology of Montpellier, France)
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Florian Caiment (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
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Tamara Tal (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany)
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Nathalie Poupin (INRAE, France)
Characterizing Human Exposure to Environmental Endocrine Disruptors
Discussion Leaders
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Mariana F. Fernandez (University of Granada (Spain), Spain)
Speakers
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Martine Vrijheid (ISGlobal, Spain)
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Chris Gennings (ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI, United States)
Integrating Human and Environmental Health Research
Discussion Leaders
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Henrik Holbech (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
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Martin Wagner (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Speakers
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Dries Knapen (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
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Scott Belcher (North Carolina State University, United States)
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Hindrik Bouwman (North-West University, South Africa)
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Kyungho Choi (Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, South Korea)
Mediated Effects on Development and Reproduction
Discussion Leaders
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Vasantha Padmanabhan (University of Michigan, United States)
Speakers
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Anne-Simone Parent (University of Liège, Belgium)
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Anna-Maria Andersson (Dept. of Growth and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Majorie van Duursen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Environmental Endocrine Disruptors and Metabolic Disorders
Discussion Leaders
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Jerry Heindel (healthy environment and endocrine disruptor strategies (HEEDS.org), United States)
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Paloma Alonso-Magdalena (IDiBE. Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain)
Speakers
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Jorke Kamstra (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
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Jennifer Bruin (Mcmaster University, Canada)
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Barbara Cohn (Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute, United States)
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Richard Cheng-An Chang (University of California, Irvine, United States)
Environmental Endocrine Disruptors and Developmental Neurotoxicity
Discussion Leaders
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Chris Kassotis (Wayne State University, United States)
Speakers
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Vincent Prevot (INSERM U837, France)
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Joëlle Rüegg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
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Tim Korevaar (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands)
Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on the Environmental ED Field
Discussion Leaders
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Ninja Reineke (CHEM Trust, Germany)
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Pete Myers (Environmental Health Sciences, United States)
Speakers
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Jarno Hoekman (Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, The Netherlands)
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Marina Fernandez (IBYME-CONICET, Argentina)
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Jane Muncke (Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Switzerland)
Keynote Session: Planetary Health: Global Solutions for Global Problems
Discussion Leaders
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Leonardo Trasande (New York University School of Medicine, United States)
Speakers
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Natacha Cingotti (Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Belgium)
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Natalie Aneck-Hahn (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
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Olwenn Martin (University College London, United Kingdom)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
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Hanna Dusza (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
