Evaluating Effects of EDCs in the Era of Genes, Genetics, and Genomics: How Will Molecular Data Inform and Transform Our Understanding of Endocrine Disruption in Clinical, Conservation, and Evolutionary Biology?

The Gordon Research Seminar on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is the role of emerging and novel tools in the study of mechanisms and pathologies associated with exposure to endocrine disruptors in humans and wildlife. From pollinator loss to prenatal EDC exposure in humans, widespread availability of molecular and computational tools are become necessary and invaluable to discovering mechanisms underlying pathologies associated to exposure to EDCs. How are emerging tools going to transform our understanding of modes of action of EEDs? How are different fields deploying these tools in unique and powerful ways? Crucially, how can the novel use of molecular and "omics" tools in the fields of conservation, evolutionary, and clinical biology be integrated to further our understanding of the widespread pattern of disruption caused by some environmental EEDs? We will evaluate molecular and computational data as a conservation tool in endocrine disruption in health and disease in wildlife and novel and cutting-edge use of molecular data in clinical and translational biology. Our goal is to exchange ideas among scientists in training, in order to inspire and guide our research as we emerge as independent cutting-edge leaders in our scientific community.