7th annual symposium on the environment and hormones - environmental signaling in urban ecosystems http://e.hormone.tulane.edu/eh2008.html
New Orleans, LA, USA
Topics:
Principles of Environmental Signaling
Translational Research Models
Systems Biology and Emerging Agents
Urban Ecosystems and Environmental Signaling
Regional Landscape Perspectives in Environmental Signaling
Events:
Sharing of modules for teaching Environmental Signaling
Rub elbows with funding agencies
Meet with scientists and community members working to apply research to solve on-the-ground problems
Poster sessions for recent research results
Banquet in the Lower Ninth Ward
Come join us for good science and good food as we further explore environmental signaling questions. Help us celebrate the continuing recovery of New Orleans. Science-related “voluntourism” opportunities are available.
10th European Congress of Endocrinology http://www.ece2008.com/index.html
Berlin, Germany
The programme will be composed of platform and poster presentations in parallel sessions in a range of disciplines. The meeting will focus on "The multiple stressors for the environment - present and future challenges and perspectives", in an attempt to address and foster presentations about the challenges posed by the presence of multiple stressors in the Environment, including Man, being it of a Human nature (i.e. pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals) or natural, as a result of Global Climate change (i.e. increased temperature, UV radiation), as well as to bridge the gaps between science and policy. The actual and future challenges will be integrating information on the state of the environment, the ecosystem and human health, taking into account effects such as cocktail effects, combined exposure, and cumulative effects, hence improving the information chain to understand the links between sources of pollution and health effects. Following main themes will be addressed: 1. Climate Changes – and other non-chemical stressors? 2. Environmental Chemistry 3. Mechanisms of Toxicity 4. Ecotoxicology and Stress Ecology 5. LCA 6. Environmental Risk Assessment 7. Pollution and human health effects 8. From Findings to Regulation: Political and Socio Economic Aspects of Environmental Issues 9. Tropical Ecotoxicology...
SETAC
Europe 18th Annual Meeting http://www.setac.eu/warsaw/
Warsaw, Poland
We invite you to join us at the SETAC Europe 18th Annual Meeting to be held 25-29 May 2008 at the Palace of Culture and Science congress centre in Warsaw, Poland. The meeting will focus on scientific and applied issues of different stressors in present World. The SETAC Annual Meeting is Europe’s leading Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry conference. Representatives from academia, government and industry gather to present and discuss the latest scientific findings and insights.
The Sixth Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors (EED) will be held June 8-13, 2008, in a beautiful and comfortable resort setting; Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire. This conference will mark the 10th anniversary of the first GRC on EED. We will highlight the important advances over the past ten years and hope to help shape the next decade of research. Speakers will include leading scientists from the US, Japan and Europe, as well as young scientists who have recently reported exciting findings.
The 2008 conference is framed around five Specific Aims:
1. To bring together national and international leaders in EED research in a meeting format that promotes learning and open discussion of hypotheses and knowledge gaps and that encourages collaborative research;
2. To highlight the important milestones in EED research since the first GRC on EED in 1998, emphasizing new developments that may guide research in this area over the next ten years;
3. To focus on effects of EED across the lifespan (prenatal, early childhood, puberty, midlife and old age) in a range of model systems;
4. To highlight novel mechanisms, new endpoints and new environmental agents currently being investigated as potential EEDs, and to expand EED exposure assessment;
5. To encourage participation of trainees and other young scientists in EED research.
This GRC will have a strong emphasis on reproductive science and clinical translation of new science. The conferences will highlight the most up-to-date science through discussions of new and proposed mechanisms of action (Monday morning’s session discusses classical and novel mechanisms of EED), new endpoints under investigation as targets of EED (Classical and novel endpoints for EED, Monday afternoon’s session), and new methods for evaluating human health risk from EED exposure (Wednesday morning’s session is on mixtures and other challenges to risk assessment). We encourage trainees and other young scientists to apply, and are seeking funds to support these emerging scientists.
ENDO 08, The Endocrine Society's Annual Meeting, offers an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the latest advances in endocrine research and clinical care, while networking and collaborating with more than 7,000 colleagues from around the world.