Environmental Mutagen Society, 34th Annual Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案旨在申请支持研讨会和研讨会发言人参加第34届环境诱变剂学会年会。会议将于2003年5月10日至5月14日在佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩举行。环境诱变剂协会（EMS）是促进诱变基本机制研究以及将这些知识应用于遗传毒理学和癌症领域的主要科学协会。核心科学领域包括：DNA损伤剂的暴露、检测和代谢；对DNA损伤的反应（DNA修复和重组、基因表达的变化、细胞周期效应）；突变机制（自发和暴露相关）；DNA技术;分子流行病学;对人类健康的影响（发育、癌症、衰老、遗传疾病）及其应用：测试；监管问题;以及风险评估。年会将包括专题讨论会、海报和平台会议以及国家癌症研究所感兴趣的其他活动，包括：分子流行病学；DNA损伤;体细胞突变，致癌修饰因子；遗传不稳定;DNA修复;风险评估;切除修复;预测毒理学。奖项将颁发给主要研究癌变的美国演讲者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is to request support for Seminar and Symposium Speakers to attend the 34th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society. The Meeting will be held from May 10 to May 14, 2003 in Miami Beach, FL. The Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) is the primary scientific society fostering research on the basic mechanisms of mutagenesis as well as on the application of this knowledge in the field of genetic toxicology and cancer. Core areas of scientific interest include: exposure, detection and metabolism of DNA damaging agents; responses to DNA damage (DNA repair and recombination, changes in gene expression, cell cycle effects); mutational mechanisms (both spontaneous and exposure related); DNA technologies; molecular epidemiology; human health effects (developmental, cancer, aging, genetic disease) and applications: testing; regulatory issues; and risk assessment. The Annual Meeting will include symposia, poster and platform sessions and other activities of interest to the National Cancer Institute, including: molecular epidemiology; DNA damage; somatic mutations, modifiers of carcinogenesis; genetic instability; DNA repair; risk assessment; excision repair; predictive toxicology. Awards will be made to US speakers whose major area of interest is in carcinogenesis.