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Children’s Susceptibility for Mutagens and Cancer

 
  September 16, 2010  
     
 
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Aula QD, pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussel
5 November 2010


Preliminary programme
8h30 – 9h00: Registration and coffee
9h00 – 9h10: M. Kirsch-Volders: Introduction
9h10 – 9h30: L. Leyns (Laboratory of Cell Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Major molecular and cellular pathways of developmental stages
9h30 - 10h00: R. Ciardella, (St-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels): Potential clinical impact of oxidative stress on term and pre-term newborns
10h00 - 10h30: J. Kleinjans (Department of Health Risk Analysis & Toxicology, University of Maastricht): NewGeneris: The Newborns and Genotoxic exposure risks
10h30 – 11h00: Coffee break
11h00 - 11h30: L.E. Knudsen (Department of Public Health, Section of Environmental Health, University of Copenhagen): Placental passage of carcinogens in an ex vivo human transplacental perfusion system
11h30 – 11h50: I. Decordier (Laboratory of Cell Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel): DNA repair capacity and genetic stability in newborns
11h50 - 12h30: General Assembly meeting of the BEMS
12h30 - 13h30: Lunch Break
13h30 - 14h00: K. Hemminki (Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany): Genetics of childhood leukemia
14h00 - 14h30: Y. Benoit (Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Ghent University Hospital): Childhood Leukemia
14h30 - 14h50: H. Thierens: Radiosensitivity of children with respect to cancer and leukemia: a message to the medical world
14h50 – 15h10: G. Eggermont (BVS-ABR): New public health perspectives in radiation protection with particular attention to childhood leukemia
15h10 - 15h30: G. Van Maele-Fabry (Louvain Centre for Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Brussels): Children’s exposure to pesticides and the risk of leukemia
15h30 - 15h50: L. Verschaeve (Wetenschappelijk Instituut Volksgezondheid, Belgium): Effects of non ionizing radiation on children’s health
15h50 – 16h00: Concluding remarks by L. Godderis (President of the BEMS)
 
 
Organized by: Belgian Environmental Mutagen Society
Invited Speakers:

L. Leyns

R. Ciardella

J. Kleinjans

L.E. Knudsen

I. Decordier

K. Hemminki

Y. Benoit

H. Thierens

G. Eggermont

G. Van Maele-Fabry

L. Verschaeve 

 
Deadline for Abstracts: None
 
Registration:
Registration and fees
E-mail your name and affiliation to: idecordi@vub.ac.be
Transfer 60 € (30 € for students < 30 y) to 001-2221370-49: fee includes lunch
For more information please contact: Dr. Ilse Decordier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laboratorium voor Cellulaire Genetica, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, + 32 2 629 34 28, idecordi@vub.ac.be
E-mail: idecordi@vub.ac.be
 
   
 
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