Past Meetings
Fall GETA Hybrid Fall Symposium: “ Unraveling the Impact of Environmental Toxicants on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease ” | “Symposium Program” | Click here to watch symposium recording of Dr. Finch and Dr. Lein | Click here to watch symposium recording of Dr. Goldman and Panel Discussion with speakers plus Dr. Gary Miller |“Dr. Caleb Finch's Presentation”|“Dr. Pamela Lein's Presentation”|“Dr. Samuel Goldman's Presentation”
Spring GETA Virtual Spring Symposium: “ "Artificial Intelligence Meets Toxicology" ” Click here to watch symposium recording |“"Toward ToxAIcology"”|“"Augmented Intelligence and the Environmental Health Sciences"”
Fall GETA Virtual Fall Symposium: “ Cannabinoids:Potential Therapies and Long-term Risks ” Click here to watch symposium recording |“Cannabinoid Anti-inflammatory Properties: Implications for Treatment of HIV-Associated Neuroinflammation”
Spring GETA Virtual Spring Symposium: “ Life in plastic, it’s fantastic?
” Click here to watch symposium recording |“Air pollution and ultrafine plastic particles: Breathing for two” | “San Francisco Bay Microplastics: From Comprehensive Data to Scientifically Supported Solutions”
Fall GETA Virtual Fall Symposium: “ 21st Century Mouse Models - Predicting Chemically-Induced Genotoxicity and the Genes that Contribute to Human Disease
” Click here to watch symposium recording |“Quantitative Interpretation of In Vivo Mutagenicity Dose-Response Data for Regulatory Decision-making: Recent Progress and Persistent Challenges” | “"The Power of Mouse Genetics using Collaborative Cross (CC) Mice, Together with OMICS Analyses to Determine the Influence of Individual Variations in Disease Susceptibility"”
Spring GETA Virtual Spring Symposium: “ Immunotalks with Drs. Corsini and Ehrlich: Immunotoxicology and Metabolism” Click here to watch symposium recording
| “Immunotoxicity of PFAS” | “The aryl hydrocarbon receptor: dichotomously linking environmental signals to immune suppression and autoimmunity”
Summer GETA Virtual Symposiums: “ Teratogenesis at the Single-Cell Level: Opportunities and Challenges”
| “Strategies Utilizing Alternative Model Systems and Transcriptomics to Assess for Developmental Toxicity”
Spring “Advances in Inhalation Toxicology: Experimental Models and Dosimetric Approaches” - Presentations: Inspiration for Inhalation Risk Assessment Applications: What a Difference the Dose Makes!
| In Vivo, Ex Vivo and In Vitro Approaches to Lung Toxicology
| New Nasal Delivery Systems for Olfactory Targeting: Addressing the Bottleneck Issue of Nose-to-Brain Delivery
Fall “Obesogens: Toxicology and Mechanisms” - Presentations: Effects of Prenatal Obesogen Exposure Echo Down the Generations
| Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease and Phenotypic Variation: Ancestral Ghosts in Your Genome
| Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: When Sweet Goes Soury
Spring “DNA: Damage, Repair and Replication” - Presentations: Oxidative DNA Damage: Mechanisms, Measurement and Biological Consequences
| SOG1 (Suppressor of gamma response 1) Links DNA Damage Detection and Organ Regeneration in Plants
| Packing, Folding and Simplifying DNA Topology
Fall “Thresholds in Toxicology and Risk Assessment” - Presentations: Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water. When is the Science Sufficient to Deviate from Defaults?
| Developing a Permitted Daily Exposure (PDE) to Support Good Manufacturing Practices in Multi-Product Facilities
| East of Halifax. Is there a Perfect Storm of Chemical Mixtures?
Winter “The Science of Cannabis: Endocannabinoid Signaling and Pesticides in Cannabis Cultivation” - Presentations: Regulating Pesticides on Cannabis: It's Just Different
| Endocannabinoid Signaling in Brain Development, Function, and Homeostasis
| The Need for Standardization in the Cannabis Industry
Spring “The Giant Inside You: The Interface between the Microbiome, Environment, and Disease” - Presentations: The Microbial Pharmacists within Us: Role of the Human Gut Microbiome in Pharmacology and Nutrition
| Manipulating the Human Microbiome - the Impact of Medical and Environmental Exposures on our Microbes
| Intestinal Microbiota Involved in Genotoxicity, Inflammation, Latency of Lymphoma and Longevity in Atm Deficient Mice - a Unique Probiotic
Spring “Environmental Contributors to Cancer” - Presentations: Using New Approaches to Study Environmental and Occupational Exposures to Toxic Chemicals
| Biomarker Developments in Cancer Therapy
| Community-Research Collaborations for Cancer Concerns: an Epidemiologic Perspective
Fall “Genetic and Environmental Toxicology at UC Berkeley: From Cutting Edge Science to Collaborative Research” - Presentations: Structural Insights into CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Target DNA Recognition and Cleavage
| Using Chemoproteomic Platforms to Map Toxicological Mechanisms
| Omics and Children' Environmental Health: New Results from the CHAMACOS Study
Summer “Understanding the Etiology & Physiology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders” - Presentations: Phthalates: Potential Role in Maternal Metabolic Dysfunction and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
| Mapping the Methylome at the Interface of Genetic and Environmental Risks for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
| Prenatal Folate and ASD Risk: Gene-Environment Interactions in the CHARGE Study
| Thinking Outside the Brain: Maternal Autoantibodies in Autism
Fall “Environmental contributors to metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes” - Presentations: Vitamin and mineral inadequacy accelerates aging-associated disease
| DDT Exposure and Metabolic Syndrome
| Exposomics of Diabetes
| Host-Microbiome Interactions and Individual Susceptibility to Pesticide Exposures
Spring “Emerging Issues in Green Chemistry” - Presentations: Intro to Green chemistry - The Need for Safer Chemicals to Tox21 Efforts, and California's Green Chemistry Regulations | Six Classes of Chemicals of Concern, Green Chemistry, and Public Health | Case Studies in Greener Chemicals | A Systems Approach to Safer & More Sustainable Chemistry | Getting to Safer Alternatives: Why Decision-Making Structures Matter
Winter “Climate Change and Health” - Presentations: Population Vulnerabilities for Climate Change Health Risks
| Epidemiologic Studies of Heat-Associated Preterm Delivery and Emergency Room Visits
| Climate Change and Global Health
| Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Population Health
Spring “Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors of Breast Cancer” - Presentations: Breast Cancer and the Environment: Prioritizing Prevention
| The CYGNET Study: A Prospective Study of Environmental and Lifestyle Factors in Early Onset of Puberty in Girls
| Why Would a Clinician Worry about the Environment?
| Identifying Clinically Relevant Endpoints for in Vitro Carcinogenicity Testing
Fall “Graduate/Post-Doctoral Student Forum” - Presentations: Exposure to Manganese from Agricultural Pesticide Use and Infant Neurodevelopment in the CHAMACOS Study
| Follicular Lymphoma, the HLA Gene Region, and the Environment
| Environmental Influences on the Immune System
| Use of the nCounter System for the Analysis of Multiple RNA Expression Profiles in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
| A Bioinformatic sequence-based approach to investigate interactions between human chromosome 15 duplication, the epigenome, and organic pollutants
| Functional Genetic Screen in Human Haploid Cells to Identify Genes Involved in Susceptibility to Chemical Exposure
Spring “Food Safety and Health in a Global Setting: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” - Presentations: Traditional Analytical Approaches and New Challenges | Toxicity and Detection of Biothreat Toxins in Food: Botulinum Neurotoxins | Dietary Restriction and the Oxidative Stress Response | Plant Food Constituents That Inactivate Pathogens and Reduce Formation of Heterocyclic Amines | Regulated Imported Foods: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
Spring “Current Issues Related to Bisphenol A and Phthalates”
Fall “Biomonitoring” - Presentations: Exposure Bimonitoring: Current Practice and Future Opportunities
| Generations at Risk: Biomonitoring of Pregnant Women, Children, and Other Vulnerable Populations
| When Pollution Gets Personal: Developing Results Communication Protocols in Biomonitoring Research with Input from Study Participants
Summer ; “Epigenomics and Human Health”
Fall “Toxicological Challenges and
Green Chemistry” - Presentations: Method Greenskeeping, People Against Dirty
| Green Chemistry at the Local Level: Precautionary Policies to Reduce Toxic Chemicals
| Information Needs in Green Chemistry & Chemicals Policy
Winter “Children's
Health--Protecting Our Future”- Presentations: Genetic Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia
| Melamine: Pet Food, Infant Formula, and More
| Traffic, Asthma, and Lung Development-Living Near Busy Roads: What do the Health Studies Tell Us?
Summer ; “Science and GETA in
the Future”- Presentations: Biomarkers, Environment, and Children's Health
| Epidemiologic Studies of Temperature and Mortality in California
| Stem Cells: Toward Engineering Therapies of the Future
| Health Effects of Inhaled Engineered and Incidental Nanoparticles
Fall “Assault
to Our Environment, or How to Prevent Them in the First Place”
Spring “Strategies
to Predict QT Prolongation and Arrhythmias: Assessing hERG and Other
Cardiac Ion Channels Early in Drug Development”
Summer “Chemicals...Chemicals...Everywhere!
Evaluating the Potential Exposure to Chemicals in Consumer Products”
Fall ; “The
Clinical Relevance of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Brain
Imaging Research”
Winter “Delaying
(or Accelerating) Degenerative DIseases: DNA Damage”
Spring “Genetics
and Environmental Risk Factors for Autistic Spectral Disorders”
- Presentations: Autism | Asberger's
Syndrome
Fall “Environmental
The New Generation of Contaminants
That Could Affect the Bay: Flame Retardants, Pharmaceuticals, Perfluorinated
Compounds” - Presentation:
SFEI
Winter “Health
on the Brink of….Opportunity, Collapse, New Science What?
The 21st Century and Toxicology?”
Spring “Aging
and Older Adults”
Fall “Green
Chemistry: Coloring California Green” - Presentations:
Green Buildings | Green Chemistry - Slides
, Notes
Winter “Marin County Breast Cancer Rate: Myth and Reality”
Spring “Stem Cell Application in Pharmacology and Toxicology”
Fall “New Frontiers in Biotechnology Drug Development”
Winter “Genetic and Environmental Clues in Parkinson’s Disease Research”
Spring “Ultrafine Particles and Nanomaterial – Common Toxicity Concerns”
Fall “Toxicity to the Developing Brain: Recent Research and Mechanisms of Effect”
Winter “Things that go Bump in the Night: Tropical parasites and the Challenge of Tropical Disease”
Fall “Infectious Diseases – From Discovery to Drug Development to Biodefense”
Winter “Pediatric AIDS Prevention in Zimbabwe”
Spring “Current Issues in DNA Repair: Models and Mechanisms”
Fall “Contemporary Issues in Human Health Assessment”
Winter “Human Xenobiotic Metabolism: Is Man a Rat?”
Spring “The Promise of the Genomics Revolution”
Fall “Children’s Health – Issues in Assessing Impacts of Chemical Exposures”
Winter “Ethical Guidelines for Biotechnology”
Spring “Inhalation Toxicology: The Impact of Environmental Exposure on Public Health”
Fall “Contemporary Issues: the Scientific Basis of Hexavalent Chromium Toxicity”
Spring “Old Problems for a New Millennium: Controversial Issues in Human Exposure to Radiations and Chemicals”
Fall “Epidemiology With a Local Angle
Winter “Exercise, Estrogens and Breast Cancer”
Spring “Progress on Model Genomes Human Genetic Polymorphisms: Susceptibility and Risk”
Fall ; “Emerging Research on MTBE”
Winter “Challenges of Gulf War Veterans Illnesses”
Spring “Environmental Estrogens and Endocrine Disruptors”
Fall “Fish & Chips: New Technologies in Toxicology and Epidemiology”
Winter “Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Toxicology and Pharmacology”
Summer “The Human Genome Project” – and – “Recent Developments in Risk Assessment”
Fall “Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery and Development” – and – “The Drug Development Process; from Concept to FDA Approval”
Winter “Direct Sperm Injection into Eggs: New Hope for the infertile Couple”
Spring “Forensic Toxicology and New Methods for Assessing Human Variability” - and – “Advances in the Assessment of Human Exposure, Susceptibility and Health Effects”
Fall “Particulate Exposure and Health Effects: Epidemiology, Toxicology, and Cellular Mechanisms”
Spring “Race, Poverty, and the Environment”
Summer “Recent Advances in Cancer Genetics”
Fall “Topics in Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology” – and – “Molecular Biology of DNA Repair”
Spring “Innovation vs. Regulation”
Summer “The Immune System: Biology and Toxicology”
Fall “ Genetic Toxicology and Regulatory Issues ”