64^th Meeting of the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers
Disease First: A New Paradigm for Environmental Health Research

December 3-5, 2006
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX
William C. Levin Hall

This year, the NIEHS Center in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas is hosting the 64^th Meeting of the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers. The scientific symposium on Monday, December 4, 2006 will focus on environmental contributions to respiratory disease and cancer.

The “disease-first” philosophy in the environmental health sciences seeks to integrate environmental and medical research. Respiratory disease and cancer continue to be major human health burdens with a significant environmental component. Understanding chronic environmental exposures and the molecular mechanisms that lead to these disease states will provide the foundation for translational research aimed at therapeutic intervention. The symposium will present topics addressing the disease-first theme:

Recent mechanistic insights linking environmental stressors to respiratory disease and cancer.
Clinical research identifying how environmental exposures relate to disease etiology.
New tools and analytical methods to measure exposure and the subsequent biological response.
Community outreach and education as instruments for bridging the gap between science and human health as it pertains to the individual and the entire population.

A registration mixer begins at 4:00 P.M. on Sunday, December 3^rd at the Moody Gardens Hotel. Dinner meetings begin that evening at 6:00 P.M. for each Center group; Directors, COEC Members, and Center Administrators. On Monday, December 4^th, the scientific symposium for researchers and community outreach attendees will take place at the UTMB campus on the second floor of Levin Hall. The AANCP group will hold its meeting concurrently on the 3^rd floor. On Tuesday, December 5^th at the Moody Gardens Hotel, the entire group is welcome to breakfast and the COEC meeting begins and continues to mid-afternoon.

A unique aspect of this year’s meeting will be Monday evening’s meeting at the Lone Star Flight Museum. Discuss environmental health science, form new collaborations and enjoy fine dining by local chefs surrounded by one of the foremost collections of restored, vintage aircraft in the nation. Docents will be present for small group tours following the meeting.

The links below provide printable information pertaining to this conference.

Below is a general overview of the 2006 agenda. As more particulars become available, you will be able to download full detailed agendas for the Scientific Meeting, the COEC Meeting and the Administrators’ Meeting. Please check back often.

Shell Agenda for the
64^th Meeting of the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers

Date/time/place	Directors	COEC	administrators
Sunday, 12/03/06 moody gardens hotel 4:00pm – 6:00pm	meeting registration & mixer location tba
Sunday, 12/03/06 moody gardens hotel 6:00pm	directors meet in the viewfinders terrace	coec meets in the floral hall	aancp meets in the garden terrace
monday, 12/04/06 7:30am moody gardens hotel	buses depart for meetings at utmb hotel lobby
monday, 12/04/06 8:00am utmb	meeting registration & poster set-up levin hall foyer
monday, 12/04/06 8:00am – 8:30am utmb	breakfast levin hall foyer
monday, 12/04/06 8:30am – 9:00am utmb	welcome opening addresses from utmb and niehs levin hall south auditorium
monday, 12/04/06 9:00am – 11:30am utmb	scientific meeting Begins Environmental Contributions to Respiratory Diseases levin hall south auditorium External speaker overview 30 minutes 1^st PRESENTATION 30 minutes 2^nd PRESENTATION 30 minutes 3^rd PRESENTATION 30 minutes young investigator 15 minutes coec 15 minutes (time includes Q&A)		Administrators’ meeting 3.320 levin hall
monday, 12/04/06 11:30am – 1:30pm utmb	poster session begins levin hall foyer

Date/time/place	Directors		COEC		administrators
monday, 12/04/06 12:00pm - 1:00pm utmb		Lunch levin hall dining room
monday, 12/04/06 1:00pm – 1:30pm utmb		poster session continues levin hall foyer
monday, 12/04/06 1:30pm – 4:00pm utmb		scientific meeting Begins Environmental Contributions to Cancer levin hall south auditorium External speaker overview 30 minutes 1^st PRESENTATION 30 minutes 2^nd PRESENTATION 30 minutes 3^rd PRESENTATION 30 minutes young investigator 15 minutes coec 15 minutes (time includes Q&A)			Administrators’ meeting 3.320 levin hall
monday, 12/04/06 4:00pm – 5:00pm utmb		panel discussion location tba
monday, 12/04/06 5:00pm – 5:20pm utmb		take down posters in levin hall foyer buses depart utmb rose garden to moody gardens hotel
monday, 12/04/06 6:45pm moody gardens hotel		buses depart for lone star flight museum hotel lobby
monday, 12/04/06 7:00pm – 10:00pm lone star flight museum		all attendees Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Meeting
tuesday, 12/05/06 7:30am – 8:30am moody gardens hotel		breakfast floral hall foyer
tuesday, 12/05/06 8:30am – 2:00pm moody gardens hotel				coec meeting floral hall a2 working lunch provided
tuesday, 12/05/06 2:00pm – 2:45pm moody gardens hotel				coec breakout sessions locations tba

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64th Meeting of the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Disease First: A New Paradigm for Environmental Health Research

December 3-5, 2006 The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX William C. Levin Hall

64^th Meeting of the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers
Disease First: A New Paradigm for Environmental Health Research

December 3-5, 2006
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX
William C. Levin Hall