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 The
Division enjoyed a visit from Hernan Sierra Torres in August 2004. he
received his Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine and Community Health in 2001.
Dr. Sierra Torres is now the Director of the laboratory of Human
Genetics at the University of Cauca in Papayan, Colombia. During his
visit he presented a seminar entitled “Papillomarvirus, Genetic
Polymorphisms and Other Co-Factors for Cervical Neoplasia in Colombia”.
It was a pleasure to visit with him, and learn more about his successes
after his return to Columbia. He is pictured on the left with Dr.
Jonathan Ward, and Dr. William Au, his dissertation advisor.
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 Maria
Lucia Cobar, a visiting scientist from the Philippine Nuclear Research
Institute with her advisor, Dr. Marinel M. Ammenheuser, a
faculty member in the Division of Environmental Toxicology. Ms. Cobar’s
summer training program at UTMB was funded by a fellowship from the
International Atomic Energy Agency. She selected Dr. Ammenheuser as her
advisor because she wished to learn a complex but sensitive form of the
HPRT mutation assay, a test that detects DNA damage in human
subjects. Dr. Ammenheuser is a leading expert in the performance of
this assay.
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Report
on the 10th Alexander Hollaender International Course
Environmental Health and Cancer
June
2-5, 2004
Iasi,
Romania
The course was organized by Dr. Luminita Smaranda
Iancu (Romania) and Dr. William W. Au (USA) It was the result from their
two years of planning effort. The course received academic sponsorship
from the Alexander Hollaender Committee of the Environmental Mutagen
Society, International Association of Environmental Mutagen Societies,
Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine of the University of
Texas Medical Branch, and the Institute of Public Health at Iasi.
Invited international speakers included William W. Au (USA), Antonina
Cebulska-Wasilewska (Poland), Angelo Carere (Italy), Gabriel Gulis
(Denmark), Lawrence Loeb (USA). The invited speakers paid for their own
travel expenses to the conference. The course had approximately 50
participants who came from Denmark, Egypt, Italy, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia and USA. In addition to lectures, the course had one workshop
and a poster session. There were eight poster presentations and the
presenters are shown in the attached photograph. Among the poster
presenters, two were selected for the outstanding presentations to
receive the Hollaender free journal subscription awards. They are Dr.
Laurette Gratziella Cozma (laurettecozma@yahoo.com)
and Dr. Petre Cianga (petrucianga@hotmail.com),
and each of them receives free electronic subscription to the journal,
Environmental Molecular Mutagenesis.
Local sponsorships to the international course were
outstanding. Otherwise, the course would not have been possible. In
addition, the organizers were highly efficient in managing the limited
financial resources. From the efficient management and from a late
sponsorship, there was a surplus of 800 Euros from the conference. The
organizer decided that the fund will be used to sponsor an environmental
health conference in Romania in the name of the Alexander Hollaender
Committee, Environmental Mutagen Society.
Photograph of the
poster presenters with Dr. Iancu (3rd from left) and Dr. Au (3rd from
right). The two award recipients are Dr. Cozma (4th from
left) and Dr. Cianga (4th from right).
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