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"Inflammatory responses to air pollution: Molecular epidemiology"

13th November 2009, 9am-6:30pm

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
John Snow Lecture Theatre B, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GROUP - UK
Autumn Conference

Programme

09:00 - 09:50	Registration - LSHTM Foyer Tea/Coffee - Manson Foyer
MORNING SESSION - John Snow Lecture Theatre B Chair: Tony Fletcher
09:50 - 10:00	Welcome and Introduction - Frank Martin
10:00 - 10:35	"Overview of health effects of air pollution with an emphasis on the possible role of inflammation in causing systemic adverse effects" Ross Anderson (St George's, University of London)
10:35 - 11:10	"Respiratory tract inflammation: a global response to challenge" Frank Kelly (King's College London)
11:10 - 11:30	Tea/Coffee Break - Manson Foyer
11:30 - 12:05	"Air pollution, inflammation and cardiovascular disease" Annette Peters (GSF-Institute of Epidemiology, Germany)
12:05 - 12:40	"Effects in children" Lisbeth Knudsen (University of Copenhagen)
12:40 - 14:00	Lunch - Manson Foyer
AFTERNOON SESSION - John Snow Lecture Theatre B Chair: Frank Martin
14:00 - 14:35	"Genotoxicity of urban particulate matter" Michael Routledge (University of Leeds)
14:35 - 15:10	"Air pollution and epigenetics" Andrea Baccarelli (University of Milan/Harvard School of Public Health)
15:10 - 15:40	Tea/Coffee Break - Manson Foyer
15:40 - 16:15	"Air pollution, inflammation and human health: How can epidemiological studies tighten the knot?" Ira B Tager (University of California, Berkeley)
16:20	CLOSE OF MEETING
UK MEG Award Lecture (Open) - John Snow Lecture Theatre B Chair: Frank Martin
16:30 - 17:30	"The use of DNA damage measurements as biomarkers of exposure to environmental carcinogens" Peter B Farmer (University of Leicester)
17:30 - 18:30	Reception - Lower Cafe

Conference co-chairs:

Frank Martin, University of Lancaster Tony Fletcher, LSHTM

Directions to Keppel St Building can be f0und at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/location/

Registration: you can still reserve a place and pay on the day. To reserve a place, and to help us plan catering, email amy.beierholm@lshtm.ac.uk.

Download programme and registration form.

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The MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GROUP "MEG-UK" was founded in 1996 as an interest group within the UNITED KINGDOM ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGEN SOCIETY [UKEMS; website www.ukems.org ]. Its aim is to foster multi-disciplinary links between epidemiologists, molecular biologists, biochemists, geneticists, toxicologists, pathologists, nutritionists, clinician scientists, public health scientists and others studying the role of environmental and genetic factors in the aetiology of chronic disease. MEG-UK thus represents a forum for communication among researchers from diverse fields and aims to bring the best methodologies to bear on the study of the causes and prevention of human disease. MEG recognises that advances in technology provide opportunities and challenges that can only be addressed through such multidisciplinary working.

The Group has organised a number of meetings on topics relating to the use of molecular biomarkers in studying the epidemiology of cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Scientific meetings are organised annually.

MEG-UK members include epidemiologists, laboratory scientists, clinicians and others with an interest in molecular epidemiology. We welcome new members.

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