BREAST CANCER AND THE ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTERS

Fourth Annual Early Environmental Exposures Meeting

November 8-9, 2007
Westin Hotel, Cincinnati, OH

 
 
sponsored by
NIEHS

AVON Foundation

 
 

P r o g r a m

Thursday, November 8, 2007

 
7:00- Continental Breakfast & Registration (Gibson Foyer, third level)
8:30-9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks (Presidential Ballroom)
Session I:
Puberty and Normal Mammary Gland Development: Understanding Windows of Exposure Susceptibility and Opportunities for Intervention [ABSTRACTS] (Presidential Ballroom)
9:00-9:15 Moderator: Paul Yaswen, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9:15-9:45  Variations on a Common Theme: Progesterone Regulation of Normal Mammary Gland Development in Humans, Rats and Mice
Sandra Z. Haslam, PhD, Michigan State University
9:45-10:15 Effects of Environmental Exposures on Mammary Stem cells
Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Puberty as a Window of Susceptibility to Environmental Toxins
Frank Biro, MD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center [video] and
Mary Wolff, PhD, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
11:00-11:30 Unlocking the Laboratory: Introducing Breast Cancer Advocates to Bench-Top Research
Kathy Ball (UC) [video], Janice Barlow (UCSF) [video] & Ann Fonfa (FC) [video]
11:30-12:00 Q & A
12:00-1:30 Lunch - Lunch with the Experts (Fountain Room, second level)
Session II:

Impacts of Everyday Stressors on the Development of Young Girls [ABSTRACTS] (Presidential Ballroom)

1:30-1:45 Moderator: Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco
1:45-2:15

Psychosocial Studies of Girls and their Families in the Cincinnati Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center
Kim Dietrich, PhD, University of Cincinnati [video]
Psychosocial Studies of Girls and their Families in the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center
Julianna Deardorff, PhD, University of California San Francisco [video]

2:15-2:45 Impact of Fathers on Daughters’ Age at Menarche: A Genetically- and Environmentally-Controlled Sibling Study
Bruce Ellis, PhD, University of Arizona [video]
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:30 The Role of the Neighborhood Environment in Children’s Health
Irene Yen, PhD (UCSF) [video] & Maida Galvez, PhD (MSSM) [video]
3:30-4:00 Why Practice the Precautionary Principle in Everyday Life
Julia Brody, PhD, Silent Spring [video]
4:00-4:30 Q & A
4:30-5:00 Mentoring Session (Hayes Room, third level)
6:00-7:30

Dinner (Fountain Room, second level)

7:30-9:00 Poster Session with Dessert [ABSTRACTS] (Presidential Ballroom III, third level)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

7:00- CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Gibson Foyer, third level)
Session III:  
Nutrients and Obesity: Factors in Cancer Susceptibility and Uptake of Environmental Toxins [ABSTRACTS] (Presidential Ballroom)
8:00-8:15 Moderator: Bruce Trock, PhD, Johns Hopkins
8:15-8:40 Fatty Acids Influence Susceptibility to DMBA-Induced Carcinogenesis
Debbie Clegg, PhD, University of Cincinnati [video]
8:40-9:05 Mouse Models of Adolescent Obesity & Breast Cancer
Karl Olson, Michigan State University [video]
9:05-9:30 The Crucial Role of Intestinal Metabolism in the Bioavailability and Actions of Dietary Phytoestrogens in Soy Foods
Kenneth D. R. Setchell, University of Cincinnati, CCHMC
9:30-9:55 Non-absorbable Fat Affects the Absorption, Storage and Excretion of PCBs, PFOA and Hexachlorobenzene
Ron Jandasek, University of Cincinnati [video]
9:55-10:20 Q & A
10:20-10:35 Break
Session IV:

From Animal Models to Young Girls: Studying Biomarkers of Environmental Exposures [ABSTRACTS] (Presidential Ballroom)

10:35-10:50 Moderator: M. Kathryn Brown, PhD, University of Cincinnati
10:50-11:15 The Mammary Gland as a Sensitive Tissue for Detecting Effects of Environmental Compounds
Suzanne Fenton, PhD, US EPA [video]
11:15-11:40 Prenatal Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) Induces Genomic Alterations in the Rat Mammary Gland
Jose Russo, MD, Fox Chase Cancer Center [video]
11:40-12:05 Bisphenol A, Mammary Cancer and Proteomics Studies in a Rat Model
Coral Lamartiniere, PhD, University of Alabama [video]
12:05-12:30 Talking with Our Study Families: What, When and How to Report Study Findings
Ann Hernick, University of Cincinnati [video]
12:30-12:55 Q & A
12:55-1:00 Closing Remarks
1:00 Box Lunches (Gibson Foyer, third level)
1:00-1:30 Mentoring Session (Hayes Room, third level)

 

 

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