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2007 Gordon Cain Conference
New Chemical Bodies: Biomonitoring, Body Burden, and the
Uncertain Threat of Endocrine Disrupters
22–23 March 2007
Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Conference Schedule

Thursday, 22 March 2007
Opening Plenary and Reception (free and open to the public)

5:00 p.m.

Welcome

  Ronald Brashear, Director of the Othmer Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation

 


5:05 p.m.

Introduction

  Jody Roberts, Gordon Cain Fellow in Technology Policy and Entrepreneurship, Chemical Heritage Foundation
   
  "Disruption of Reproductive Development by Phthalates: Implications
for Human Health"
  Paul D. Foster, Deputy Director of the National Toxicology Program's
Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction at the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
   
  "Principles of Biomonitoring and its Application in Assessing Exposures
to Potential Endocrine Disrupters"
  Larry Needham, Chief of the Organic Analytical Toxicology Branch of the
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control
   
  "A Revolution in the Environmental Health Sciences: New Opportunities
for Disease Prevention"
  John Peterson Myers, CEO and Chief Scientist at Environmental Health
Services
   

7:00 p.m.

Reception

 

Friday, 23 March 2007
Conference (open to invited participants only)

8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

   

 9:00 a.m.

Session I: Converging Landscapes: Chemistry Meets Toxicology Meets the Environment

 


  "Active Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and Possible Means for Remediation"
  Terry Collins, Carnegie Mellon University
   
  Moderator: Jody Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation
   
   
10:00 a.m. Break
   
10:15 a.m. Session II: Legal Landscapes: Invasion, Regulation, and the Sovereignty of Bodies
   
  "From Guinea Pigs to Subjects to Sovereigns: A Proposal about the Morality of Protection from Chemical Invaders"
  Carl Cranor, University of California, Riverside
   

 

Commentator: Scott Frickel, Tulane University

   
  Moderator: Arthur Daemmrich, Chemical Heritage Foundation
   
   
11:15 a.m. Break
   
11:30 a.m. Session III: Population Landscapes: Notes from the Field
   
  "Dioxin Exposure, Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Sex Ratio of Births in Mantua, Italy: A Study by Informal Science Networks"
  Paolo Rabitti (Engineer and environmental planner), Gloria Costani Rabitti (MD, general practitioner), Edoardo Bai (MD, occupational health physician)
   
  "Final Report: Comparison of Japanese Quail and Bobwhite Quail in a Two-Generation Dietary"
  Mary Ann Ottinger, University of Maryland
   
  Commentator: Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
   
  Moderator: Cyrus Mody, Chemical Heritage Foundation
   
12:30 p.m. Lunch
   
1:30 p.m. Session IV: Personal Landscapes: Locating Individuals in the Fields of Data
   
  "In Pursuit of the Molecule: Making and Making Sense of Chemical Body Burdens in the United States"
  Rachel Washburn, University of California, San Francisco
   
  Commentator: Myra Karstadt, Drexel University
   
  Moderator: Sarah Vogel, Columbia University
   
2:30 p.m. Break
   
2:45 p.m. Session V: Community Landscapes: Communicating for Involvement and Decision Making
   
  "Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring: Lay Input on Surveillance, Communication, and Ethics"
  Jessica W. Nelson, Madeleine K. Scammel (Boston University), and Rebecca Gassior Altman (Brown University), et al.
   
  Commentator: Claudia Olivieri, BASF
   
  Moderator: Wendy Verhoff, Chemical Heritage Foundation
   
3:45 p.m.

Break

   
4:00 p.m. Session VI: Landscapes of the Future: Proposals for Next Steps
   
  Moderator: Jody Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation
   
5:15 p.m.

Reception and Dinner

   

For further information concerning conference content, please contact:

Jody Roberts
Gordon Cain Fellow
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Fax: 215-925-6195
jroberts@chemheritage.org

For logistical information on attending the conference, please contact:

Jennifer McCafferty
Events Coordinator
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Phone: 215-873-8202
Fax: 215-629-5202
jmccafferty@chemheritage.org