UKEMS 2018 will be held from September 2nd – 5th at Magdalen College, Oxford

The IGG have contributed to sessions at this year’s UKEMS meeting by selecting speakers on topics relevant to the industrial community. These include:

James Whitwell, Covance, Harrogate: Extended treatment with recovery is required for detection of certain chemicals in the human peripheral blood lymphocyte assay.

Amy Wilson, AstraZeneca, Cambridge: High content comparison of GeneTox responses in parent and p53 knock out cell lines.

Shareen Doak, Swansea University: 3D liver spheroids for genotoxicity testing.

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Registration for the 32nd Annual IGG meeting will close on Friday June 1st 2018. We have some great talks lined up on the theme ‘Something Old, Something New’. Register today!

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Save the Date – the 2018 IGG meeting will be held on Thursday 14th June 2018 at Covance laboratories in Harrogate.

Thanks to everyone who attended the 31st Annual IGG Meeting at the Hallam Conference Centre, London, from 11th – 12th December 2017.

We had excellent talks on all of the IWGT working groups with great discussion. The evening session on the Monday and breakfast and lunch on Tuesday gave time for networking and catching up with colleagues.

If you attended, please give us your feedback by completing our survey here.

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The EEMGS (European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society) and the GUM (Gesellschaft für Umwelt-Mutationsforschung) will have a joint meeting held at the University of Potsdam, Germany, between 18th and 21st March 2018.

Registration & abstract submission is open. Please visit the webpage for further details on the conference and registration: http://www.eemgs2018.eu/

Abstract Submission DEADLINE: Thursday 30th November EXTENDED, 15th December 2018

Early bird registration deadline is the 18th December 2017; http://www.eemgs2018.eu/registration/

To encourage young scientists to attend the meeting both EEMGS and GUM are awarding travel bursaries to promising young scientists. Further details can be found here: http://www.eemgs2018.eu/bursuries/

To apply for an EEMGS travel bursary (deadline 30th November) please contact the EEMGS president, Helga Stopper; stopper@toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de. You will be notified about your bursary application on the 15th of December, to allow time for you to register for the early bird.

Major topics of the EEMGS/GUM conference:

• Cell-type specificity of genotoxicity and DNA repair
• DNA damage response and DNA repair
• Alternatives to animal testing: Emerging models and techniques
• Mutagenicity and aging
• Discovering causes of disease: New approaches in human biomonitoring
• Environmental Health and early life exposure
• Hot topics in carcinogenicity
• Understanding mechanism underlying mutational signatures in human cancer using whole genome sequencing
• Next generation risk assessment of genetic toxicity
• Testing of impurity for mutagenic potential in drugs, substances and products
• Genome safety in gene therapy

The agenda for the 31st Annual Meeting has now been finalised.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Hans-Joerg Martus (Novartis)
• Ann Doherty (AZ)
• Anthony Lynch (GSK)
• David Kirkland (Kirkland Consulting)

You can see the full agenda here

Don’t miss out on an opportunity to hear all about the topics discussed at the International Workshop on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT) in Japan, and to network and catch up with colleagues. Register here