See our meeting flyer for information about our upcoming annual meeting in December or visit the meeting page for more information.

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.
Visit our Twitter account to see some pictures from the meeting.

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

The 2017 UKEMS Annual meeting is being held with the Belgium and Dutch EMS in the old Burgundian town of Leuven, near Brussels in Belgium from 25th – 28th June. IGG are hosting a session on Monday 26th on complex in vitro models and future testing sponsored by Henkel. Speakers include Rhiannon David on 3D bone marrow, Stefan Pfuhler on 3D skin comet and micronucleus assays, Giel Hendriks on ToxTracker and Freddy Van Goethem on mode of action-based classification.

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