2019 13th International Comet Assay Workshop - SFTG
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2019
13th International Comet Assay Workshop
24-27 June, Pushchino, Moscow region
Including discussion forums, young scientist sessions, allocated poster sessions
and informal gatherings in Russian resort.
Opportunity to visit the historical town Tula,
once home of the famous writer Leo Tolstoy or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
© Zagorodny Hotel "Tsargrad" © Celest via Wikipedia
Hosted by the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
In collaboration with
For details and registration see: http://icaw.vito.be
For additional questions: icawmeetings@gmail.com
Provisional programme
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Time/Day
24-jun. 25-jun. 26-jun. 27-jun. 28-jun.
08:30 Registration
09:00 Opening director
09:30 ICAW Session 4 Shuttles back to Moscow
Open discussion session
10:00 In the morning ICAW Session 1
10:30 Shuttles from Moscow coffee break
11:00 to Pushino coffee break coffee break &
11:30 poster session 2 Round table discussion
12:00 ICAW Session 2
12:30 Lunch
13:00 Lunch 12:30h - 13:30h
13:30 13h - 14h
14:00 Pitch presentations ICAW Session 5
14:30 Social programme
15:00 12-18h coffee break check-out 15h at the latest
15:30 Poster session 1 with
coffee served
16:00 Start at 16:30 ICAW Session 6
16:30
17:00 Registration & Room
ICAW Session 3 Finish at 17:00
Check-in (from 17h)
17:30
18:00 Start ICAW Shuttles back to Moscow
18:30 Keynote speaker
19:00
Welcome Reception
19:30
20:00
20:30
21:00 Conference dinner
19h-23h
21:30
22:00
22:30
23:00
Confirmed speakers Keynote opening lecture: Olga Lavrik (Russia) - "The relevance of studying DNA damage and DNA repair" Scientific sessions: • Nutrition, Dietetics & Nutrigenomics - Goran Gajski (Croatia): “Does a vegetarian diet influence genomic stability? Analysis of health-related biomarkers in vegetarians versus omnivores” - Lisa Giovanelli (Italy): "Dietary intervention with polyphenols and colon health biomarkers: focus on colon cancer chemoprevention". • Non-communicable diseases - Tahereh Setayesh (Austria): "Impact of Weight Loss Strategies on Obesity Induced DNA Instability in Obese Mice" • The various application of the comet assay (e.g. DNA methylation, FISH, non-invasive samples, etc.) - Bevin P. Engelward (USA): "The Development and Validation of EpiComet-Chip" • Ecotoxicology & Environmental biomonitoring • Human Biomonitoring - Carla Costa (Portugal):”NEOGENE project: DNA damage in umbilical cord blood after in utero exposure to tobacco smoke” - Elisa Boutet-Robinet (France): “Genotoxicity and lipids oxidative damage after occupational pesticides exposure” • Nanotoxicology and genotoxicity testing • Round table discussion on the comet assay in regulatory testing and OECD approval • Open discussion session on "Tips, Tricks & Troubelshooting" - Peter Moller (Denmark): "Why analyzing assay controls is not just a waste of time in the comet assay” - Roger Godschalk (The Netherlands): "Comparison of various alternative scoring methods"
Toxicology Letters - ICAW 2019 Special Issue
Topical issues in the Comet Assay:
update from the International Comet Assay Workshop (ICAW) 2019
Throughout the Congress, the scientific committee will select some presentations
(can be either oral or poster presentations) to be published as a paper in a
special issue of the Toxicology Letters journal by Elsevier.
• Toxicology Letters (Elsevier) • Facts and deadlines
• Official Journal of EUROTOX • Number of papers: 15 - 20
• Editor-in-Chief: Wolfgang Dekant • Contributors: must be ICAW 2019 attendee!
• Editorial Board: Helga Stopper (hCOMET) • Submission opening: July/August 2019
• Guest Editors: G. Gajski, S. Langie, A. Zhanataev • Submission deadline: 30th September 2019
• Impact Factor: 3.166 • Acceptance deadline: 31st January 2020
• 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.640 • Expected publication date: beginning of 2020
• https://www.journals.elsevier.com/toxicology-letters • Once a manuscript is accepted it goes into production, and will be
simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the
online Special Issue.
• http://www.eurotox.com/
• Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the
• https://icaw.vito.be/ journal, though they will be clearly marked as Special Issue articles.
https://icaw.vito.be/node/198
Hotel booking • Booking.com - Standard room (incl breakfast) 109,8€/n - Junior suite (incl breakfast) 123,2€/n
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