Conservation Medicine
Location:
Twin Cities Shriners Hospital for Children
2025 East River RoadWe are continuing our series of seminar discussions to complement the ongoing TTM seminars involving the field of conservation medicine this Spring. An introduction to conservation medicine occurred at the April 14,2004 seminar. Those introductory presentations are online. All are welcome. Dinner will be provided. It will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room (as usual) from 6:00 pm until 8:30 pm. The schedule is as follows:
6:00 Dinner & Announcements
6:15 - 6:45 Global Health Update & Introduction to Conservation Medicine. Jonathan Sellman, MD Infectious Disease Consultant, HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinical Scholar Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota
6:45 - 7:00 BREAK
7:00-8:00 Tyrone Hayes Ph.D. - University of California at Berkley. An award-winning toxicologist at Berkeley with interests in environmental endocrinology, specifically studying endocrine disruption with his work focused on the reproductive effects of atrazine on frogs.
Full text links a few to recent publications:
Hayes TB, et al. Hermaphroditic, demasculinized frogs after exposure to the herbicide atrazine at low ecologically relevant doses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Apr 16;99:5476-80.
Hayes TB, et al. Characterization of atrazine-induced gonadal malformations in African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and comparisons with effects of an androgen antagonist (cyproterone acetate) and exogenous estrogen (17beta-estradiol): Support for the demasculinization/feminization hypothesis. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114 Suppl 1:134-41, 2006 Apr.
Hayes TB, et al. Pesticide mixtures, endocrine disruption, and amphibian declines: are we underestimating the impact. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114 Suppl 1:40-50, 2006 Apr.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2007
