Friends Day will be held on Saturday, May 13, 2000, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (same weekend as the Whole Earth Festival). This year's theme is aquatic toxicology, and the agenda is listed below. The cost for the lunch is $5 for grad or undergrad and $15 for faculty or staff. To register, please send an email to rlmorrison@ucdavis.edu by May 12. Parking is free in Visitor Parking Lot 5 near the University Club, but you will need to tell the parking attendant that you are there for "Friends Day" and they will give you a parking pass.
This is an informal event to foster collaboration between our
department and our alumni and Friends from State agencies, environmental
groups, chemical companies, etc. Please join us!!!
AGENDA: TOXICANTS IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT
SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2000, UNIVERSITY CLUB, DAVIS CAMPUS
9:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:30 Welcome - Marion Miller, Chair, UC Davis Department of Environmental
Toxicology
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Marion Miller
9:40 Invited Speakers: Dyan Whyte, San Francisco Bay Regional
Water Quality Control Board -
"Mercury in Tomales Bay"
10:10 Gerald Pollock-Cal EPA Office of Env Health Hazard Assessment
- "Human Health Effects of Mercury"
10:40 Break
11:00 Graduate Student Presentations: Amro Hamdoun - "Coping
with Stress in the Marine Environment: Responses to Natural &
Anthropogenic Insults"
11:15 Scott Nagy - "Green Fluorescent Protein-Based Recombinant
Cell Bioassay for the Detection of TCDD and Other Dioxin-Like
Chemicals
Picture:
Scott Nagy
11:30 Mark Viant - "Effects of Sublethal Copper Exposure
on Red Abalone Measured by In Vivo 31P NMR Spectroscopy"
11:45 Panel Discussion on Aquatic Toxicology
12:15 Wendell W. Kilgore Distinguished Achievement Award Presented
to Samuel N. Luoma, US Geological Survey
12:30 Buffet Lunch and Student Poster Session
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Lunch