EGI-sponsored

Upcoming meetings

113th Annual Meeting, National Shellfisheries Association (NSA), Charlotte, NC, 2021
Acacia Alcivar-Warren and Kathy F.J. Tang, co-chairs
The Shrimp Epigenome (ShrimpENCODE) Project session, and
ONE HEALTH Epigenomics and Microbiomes: From Soil to People' workshop
March 21-26, 2021, Charlotte, NC, USA, https://www.shellfish.org/annual-meeting
 
5th International Symposium on UNA SALUD / ONE HEALTH Epigenomics and Microbiomes: From Soil to People’, co-sponsored by FUCOBI, EGI, U de San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador.
2021 - date to be confirmed, due to COVID-19 pandemics.

Past meetings

ONE HEALTH Epigenomics and Microbiomes: From Soil to People Symposium, Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center, MA, USA, March 16-18, 2017.
 
110th Annual Meeting, National Shellfisheries Association, Seattle, Washington, March 2018.
 
111th Annual Meeting, National Shellfisheries Association, New Orleans, Louisiana (Triennial), February 2019.
 
112th Annual Meeting, National Shellfisheries Association, Baltimore, Maryland (cancelled), March/April 2020.
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 JIMMY ALCIVAR-ARTEAGA RESEARCH AND TRAVEL AWARDS

FUNDACIÓN PARA LA CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD ACUÁTICA Y TERRESTRE (FUCOBI), ECUADOR & ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS INC. (EGI), MASSACHUSETTS, USA  
In memory of Jimmy Alcivar-Arteaga, brother of Dra. Acacia Alcivar-Warren, Founder and First President of the FUCOBI Foundation. He died of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
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 'JIMMY ALCIVAR-ARTEAGA RESEARCH AND TRAVEL AWARDS'  FOR MINORITIES STUDENTS FROM LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN, UNITED STATES (PUERTO RICO, NATIVE AMERICANS, PACIFIC ISLANDS), AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES.

ABSTRACTS ABOUT THE FOLLOWING TOPICS WILL BE GIVEN PRIORITY:

1. METALS, GLYPHOSATE, ROUNDUP AND BISPHENOL IN MANGROVE SEDIMENT NEAR BANANA AND SHRIMP FARMS, AND IN COW'S MILK CHEESE AND AGRICULTURAL SOIL.
2. TOXICOLOGICAL TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE (F0-F3) TO ASSESS HEALTH RISKS CAUSED BY EXPOSURE TO GLYPHOSATE AND ROUNDUP TO MARINE ANIMALS (SHRIMP, MOLLUSCS) AND PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEAR ESTUARIES AND WETLANDS.
3. GLYPHOSATE-FREE AQUACULTURE FEEDS.
4. GLYPHOSATE-FREE SHRIMP..

Interested students, please send a message to fucobi1@gmail.com to request the application form for a ‘Jimmy Alcivar-Arteaga Research and Travel Award’, including a 250-words abstract.
The above projects are part of the FUCOBI Foundation Program ‘UNA SALUD / ONE HEALTH: Conservando Ecosistemas Saludables, para Mantener Animales Saludables, y Proteger la Salud Pública a Largo Plazo - https://www.fucobi.org/becas.html
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