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RENEW YOUR EMGS MEMBERSHIP
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As the year comes to a close, it's time to renew your EMGS membership and continue enjoying the valuable benefits that help you stay connected with cutting-edge research, professional development, and the EMGS community. Your membership will expire on January 1, 2026. Please take a moment today to renew your EMGS membership.
By maintaining your membership, you’ll continue to have access to:
- Discounted registration for the 2026 Virtual EMGS Annual Meeting where you'll network with leaders in the field, present your research, and attend cutting-edge workshops and SIGs.
- Maintain access to the society’s official journal, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, keeping you up to date with the latest scientific breakthroughs and research advancements.
- Collaboration opportunities with fellow researchers through our SIGs and networking events, allowing you to grow professionally and contribute to the field.
- Career development resources, including mentorship programs, job boards, and tailored webinars for students and early-career scientists.
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Join us online October 12-14, 2026, for the 57th Annual Meeting of the EMGS: Advancing Exposure Science: From Mechanisms to Risk, featuring keynote speakers Drs. Chris Mason and Allan Balmain!
Our virtual poster room, award lectures, platforms, symposia and more are sure to make for three days of thrilling scientific sessions!
We hope to see you there on Zoom!
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BECOME A SPONSOR OF THE 2026 EMGS ANNUAL MEETING
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The 57th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society offers organizations sponsorship opportunities at various levels!
With the evolving research landscape and the financial challenges facing the research community, this virtual meeting is a unique opportunity to reach a larger audience and provide information about emerging technologies and the application of new approaches, particular new approach methodologies, to meet the challenges of genotoxicity research and assess the impact of environmental exposures on human health.
If you would like to support our meeting, please indicate your interest by May 1, 2026.
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2026 EMGS AWARD NOMINATIONS DEADLINE EXTENSION
All Nominations Due: December 31, 2025
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The EMGS offers any member of the scientific community the opportunity to nominate deserving individuals for awards that are presented at the EMGS Annual Meeting. Nominations of members from historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged. Click on the award names below to learn more.
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EMGS Award
This award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of environmental mutagenesis.
Alexander Hollaender Award
This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the application of the principles and techniques of environmental mutagenesis to the protection of human health.
EMGS Service Award
This prestigious award is conferred from time-to-time in recognition of long-standing dedication and service to the Society.
EMGS Education Award
This is a special opportunity for Students, New Investigators and EMGS members to nominate an EMGS member for outstanding contributions to student education and mentorship to receive an award during the EMGS Annual Meeting.
EMGS Young Scientist Award
The EMGS Young Scientist Award solicits a set of highly qualified early career investigators to participate in a contest to give a plenary lecture at the Annual Meeting. The individual with a majority of votes at the end of the voting period is declared the winner of the award.
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SUBMIT A 2027 KEYNOTE SUGGESTION
Deadline: December 15, 2025
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Keynote suggestions are currently being accepted for the 2027 EMGS Annual Meeting! This is your chance to shape the program of our next conference and contribute to the vibrant scientific exchange within our community.
Annual Meeting keynote suggestions can be submitted by
EMGS members until December 15th
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Additionally, please start considering symposia proposals which will be open to submit in
Early 2026!
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9th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENOTOXICITY TESTING
1 - 4 September 2026, Edinburgh, UK
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The International Workshops on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT), founded in the early 1990s, have become a significant workshop format to advance regulatory genotoxicity testing. The working model and structure is to assemble scientific experts, representing academia, health authorities and industry across the major geographic regions, to address topics of strong current interest in the genetic toxicology community.
THE EMGS IS A PROUD SPONSOR OF THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENOTOXICITY TESTING
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GUEST EDITORIAL IN THE CANCER LETTER
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Read the guest editorial, "Experts warn that loss of carcinogen surveillance threatens to increase cancer incidence," in The Cancer Letter, Volume 51 No. 39, Oct 24 2025, pages 26-28.
This editorial was written by Drs. David DeMarini, Rosalie Elespuru, Miriam Poirier, and Errol Zeiger and is endorsed by the EMGS.
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Bevin Engelward
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
After graduating from Yale, I went to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where I studied toxicology in the laboratory of Leona D. Samson. While a graduate student, I was encouraged by two MIT professors to apply for a job. I was stunned that they wanted me to apply and I was a bit daunted. Nevertheless, I dreamed up ideas and wrote my job application before finishing my doctoral thesis. It worked out and so I was able to start my independent laboratory at MIT a year after getting my doctoral degree.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. ROBERT HEFLICH ON HIS RETIREMENT
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After over 40 years, Dr. Robert Heflich is retiring from the National Center for Toxicological Research. As Director of the Division of Genetic and Molecular Toxicology, he maintained an active research program, while managing a division of over 30 scientists and administrative support.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Heflich published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals including the EMGS's official journal, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, where he previously served as Editor-in-Chief.
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Since 1983, Dr. Heflich has been an esteemed member of the EMGS, having served on the EMGS Council (2019-2022) and having received several notable honors including the Alexander Hollaender Award (2018) and the EMGS Service Award (2006).
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Heflich on his illustrious career and retirement!
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READ THE LATEST ISSUE OF EMM
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Read Volume 66, Issue 8 (October 2025) of Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis now!
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Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis publishes original research articles on environmental mutagenesis in six general areas of: mechanisms of mutagenesis, genomics, DNA damage, replication, recombination, and repair, as well as public health and DNA technology. Subsumed under these areas are subject matters that are appropriate for inclusion in EMM.
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The EMGS is able to continue its mission because of your support and generosity. By contributing to a campaign listed below, you'll help ensure that our work continues. Online donations are quick and easy using our secure credit card transactions. We welcome donations of all sizes and payment plans – whether it's a one-time gift, a monthly contribution or part of a matching gifts program.
As a nonprofit, 501(c) 3 organization, under the Internal Revenue Code, contributions to the EMGS typically will be considered tax deductible contributions. Contact us at emgshq@emgs-us.org to learn more.
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The EMGS Endowment Fund is a vehicle to provide significant, stable, long-term financial support that complements the Society’s other revenue sources to aid in our strategic objectives of growth and expanded support of early-career members.
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Do you want to support the work of the Alexander Hollaender International Outreach Committee? Consider a donation to the Alexander Hollaender fund, which supports Alexander Hollaender courses and travel awards. Distribution of the funds is overseen by the AHIOC and does not carry any overhead.
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The EMGS is now on BlueSky!
Follow us @emgsus.bsky.social for the society's latest news, member highlights, and upcoming events!
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Remember to like and share!
Your support is vital in spreading the word about EMGS.
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EMGS MEMBERSHIP REFERRAL PROGRAM
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EMGS members have access to a unique code to share with colleagues who have not previously joined EMGS as regular members (previous trainee members are exempted). There is no limit on how many times the code can be shared to recruit new members.
This program will offer a 25% discount to the new member who uses this code for their first year. If this new member renews their membership the following year, the original EMGS member who recruited them and whose code was used will then receive a 25% discount on their membership for that year.
The 25% discount to the current member will occur only once per year. However, if a member gets 10 or more new members to renew, they will receive a 50% reduction off their membership!
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2025 EMGS Program Chair
