title: Impact of EMS outreach: successful developments in Latin America.
abstract: This collection of articles was inspired by the long-standing relationship between the Environmental Mutagen Society and Latin American scientists, and by the program for the 39th Environmental Mutagen Society meeting in Puerto Rico in 2008, which included a symposium featuring "South of the border" scientists. This collection, compiled by Graciela Spivak and Ofelia Olivero, both originally from Argentina, highlights scientists who work in or were trained in Latin American countries and in Puerto Rico in a variety of scientific specialties related to DNA repair and cancer susceptibility, genomic organization and stability, genetic diversity, and environmental contaminants.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Institute, NIH, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Carcinogen-DNA Interactions Section, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Ofelia A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Olivero
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Larramendy
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soloneski
authors.forename: Carlos F M
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Menck
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matta
authors.forename: Gustavo A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Folle
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zamorano-Ponce
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Spivak
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001118:Argentina; D001938:Brazil; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D004260:DNA Repair; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D009153:Mutagens / Q000633:toxicity*; D011647:Puerto Rico; D012958:Societies, Scientific / Q000639:trends*
chemical_list: D009153:Mutagens