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SHORT SPEAKER BIOS ( I n alphabetical order by last name)

Lawrence P. Burkhard. Lawrence is a research chemist with EPA ’s ORD

, NHEERL, Mid

Continent Ecology Division located in Duluth, MN

. H e has done research on i) the

bioaccumulation of contaminants in aquatic organisms and their food webs, ii) contaminated sediment sites, and iii) toxicity based analytical methods for the identification of unknown toxicants in environmental samples. He received a MS and PhD in Water Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin

- Madison.

Michelle R. Embry. Mi chelle is a Senior Scientific Program Manager at the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI), a non

- profit organization based in Washington DC, where she manages multi

- sector, international projects related to ecological and human health

ri sk assessment. Prior to joining HESI in 2006, she was an ecological risk assessor at the USEPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs. She received a B.S. in Biology and a Ph.D. in toxicology from Duke University.

Janet Gardner has been Chemical Regulatory Man ager at Amyris since 2011. Amyris is a renewable products company based in Emeryville, CA. The prior 20 years of her career in the safety and regulatory field were with The Clorox Company and Life Technologies. Janet holds

a Bachelor’s of Science in E nvironmental Toxicology from the University of California at Davis and a Master’s degree in Theological Studies.

Dr. Tala Henry has been with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for

20 + years. She is currently Director of the Risk As sessment Division in the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics where she leads several Agency programs that assess the health and

environ m ental hazards, exposures and risks of new and exi s ting c h e m icals, microorganisms and applications of biotechnology . Much of Dr. Henry’s professional experience with EPA has been as a Toxicologist. She has worked in a variety of programs at the EPA including conducting research on the toxicity of chemicals, conducting risk assessments for hazardous waste sites, and dev eloping Water Quality Criteria. Dr. Henry has also served as the United States representative and technical expert for a number of international chemical assessment and management activities. Dr. Tala Henry received a B.A. in Biology from the College of S t. Scholastica, a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Minnesota and completed a Post

Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin

- Madison.

Jaeshin Kim. Jaeshin has been working for Dow Corning Corporation as Environmental Chemist since 2008. His major research areas are environmental modeling and atmospheric degradation of volatile compounds. Previously, Jaeshin was a research engineer at POSCO and RIST (Korea) for five years with emphasis on advanced water and wastewater treatment. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University (Korea) and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from University of Washington (Seattle, WA).2

Dr . E. Laurence Libelo is a senior Environmental Engineer with the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. He hold a B.S.in Geology from the University of Maryland, M.S. in Environmental Science and Eng ineering from Virginia Tech and Ph.D. in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary. Dr. Libelo works on chemical fate and exposure in the Risk Assessment Division. His primary areas of expertise are in fate and transport and fluorochemicals. He has additional experience evaluating fate, transport and exposure for pesticide chemicals in the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs. Prior to joining EPA he conducted lab and field research on contaminant hydrogeology and remediation of fuel,

solvent and A FFF chemicals at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. He has also worked for the U.S.G.S. and a private contractor on groundwater transport, environmental monitoring and microwave interaction with silicon and oxide crystal structures.

Daniel J. Letin ski. Presently a Senior Scientific Associate, Dan has been with ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. (EMBSI) and its predecessor organization since 1986 as an environmental chemist. He currently supervises the analytical section of EMBSI’s environmental toxicology and chemistry laboratory. His current work focuses on both passive dosing to support aquatic toxicity testing and passive sampling for assessing the bioavailability of hydrocarbons in

environmental media. He received both a B.S. and M.S. in E nvironmental Science with a concentration in environmental contamination and analysis from Rutgers University

.

Daniel Salvito is the Vice President, Environmental Sciences for The Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, Inc. (RIFM). RIFM is an indep endent scientific organization, which tests and evaluates the safety of fragrance materials. The Institute represents more than seventy member companies on a worldwide basis. Dr. Salvito is responsible for overseeing the planning, development and implemen tation of the environmental program at RIFM. Dr. Salvito joined RIFM in 1999. Dr. Salvito holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Adelphi University and a Masters of Science degree in chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony B rook. He completed his Ph.D. in environmental science from Rutgers University. His current research interests include the aquatic and terrestrial fate of organic chemicals. Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Salvito is a member of the American Chemic al Society and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. He presently serves on ECETOC’s Scientific Committee. He has authored over 20 scientific publications and presentations.

Gordon Sanders : Gordon is Environmental Toxicology Manager within the Regulatory and Product Affairs department of Givaudan, a World leader in the compounding and formulation of flavours and fragrances and producer of speciality chemicals. Prior to working in the F&F industry, Gordon spent 11

- Years as an analyti cal then environmental fate chemist within the plant protection industry. Gordon holds a BSc in Agricultural Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry.

Lee E. Sayers Lee is a Senior Research Biologist at Smithers Viscient and has been part of the Ecotox team since 2000. Prior to joining Smithers she was a microbiologist specializing in bioassays for the detection of viral contaminates for BioReliance, Rockville, MD. Lee currently oversees chronic testing with fish and in vertebrates, including exposures designed to evaluate potential endocrine disruption. Lee received her dual B.A. in Biology and Classical Greek from Colgate University.3

Kathy Schechter has been a research chemist for the Industrial Chemistry Branch o f the Environmental Protection Agency for 15 years, but has been associated with the New Chemical review and Premanufacture Notice (PMN) processing for 18 years. She has Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics from North Carolina State Un iversity and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Champaign

- Urbana.