Lecture: From Silent Spring to Silent Night February 10, 2011

Off-site Lecture: Held at UCR Palm Desert, 75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211. This series is free and open to the public. Reservations are required. Register online at http://palmdesert.ucr.edu/programs/events.html. The herbicide, Atrazine, is a potent hormone disruptor. Dr. Hayes explains his research on male frogs exposed to Atrazine and compares the findings across vertebrate classes, including humans, and discusses the concern about the role of this common environmental contaminant in reproductive hormone-dependent cancers and declining fertility in humans.