1. Role of apoptosis in normal and abnormal development / Philip Mirkes -- 2. Signal transduction pathways as targets for teratogens / Barbara D. Abbott -- 3. Nutrition in developmental toxicology / Deborah K. Hansen -- 4. Epigenetic mechanisms : role of DNA methylation, histone modifications, and imprinting / Robert G. Ellis-Hutchings and John M. Rogers -- 5. Personalized nutrition and medicine in perinatal development / Jim Kaput, James J. Chen, and William Slikker, Jr. -- 6. Targeted gene changes affecting developmental toxicity / Sid Hunter and Phillip Hartig -- 7. Use of mammalian in vitro systems, including embryonic stem cells, in developmental toxicity testing / Terence R.S. Ozolins -- 8. Zebrafish : a nonmammalian model of developmental toxicology / Kimberly C. Brannen. [et al.] -- 9. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling in the risk assessment of developmental toxicants / Mathieu Valcke and Kannan Krishnan -- 10. Integration of whole animal developmental toxicity data into risk assessment / Mark E. Hurtt and Gregg D. Cappon -- 11. Genomic approaches in developmental toxicology / George P. Daston and Jorge M. Naciff -- 12. Comparative bioinformatics and computational toxicology / Thomas B. Knudsen and Robert J. Kavlock -- 13. Investigating drug effects in human pregnancy / Christina D. Chambers.