5th SETAC World Congress

Platform and Poster Sessions

1. Global Issues and Special Symposia
1.1 Interactions between climate change and the fate of contaminants in polar environments (Birgit Braune, Nico van den Brink)
1.2 Long-range transport
1.3 Environmental issues in developing countries
1.4 Nanomaterials in the environment (Nora Savage, Steve Klaine, Teresa Fernandes, T Thomas, Wentsel, Hull, Drobne, Nel and Canas)
      - Nanotechnology and ecotoxicology
      - Environmental fate and transport
1.5 Air pollutants and human health
1.6 Global cycling and fate of chemicals
1.7 Pharmacokinetics
1.8 Soil threats
1.9 Endocrine disruptor effects (Mary Ann Ottinger, Nancy Shappell, Teresa Fernandes, Matt Vijayan)
1.10 Impacts of emerging contaminants
1.11 Omics (Yue Ge, Awadhesh Jha, Jaquie Reed)
      - environmental genotoxicity
      - omics technologies in ecotoxicology

2. Regional Issues
2.1 Threats to coral reefs
2.2 Mining in tropical environments
2.3 Environmental risks of pesticides in developing countries (Fred Heimbach)
2.4 Environmental effects of oil and gas development (Monique Gagnon, Jerry Neff)

3. Environmental Chemistry
3.1 Persistent organic pollutants (Kim Fernie, Robert Letcher, Therese Manning, Tony Roach)
      - Brominated fire retardants
      - Dioxins and PCBs
      - Polyfluorinated chemicals
3.2 Metal speciation and bioavailability
3.3 Sulfide ligands and Group B metal speciation and toxicity
3.4 Pharmaceuticals (James Kramer)
3.5 Personal care products (Dan Salvito, Ian Malcomber)
3.6 Pesticides (Keith Solomon, Fred Heimbach, Marco Nuti, Paul Story) 

4. Environmental Toxicology
4.1 Ecotoxicology of emerging and persistent pollutants
4.2 Tropical ecotoxicology (Andrew Negri, Peter Ralph)
4.3 Use of mesocosms in ecotoxicology
4.4 Mechanisms of toxic action
4.5 Extrapolation from laboratory to field (Matthias Liess, Vin Pettigrove)
4.6 Toxicity tolerance and indirect effects (Claude Amiard-Triquet, Silvia Mohr, Vin Pettigrove)
4.7 Reptiles and amphibians (Reinier Mann, David Pillard)
4.8 Ecotoxicology of microbials as plant protection products
4.9 Cyanobacterial toxins (Francesco Pomati, Haywood Laughinghouse, Stephan Pflugmacher)
4.10 Use of non-mammals (Michael Aschner)
4.11 Impact of biofilms in aquatic systems (Jenny Stauber)
4.12 Histopathology in ecotoxicological testing (Christiana Grim, Leslie Touart)
4.13 Mixture toxicity and multiple stress: different issues (Rolf Altenburger)

5. Environmental Regulation and Management
5.1 Environmental quality guidelines
5.2 Regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to PB and PBT substances (Mark Bonnell, Robert Berthon)
5.3 Mode of action-driven ecotoxicology (Matthew Winter, Duane Huggett)

6. Ecosystems/Ecology
6.1 Effects of multiple stressors
6.2 Improved approaches to ecological assessment
6.3 Indirect ecological effects of pollutants
6.4 Ecotoxicogenomics (proteonomics)
6.5 Bioaccumulation (Wen Wang, Beate Escher)
      - Biokinetic modeling and bioaccumulation assessment
      - Tissue residue approaches to assessment

7. Life Cycle Assessment (Walter Kloepfer, Rana Pant, David Hunkeler)
7.1 New developments in lifecycle impact assessment (LCIA)
7.2 Uncertainty management and communication of LCA results
7.3 Life cycle management (LCM) and LCA in policy making
7.4 LCC, LCA regionalisation, and social LCA

8. Risk Assessment
8.1 Ecological risk assessment of pesticides
8.2 Exposure modelling
8.3 Site-specific community-based risk assessments for metals in water, soil and air (Peter Campbell, Beverley Hale, Will Hendershot)
8.4 Regional scale risk assessment (Ralph Stahl, Wayne Landis)
8.5 Integrated risk management (Cynthia Stahl)
8.6 Integrative and interdisciplinary environmental analysis (Claus Svendsen)
8.7 Trait based ecological risk assessment and biomonitoring (Paul Van Den Brink)
8.8 Contaminated soil risk assessment
8.9 Maximising use of data for environmental assessment
8.10 An ecosystem service approach to ecological risk assessment (Lorraine Maltby, Joke van Wensem)

9. Soils
9.1 Phytoremediation (Saoussen Benzarti)
9.2 Soil remediation (Magnus Engwall)
9.3 Advances in contaminant bioaccessibility methodology for human health risk assessment from ingestion of contaminated soil (Nicholas Basta)
9.4 Soil ecotoxicology (David Spurgeon, Gladys Stephenson, Paul Bacchus, Fred Heimbach)
9.5 Soil chemistry
9.6 Bioavailibility of organic contaminants in soil and sediments (Satish Gupta, M Megharaj)
9.7 Bioavailability of organic contaminants in soil and sediments (Jay Gan, Rai Kookana)

10. Sediments (Susanne Heise, Tom Dillon, Lisa DiPinto)
10.1 Assessment and remediation of contaminated sediments
10.2 Sediment TIEs
10.3 Sediment ecotoxicology
10.4 Sediment chemistry
10.5 Sediment quality standards 
10.6 Bioavailability of organic contaminants in soil and sediments

11. Environmental Analytical Chemistry
11.1 Techniques for assessing metal bioavailability
11.2 Passive sampling of bioavailable contaminants (Keith Maruya)
11.3 The role of specimen banks in retrospective assessment (Jochen Mueller)

12. Sustainability (Elaine Dorward-King, Norbert Scholz, Peter Wade)
12.1 Mining and metals
12.2 Sustainability aspects in decision making
12.3 Sustainably protecting biodiversity in developing countries

Poster Only Sessions

13. Climate, carbon credits and conservation (Steve Klaine, Angus Crossan)
14. Effects of soil properties on metal bioavailability (Nicholas Basta)
15. Hazardous waste and public health (Hana Pohl)
16. Geogenic pollution and human health (Andre Amaral)
17. Human health impacts of natural and anthropogenic micropollutants (Francesco Pomati)
18. Advances in environmental animal alternatives (Michelle Embry, Scott Belanger)
19. Explosives – fate, effects and risk assessment (Pierre Yves Robidoux, George Cobb)
20. Use of GIS techniques for exposure and effect assessments (Roland Kubiak)
21. Quality assurance of toxicity tests for nanoparticles in soils (Drobne)