News and announcements

What?
Presentation entitled: 'Fish as social animals: Implications for Aquatic Toxicology'

Who?
Prof. Dr. Katherine Sloman (University of Plymouth, UK)

Several members of our lab will be presenting their research at the SETAC North America 28th Annual Meeting, which will take place from 11-15 November 2007 at the Midwest Airline Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The meeting will focus on urban environmental issues and impacts on ecological systems.

What?
Ecology seminar: The impacts of pesticides on aquatic communities: Connections to global amphibian declines?

Who?
Prof. Dr. Rick Relyea (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Feel free to attend any of the sessions listed below:

Researcher: Freddy Dardenne
Title: 'Relevance and validation of bacterial stress gene assays in environmental toxicology'
Date and time: Wednesday 19th March 2008 at 16h30
Location and aula: Campus Groenenborger - U.024

The following researchers of the EB&T group will be attending the SEB metals symposium 2007:

Ronny Blust - Platform presentation 'Kinetics of internal and external metal binding; explanations for differences in availability and toxicity of metals across species'
Lieven Bervoets - Platform presentation 'Do acid volatile sulfides (AVS) control the bioavailability of metals to benthic macro-invertebrates?'
Irina Komjarova - Platform presentation 'Effect of Ca2+, Na+ and pH on the simultaneous uptake of of Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in the water flea Daphnia magna and zebrafish Danio rerio at environmentally relevant concentration'
Marleen Eyckmans - Poster presentation 'Defence mechanisms of fish with different sensitivity towards heavy metals: Interaction and dynamics of proteins and hormones'
Niko Celis - Poster presentation 'The impact of salinity on the uptake rate of Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in the European sea bass'

Details of the congress are as follows:

Essential and Non-Essential Metal
Metabolism in Aquatic Organisms
3rd - 5th September 2007
King's College London