"Trends in Metals Toxicity and Ecotoxicity"
BelTox Annual Scientific Meeting, 8 December 2011
Lamot Conference Center, Mechelen
(To download the program, use the attachment at the bottom of this page)|
8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration and welcome
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Morning Session – Chair: Francesca Tencalla
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9:00 – 9:05 |
Welcome Mark Martens (President BELTOX) |
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Keynote lecture: Metals: Looking forward based on the REACH experience Colin Janssen (UGhent) and Violaine Verougstraete (Eurometaux) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session |
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10:30 – 12:15 |
Young Scientist competition 7 x 15 min presentations |
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12:15- 12:30 |
Election of the new BelTox Steering Committee Lunch and Poster Session |
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Afternoon Session – Chair: Patrick Kestemont
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13:30 – 14:00 |
Environmental bioavailability Patrick van Sprang (ARCHE consulting) |
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14:00 – 14:30 |
Bioaccessibility Testing and Its Application to Read-across for hazard assessment and risk characterisation of metals Adriana Oller (Nickel Institute) |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Particularities of metals testing Rodger Battersby (EBRC) |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break and Poster Session |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
From observations to toxicogenomic responses of toxic metal exposure in the population Tim Nawrot (University of Hasselt) |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
Case study: Cobalt-toxicology as a driver for product development Steven Verbeckmoes (Umicore) |
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17:00 – 17:30
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Proclamation of winning presentations and posters
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17:30 |
Closing comments – Dominique Lison |