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NRP50 Seminars in
Environmental Toxicology
Center for Xenobiotic and Environmental Risk Research
(XERR),
University of Zurich,
University of Basel, and Eawag Dübendorf
Lemanic Network of
Toxicology (LNT),
University of Lausanne, University of Geneva,
and EPF Lausanne
Seminar
Programmes 2002-2008
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This series of
seminars was discontinued by end of 2008. For
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Felix Althaus (044-635
8762),
Susanne Bachmann
(044-635 8761) Institute of Veterinary Pharmacology and
Toxicology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 260, 8057 Zurich
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Summer Semester 2002 |
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May 22
May 23 |
Peter
Fried
Dept. of Psychology, Carlton University, Ontario, Canada
Differential effect of
prenatal exposure to cigarettes and marihuana on cognitive
performance in adolescent offspring: Are there Cig-nificant
and/or joint effects
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May 30
May 31 |
Vickie S.
Wilson
Reproductive Toxicology Division, US EPA, Research Triangle
Park, USA
Developmental
effects of phthalates
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June 6 |
Ana Soto
Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Tufts University, Boston, USA
Mammalian development meets the
environment: Exposure to endocrine disruptors reveals the
developmental plasticity of steroid hormone target organs
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July 4
July 5
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Deliang
Tang
Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public
Health, Columbia University, New York, USA
Molecular epidemiology in children
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Winter Semester 2002/2003 |
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October 31
November 1 |
Edwin De
Pauw
Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Chemistry Institute, University of
Liège, Belgium
Mass spectrometry in
the strategy of monitoring the exposure to endocrine disruptors
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December 5
December 6 |
Jörg
Oehlmann
Department of Ecology and Evolution – Ecotoxicology, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Effects of endocrine
disruptors on prosobranch snails
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January 16
January 17 |
Per-Erik
Olsson
Section of Biology, Department of Natural Sciences, Örebro
University, Sweden
Three-spined stickleback nest
protein, spiggin, a novel biomarker for androgenic effects in
wildlife
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January 23
January 24
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Morten
Tryland
Institute of Medical Biology, Dept. of Microbiology and
Virology, Medical Faculty, University of Tromsø, Norway, Dept.
of Arctic Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian School of Veterinary
Science, Tromsø, Norway
Polar bears in the high arctic -
exposed to infectious agents and organochlorines
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Summer Semester 2003 |
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May 8
May 9 |
Nissanka Rajapakse
School of Pharmacy, University of London, U.K.
Unravelling this mixed-up world - concepts to
study mixed exposures to endocrine disrupters
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May 15
May 16 |
Werner Kloas
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries,
Berlin, Germany
Amphibians as a model to study endocrine
disruptors in the environment
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June 5
June 6 |
Olli Jänne
Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Finland
Molecular mechanisms of androgen signaling
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June 26
June 27
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Bart van der
Burg
BioDetection
Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fishing for endocrine disruptors using cells and zebrafish
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Winter Semester 2003/2004 |
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November 6
November 7 |
Rosemary Waring
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Endocrine disrupters and
oestrogen sulphation: the story in man and fish
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November 27
November 28 |
Lennart
Weltje
Department of Ecology and Evolution – Ecotoxicology,
J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Effects of pharmaceuticals,
pesticides and industrial chemicals with endocrine disrupting
potential on freshwater invertebrates
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January 22
January 23 |
Josef
Köhrle
Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité - Medical
Faculty, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Endocrine disruption of the
thyroid axis - are major effects neglected by focussing research
on sex steroids?
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February 5
February 6
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Andrew C.
Johnson
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), National Environmental
Research Council, Wallingford, U.K.
Predicting where endocrine disruption will occur in a catchment,
linking human metabolism to hydrology
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Summer Semester 2004 |
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April 22
April 23 |
Judy S. LaKind
School of Medicine and School of Law, University of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD; Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA; and
LaKind Associates, LLC, Catonsville, MD, USA
What is in mother's milk and what does it mean? A discourse on
environmental chemicals and breast feeding in infants
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May 13
May 14 |
Anders
Goksøyr
Dept. of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, and Biosense
Laboratories AS, Bergen, Norway
Effects of endocrine
disruptors in fish - from molecular biology to proteomics
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May 27
May 28
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Diego Di Lorenzo
Laboratory of Biotechnology/Hormonology and Toxicology, Civic
Hospital and University of Brescia, Italy
Tissue-specific estrogenic action of environmental chemicals in
male estrogen reporter mice
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Winter Semester 2004/2005 |
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November 11
November 12 |
Toshi Shioda
DNA Microarray Core Facility, MGH Cancer Center, Harvard Medical
School, Charlestown, MA, USA
Microarrays for profiling
estrogen effects
(Abstract)
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December 9
December 10 |
Shanna H. Swan
Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO, USA
Measuring impacts of complex environmental
exposures
on human
populations
[Keynote lecture, XERR 5th Annual Meeting]
(Abstract)
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January 20
January 21 |
Louis J. Guillette Jr.
Associate Dean for Research, CLAS, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL, USA
Aquatic Ecosystems at Risk:
Contaminants and Wildlife
(Abstract)
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February 3
February 4
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Barry G. Timms
Reproductive Biology, Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences,
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
Estrogenic disruption of the male
urogenital system
(Abstract)
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Summer Semester 2005 |
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April 28
April 29 |
Trvtko
Smital
Laboratory for Molecular Ecotoxicology,
Department for Marine and Environmental Research, Rudjer
Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Ecotoxicological relevance of the
MultiXenobiotic Resistance (MXR) inhibitors
(Abstract)
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May 19
May 20 |
Frederick
vom Saal
Division of Biological Sciences, University of
Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA
Actions of low dose environmental
estrogens
(Abstract)
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June 30
July 1
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Rex A. Hess
Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Illinois,
Urbana, IL, USA
Estrogens / Xenoestrogens and
their impact on the male reproductive system
(Abstract)
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Winter Semester 2005/2006 |
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September 21 |
John Sumpter
Department of Biological Sciences, Brunel
University, Uxbridge, U.K.
Endocrine disruption
in the environment: what have we learnt, and was it worth
it?
(Abstract)
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November 3
November 4 |
Françoise Dantzer
Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Université Louis Pasteur, Ecole Supérieure de
Biotechnologie de Strasbourg (ESBS), Illkirch, France
Male infertility in
mice with a deleted PARP-2 gene
(Abstract)
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November 24 |
Paolo
Mocarelli
University Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Hospital of Desio, Desio-Milano, Italy
30 years after
Seveso: what dioxin taught us as an endocrine disruptor in
humans
[Keynote lecture, XERR 6th Annual Meeting]
(Abstract)
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December 15
December 16
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Anna-Maria
Andersson
Department of Growth and Reproduction,
Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Testicular dysgenesis syndrome
and the possible role of environmental factors
(Abstract)
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Summer Semester
2006 |
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April 4
Berne
Kinderspital
Inselspital Bern |
Michael E. Baker
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Structural analysis
of fish and human estrogen receptors: implications for endocrine
disruption by xenobiotics
(Abstract)
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April 6
April 7 |
Eric R. Prossnitz
Departement of Cell Biology and
Physiology
Health Sciences Center
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
GPR30: a novel
intracellular transmembrane G protein-coupled estrogen receptor
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May 18
May 19
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Åke Bergman
Department of Environmental Chemistry
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
PCB metabolites of
concern: Bioaccumulative and toxic polychlorobiphenylols and
methylsulfonyl-PCBs
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Winter
Semester
2006/2007 |
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November 30
December 1 |
Bernard Weiss
Department of Environmental
Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Rochester, NY, USA
Over the course
of a lifetime, from fetal life to old age, brain function is
threatened by environmental chemicals that disrupt hormone action
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December 14
December 15
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Ana M. Soto
School of Medicine,
Department of
Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts
University,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Fetal origins of adult disease: xenoestrogens and breast cancer
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January 18
January 19
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Roberto Samperi
Department of Chemistry, Group of Analytical Methodologies,
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Endocrine
disrupting compounds of natural origin in the aquatic environment
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Summer Semester
2007 |
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April 26
April 27 |
Randy L. Jirtle
Department
of Radiation Oncology,
Duke University Medical Center,
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Environmental
epigenomics and disease susceptibility
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May 10
May 11
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Jürgen Angerer
Institut und
Poliklinik für Arbeits-, Sozial- und Umweltmedizin,
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Erlangen,
Germany
Phthalates -
metabolism and exposure
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May 24
May 25
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Jesús A. F. Tresguerres
Department
of Physiology,
Medical School,
University Complutense,
Madrid, Spain
Hormonal preventio of the aging process
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postponed to
2008
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Richard Sharpe
MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, UK
Developmental
and environmental determinants of male reproductive health: from
human disorders to mechanistic studies in an animal model
(Abstract) |
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Autumn Semester
2007 |
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September 13 |
Jerrold J. Heindel
Scientific Program Administrator, Division of Extramural Research
and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
NIH/DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Obesity: developmental origins and
environmental influences
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November 22
November 23
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Marike
Kolossa-Gehring
Dept. II 1.2: Toxicology and
Human Observation,
Umweltbundesamt (UBA) / German Federal Environment Agency, Berlin,
Germany
Exposure
to chemicals interfering with reproduction - the German
Environmental Survey for Children (GerES IV)
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December 13
December 14
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Patricia Hunt
Center for Reproductive
Biology,
School of Molecular Biosciences
Washington State University,
Pullman, Washington, USA
The egg and the environment
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Spring Semester
2008 |
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April 10
April 11 |
Derek C.G. Muir
Aquatic Ecosystem Protection
Research Division, Environment Canada
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
The challenges of
identifying and measuring novel P, B & T chemicals in commerce
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April 24
April 25
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Cordian Beyer
Institute of Neuroanatomy, University Clinic, RWTH Aachen
University
Aachen, Germany
Estrogen acts as a neurodevelopmental and neuroprotective factor in
the brain
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June 5
June 6
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Bjørn Munro Jenssen
Department of Biology, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and
Technology
Trondheim, Norway
Combined effects of
endocrine disrupters and climate change in arctic mammals and
birds
(Abstract) |
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Autumn
Semester
2008
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Speaker
/ Affiliation / Lecture title
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Septermber 25
September 26
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Heather B. Patisaul
Department
of Zoology, North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Endocrine disruption
of the hypothalamic signaling that regulates reproduction
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