SETAC Berlin 2012

Fellow contributions and other relevant contributions:

20 May 2012

Short course: Introduction to population models for ecological risk assessment and their documentation using TRACE.
The course will be organized by Volker Grimm and Pernille Thorbek; further lecturer is Nika Galic.
Full day course

21 May 2012

SS02 – New challenges for Ecological Risk Assessment
11:15 – 11:35 ECC Room 4 (special sessions)
CREAM presentation by:
*Volker Grimm – Mechanistic effect modelling for ecological risk assessment: state-of-the art, trends, and challenges

EM02P1 – Fate and exposure modelling
08:00 – 18:00 Poster area
CREAM poster by:
*Natnael Tesfaye Hamda – Mathematical modeling of point source pollutants fate and transport in the Little Akaki River, Ethiopia  (MO 080)

RA11P – Guidance documents and guidelines for environmental risk assessment (ERA): needs, developments and progress
08:00 – 18:00 Poster area
CREAM posters by:
*Alpar Barsi A partial life-cycle toxicity test to assess the effects of endocrine disruptors in the great pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (MO 452)
*Agnieszka Hunka –Stakeholders’ view on ecological risk assessment in the EU: what are we trying to protect and why might we be failing (MO 468)

 

22 May 2012

ET14 – Bringing ecological processes into ecotoxicological risk assessment
08:15-10:15  ECC Hall D
CREAM presentation by:
*Devdutt Kulkarni – Using a modelling approach to compare sensitivities to Triphenyltin at the individual and population levels for three planktonic organisms (09:55 – 10:15)

ET02 – Advanced statistical methods in quantative ecotoxicology
10:50-12:50 ECC Room 2
CREAM presentation by:
*Elke Zimmer (Tjalling Jager) Interpretation of toxicity data requires appropriate models for process and noise (11:30-11:50 )

SS07 -Platform presentations: MeMoRisk session on ecological modelling in support of terrestrial risk assessments
16:00-18:30 ECC Room 2
CREAM presentations by:
*Agnieszka Bednarska – The importance of absorption, elimination and feeding pattern: using toxicokinetics modelling to refine the risk assessment of pesticides to wildlife (16:40-17:00)

ET14P – Bringing ecological processes into ecotoxicological risk assessment
08:00 – 18:00 Poster area
CREAM posters by:

  *Jaqueline Augusiak
To move or not to move? Effects of sub-lethal pesticide exposure on movement behaviour of Asellus aquaticus (TU 473)

23 May 2012

ET15A – Pesticide fate and ecotoxicology
08:15-10:15        ECC Hall D
CREAM presentations by:
*Lara Ibrahim – A focal fish species for pesticide risk assessment in the EU  (08:35-08:55)
*Annika AgatzSub-lethal effects of imidacloprid pulses to aquatic invertebrates (09:15-09:35)
*Anna-Maija Nyman – Low concentrations of imidacloprid cause mortality of Gammarus pulex by interfering with feeding behavior (09:55-10:15)

RA14 – Landscape ecotoxicology and spatially explicit risk assessment
08:15-10:15        Estrel Hall A
CREAM presentations by:
*Katarzyna Kulakowska – An agent-based woodpigeon population model used to estimate pesticide exposure in realistic landscapes (09:35-09:55 )

RA01 – Applying models to risk assessments: from the organism to the ecosystem level
10:50-12:50        Estrel Hall A
CREAM presentations by:
*Benjamin Martin – How do adverse effects on individual endpoints translate to effects at the population level?  (10:50-11:10)
*Mattia Meli – Exploring the consequences of spatial heterogeneity in pesticide exposure using an individual-based model of collembolan populations (11:10 – 11:30)
*Natnael Hamda – Stochastic density dependent matrix model to extrapolate effects of toxicants from laboratory tests to population-level effects: case study on Folsomia candida exposed to cadmium  (11:50-12:10)

RA15 – Linking exposure to effects in environmental risk assessment
14:00-16:00        Estrel Hall A
CREAM presentations by:
*Anna-Maija Nyman – Putting toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic theory into practice  (14:20-14:40)
*Nika Galic – The relevance of toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic processes for the population recovery of Gammarus pulex after exposure to pesticides (15:00-15:20)
*Chun Liu – Linking pesticide exposure to spatial dynamics: an individual-based model of wood mouse populations (15:20-15:40)

RA08 – Escape from the Ivory Tower – Environmental sciences should impact public and policy
14:00-16:00        ECC Room 3
CREAM presentations by:
*Agnieszka Hunka – Discourse of risk communication – taking the risk of communicating risks  (14:20-14:40)

WEPC6 – Linking exposure to effects in environmental risk assessment
17:50-18:15        Foyer 3
CREAM & other relevant presentations by:
*Elke Zimmer – TKTD modelling of interactions between toxicants and food – a case study for diquat in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis    (17:50-18:15)
B. Daniels , *Devdutt Kulkarni ,H.T. Ratte ,T.G. Preuss – Applying the general unified threshold model of survival (GUTS) to describe toxic effects of Triphenyltin Hydroxide on the cyclopoid copepod Mesocyclops leuckarti (17:50-18:15 )

RA01P – Applying models to risk assessments: from the organism to the ecosystem level
08:00-18:30        Poster area
CREAM posters by:
*Natnael Hamda, Benjamin T. Martin, Volker Grimm, Tjalling Jager, Ryszard Laskowski- DEB model to interpret the combined effects of toxicants and environmental factors: case study on Folsomia candida (WE 006)

RA14P – Landscape ecotoxicology and spatially explicit risk assessment
08:00-18:30        Poster area
CREAM poster by:
*Tomasz Kulakowski, Kulakowska, K.A., Sibly, R.M.- A new approach to landscape representation in agent-based models for pesticide risk assessment (WE 108)
*Andreas Focks, N. Galic ,P.J. Van den Brink Does water network structure matter for the simulated recoveries of aquatic macroinvertebrate populations after pesticide stress? (WE106)

RA15P – Linking exposure to effects in environmental assessment
08:00-18:30        Poster area
CREAM posters by:
*Elke Zimmer How to identify the metabolic mechanism of action (mMoA) from toxicity data? Comparing species and effects in a DEB framework (WE 121)
*Agnieszka Bednarska –Toxicokinetics model for an insecticide in rats: implications for higher-tier risk assessment (WE134)
*Roman Ashauer – Linking fluctuating exposure concentrations to effects: a retrospective and a prospective case study (WE 145)

24 May 2012

ET03B – Animal alternatives: methods, endpoints and testing strategies
10:50-12:50        ECC Room 1
CREAM presentations by:
*Julita Stadnicka – Predicting chemical concentrations in fish and fish cells to account for internal exposure in toxicity assessment (12:10-12:30)

RA13P – Implementation of protection goals: Limits of current risk assessment and new approaches to solve old problems
08:00-18:30        Poster area
CREAM posters by:
*Faten Gabsi – Do we need modelling for a conservative risk assessment? An investigation on Daphnia magna populations   (TH245)
08:00-18:30        Poster area

RA17P – Multiple stressors in a changing world
08:00-18:30        Poster area
CREAM & other posters by:
*Ida Dolciotti – Influence of environmental factors on the response of Daphnia magna population to pesticide applications (TH 278)
M.I. Mietelska , *D.M. Jevtic ,R. Laskowski – The effects of copper and temperature on interspecific interaction between two collembolan species, Folsomia candida and Sinella curviseta