SETAC Europe Annual Meeting

The SETAC Europe Annual Meeting is Europe's biggest meeting on environmental toxicology and chemistry with more than 1500 presentations in parallel platform sessions and poster sessions, participants and scientific speakers from academia, business and government and a blend of scientists and practioners, researchers and regulators all in attendance. The theme of this year is 'Science and Technology for Environmental Protection'.

Sessions at the SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting will cover the following topics:

A - Climate change and environmental quality
- A01: Climate change and quality of water resources: what needs for research?
- A02: Ecotoxicology and ecotoxicological risk assessment in a changing climate
- A03: The other CO2 Problem: Effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms

B - Environmental chemistry
- B01: Current trends and new findings in plant uptake of organic chemicals
- B02: Environmental chemistry of ionizable organics
- B03: Fate and biogeochemistry of metals
- B04: Fate and exposure modelling
- B05: Fate of pesticides in soil, water and air
- B06: Passive sampling and dosing techniques
- B07: Sorption and bioavailability of organic chemicals

C - Emerging pollutants
- C01: Exposure and effects of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Productsv(PPCPs)
- C02: Fate of emerging contaminants during wastewater treatment
- C03: Integrated chemical and biological approaches for toxicant identification
- C04: Per- and polyfluorinated organics: tracking the sources of human exposure
- C05: Plastics in the environment: unwrapping their fate and effects and finding solutions
- C06: Sources and environmental fate of poly- and perfluorinated compounds
- C07: Volatile methyl siloxanes in the environment

D - Ecotoxicology
- D01: Advances in bioaccumulation assessment: from models to the field
- D02: Aquatic macrophytes ecotoxicology and risk assessment: state of the art
- D03: Ecosystem vulnerability to stress factors
- D04: Environmental animal alternatives in the 21st century
- D05: Hazard, exposure and risk assessment of pesticides, biocides and their mixtures
- D06: Histopathology in ecotoxicology
- D07: Indirect effects in ecotoxicology
- D08: Linking sub-individual effects with ecologically relevant parameters
- D09: Metals in the environment: Speciation, bioavailability, effects and adaptation
- D10: Natural toxins in the environment
- D11: New endpoints in genotoxicity and cytotoxicity studies
- D12: OMICS: From gene to ecosystem
- D13: Responses to combined stressors including chemical mixtures
- D14: Trait-based approaches in ecotoxicology
- D15: Tropical ecotoxicology
- D16: Wildlife toxicology: temporal and spatial facets of exposure and effects

E - Handling, monitoring and remediation of pollution
- E01: Advances in sustainable remediation of contaminated soils, sediments and groundwater
- E02: Environmental impact of amendments on soil ecology and soil organic matter quality
- E03: New approaches in bioremediation
- E04: Phytoremediation as a sustainable management tool for contaminated land
- E05: Risk Mitigation Measures to protect the environment in the authorization procedure of plant protection products

F - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Management (LCM)
- F01: Critical reviews in Life Cycle Assessment and related studies
- F02: Handling time in LCA
- F03: Land use impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Life Cycle Assessment
- F04: Life Cycle Inventories - Appropriate for footprints and accounting?
- F05: Life Cycle Management: Putting life cycle thinking into practice
- F06: Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis
- F07: Multi-stressor impacts in life cycle and risk assessment
- F08: New developments in life cycle impact assessment fostered by new computational and analytical tools
- F09: Strengthening uncertainty analysis in LCA

G - Marine environment
- G01: Accidental Spills at Sea - Risk assessment, treatment, mitigation and post-incident monitoring
- G02: Marine and estuarine ecosystem protection: Biological tools and risk assessment
- G03: The fate and effects of (organic) pollutants in the marine environment: from estuaries to the open ocean and the Arctic environment
G04: Role of ecotoxicology and risk assessment in relation to the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

H - Nanomaterials
- H01: Detection, quantification and characterization of nanoparticles
- H02: Fate and effects of nanomaterials
- H03: Risk management of nanomaterials
- H04: Sources and magnitude of releases of engineered nanomaterials

I - Risk assessment and regulation

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Why should you attend?

- The SETAC Europe Annual Meeting is Europe’s biggest meeting on environmental toxicology and chemistry.

- Expand your network, get in touch with more than 2000 scientists from Europe and the rest of the world attending the meeting.

- Meet representatives from academia, business and government.

- Get updated on the latest research results and scientific opinions.

- All major topics on environmental sciences presented in 8 parallel sessions.

- An exhibition with representatives from the major European and National Environmental Consultancy firms, testing laboratories, research labs etc.

- An exciting social programme.

- Enjoy the city of Seville and the colourful districts.

You can find all the information about the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting at: seville.setac.eu/home