Week-at-a-Glance
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Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
Sunday
7:00am – 8:00pm: Registration Desk Open
10:00am – 2:00pm: Nature Package: Biodome/Botanical Gardens/Insectarium
11:30am – 2:00pm: Ice Skating and Planetarium Visit
10:00am – 1:00pm: City Tour of Montreal
6:30pm – 8:00pm: Sunday Opening Session
8:00pm – 11:00pm: Sunday Opening Reception
8:00pm – 11:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours
Short CoursesHalf-day Courses - 8:00am - Noon
- SC01 :: Ecologically Focused Remediation Strategies
- SC02 :: Food Chain Modeling Using Probabilistic Techniques
- SC03 :: Sediment Toxicity Testing: Methods to Achieve Strong Data Sets and Interpret Results
Half-day Courses - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
- SC04 :: Use of the ICE and ACE Modeling Tools to Estimate Aquatic Species Sensitivity to Contaminants
- SC05 :: Analytical Chemistry: A guide to Sample Collection, Laboratory Analysis, and Data Interpretation
Full-day Courses - 8:00am - 5:00pm
- SC06 :: Statistical Assessment of Dose-Response Curves with Free Software
- SC07 :: Advance Mass Spectrometric Analysis for Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment
- SC08 :: Predicting the Toxicity of Metals to Aquatic Organisms: An Introduction to the Biotic Ligand Model
- SC09 :: Gene Expression, Proteomics and Microarrays and their Respective Informatic Approaches to Address Ecotoxicological Issues
- SC10 :: Statistics in Ecotoxicology Using R
- SC11 :: Food-Web Bioaccumulation Modeling of Organic Substances
- SC12 :: Methods Development and Validation Procedures in the Environmental Analytical Laboratory
- SC13 :: Understanding Freshwater Mussels and their Significance in Toxicity Research and Water Quality Management
- SC14 :: Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals
- SC15 :: A Practicum in Probabilistic Modeling for Ecological Risk Assessment
- SC16 :: Endangered Species and Environmental Contaminants: Conducting Problem Formulation under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
Education Outreach Course – 1:00pm – 5:00pm
- EO01 :: Job Skills Workshop: Employment in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Monday
7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open
8:00am – 7:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours
8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions
- Advances in Passive Sampling for Organic Contaminants in Air and Water
- Water Quality Assessment (General)
- Risk Mitigation Tools: Validation and Novel Ideas
- LCA: analytical tools, methods and applications
- Aquatic Toxicology Energetics and Metabolism
- Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability-Part 1
- Mercury Fate and Biogeochemistry-Part 1
- Bioavailability Then and Now - A Session Honoring Dr. Peter Landrum
- Effect of environmental/climatic changes on the risk of toxic effects in aquatic organisms
- Fate of EDCs and Pharmaceuticals in the environment
- Wildlife and Terrestrial Toxicology – Part 1
8:00am – 11:40am: Interactive Platform Session
- Enantionomics-cracking the code of chiral contaminants
11:50am - 12:55pm: Student Noontime Seminar
1:00pm - 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Louis Fortier
1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions
- Evaluation of the Synthetic Pyrethroids in the Aquatic Environment: Regulatory and Risk Concerns
- The Future of Environmental Statistics and Ecological Modeling
- Analytical Determinations in Environmental Matrices
- Life cycle thinking applied to forestry, agricultural, mining, fisheries and petroleum products
- Aquatic Toxicology Energetics & Metabolism
- Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability - Part 2
- Mercury Fate and Biogeochemistry - Part 2
- Bioavailibility and effects of PAHs derived from aluminum smelter operations
- Weight of Evidence in Support of Ecological Risk Assessment: Lines of Evidence
- Toxicity / Effects of EDCs and Pharmaceuticals in the environment
- Wildlife and Terrestrial Toxicology - Part 2
1:50pm – 5:30pm: Interactive Platform Seminar
- Animal Alternatives in Ecotoxicology
8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters
- Current status and application of toxicity reference values (TRVs)in ecological risk assessment
- Weight of Evidence in Support of Ecological Risk Assessment: Lines of Evidence
- Terrestrial ecotoxicology in non-temperate soils
- Analytical Determinations in Environmental Matrices
- Advances in Bioaccumulation Assessment
- Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability
- Environmental Changes in Response to China's Economic Expansion
- Development of tissue residue benchmarks
- Plant availability and toxicity of metals in soils: Challenges for regulatory use
- Mercury Fate and Biogeochemistry
- Fate of EDCs and Pharmaceuticals in the environment
- Wildlife and Terrestrial Toxicology
- Advances in Passive Sampling for Organic Contaminants in Air and Water
- Evaluation of the Synthetic Pyrethroids in the Aquatic Environment: Regulatory and Risk Concerns
- Bioavailibility and effects of PAHs derived from aluminum smelter operations
- Effect of environmental/climatic changes on the risk of toxic effects in aquatic organisms
- Bioavailability Then and Now - A Session Honoring Dr. Peter Landrum
- Water Quality Assessment (General)
- Environmental Contaminants and Municipalities: A Different Set of Challenges
- Bivalve molluscs and mussels as sentinel organisms
- Sensors for Environmental Analysis
5:30pm- 6:30pm: Poster Social
6:30pm - 9:00pm: Student Mentor Dinner (Open to Students and Mentors Only)
9:00pm - Midnight: Dance and Karaoke (Open to Everyone!)
Tuesday
7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open
8:00am – 7:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours
8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions
- Integrating Research, Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Pesticides - Part 1
- Cellular, Organismal and Population Biomarkers Used In Wildlife Toxicology
- Computational Systems Biology and Ecotoxicology
- Case studies on application of life cycle approaches for improved decision making
- Aquatic Toxicology Mechanism
- Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability - Part 3
- Metals in aquatic food webs - Part 1
- Soil Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment
- POPs in Estuarine Environments: Observations in Water, Sediments and Biota
- Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in aqueous systems - Part 1
- Perfluorinated Substances: Sources, Monitoring, Fate, Behaviour and Toxicology. - Part 1
8:00am – 11:40am: Interactive Platform Seminar
- A Tribute to Rick Playle: The interface of toxicology, physiology, and modeling in improving water quality regulations for metals
11:40am – 1:30pm: Women in SETAC Luncheon
1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Derek Muir
1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions
- Integrating Research, Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Pesticides - Part 2
- The immune system as a target for the toxic action of pollutants
- Managing Impaired Aquatic Ecosystems: Defining Problems and Identifying Solutions
- Advances in Bioaccumulation Assessment
- Aquatic Toxicology Endocrine and Reproductive
- Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability - Part 4
- Metals in aquatic food webs - Part 2
- Putting ecology back into ecological risk assessments: the potential of modelling
- Sediment Toxicity Identification Evaluations
- Linking Contaminated Soil to Human and Ecosystem Health Impacts
- Perfluorinated Substances: Sources, Monitoring, Fate, Behavior and Toxicology. - Part 2
1:50pm – 5:30pm: Interactive Platform Seminar
- Bioaccumulation potential of explosive compounds
8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters
- Aquatic Toxicology – Fishes
- POPs in Estuarine Environments: Observations in Water, Sediments and Biota
- Perfluorinated Substances: Sources, Monitoring, Fate, Behaviour and Toxicology
- Soil Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment
- Computational Systems Biology and Ecotoxicology
- Managing Impaired Aquatic Ecosystems: Defining Problems and Identifying Solutions
- Cellular, Organismal and Population Biomarkers Used In Wildlife Toxicology
- The immune system as a target for the toxic action of pollutants
- Sediment Toxicity Identification Evaluations
- Linking Contaminated Soil to Human and Ecosystem Health Impacts
- Impact Methodologies for Various Locations and Special Resolutions
- Stake holders and social aspects in sustainability
- Impact Methodologies for Various Locations and Special Resolutions
- Life cycle thinking applied to forestry, agricultural, mining, fisheries and petroleum products
- LCA: risk and benefits for technology development
- LCA and HERA: Linkages, Lessons and Future Directions
- LCA and policy development in governments and business
- LCA: analytical tools, methods and applications
- Case studies on application of life cycle approaches for improved decision making
- Green Chemicals and Environmental Toxicity: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Integrating Research, Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Pesticides
- Aquatic Toxicology – Plants and Invertebrates
- Assessing the Impact of Uncertainty on Decisions
- The Future of Environmental Statistics and Ecological Modeling
- Metals in aquatic food webs
- Developmental perturbations to fishes by contaminated environments
- Enantionomics-cracking the code of chiral contaminants
5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social
7:00pm – 11:00pm: SETAC Social: 737 Altitude Club
Wednesday
7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open
8:00am – 7:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours
8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions
- Fungicides: Analysis, Fate, and Toxicity
- Evaluating Toxicological Endpoints in Field Populations Using Non-Lethal Methods
- Wildlife Population Risks from Mercury Exposure
- Innovative Planning and Quality Oversight for the Characterization of Complex Sediment Investigations
- Modern Biological Approaches to Medaka/Zebrafish Toxicology
- A Tribute to Rick Playle: The interface of toxicology, physiology, and modeling in improving water quality regulations for metals. - Part 1
- Metals in aquatic food webs - Part 3
- Aquatic macrophytes in ecological risk assessment
- Site-specific Toxicity Evaluations: Practical Constraints of Collecting and Integrating Soil Toxicity Data
- Risk Assessment: Trials and Tribulations of Limiting Factors and Data Gaps. - Part 1
- Biotransformation and Degradation of Brominated Flame Retardants in the Environment
8:00am – 11:40am: Interactive Platform Seminar
- Assessing the Impact of Uncertainty on Decisions
11:50am - 12:55pm: Student Noontime Seminar
1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Violaine Verougstraete will replace Hugo Waeterschoot as the Wednesday speaker.
1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions
- Factors Influencing PAH Exposure and Toxicity
- Invertebrate biomarkers: Applications and Limitations in the assessment of aquatic pollution
- Integrating Science and Assessment in Environmental Management
- Impact Methodologies for Various Locations and Special Resolutions
- Aquatic Toxicology - General
- A Tribute to Rick Playle: The interface of toxicology, physiology, and modeling in improving water quality regulations for metals. - Part 2
- Metals in the Environment: Chemistry and Fate Issues
- Toxicology and risk assessment of reptiles and amphibians
- Environmental Forensics in Sediment
- Risk Assessment : Trials and Tribulations of Limiting Factors and Data Gaps. - Part 2
- Nanotechnology Nexus -- Science, Technology, Risk and Regulation
1:00pm – 5:30pm: Interactive Platform Seminar
8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters
- Aquatic Toxicology – Wastewater
- Aquatic Toxicology - Invertebrates
- Aquatic Toxicology - Toxicity Testing
- Aquatic Toxicology - Environmental and Ecotoxicology
- Fungicides: Analysis, Fate, and Toxicity
- Invertebrate biomarkers: Applications and Limitations in the assessment of aquatic pollution
- Aquatic macrophytes in ecological risk assessment
- Biotransformation and Degradation of Brominated Flame Retardants in the Environment
- Risk Assessment: Trials and Tribulations of Limiting Factors and Data Gaps
- Site-specific Toxicity Evaluations: Practical Constraints of Collecting and Integrating Soil Toxicity Data
- Wildlife Population Risks from Mercury Exposure
- Integrating Science and Assessment in Environmental Management
- Factors Influencing PAH Exposure and Toxicity
- Nanotechnology Nexus -- Science, Technology, Risk and Regulation
- Environmental Forensics in Sediment
- Biotransformation and oxidative stress response in aquatic organisms
- Toxicology and risk assessment of reptiles and amphibians
- Metals in the Environment: Chemistry and Fate Issues
- Metals in the Environment: mechanisms and advancing the BLM
- Assessing Ecosystem Services and Benefits
- Environmental Monitoring of DNA Damage
- Evaluating Toxicological Endpoints in Field Populations Using Non-Lethal Methods
- Modern Biological Approaches to Medaka/Zebrafish Toxicology
- Short Term Toxicity Testing from Tweaking to Brave New World
5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social
6:00pm – 7:30pm: And then there was light: Light and Sound Show at the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal
Thursday
7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open
8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions
- Remediation and bioremediation of sediments
- Toxicity of Complex Mixtures
- Effects of Transient Stressor Exposures on Aquatic Organisms
- Stake holders and social aspects in sustainability
- Research Needs for Water Quality Protection in Regulatory Programs: regional and national trends - Part 1
- Metals in the Environment: mechanisms and advancing the BLM - Part 1
- Metals in the Environment: Regulatory and Risk Concerns
- Ecological Fate and Effects of Explosives and Related Compounds
- Sediment Contamination in Rivers and Harbors
- Exposure of beluga whale to contaminants and toxic effects
- Predicting ecological effects of pollutants from biomarkers and omic responses - Part 1
8:00am – 11:40am: Interactive Platform Seminar
1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Linda J. Fisher
1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions
- Contaminants in Alpine and Polar Ecosystems
- Aquatic Toxicology
- Environmental Contaminants in Marine Mammals
- Remediation: case studies
- Research Needs for Water Quality Protection in Regulatory Programs: regional and national trends - Part 2
- Metals in the Environment: mechanisms and advancing the BLM - Part 2
- Challenges and Innovations in the Evaluation of Birds in Ecological Risk Assessments
- Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in aqueous systems - Part 2
- Contaminated Sediment Assessment
- Bioavailability - recent advancements in analytical tools and models to assess bioavailability of organic pollutants
- Predicting ecological effects of pollutants from biomarkers and omic responses - Part 2
1:50pm – 5:30pm: Interactive Platform Seminar
- 1. Problem formulation for risk assessment
8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters
- Bioremediation (excluding sediments)
- Bioavailability - recent advancements in analytical tools and models to assess bioavailability of organic pollutants
- Research Needs for Water Quality Protection in Regulatory Programs: regional and national trends
- Active Ingredients, Formulated Products or Tank Mixes: What Should Be Regulated?
- Global Chemical and Product Classification and Labeling Systems
- Ecological Fate and Effects of Explosives and Related Compounds
- Analysis of biominerals as a proxy for understanding environmental change and the management of aquatic ecosystems
- Effects of Transient Stressor Exposures on Aquatic Organisms
- Predicting ecological effects of pollutants from biomarkers and omic responses
- Remediation: case studies
- Environmental Contaminants in Marine Mammals
- Problem formulation for risk assessment
- Toxicity of Complex Mixtures
- Metals in the Environment: Regulatory and Risk Concerns
- Behavioral endpoints in ecotoxicology
- Challenges and Innovations in the Evaluation of Birds in Ecological Risk Assessments
- Sediment contamination in rivers and harbors
- Narrowing the Knowledge Gap between the Science-Savvy and the Science-Illiterate
- Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in aqueous systems
- Contaminants in Alpine and Polar Ecosystems
- Remediation and bioremediation of sediments
5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social