Dear Colleagues and friends
The pollution is so intense in some places of our planet that life has become compromise in them.
A recent study involving more than 30 000 women in the USA suggests that endocrine-disrupting pollutants, EDPs, are linked to earlier menopause. Just as another study done over 2 732 women suggesting that polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals has the same effects as EDPs. And what to say about the recent report alerting the raising mercury content in tuna at a level of 3.8% per year since 1998? Countless examples can be given.
The question still remains: are humans driving the planet till dead?
This question will be answered, or better to say, try to be answered during the 3rd International Conference on Pollutant Toxic Ions and Molecules, PTIM2019 that will be held in November 2019 in Caparica, Portugal.
Yours truly
J. L. Capelo
C. Lodeiro
Conference chairs
On behalf of the organizing and scientific committee
Plenary Speakers
Affiliation: University of Technology of Troyes (UTT) (France)
Title: Toxicity and biosensing of environmental pollutants
Affiliation: Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland (UK)
Title: Surface phenomena of layered double hydroxide and its application for the sorption of oxoanions from water and wastewater
Affiliation: Center of Advanced Technology for the Environment Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University (Japan)
Title: Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Asia-Pacific Region: Its Spatio-temporal Trends and Emerging Issues
Affiliation: Division of Life Sciences and Environmental, Occupational Health Sciences Institute, NJ Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey (USA)
Title: Temporal Trends in Heavy Metals in US Atlantic Coast Estuaries: A Food Chain Approach and Emerging Issues
Lúcia Guilhermino, PhD
Affiliation: ICBAS & CIIMAR, University of Porto (Portugal)
Title: Global pollution by microplastics: toxic effects, interactions with other contaminants and implications to animal, environmental and human health
Jose Luis Gomez-Ariza, PhD
Keynote Speakers
Affiliation: METRICS/Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologia da Biomassa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal)
Title: Nanoparticles in food packaging: Biodegradability and potential migration to food and environment
Affiliation: Frierich Schiller University Institute of Microbiology – Microbial Communication (Germany)
Title: Cross-talk between heavy metal and antibiotic resistance in streptomycetes
Affiliation: Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, (UK)
Title: Designer clay minerals for environmental clean-up applications
Yongchun Zhao, PhD
Affiliation: Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)
Title: Partition of trace elements in waste water of coal-fired power plant.
Jerzy Jozef Zajac, PhD
Affiliation: University of Montpellier (France)
Title: Available Soon.
Tamara Garcia Barrera, PhD
Affiliation: University of Huelva (Spain)
Title: Available Soon.
Nick Quirke, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry Imperial College, London (UK)
Title: Predicting nanotoxicity: the smartnanotox project
Michael Gochfeld, PhD
Affiliation: Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Rutgers Medical School, Rutgers University (USA)
Title: Selenium and Mercury Interactions: Mechanisms of Toxicity
Elisabete Oliveira, PhD
Affiliation: LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Portugal)
Title: Exploiting mesoporous silica nanoparticles as new drug delivery and metal removing agents.
Symposium Subjects
- Metal ions, Organic ions, Inorganic ions, Toxic Molecules
- Methods of analysis
- Monitoring systems
- Remediation and Bioremediation
- Waste management
- Catalytic elimination
- Restoration and treatment of contamined sites
- Environmental contamination, control, prevention
- Emerging pollutants
- Health effects
- Medical treatments
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We look forward to seeing you soon.
With kindest regards
The PROTEOMASS BIOSCOPE Team