EmCon2007

Provisional programme

Wednesday 7th March

1400 - 1700

Registration - Queens Hotel

1800 - 1810

Conference opening and Welcome
Professor Mike Roberts, Central Science Laboratory

1810 - 1850

Keynote 1: 'Emerging Contaminants in the Environment'
Steve Killeen, UK

1850 - 1930

Keynote 2: 'Emerging contaminants: understanding their ocurrence, fate, and effects'
Dana Kolpin, USGS, USA

1930 - 2300

Mixer Reception with food and drink at St William's College, York

Thursday 8th March

0800

Coaches depart conference hotels

0830 - 0900

Plenary 'Application of LC-MSX in the analysis of emerging contaminants'
Damia Barcelo, CSIC, Spain

 

Session 1:

Prioritization and risk assessment of emerging contaminants

0900 - 0920

Applying structure-property relationship analysis in prioritizing emerging contaminants occurrence
Martha J M Wells, Tennessee Technological University, USA

0920 - 0940

Role of computational methods in predicting the toxicity and fate of emerging contaminants
Mark Cronin, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

0940 - 1000

Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals: a global perspective
Keith Silverman, Merck, USA

1000 - 1020

Comparison of prospective and retrospective environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals
Thomas Knacker, ECT Oekotoxikologie, Germany

1020 - 1050

Coffee break/Exhibition/Posters

 

Session 2:

Human and veterinary pharmaceuticals in the environment

1050 - 1110

Identification and quantitation of antidepressants in water samples using tandem mass spectrometry
Ed Furlong, USGS, USA

1110 - 1130

LC/MS and -MS/MS for the structural identification of degradation products of persistent polar pharmaceuticals
Maxime Favier, RWTH, Aachen, Germany

1130 - 1150

Analysis of human pharmaceuticals in Scottish waters
Carolina Nebot, Environmental Research Institute, UK

1150 - 1210

Multi-residue screening of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in fish tissue
Kevin Chambliss, Baylor University, USA

1210 - 1400

Lunch and Exhibition/Poster session

1400 - 1430

Plenary 'Veterinary Medicines in the Environment'
Bent Halling-Soerensen, DPU, Denmark

1430 - 1450

Pharmaceuticals on the land: resistance to bacterial degradation and environmental implications
Clare Redshaw, University of Plymouth, UK

1450 - 1510

Transport of pharmaceuticals in surface runoff following simulated rainfall on field plots receiving biosolids
Sara Monteiro, University of York, UK

1510 - 1530

Using GIS Hydrology models to predict concentrations of pharmaceuticals in real catchments
Andrew Johnson, CEH, UK

1530 - 1550

Pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other emerging contaminants in the environment
David A Humphries, Alberta Research Council, Canada

1550 - 1610

Tea Break/Exhibtion/Posters

1610 - 1630

A method for analysing cefquinome, a veterinary pharmaceutical, by HPLC-ESI-MS
Melanie Bottoms, University of Reading, UK

1630 - 1650

Elucidation of transformation products from the anticoccidial feed additives salinomycin and robenidine
Martin Hansen, DPU, Denmark

1650 - 1710

Inputs and fate of ivermectin and metabolites in the UK pasture environment
Louise Pope, University of York, UK

1710 - 1730

The fate of ivermectin and elucidation of ivermectin transformation products in different media
Kristine Krogh, DPU, Denmark

1730 - 1750

A battery of bioassays to detect estrogenicity in environmental waters
Frederich D L Leusch, CRC Water Quality and Treatment, Australia

1800

Buses depart for conference hotels

1930

Conference Banquet at National Railway Museum, York

Friday 9th March

0800

Buses depart conference hotels

 

Session 3:

Nanomaterials in the environment

0900-0930

Plenary 'Nanomaterials in the environment'
Matt Hull, Luna Innovations, USA

0930 - 0950

Detection and absorption of engineered nanoparticles in soils
Karen Tiede, University of York, UK

0950 - 1010

Fate and behaviour of engineered nanoparticles in aquatic systems
Adriana Maniculea, University of Birmingham, UK

1010 - 1040

Coffee break

 

Session 4:

Personal care products, POPs and Biotoxins

1040 - 1110

Plenary 'Analysis, fate and effects of emerging POPs in the environment'
Dr Martin Rose, Central Science Laboratory, UK

1100 - 1120

Levels of synthetic musk compounds in municipal wastewater for estimation of biota exposure in receiving waters
Lantis I Osemwengie, USEPA, USA

1120 - 1140

Fate of eight synthetic musk fragrances in a conventional water treatment facility
Bill Wombacher, University of Iowa, USA

1140 - 1150

Chlorinated naphthalenes in food and biota samples
Kattia Denise Silva Correia, CSL, UK

1150 - 1210

Fluorinated alkyl compounds in the UK environment
Jonathan Barber, Lancaster University, UK

1210 - 1230

Determination of the brominated flame retardants HBCD and TBBPA by LC-MS/MS
Malcolm Driffield, CSL, UK

1230 - 1310

Lunch and Exhibition/Poster Session

1310 - 1330

UPLC-MS determination of perfluorinated carboxylic acids and perfluorsulfonates in various matrices
Michael S Young, Waters Corporation, USA

1330 - 1350

Development of biodetection systems of parabens in environmental water
Bazin, Ecole de Mines d'Ales, France

1350 - 1410

An innovative method for measuring gas and particulate POPs in complex urban environments Keri C Hornbuckle, University of Iowa, USA

1410 - 1430

Carbonyl pollutants in air Lester Dolak, Thal Technologies, USA

1430 - 1450

Biotoxins in the environment Bjarne W Strobel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

1450 - 1510

Tea Break

1510 - 1530

Studies of UV/solar light induced photodegradation of 2,4-DCP and optimisation of process parameters Dhiraj Sud, SLIET, India

1530 - 1550

The use of comprehensive GC/time-of-flight mass spectrometry in a drinking water company P E Joos, Antwerpse Waterwerken, Belgium

1550 - 1610

Acetylcholinesterase inhibition in fish and biodetection of organosphosphorus and carbamate residues Aminadav Yawetz, Tel Aviv University, Israel

1610 - 1630

Conference closing ceremony

1645

Coaches depart for conference hotels

1930

Ghost tour of York (to be booked separately)