ACTIVITIES

International Symposium on Disturbances of Cerebral Function Induced by Food and Water Contaminants. March 2010

From 23/03/2010 to 24/03/2010

Program

TIME SCHEDULE
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Tuesday 23rd

09:10-09:30. Opening
 
09:30-10:00. George Kass. CONTAM Unit, European Food Safety Authority. Parma, Italy.
Outlines on food safety risks in the field of contaminants
 
10:00-10:30. Philippe Grandjean. Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark. Odense, Denmark and Harvard School of Public Health. Boston, MA, USA
Developmental neurotoxicity as a silent pandemic
 
10:30-11:00. Deborah A. Cory-Slechta. Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine. Rochester, NY USA
Combined effects of neurotoxicants with other CNS risk factors: moving towards cumulative risk
 
11:00-11:30. Coffee break 
 
11:30-12:00. Gemma Calamandrei. Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Roma, Italy.
Neurobehavioural effects of developmental exposure to pesticides contaminanting foods
 
12:00-12:30. GianCarlo Panzica. National Institute of Neuroscience. Torino, Italy
Neuropeptidergic systems are targets for the action of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the vertebrate brain
 
12:30-13:00. Cristina Suñol. Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona, CSIC - IDIBAPS; Barcelona, Spain
GABAergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission in dieldrin neurotoxicity
 
13:00-14:30. Lunch 
 
14:30-15:00 Michael Aschner. Departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, and the Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Mechanisms of neurotoxicity of methylmercury
 
15:00-15:30. Tomás R. Guilarte. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Baltimore, MD, USA.
Manganese neurotoxicity in the frontal cortex of non-human primates
 
15:30-16:00. Christopher Exley. The Birchall Centre, Lennard-Jones Laboratories, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.
Aluminium: an aetiological role in Alzheimer’s disease?
 
16:00-16:30. Coffee break 
 
16:30-17:00. Stefano Sensi. CeSI-Center for Excellence on Aging, University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti, Italy and Department of Neurology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine. California, USA.
The role of zinc in neurodegenerative diseases
 
17:00-17:30. José Luis Domingo. Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, ISSPV, Universitat “Rovira i Virgili”. Reus, Tarragona, Spain.
Chelating agents to treat neurotoxicity of metal ions
 
Wednesday 24th

09:30-10:00. Ferran Ballester. Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública. Valencia, Spain.
Exposure of children to food contaminants and neurodevelopment in Spain: the INMA mother and child cohort study
 
10:00-10:30. Richard F. Seegal. Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. New York, USA.
Sexually dimorphic effects of PCBs: from development to neurodegeneration
 
10:30-11:00. Vicente Felipo. Laboratory of Neurobiology, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe. Valencia, Spain.
Cognitive and motor alterations induced by developmental exposure to PCBs in rats. Molecular mechanisms
 
11:00-11:30. Coffee break 
 
11:30-12:00. Patrick De Boever. Toxicology, Flemish Institute for Technological Research. Geel, Belgium.
Effects of developmental exposure to non-dioxin like PCBs on gene expression in brain and blood
 
12:00-12:30. Roberta Pastorelli. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri". Milano, Italy.
Proteomics analysis of the effects of developmental exposure to non-dioxin like PCBs in brain
 
12:30-13:00. Sandra Ceccatelli. Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute. Stockholm, Sweden.
Effects of food contaminants on survival and differentiation of neural stem cells
 
13:00-14:30. Lunch 
 
14:30-15:00. Remco HS Westerink. Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
The neurotoxic potential of the brominated flame retardant BDE 47 is increased by hydroxylation
 
15:00-15:30. Francesca Maranghi. Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Roma, Italy.
Risk assessment of endocrine disrupters: the role of toxicological studies
 
15:30-16:00. Kevin M. Crofton. National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. North Carolina, USA.
Neurotoxicity of thyroid disrupting contaminants
 
16:00-16:30. Larence Moreau. European Commission. Brussels, Belgium.
Research on food contaminants in the Seventh Framework Programme and hereafter