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Award at 12th European Zebrafish Meeting
Best PhD Student Platform Presentation Award for BIOTOX PhD student Sebastian Gutsfeld at the 12th European Zebrafish Meeting of the European Zebrafish Society in Krakow, Poland.
12th European Zebrafish Meeting of the European Zebrafish Society in Krakow
The work of PhD Student Sebastian Gutsfeld, pictured here with his mentor Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal, was recognized at the 12th European Zebrafish Meeting of the European Zebrafish Society in Krakow, Poland (July 9-13, 2023). Sebastian’s platform presentation of his research on the molecular mechanisms by which exposure to structurally similar Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) cause visual startle response hyperactivity was honored by the European Zebrafish Society with a first place award in the Best PhD Student Platform Presentation Competition. Learn more about Sebastian’s work here.
The goal of PrecisionTox is to improve chemical safety assessment to better protect human health and the environment by using non-traditional test species, multiple fields of knowledge, and powerful computational approaches to understand which chemicals are toxic and why.
https://precisiontox.org/
DaNa4.0 is a science communication project dealing with the safety of innovative materials. Complex, toxicological issues from current materials research are presented in a generally understandable way for non-scientists (interested consumers, journalists, politicians, NGOs, etc.) on a website.
https://nanopartikel.info/
PlasticsFatE - Plastics Fate and Effects in the human body aims at improving our present understanding of the impact of micro- and nano-plastics (MP/NP) and associated additives/adsorbed contaminants (A/C) in the human body. To do so, reliable and validated methods will be developed that are able to generate the science-based data we need. PlasticsFatE is a 48-month project funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme of the European Union. The project will run from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2025.
https://www.plasticsfate.eu
