Topic: "Emerging pollutants in water – treatment | prediction | sensors"

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 11 am
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1A

Short abstract:

Micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals represent a growing challenge for water treatment. Although they occur at very low concentrations, they can have significant impacts on the environment and human health. This lecture highlights current strategies for their removal, including advanced oxidation processes, cavitation, membrane technologies, and adsorption-based approaches.  In addition, it will be shown how in-silico methods can improve the predictability of chemical degradability and thus foster the development of sustainable substances. Another focus is on sensor technologies that enable continuous, real-time monitoring and thereby provide the basis for adaptive and energy-efficient treatment processes.
The overarching goal is to integrate technical and scientific solutions that support safe water (re-)use.

Short CV: 

Prof. Dr. Patrick Bräutigam is a technical environmental chemist specializing in water technology.
He studied chemistry and economics before completing his PhD in technical environmental chemistry.
Since 2024, he is Professor of Technical Environmental Chemistry and Sensor Technology at the University of Stuttgart. His research combines chemical and engineering approaches and focuses on emerging pollutants such as micropollutants and microplastics, as well as advanced processes for wastewater and drinking water purification. With expertise spanning chemistry, process engineering, and artificial intelligence, he works on sustainable technologies to ensure safe water and environmental quality.

Host: Saskia Finckh/ Department Exposure Science

Topic: "Can new approach methods resolve the chemical data gap?"

Date: Tuesday, January 27, 10 am
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1A

Short Abstract:

Chemical production and release exceed the capacity of traditional safety assessment, and new approach methods (NAMs) are required to obtain enough hazard and exposure information for safety decisions. In this presentation, Dr. Paul Friedman will discuss three recently published examples from her portfolio that apply NAMs to chemical safety assessment: rapid development of quantitative values for human health risk assessment, prioritization of chemicals for further endocrine screening using bioactivity:exposure ratios, and the next frontier of modeling the bioactivity of mixtures for screening prioritization. Finally, Dr. Paul Friedman will provide a short background of her current institution, UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights, and the capabilities available for potential collaboration.

Short CV:

Dr. Katie Paul Friedman joined UL Research Institutes as a Director to establish the new Center for Chemical Informatics and Screening in Research Triangle Park, NC in September 2025. Previously, Dr. Paul Friedman worked in the Office of Research and Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency, most recently as Director for the Biomolecular and Computational Toxicology Division in the Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure. Her broad computational toxicology research portfolio demonstrates application of new approach methods to chemical safety assessment and building confidence in those methods. Her primary research interests are now focused on the development of toxicity values using multiple approaches and modeling the effects of chemical mixtures. She has worked on in silico and in vitro new approach methods for endocrine, neurodevelopmental, developmental, and systemic toxicity. Dr. Paul Friedman has previously led strategic research initiatives such as the New Chemicals Collaborative Research Program, the ToxCast bioactivity screening program, and Toxicity Reference Database. Dr. Paul Friedman also brings experience as a regulatory toxicologist from her time at Bayer. She has been active in multi-stakeholder projects to develop alternatives and their acceptance, including through technical leadership at federal advisory committees and international research efforts. Her laboratory background includes development of high-throughput screening assays and combined use of in vitro and in vivo approaches to resolve chemical safety challenges. Dr. Paul Friedman received a Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has authored > 75 peer-reviewed publications and mentored > 18 early career trainees.


Hosts: Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal (Department of Ecotoxicology) / Prof. Dr. Wibke Busch (Department of Ecotoxicology)

Topic:  "Climate Change Research – Coming Together To Explore Mechanisms of Human Health Effects"

Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1 pm
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1A

Short Abstract: 

Climate change poses profound risks to human health through rising temperatures, degraded air quality, shifting ecosystems, and altered disease dynamics. Addressing these challenges requires an integrated, interdisciplinary approach that bridges data science, predictive modeling, environmental exposures, and molecular mechanisms of disease. Air quality challenges and specific environmental exposures that are exacerbated by climate change, include wildfire smoke, ozone, and other complex chemical exposures of gases and particulates. Research is needed to identify the most harmful components, elucidate mechanisms of toxicity, and develop strategies for exposure mitigation and health protection. Approaches to study these environmental challenges include exposure assessment, toxicology, field-based studies, AI, and computational data integration. Using specific air quality challenges as examples illustrate the need for building an interdisciplinary ecosystem to uncover novel mechanisms and find solutions. 

Short CV:

After receiving her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from New York University studying the effects of the air pollutant ozone on respiratory epithelial cells, Ilona Jaspers came to the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill for a postdoctoral training opportunity in the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology (CEMALB). Since starting her faculty position at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2001 she was continuously funded by NIH, EPA, and DoD and rose through the ranks to become a professor in the department of Pediatrics, with joint appointments in Microbiology and Immunology, and Environmental Sciences and Engineering. She also had a variety of leadership roles, most recently as the director of the CEMALB, where she was the PI on a cooperative agreement with the EPA entitled “Convergence Science in Environmental Health – COSINE)” and directed a training program in the School of Medicine, the Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine. In January 2025 she transitioned to a new position at NIEHS/NHLBI where she was a tenured Senior Investigators and the Chief of a new NIH-wide Center examining the health effects caused by extreme weather conditions (heat, drought, etc.), natural disasters (floods, hurricane), and emerging environmental exposures (wildfires, airborne/waterborne pollutant). Due to a change in priorities of the current US administration, these research efforts were dismantled and Dr. Jaspers is now a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UNC Chapel Hill. For over 25 years, Dr. Jaspers has used in vitro, in vivo, human clinical, computational, and epidemiological experimental approaches to study the respiratory health effects of inhaled toxicants, including ambient air pollutants, military burn pit smoke, wildfire smoke, tobacco products, and cannabidiol vaping products. Dr. Jaspers is particularly interested in the mechanisms by which inhaled toxicants can modify respiratory immune health, the potential adverse health consequences susceptible populations may suffer, and developing innovative solutions to these exposures. 


Hosts: Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal (Department of Ecotoxicology) &        Prof. Ana Zenclussen (Department of Environmental Immunology) 

27.01.2025 Prof. Gisela de Aragao Umbuzeiro / UNICAMP, Brazil
Topic: The promising model amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis: From EVO-DEVO to Ecotoxicology
Host: Prof. Werner Brack / Department Exposure Science
Venue: KUBUS, Saal 1A and ZOOM
Start: 10 am

28.01.2025 Davide Ciccarelli / Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Topic: Halogenated-hydroxycyclopentenediones: mutagenicity and reactivity of a new class of disinfection by-products in drinking water
Host: Prof. Ana Zenclussen / Department Environmental Immunology
Venue: KUBUS, Saal 1A and Zoom
Start: 10 am

05.02.2025 Dr. Bruno Campos / Unilever R&D
Topic: Challenges and opportunities for the use of NAMS within NextGen environmental risk assessment of cosmetic ingredients
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department Cell Toxicology
Venue: Building 1.0, R. 254 (VTS left side) and Zoom
Start: 3.15 pm

31.03.2025 Assoc. Prof. Daniel Gorelick / Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Topic: Beyond the Nucleus: Membrane Steroid Receptors and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Host: Prof. Tamara Tal / Department Ecotoxicology
Venue: KUBUS, Hall 1A
Start: 10 am

07.04.2025 Assoc. Prof. Jessica Plavicki / Brown University, USA
Topic: sox9a and sox9b as critical regulators of dioxin-induced neurovascular toxicity
Host: Prof. Tamara Tal / Department Ecotoxicology
Venue: KUBUS, Hall 2
Start: 10 am

23.04.2025 Dr. Satoshi Endo / National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
Topic: What does Fluorination do? Exploring the Environmental Partition Properties of PFAS
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department Cell Toxicology
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1A and via Zoom
Start: 1 pm

30.04.2025 Prof. Markus Hecker / University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Topic: Unraveling the toxicity of 6PPD-quinone across fishes of commercial, cultural, and ecological importance
Host: Prof. Werner Brack / Department Exposure Science
Venue: KUBUS Hall 2
Start: 10 am

08.05.2025 Assoc. Prof. Fei Cheng / Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Topic: Intelligent Identification of High-Risk Chemicals in Regional Aquatic Environments
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department Cell Toxicology
Venue: Building 7.3, Hall 7.013 and via Zoom
Start: 9 am

09.05.2025 Prof. Kyungho Choi / Seoul National University, Graduate School of Public Health, Korea
Topic: Adressing mixture exposure in environmental health: Challenges and approaches
Host: Prof. Annika Jahnke / Department Exposure Science
Venue: KUBUS Hall 2 and via Zoom
Start: 10 am

14.08.2025 Will Fahy and Jolie Miller / University of Toronto, Canada
Topic: The role of slow radical chemistry in limiting environment persistence of recalcitrant contaminants
and Protein interactions of the organophosphate plasticizer and flame retardant triphenyl phosphate
Host: Beate Escher
Venue: Building 7.3, room 7.013
Start: 10 am

04.09.2025 Dr. Lautaro Gandara / European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany
Topic: Deep phenotyping in insect ecotoxicology: from the insect apocalypse to the stress response
Host: Wibke Busch
Venue: Building 7.3, room 7.013
Start: 1 pm

21.10.2025 Assoc. Prof. Rubén Darío Motrich / National University of Cordoba, UNC), Spain
Topic: Chronic Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Decreases Semen Quality, which in turn Disrupts Immunoregulation in the Female Genital Tract and Affects Fetal Development
Host: Prof. Ana Zenclussen / Department of Environmental Immunology
Start: 10:00 AM Via Zoom


27.10.2025 Dr. Anu Kapanen/ECHA, Dr. Juliane Ackermann/UBA, Dr. Eszter Simon & Dr. Andreas Buser/FOEN
Lectures to the TOPIC: “Modernizing Hazard and PBT assessment with New Approach Methodologies” within the framework of the CoModHaz project.
Date: Monday, October 27, 1-4 pm
Venue: KUBUS, hall 2
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department Cell Toxicology

12.11.2025 Prof. Fabricio Martins Lopes (Federal University of Technology of Paraná, UTFPR, Brazil)
Topic: “Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: Collaborative efforts between UTFPR (Paraná, Brazil) and UFZ”
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 11 am
Venue: Building 6.0 Room 111
Host: Dr. Ulisses Nunes da Rocha/Department of Computational Biology & Chemistry

20.11.2025 Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ali Farag / TWAS Faculty of Pharmacy, Egypt
Topic: "How Do Tiny Titans Shape Our Lives? Metabolomics & Gut Food Interactions"
Date: Thursday, November 20, 10 am
Venue: KUBUS Hall 2
Host: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martin von Bergen / Department of Molecular Toxicology

15.12.2025 Assoc. Prof. Liza Konnikova / Yale University, USA
Topic: “Placenta as the window on to fetal immunity”
Date: Monday, December 15, 10:00 am
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1AB
Host: Prof. Ana Zenclussen / Department of Environmental Immunology

18.01.2024 Dr. Wibke Busch / Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig
Topic: Dealing with chemical mixtures - hazard assessment with toxicogenomics, monitoring data, and data-driven approaches
Host: Prof. Werner Brack / Research Unit Chemicals in the Environment
Venue: Kubus, Hall 1A
Start: 1 pm

29.04.2024 Prof. Elaine Leslie / University of Alberta, Canada
Topic: The Influence of Selenium on Arsenic Transport by Human Hepatocytes
Host: Dr. Till Luckenbach / Department Ecotoxicology
Venue: Zoom
Start: 2.30 pm

13.05.2024 Prof. Sally Gaw / University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Topic: Consumer products as a source of diffuse environmental contamination
Host: Dr. Dusan Materic / Department Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Venue: KUBUS, Hall 2 and via Zoom
Start: 1 pm 

15.05.2024 Prof. David Volz / University of California Riverside, USA
Topic: Human Exposure and Health Effects of Organophosphate-Based Flame Retardants
Host: Prof. Tamara Tal / Department Ecotoxicology
Venue: Kubus, Hall 1A
Start: 10 am 

14.08.2024 Paloma de Oro-Carretero / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Topic: Bioaccumulation: walking in the 3Rs pathway
Host: Dr. Luise Henneberger / Department Cell Toxicology
Venue: Kubus, Hall 1A
Start: 1 pm

22.10.2024 Prof. Heather Leslie / Heather Leslie Projects, Amsterdam
Topic: Current environmental plastic and associated chemicals research and paths forward
Host: Prof. Annika Jahnke / Department Exposure Science
Venue: ZOOM
Start: 1.10 pm

23.10.2024 Prof. Nestor Etxebarria Loizate / University of the Basque Country, Spain
Topic: One Health Living lab @ Plentzia Marine Station
Host: Dr. Iker Alvarez Mora / Department Exposure Science
Venue: Kubus, Hall 1CD and via ZOOM
Start: 1 pm

12.11.2024 Prof. John Colbourne / University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Topic: Searching for the evolutionary origins of chemical toxicity
Host: Dr. Stefan Scholz / Department Ecotoxicology
Venue: Kubus, Hall 1B
Start: 10 am

26.11.2024 Associate Prof. Damien Callahan / School of Life and Environmental Science, Deakin University, Australia
Topic: Pesticide Watch: findings from an Australian river monitoring program supported by citizen scientists
Host: Dr. Martin Krauss / Department Exposure Science
Venue: Building 1.0, Room 254
Start: 10 am

12.12.2024 Prof. Kai Wang / Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Topic: Actions for a healthy honey bee colonies: What are we doing to combat emerging environmental pollutants
Host: Prof. Martin von Bergen / Department Molecular Toxicology
Venue: Zoom
Start: 10 am

30.01.2023 Julie Robitaille / OECD and INRS Quebec, Canada
Topic: Toward monitoring endocrine disrupting chemicals in freshwater using bioassays: from developing a strategy for wastewater in the province of Quebec, Canada, to building OECD recommendations
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department of Cell Toxicology and Prof. Werner Brack / RU Cite
Venue: Kubus Hall 1A and Zoom
Start: 10 am

07.02.2023 Katharina Halbach and Sue Martina Starke / Spurenstoffzentrum des Bundes
Topic: The German Centre for Micropollutants: Goals and Tasks
Host: Prof. Werner Brack / RU Cite and Beate Escher / Department Cell Toxicology
Venue: Kubus Hall 2
Start: 2 pm

09.03.2023 Ass.-Prof. Michael Zumstein / University Vienna, Austria
Topic: Extracellular enzymes in wastewater and their potential to transform anthropogenic chemicals
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department of Cell Toxicology and Dr. Lukas Wick / Department of Environmental Microbiology (Research Unit of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology)
Venue: KUBUS Hall 2
Start: 1 pm

06.04.2023 Ass.-Prof. Bethanie Carney Almroth / University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Topic: The planetary scale of the plastics problem
Host: Dr. Eric Carmona Martinez / Department of Effect-Directed Analysis
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1CD
Start: 10 am

18.04.2023 Ass.-Prof. Laura Revell / University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Topic: Airborne microplastics in a changing climate
Host: Dr. Dusan Materic / Department Analytical Chemistry
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1CD and Zoom
Start: 10 am

11.05.2023 Assoc. Prof. Amy M. Padula / University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Topic: Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and adverse child health outcomes
Host: Prof. Ana Zenclussen / Department of Environmental Immunology
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1A
Start: 11 am

08.06.2023 Dr. Andrea Ebert / Department of Analytical Environmental Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig
Topic: Transport kinetics and partitioning in biological systems - a toolbox for quantitative understanding
Host: Prof. Kai-Uwe Goss / Department of Analytical Environmental Chemistry
Venue: Kubus, Hall 2 and Zoom
Start: 10 am

14.07.2023 Prof. Jing You / Jinan University Guangzhou, China
Topic: Event driven taxonomy: AI in Identifying causative contaminants in chemical mixtures
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department of Cell Toxicology
Venue: KUBUS Hall 2
Start: 11 am

27.07.2023 Dr. Zhongli Chen / Chongqing University, China
Topic: Challenge and opportunity: the eco-environmental issues of the China’s Three Gorges Reservoir
Host: Prof. Annika Jahnke / Department of Ecological Chemistry
Venue: KUBUS Hall 1a and Zoom
Start: 10 am

28.08.2023 Prof. Satoshi Endo / National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
Topic: It's not just about pore water free concentration: Exposure to organic contaminants in sediment toxicity tests
Host: Prof. Kai-Uwe Goss / Department of Analytical Environmental Chemistry
Venue: Kubus, Hall 1a and Zoom
Start: 10 am

14.09.2023 Dr. Michael Zimmermann / European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg
Topic: Identifying gut microbiome contributions to drug metabolism and carcinogen toxicity
Host: Prof. Martin von Bergen / Department of Molecular Systems Biology
Venue: Kubus, Hall 1a
Start: 10 am

09.11.2023 Dr. Jo Nyffeler / Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig
Topic: Application of Cell Painting for chemical hazard evaluation in support of screening-level assessments
Host: Prof. Werner Brack / Research Unit Chemicals in the Environment
Venue: Kubus, Hall 1A and Zoom
Start: 10 am

18.01.2022 Prof. Ondine von Ehrenstein / UCLA - POSTPONED
Topic: "Environmental exposures and children’s health: report from research in California and Bangladesh"
Host: Prof. Rolf Altenburger / Research Unit CITE
Venue: Zoom
Start: 3 pm

24.01.2022 Natascha Schmidt / Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
Topic: “Microplastics and associated organic contaminants in the aquatic environment”
Host: Prof. Thorsten Reemtsma / Department of Analytical Chemistry
Venue: Zoom
Start: 10 am

25.01.2022 Ass.-Prof. Carsten Prasse / Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Topic: "Reactivity-directed analysis (RDA): A novel approach for the identification of toxicants in (drinking) water"
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department of Cell Toxicology
Venue: Zoom
Start: 3 pm

01.02.2022 Dr. Dusan Materic / Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Topic: “Nanoplastics measurement by TD-PTR-MS- from the high Alps to the polar regions and deep sea”
Host: Prof. Thorsten Reemtsma / Department of Analytical Chemistry
Venue: Zoom
Start: 2 pm

12.04.2022 Prof. Peter Fantke / Technical University of Denmark
Topic: "Modelling chemical pollution to support a safe and sustainable chemicals management"
Host: PD Dr. Werner Brack / Department of Effect Directed Analysis
Venue: Kubus Hall 2 and via Zoom
Start: 10 am

21.06.2022 Prof. Traidl-Hoffmann / University Augsburg and Helmholtz Zentrum München
Topic: „Multidimensional interaction of environmental and health - paving the way towards personalized prevention“
Host: Prof. Ana Zenclussen / Department of Environmental Immunology
Venue: Zoom
Start: 10 am

21.09.2022 Dr. Natalie Aneck-Hahn / University of Pretoria, South Africa
Topic: „A South African perspective on effect-based methods for water quality assessment“
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department of Cell Toxicology
Venue: Kubus, Hall 2
Start: 10 am
 

26.03.2021 Prof. Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern / Department of Chemistry at the University of Bath and a co-director of Water and Innovation Research Centre
Topic: The concept of wastewater-based epidemiology and its rapid advances
Host: PD Dr. Werner Brack / Effect-Directed Analysis
Venue: virtual, Zoom
Start: 1 pm

22.04.2021 María Julia Culzoni / Faculty of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences (FBCB), National University of Litoral (UNL), Argentina
Topic: Analytical platforms for human biomonitoring
Host: Prof. Ana Zenclussen / Environmental Immunology
Venue: virtual, Zoom
Start: 3 pm

04.05.2021 Dr. Sonia Dagnino / Faculty of Medicine, School Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
Topic: Understanding Chemical exposure and health outcomes with Exposomics
Host: PD Dr. Werner Brack / Effect-Directed Analysis
Venue: virtual, Zoom
Start: 10 am

21.05.2021 Prof. Matthias Blüher / Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research; HI-MAG Director and Head of Clinical Obesity Research Group; W3 Professor in Clinical Obesity Research at the University of Leipzig
Topic: Obesity – another symptom of an “unhealthy environment”?
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Cell Toxicology
Venue: virtual, Zoom
Start: 9 am

04.06.2021 Ralf Ebinghaus & Marcus Lange / Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht
Topic: "The Coastal Pollution Toolbox – a Topic 4 product within POFIV"
Host: PD Dr. Werner Brack / Effect-Directed Analysis
Venue: virtual, Zoom
Start: 9 am

01.07.2021 Dr. Jake O’Brien / Research Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS)
Topic: "The benefits of conducting wastewater sampling during a population census - case study using the Australian Census"
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Cell Toxicology
Venue: virtual, Zoom
Start: 10 am

12.07.2021 Dr. Qiuguo Fu / EAWAG, Switzerland
Topic: "Fate processes and biological effects of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic organisms: A case study with diclofenac"
Host: Prof. Thorsten Reemstma / Analytical Chemistry
Venue: virtual, Zoom
Start: 3 pm

09.09.2021 Dr. Tewes Tralau / Bundesministerium für Risikoforschung (BfR)
Topic: "The challenge of microbiome-mediated toxicity – are we up for it?"
Host: Prof. Martin von Bergen / Department of Molecular Systems Biology
Venue: virtual, Zoom
Start: 10 am

18.11.2021 Dr. Matthias Egger / The Ocean Cleanup, Netherlands
Topic: "Fate of floating plastic debris in the ocean"
Host: Prof. Annika Jahnke / Department of Ecological Chemistry
Venue: Zoom
Start: 10 am

07.12.2021 Dr. Johanna Nyffeler / US EPA Durham and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), USA
Topic: "Imaging-based phenotypic profiling for high-throughput chemical screening at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"
Host: Prof. Beate Escher / Department of Cell Toxicology
Venue: Zoom
Start: 3 pm

16.12.2021 Dr. Martin Blettler / INALI; CONICET-UNL, Argentina
Topic: “Macroplastic research in freshwater systems: opening up the scene”
Host: Dr. Katrin Wendt-Potthoff / Department of Lake Research
Venue: Zoom
Start: 10:30 am

20.02.2020 Prof. Yolanda Picó / University of Valencia, Spain
Topic: Gender’s perspective application in environmental studies
Host: Dr. Eric Carmona Martinez / Effect-Directed Analysis
Venue: KUBUS, hall 2AB
Start: 9:30 am

14.05.2020 Prof. Matthias Liess / Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Topic: Kleingewässermonitoring - Nationwide Monitoring of Small Streams
Online-Meeting via GoTo
Start: 10 am
Host: Prof. Rolf Altenburger / Research Unit Chemicals in the Environment

25.06.2020 Dr. Igor Tetko / Helmholtz Zentrum München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH)
Topic: Beyond traditional QSAR: Artificial Intelligence and machine learning for chemical space exploration, synthesis and activity prediction
face-to-face-Meeting / Online-Meeting via GoTo
Host: Prof. Kai-Uwe Goss / Analytical Environmental Chemistry
Venue: KUBUS, hall 2AB
Start: 10 am

16.09.2020 Prof. Markus Große Ophoff & Dr. Klaus Günter Steinhäuser / BUND AK Umweltchemikalien und Toxikologie
Vortrag und Diskussion zum BUND Positionspapier "Herausforderungen für eine nachhaltige Stoffpolitik"
face-to-face-Meeting / Online-Meeting via GoTo
Host: Prof. Rolf Altenburger / Research Unit Chemicals in the Environment
Venue: KUBUS, hall 1AB
Start: 3 pm

12.11.2020 Prof. Sebastian Böcker / University Jena
Topic: SIRIUS, CANOPUS and COSMIC: Turning tandem mass spectra into metabolite structure information
Online-Meeting via Zoom
Host: Dr. Tobias Schulze / Effect-Directed Analysis
Start: 10 am

03.12.2020 Prof. Inna Sokolova / Institute of Biological Sciences, University Rostock
Topic: Bioenergetics in environmental adaptation and stress tolerance of aquatic ectotherms: Linking ecology and physiology in multistressor landscape
Online-Meeting via Zoom
Host: Dr. Till Luckenbach / Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology
Start: 10 am

31.01.2019 PD Dr. Werner Brack / Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Topic: "SOLUTIONS for monitoring, assessment and prioritization of micropollutants in European river basins"
Host: PD Dr. Werner Brack
Venue: Kubus Hall 1CD
Start: 4 pm

28.02.2019 Prof. Janine Felix / Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam
Topic: "Early-life programming of life course health – The Generation R Study"
Host: Dr. Gunda Herberth
Venue: Kubus Hall 1A
Start: 4 pm

07.03.2019 Dr. Dries Knapen / University of Antwerp
Topic: "Developing mechanism-specific endpoints for use in fish embryo and early life stage testing"
Host: Dr. Stefan Scholz
Venue: Kubus Hall 1A
Start: 2:30 pm

26.04.2019 Dr. Peter Turnbaugh / University of California San Francisco - UCSF
Topic: "Precision medicine goes microscopic: zooming in on the role of the microbiome in drug response"
Host: Prof. Martin von Bergen
Venue: Kubus Hall 1 A
Start: 1 pm

17.05.2019 Jos van Gils / Deltares Netherlands
Topic: "Advanced modelling tools in support of management of water quality: trends and challenges"
Host: PD Dr. Werner Brack
Venue: Kubus Hall 1 A
Start: 10 am

27.06.2019 Prof. Chih C. Lai / University St. Thomas, St. Paul, USA
Topic: "Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks: Case Studies"
Host: Dr. Stefan Scholz and Dr. Jörg Hackermüller
Venue: KUBUS hall 1A
Start: 1 pm

01.07.2019 Dr. Alex Avdeef / in-ADME RESEARCH
Topic: "Perspectives in Solubility: Measurement and Interpretation. Data Mining for Equilibrium Solubility of Sparingly Soluble Compounds"
Host: Prof. Beate Escher and Prof. Kai-Uwe Goss
Venue: KUBUS hall 1A
Start: 3 pm

23.08.2019 Prof. Jung-Hwan Kwon / Div. of Env. Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea Univ Seoul
Topic: "Potential risks of associated organic pollutants with microplastics: equilibrium and kinetics"
Host: Prof. Beate Escher and Prof. Kai-Uwe Goss
Venue: Kubus hall 1A
Start: 11 am

17.10.2019 Prof. Leo Posthuma / RIVM Utrecht, Netherlands
Topic: "SOLUTIONS-NL: a knowledge impulse to prevent and reduce chemical pollution of surface waters in the Netherlands"
Host: Dr. Werner Brack
Venue: Kubus hall 1CD
Start: 12:30 pm

27.11.2019 Dr. Tamara Tal / Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Topic: "Investigating microbiome-chemical interactions in zebrafish"
Host: Dr. Stefan Scholz
Venue: Kubus hall 1C
Start: 10 am

19.12.2019 Prof. Nikolaos Thomaidis / Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Topic: "High Resolution Mass Spectrometric Non-Target Screening of emerging contaminants in the environment: Development of methods and workflows and their application in wide-scope monitoring studies and exposure assessment"
Host: Dr. Tobias Schulze
Venue: KUBUS hall 1A
Start: 12:30 pm 

20.09.2018 Dr. Tamara Tal / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - US EPA
Topic: "Modification of environmental contaminants by intestinal microbiota"
Host: Prof. Martin von Bergen
Venue: Kubus Hall 1B
Start: 10 am

23.10.2018 Dr. Edward J. Perkins / U.S. Corps of Engineers, Army Engineer Research and Development Center - ERDC
Topic: "Merging toxicogenomics and quantitative modeling with the Adverse Outcome Pathway framework to assess chemical hazards"
Host: Dr. Stefan Scholz
Venue: Kubus Hall 2
Start: 10 am

29.11.2018 Dr. Oliver Lindtner / Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung - BfR
Topic: "Die BfR-MEAL-Studie: Beispiele zur Stoffauswahl"
Host: Dr. Gunda Herberth
Venue: Building 4.0, Room 101
Start: 4 pm