Research in the Spotlight

Best poster awards at the ESF-funded conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics

eefg2013 jana jenny2At the "Frontiers in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics" conference in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, from 26-30 May 2013, two young scientists of our lab were awarded poster prizes for their presentations. Jana Asselman presented a poster entitled "Unraveling mode of actions and toxin profiles with high throughput microarrays: a case study in Daphnia exposed to different cyanobacterial stressors." and was awarded the first prize as well as €1000. Jennifer Hochmuth won the second prize as well as €600 with her poster entitled "Micro-evolutionary response in a natural Daphnia magna population under Cu and Zn stress". The conference was funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and gave an overview of the most significant achievements within the ESF-EUROEEFG project. More than 100 delegates attended the conference and about 40 posters were presented.

Best oral presentation award on the 18th national symposium on applied biological sciences

awardA few days ago, the 18th National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences took place in Ghent at which we were present with four oral presentations and four poster presentations. It was a successful symposium, not the least for our lab-member David Deruytter who won the award for best oral presentation in the Environmental Quality session with his talk entitled "The combined effect of DOC and salinity on the accumulation and toxicity of copper in mussel larvae". Congratulations, David!

Micro-plastics in mussel tissue

Researchers of the Laboratory of Envrionmental Toxicology of Ghent Universitmosselsy found plastic micro particles in mussel tissue. Mussels from the North Sea contain on average one plastic particle per gram of tissue. They take it up from the seawater, which is highly polluted by plastics from cosmetics, synthetic clothing and packaging. "Thus, per serving of  mussels, which contains about three hundred grams of mussel meat, you get three hundred pieces of plastic inside your body," says Professor Colin Janssen. (More information at the Ghent University website)

See also news broadcasts (Dutch): VRT news broadcast, VTM news broadcast and different newspaper websites (Dutch): De Standaard, De Morgen.

Poster award at SETAC 6th World Congress

We recently successfully presented our research at the SETAC Europe 22nd Annual Meeting / 6th SETAC World Congress in Berlin from 20-24 May 2012 in 8 platform and 14 poster presentations. Moreover, Lisbeth Van Cauwenberghe earned the Tom Feijtel best poster award with her poster entitled "Selective uptake of microplastics by a marine bivalve (Mytilus edulis)" [download poster]. Congratulations, Lisbeth!

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