Oral Contributions

Dr. Elena Ionescu (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Université de Technologie de Troyes, Institut Charles Delaunay, Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d’Instrumentation Optique, Troyes (France)
Title: Optical detection of water pollutants and their toxicity to living cells

Dr. Maria Visa (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Universitatea Transilvania din Brasov, Renewable Energy Systems and Recycling Department, Brasov (Romenia)
Title: Selective removal of lead ions Using Radiation Developed imprinted Polymeric hydrogels

Dr. Liu Zhengtao (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Key Laboratory for Ecology Effect & Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing (China)
Title:
Study of environmental criteria of heavy metal Cr(VI), Pb and Cd in China

Dr. Laura Donato (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Institute on Membrane Tecnology (ITm-CNR), National Research Council, University of Calabria (Italy)
Title: Development of molecularly imprinted membranes able to selectively recognize toxic organic compounds

Dr. Luís Roca (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Instituto de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias Farmacéuticas y Bioquímicas (Bolivia)
Title:
Assesment of prenatal exposure to DDT and DDE of a bolivian population cohort

Dr. Sammy Verbruggen (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Sustainable Energy, Air & Water Technology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp; Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Title: Morphological engineering of thin film photocatalysts for air pollution abatement

Dr. Blazej Kudlak (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Politechnika Gdanska, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Gdansk (Poland)
Title:
Environmental threat posed by endocrine disruptors in water bodies receiving sewage from major Polish cities and their WWTPs

Dr. Jalal Pourahmad Jaktaji (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dept. of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran (Iran)
Title: Toxicity of vanadium on isolated rat liver mitochondria: a new mechanistic approach

Dr. Eman Elsharkawy (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assiut University (Egypt)
Title: The potential ameliorative effect of Tiron and ascorbic acid against mercury chloride neurotoxicity in rabbit

Dr. Maryam Dadar (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Center of Biology and Biotechnology Research, Chamran university, Ahvaz (Iran)
Title: Petrochemical companies cause bioaccumulation of heavy metals in aquatic organisms of contaminated regions: Threats and Solutions.

Dr. Aleksander Astel (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Pomeranian University, Environmental Chemistry Research Unit, Slupsk (Poland)
Title:
How to improve toxicological expertise of environmental compartments?

Dr. Katarzyna Bigus (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Pomeranian University, Environmental Chemistry Research Unit, Slupsk (Poland)
Title:
Evaluation of toxicity of mixtures of TCS, SLS and zinc by the use of Microtox® and Spirotox tests

Dr. Daniel Ocinski (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Industrial Chemistry, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wroclawiu, Wroclaw (Poland)
Title:
Chemical, thermal and physical modification of water treatment residuals and their use as an As(III) and As(V) sorbent

Dr. Catherine Branger (Confirmed)

Affiliation: MAPIEM Laboratory, Universite du Sud Toulon – Var, La Garde (France)
Title: Development of a new class of imprinted polymers for electrochemical sensing of organic pollutants

Dr. Véronique Lenoble (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Universite du Sud Toulon – Var, La Garde (France)
Title: Linking polymer science and environmental studies: development of new specific tools for trace metal analysis

Dr. David Stensel (Confirmed)

Affiliation: University of Washington Seattle, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle (United States)
Title:
Important Factors affecting biodegradation of 17-a ethinylestradiol in wastewater treatment

Dr. Masaru Ihara (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (Japan)
Title:
In vivo vitellogenin expression in male medaka induced by wastewater is determined by the balance between estrogenic and antiestrogenic activities

Dr. Vania Calisto (Confirmed)

Affiliation: CESAM and Department of Chemistry, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)
Title:
Application of waste-based adbsorbents for the removal of pharmaceuticals from contaminated water

Dr. José Paulo Santos (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Physical Department, New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Title: Trace element profiling of hair in the neonate as a possible marker of maturity

Dr. Elisabete Oliveira Marques (Confirmed)

Affiliation: BIOSCOPE, UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, FCT- Univ. NOVA of Lisbon (Portugal)
Title: Detection of toxic Pb2+ and Hg2+ ions using fluorescent chemosensors and functionalized nanomaterials

Dr. Dorothee Berthomieu (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, Institut Charles Gerhardt, Montpellier (France)
Title: Multiple adsorption of CO on Na-exchanged y faujasite: A DFT investigation

Dr. Zouhair Elouear (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Laboratory of Water Energy and Environment, National School of Engineers of Sfax (Tunisia)
Title: Evaluation of Different Amendments to Stabilize Cadmium, Zinc, and Copper in Contaminated Soil: Influence on Metal Leaching and Phytoavailability

Dr. Cristina Ariño (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Química Analítica, Barcelona (Spain)
Title: Analysis of phytochelatins in plants stressed with mercury: some real examples

Dr. Antonio Mozeto (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Laboratório de Biogeoquímica Ambiental, Núcleo de Estudos, Diagnósticos e Intervenções Ambientais, São Paulo (Brazil)
Title: Source identification and potential ecological risks of organic (hydrocarbons) and inorganic (metals) contaminants in sediments of aquatic ecosystems: Case studies of Southeastern Brazil

Dr. Francisco Pena-Pereira (Confirmed)

Affiliation: University of Vigo (Spain)
Title: Alternative solvents to promote more sustainable analytical methodologies

Dr. Marco Fronzi (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
Title: H2O and CH4 interaction with the stoichiometric and reduced CeO2 (111) surface: a first-principles investigation

Dr. Francesco Arena (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome (Italy)
Title: Abatement of industrial pollutants via the liquid phase wet air oxidation process (CWAO) using novel effective nanostructured oxide catalysts

Dr. Filiz Sanal (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Trakya Universitesi, Department of Biology, Edirne (Turkey)
Title: Effects of arsenate and arsenite on germination and some physiological attributes of barley hordeum vulgare L.

Dr. Krachai Naima (Confirmed)

Affiliation: University of Sciences and Technology of Oran Mohamed Boudiaf, Technology and Process Engineering (LSTGP), Oran (Algeria)
Title: Study of pollution of the west coast of Algeria

Dr. María Antonia López Antón (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Instituto Nacional del Carbón (CSIC), Oviedo (Spain)
Title: Regenerable sorbents for mercury capture in simulated coal combustion flue gas

Dr. Mert Guney (Confirmed)

Affiliation: IRME- Institut de recherche en Mines et Environnement / RIME- Research Institute on Mines and Environment,Civil, Geological, and Mining Engineering Dept, Montreal (Canada)
Title: Lung bioaccessibility of selected metals in particulate matter originating from soils and mine wastes

Dr. Hajime Kinoshita (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Materials Science &  Engineering, The University of Sheffield,Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD (United Kingdon)
Title: The effects of BaSO4 loading on OPC cementing system for encapsulation of BaSO4 scale from oil and gas industry

Dr. Cristina B. Castro (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Escola Superior de Biotecnologia – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto (Portugal)
Title: Characterisation of pseudometallophytes growing in Pb/Zn mine tailings: looking for useful bacterial inoculants for application in phytoremediation of metal-contaminated sites

Dr. Nathalie Delaunay (Confirmed)

Affiliation: École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris, París (France)
Title: Analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in edible oils by capillary electrophoresis

Dr. Carmen Caballo (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Universidad de Cordoba (Spain)
Title: Restricted access supramolecular solvents in chiral environmental analysis

Dr. Carmela Conidi (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, Rende (CS) (Italy)
Title:
Integrated processes for the recovery of valuable compounds from artichoke wastewaters

Dr. Florence Portet-Koltalo (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Laboratoire COBRA UMR CNRS 6014, University of Rouen. 55 rue Saint Germain, 27000 Evreux. France
Title: Biosurfactants as additives to increase PAHs release from soils or sediments and enhance remediation processes

Dr. Jack Gilron (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dept. of Desalination and Water Treatment, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR), Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), Sede Boqer Campus, Israel
Title:
Perchlorate effect on ground water treatment using an ion exchange membrane bioreactor (IEMB)

Dr. Ainhoa Rubio Clemente (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Grupo de Diagnóstico y Control de la Contaminación (GDCON), Universidad de Antioquia-Colombia (Colombia)
Title: Rapid and sensitive determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at trace levels in aqueous samples using RP-HPLC with a fluorescence detector

Dr. Haruna Amano (Confirmed)

Affiliation: School of Marine Biosciences, Kitasato University, Minami, Sagamihara (Japan)
Title:
2,2’-dipyridyldisufide, one of the metal pyrithione degradation products; toxicity to a marine fish and induction of notochord undulation and skeletal deformities

Dr. Vinicio Macías-Zamora  (Confirmed)

Affiliation: IIO-UABC (Mexico)
Title:
On the effects of the dispersant Corexit 9500 during the degradation process of n-alkanes and PAHs in marine sediments

Dr. Erika Kothe (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Friedrich-Schiller-Universtät Jena, Mikrobielle Kommunikation, Jena
Title:
Microbial consortia at a former uranium mining site and potentials for bioremediation

Dr. Emine Sayilgan  (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Suleyman Demirel University (Turkey)

Title:Treatment of textile dyeing wastewater by biomass of Lactobacillus: Lactobacillus 12 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus

Dr. Fabiana Arduini (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università Di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma (Italy)

Title:Miniaturised electrochemical sensors for environmental pollutant detection

Dr.  Adrian Oehmen  (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Department of Chemistry, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal)

Title:Stimulating antibiotic removal from wastewater through bioaugmentation

Dr.  Plamen Georgiev (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Department of Engineering Geoecology, University of Mining and Geology “St.Ivan Rilski”, Sofia (Bulgaria)

Title: Toxicity of a grey forest soil multi-contaminated with heavy metals by acid mine drainage before and after its in situ remediation

Dr.  Thomas Reichenauer(Confirmed)

Affiliation:AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Konrad-Lorenz, Tulln (Austria)

Title:Effects of rapeseed oil on the rhizodegradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in contaminated soil

Dr. Patrícia Ventura Garcia (Confirmed)

Affiliation:University of Azores, Ponta Delgada (Portugal)

Title:Chronic exposure to volcanogenic air pollution as cause of lung injury

Dr.  Paola Fermo (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano(Italy)

Title:Toxic molecules in the aerosol particulate matter in Lombardy region (Northern Italy)

Dr. Kazuhiro Takagi (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Organochemicals Division, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, 305-8604, Ibaraki (Japan)
Title: Novel metabolic pathways of chlorinated cyclodiene pesticide dieldrin by
Mucor racemosus strain DDF under aerobic conditions

Dr. Ileana Farcasanu  (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Universitatea din Bucuresti, Faculty of Chemistry, Bucuresti (Romenia)

Title:Calcium signaling and the response to heavy metal stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells

Dr. Denis Bouyer (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Université de Montpellier CC 047 Placé Eugène Bataillon 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 (France)
Title: Thermosensitive polymer Enhanced Filtration Process: a novel sorption process for heavy metals removal and recovery from industrial wastewaters

Dr.  Roger Saint-Fort (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Environmental Chemist Chair, Environmental Science Department Mount Royal University, Calgary (Italy)

Title:Effect of a water-based drilling waste on receiving soil properties and plants growth

Dr.  Joanna Augustynowicz (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Institute of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, University of Agriculture in Kraków (Poland)

Title:Callitriche: a brief story of unusual phytoremediation capabilities

Dr. Pawel Kaszycki (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, University of Agriculture in Kraków (Poland)

Title:Chromate bioremediation mechanisms in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms

Dr. Arabet Dallel (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Maître Assistant B, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université des Frères Mentouri, Constantine

Title:Effects of a sulfonylurea herbicide on the soil bacterial community

Dr. Veeranoot Nissapatorn  (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (Malaysia)

Title:Parasites and Pollutants: Toward Safe Drinking Water in Southeast Asia

Dr.Yoshiharu Mitoma (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, Prefectural University of Hiroshima (Japan)

Title:Separation and immobilization of radioactive Cs in soil using nano-sized calcium dispersing

Dr.Annabel Dias Barrocas Fernandes (Confirmed)

Affiliation: FibEnTech Unit and Department of Chemistry, University of Beira Interior (Portugal)

Title:Electrochemical treatment of sanitary landfill leachates

Dr.Marc Demeter (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Microbial Biochemistry Laboratory, Biofilm Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary (Italy)

Title:Harnessing mixed species microbial communities for use in ex situ naphthenic acid and PAH bioremediation

Dr.Mohammad H. Al-Sayah (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Department of Biology, Chemistry & Environmental Sciences (BCE), American University of Sharjah, P.O.Box 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Title:Remediation of Chromium-Polluted Soil by Phytoextraction: Factors and Conditions for Using Portulaca oleracea

Dr.Pilar Sandin España (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria, DTEVPF – Unit of Plant Protection Products, Madrid (Spain)

Title:Qtof identification of phototransformation products of sethoxydim herbicide in water

Dr.Hyunok Choi (Confirmed)

Affiliation:University at Albany State University of New York, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Albany, United States

Title:Altered vulnerability to Asthma from Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposures in Children by CTLA4, XPC, and CYP2E1 Polymorphisms

Dr.Marcelo Henrique Sousa (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Faculdade de Ceilândia, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil)

Title:Fabrication of glycine-functionalized maghemite nanoparticles for magnetic removal of copper from wastewater

Dr.Dike Henry Ogbuagu (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Department of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology, PMB 1526, Owerri (Nigeria)

Title:Accumulation and recovery capacity of heavy metals in sand mine ponds of the Otamiri River in Owerri, Nigeria

Dr. Adam Postawa (Confirmed)

Affiliation:AGH University of Science and Technolog, Al Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow (Poland)

Title:Impact of Zn-Pb mining in the Olkusz ore district on the Permian aquifer (SW Poland)

Dr.Araceli Tapia Valle (Confirmed)

Affiliation:University of Castilla La Mancha, Avenida Camilo Jose Cela s/n, Ciudad Real (Spain)

Title:Molecular characterization at the gas/particle interface of soot generated from a diesel engine fueled with conventional and alternative fuels using a titration method

Dr. Gaëlle Saladin (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Université de Limoges – Faculté des Sciences et Techniques
Laboratoire de Chimie des Substances Naturelles
123 avenue Albert Thomas
87060 Limoges Cedex
(FRANCE)

Title:Can hybrid larch be a relevant choice for cadmium phytoextraction?

Dr.Angela Volpe (Confirmed)

Affiliation:CNR (National Research Council)
Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque (Water Research Institute)
Viale F. De Blasio, 5
70132 Bari (Italy)

Title:Fingerprinting hydrocarbons in a contaminated soil from an Italian natural reserve and assessment of the performance of a low-impact bioremediation approach

Dr.María Balseiro Romero (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Title:Fuel volatile compounds mobility in soils in the presence of plant root exudates

Dr. Natthiya Sakulsak (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Department of Anatomy,Faculty of Medical Science,
Naresuan University, Phitsanulok,
Thailand 65000

Title:Essential Metal Transporters Expression and Morphological Appearance in Cadmium-accumulated Human Placenta

Dr.Anabela Rebelo (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, IP – ARH Algarve (Portugal)

Title:Discharges, emissions and losses of dangerous and hazardous substances: Risk assessment for water resources

Dr. Asli Kaçar (Confirmed)

Affiliation:DEU, Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology, Haydar Aliyev Bul No: 100 Inciralti, Izmir (Turkey)

Title:Impact of Ship dismantling on heavy metal resistance in sediment bacteria (Aliaga, Turkey)

Dr.Sara García-Salgado (Confirmed)

Affiliation:School of Civil Engineering
Technical University of Madrid
28014 (Spain)

Title:Levels of toxic arsenic species in native terrestrial plants from soils polluted by former mining activities

Dr. Isabel Moreira (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Department of Chemistry, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Title:

Occurrence of PCBs and PBDEs in two dolphin species (T. truncatus and S. frontalis) from the Brazilian coast

Dr.Bülent Mertoglu (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Marmara University, Dept. of Bioengineering, Istanbul (Turkey)

Title:Nitrogen converters in wastewater treatment plants

Dr. Martin Novak (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Czech Geological Survey, Klarov 3, 118 21 Prague 1 (Czech Republic)

Title:Chromium isotope fractionations in the environment: Comparison between geogenic and anthropogenically polluted sites

Dr. Toshihiro Yoshihara (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (Japan)

Title:The fate of radiocesium deposition on trees from the Fukushima accident: uptake and accumulation of radiocesium by trees

Dr. Chuan Chen (Confirmed)

Affiliation:School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090 (China)

Title:The simultaneous biological removal of sulfur, nitrogen and carbon from industrial wastewaters: process, performance and modeling

Dr. Jia Qian Jiang (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering and Built Environment
Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow G4 0BA
Scotland, UK

Title:An overview on the treatability of emerging micro pollutants by ferrate(VI) and resulting toxicity of the treated effluent

Dr. Marianne Stuart (Confirmed)

Affiliation:British Geological Survey
Maclean Building
Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
UK

Title:Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater in urban areas

Dr. Yukari Kuga (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Graduate school of iintegrated arts and sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan

Title:Cellular imaging of cadmium in resin sections of arbuscular mycorrhizas using synchrotron micro X-ray fluorescence

Dr. Anca Duta (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Universitatea Transilvania din Brasov, Renewable Energy Systems and Recycling Department, Brasov (Romenia)

Title:Synergistic design of photocatalytic materials and processes

Dr. Abul Mandal (Confirmed)

Affiliation:System Biology Research Center
School of Bioscience, University of Skövde
P. O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde (Sweden)

Title:An eco-friendly approach for bioremediation of arsenics from contaminated water to protect human health and the environment

Dr. Mariana Neamtu (Confirmed)

Affiliation:Alexandru I. Cuza” University, Carol I Blvd. 11, 700506 Iasi, Romania

Title:Characterization and application of Green Fenton-like catalysts for the removal of water pollutants

Dr. Ilaria Guagliardi(Confirmed)

Affiliation: National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean (ISAFOM), Via Cavour 4-6, 87036 Rende, Cosenza, Italy
Title: Multivariate and geostatistical methods in urban soil geochemistry

Dr. Aaron Joseph Villaraza (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, College of Science
University of the Philippines – Diliman
Quezon City, Metro Manila 1101
Philippines
Title: Principles and Colourimetric Methods to Measure Gd3+ in Solution and its Complex Formation

Dr. Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo(Confirmed)

Affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Cibernéticas, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus
Universitario de Tafira s/n, 35017 Las Palmas de GC, Islas Canarias
Title: Intelligent Systems for the Analysis of Environmental Pollutants

Dr. Kishore Kumar Kadimpati (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Mallareddy College of Pharmacy, 500100, Hyderabad , India
Title: Design of PVA–SA–nZnO–Jania rubens (red algae), a hybrid nano bio-matrix for
removal of lead: Characterization, kinetic and thermodynamic studies

Dr. Lidia Favier(Confirmed)

Affiliation: Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (France)
Title: A new analytical approach for the accurate screening of chlorophenols in water samples