World Congress of Malacology Antwerp ... - Unitas Malacologica

TUESDAY 17 JULY
MOLLUSCS IN ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Chair: Rita Triebskorn
09:00 – 09:40 Gastropod species as model organisms in ecotoxicology ? Introducing the
molecular view
Dallinger, Reinhard
09:40 – 10:00 Effect of metal accumulation and metallothionein induction on the condition
of the periwinkle Littorina littorea along the entire Scheldt estuary
Van den Broeck, Heidi; De Wolf, Hans; Backeljau, Thierry; Blust, Ronny
10:00 – 10:20 Metal speciation and metallothionein induction after cadmium exposure in the
terrestrial snail Helix aspersa (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)
Hispard, Florian; Schuler, Dietmar; de Vaufleury, Annette; Dallinger,
Reinhard
10:20 – 11:10 Tea/Coffee
Lecture hall T 148
MOLLUSCS IN ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Chair: Kurt Jordaens
11:10 – 11:30 Biomarkers as tools to assess the risk of environmental stress for terrestrial
and aquatic gastropods
Triebskorn, Rita; Dittbrenner, Nils; Krais, Stefanie; Lazzara, Raimondo;
Sawasdee, Banthita; Schmidt, Lena; Köhler, Heinz-R.
11:30 – 11:50 Cytogenetic damage in aquatic mollusks as a biomarker of environmental
pollution
Baršienė, Janina; Rybakovas, Aleksandras; Andreikėnaitė, Laura
11:50 – 12:10 Behavioural and reproductive biomarkers of organophosphate pesticide
(Delvap) in the giant land snail Archachatina marginata (Swainson)
Fadina, Opeyemi A; Otitoloju, Adebayo A; Egonmwan, Rosemary I.
12:10 – 12:30 Comparative assessment of reproductive toxicity of contaminated freshwater
sediments by in vivo biotests with Potamopyrgus antipodarum and in vitro
assays
Mazurova, E.; Blaha, L.; Hilscherova, K.; Giesy, J. P.; Triebskorn, R.
12:30 – 12:50 Potamopyrgus antipodarum as a test organism for the assessment of
endocrine active chemicals
Schmitt, Claudia; Bervoets, Lieven; De Deckere, Eric; Meire, Patrick
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch + AMS Systematics Committee meeting (open to anyone interested) in
Lecture hall U 024
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