Dear Colleagues and friends
Pollutants, inorganic or organic, ionic or neutral, have the unmistakeable sign of men kind. They are the slow dead, which kills the life in our planet, kills our kids too, and kills us as well. Does life in Earth have a chance? This is a difficult question to answer.
The pollution is so intense in some places of our planet that life has become compromise in them.
A recent study involving more than 30 000 women in the USA suggests that endocrine-disrupting pollutants, EDPs, are linked to earlier menopause. Just as another study done over 2 732 women suggesting that polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals has the same effects as EDPs. And what to say about the recent report alerting the raising mercury content in tuna at a level of 3.8% per year since 1998? Countless examples can be given.
The question still remains: are humans driving the planet till dead?
This question will be answered, or better to say, try to be answered during the 4th International Conference on Pollutant Toxic Ions and Molecules, PTIM2023 that will be held in November 2023 in Caparica, Portugal.
Yours truly
J. L. Capelo
C. Lodeiro
Conference chairs
On behalf of the organizing and scientific committee
Plenary Speakers
Jörg Rinklebe, PhD
Institute of Soil Engineering, Waste- and Water Science, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal (Germany)
Pollution Control in Soil and Water
Tamara Garcia Barrera, PhD
Research Center of Natural Resources, Health and the Environment (RENSMA). Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Experimental Sciences, University of Huelva, Huelva (Spain)
The role of metals in biology and the interaction with microbiota by combining omic methodologies
Damiá Barceló, PhD
Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA). Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona (Spain)
Environmental proteomics in wastewater-based epidemiology (EP-WBE). Identification of large biomolecules as biomarkers of public health and industrial activities
Joanna Burger, PhD
Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey (USA)
Bioindicators: Clarity, Consistency, and Accountability
Irene M. C. LO, PhD
Institute For Advanced Study (IAS) Senior Fellow, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (China)
Jay Gan, PhD
Department of Environmental Science, University of California, Riverside, CA (USA)
Emerging Contaminants in the Wastewater-Soil-Plant Continuum
Sergey Shabala, PhD
University of Western Australia (Australia)
Uncoupling transport of cadmium and beneficial micronutrients: towards creating healthy
Keynote Speakers
Artur Badyda, PhD
Department of Informatics and Environment Quality Research, Faculty of Building Services, Hydro- and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Maria Ramos Payan, PhD
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Seville, Sevilla (Spain)
Rut Maria Fernández-Torres, PhD
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Seville, Sevilla (Spain)
Philiswa Nosizo-Nomngongo, PhD
DSI-NRF SARCHI Nanotechnology for Water. Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Environmental contaminants of emerging concern in South African wastewater and surface water: A case study of urban rural areas
Jakub Zdarta, PhD
Faculty of Chemical Technology, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan (Poland)
Franz Jirsa, PhD
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Wien, Vienna (Austria)
Michael Gochfeld, PhD
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, NY (USA)
A Risk Communication Framework: why am I here, why are you here, what did you hear, and what will you do about it
Gerald Zagury, PhD
RIME – Research Institute on Mines and Environment, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal (Canada)
Dermal bioaccessibility and permeation of metal(loid)s through synthetic skin
Jurgen Gailer, PhD
Department of Chemistry University of Calgary (Canada)
Establishing functional relationships between the human exposure to toxic metal(loid)s and diseases: the important role of the bloodstream
Luiza Campos, PhD
University College London, London (UK)
Elisabete de Jesus Oliveira, PhD
NOVA University Lisbon LAQV REQUIMTE, Lisbon (Portugal)
Jose Luis Gomez Ariza, PhD
University of Huelva, Huelva (Spain)
Ana Luisa Fernando, PhD
NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal)
Joan O Grimalt, PhD
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona (Spain)
Drivers of the accumulation of mercury and organochlorine pollutants in Mediterranean lean fish and dietary significance
Hai Guo, PhD
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Understaning high levels of hydroxyl dicarboxylic acids (OHDCA) observed in China’s outflows
Symposium Subjects
- Metal ions, Organic ions, Inorganic ions, Toxic Molecules
- Methods of analysis
- Monitoring systems
- Remediation and Bioremediation
- Waste management
- Catalytic elimination
- Restoration and treatment of contamined sites
- Environmental contamination, control, prevention
- Emerging pollutants
- Health effects
- Medical treatments
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With kindest regards
The PROTEOMASS BIOSCOPE Team