PROGRAM

Thursday May 15

11:00 am – 5:00 pm                 Registration : UHCL Student Services and Classroom Building (SSCB) 1^st floor

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm                   Short course: Nanotoxicology    SSCB Lecture Hall 1.001

 6:00 pm – TBD                         Dinner on your own; informal social at Starfire Grill (2412 Bay Area Blvd

Friday, May 16

6:45 am – 5:00 pm                     Registration (SSCB 1^st floor atrium)

7:00 am – 8:00 am                     Continental Breakfast (SSCB 1^st floor atrium)

7:00 am – 8:00 am                     Poster Set-up (SSCB Room 2.311)

8: 00 am – 8:10 am                    Welcome: SSCB Lecture Hall 1.001

Platform Session I (SSCB Lecture Hall 1.001) Session chairs: Phil Dorn and Kathryn Hernandez-Roeder

8:10am    Ximena Sanchez: Determination of estrogenic activity and heavy metal concentrations in Galveston Bay salt marshes                                                                                                                                                       

8:30am    Mathieu Piovesan: Sorption of endocrine disrupting compounds and the environmental significance

8:50am    Matt Chumchal: Mercury concentrations of three species of non-game fish from Caddo Lake, Texas

9:10am    Jesse Becker: Distribution and bioaccumulation of mercury in a subtropical reservoir system: Amistad International Reservoir, Texas, USA

9:30 am – 10:00 am                   Break (SSCB 2.311)

Platform Session II (SSCB Lecture Hall 1.001) Session chairs: Phil Dorn and Alanna McCafferty             

10:00am  Theodore Valenti: Potential factors influencing the pH-dependent aquatic toxicology of Prymnesium parvum Carter (golden algae)

10:20am   Barry Fulton: Responses of Lemna gibba exposed to triclosan across a range of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and ratios

10:40am   Christoph Pasch: Toxicity identification evaluation on effluent of a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant exhibiting sporadic, sublethal responses

11:00am   Paul Jensen: How knowledge gained in toxicity testing can help in water conservation

11:20 am – 12:30 pm                 SETAC-SC Regional Chapter Business Meeting (SSCB 1.001)

11:20 am – 12:30 pm                 SETAC-SC Student Chapters Meeting (Bayou Bldg Atrium I)

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm                   Lunch (Bayou Bldg Garden Room and Atrium I)

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm                     Poster Session and Poster Judging (SSCB 2.311)

3:30 pm – 3:50 pm                     Greetings from SETAC-NA and Board of Directors (SSCB 1.001)

Plenary Session    (SSCB Lecture Hall 1.001) Session chairs: Louis Brzuzy and Ximena Sanchez            

3:50pm    Scott Hall: Ecotoxicology of nanoparticles

4:10pm    Coby Scher: Environmental regulation of nanomaterials

4:30pm   Monique Long: The effects of functionalized and non-functionalized single-wall carbon nanotubules on root   elongation of select crop species

4:50pm   Shawna Nations: Acute toxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles in Xenopus laevis

6:00 pm – 10:00 pm     Texas BBQ Social at Armand Bayou Nature Center