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Week-at-a-Glance

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Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

Sunday

7:00am – 8:00pm: Registration Desk Open

10:00am – 2:00pm: Nature Package: Biodome/Botanical Gardens/Insectarium

11:30am – 2:00pm: Ice Skating and Planetarium Visit

10:00am – 1:00pm: City Tour of Montreal

6:30pm – 8:00pm: Sunday Opening Session

8:00pm – 11:00pm: Sunday Opening Reception

8:00pm – 11:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours

Short Courses

Half-day Courses - 8:00am - Noon

Half-day Courses - 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Full-day Courses - 8:00am - 5:00pm

Education Outreach Course – 1:00pm – 5:00pm

Monday

7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open

8:00am – 7:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours

8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions

  1. Advances in Passive Sampling for Organic Contaminants in Air and Water
  2. Water Quality Assessment (General)
  3. Risk Mitigation Tools: Validation and Novel Ideas
  4. LCA: analytical tools, methods and applications
  5. Aquatic Toxicology Energetics and Metabolism
  6. Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability-Part 1
  7. Mercury Fate and Biogeochemistry-Part 1
  8. Bioavailability Then and Now - A Session Honoring Dr. Peter Landrum
  9. Effect of environmental/climatic changes on the risk of toxic effects in aquatic organisms
  10. Fate of EDCs and Pharmaceuticals in the environment
  11. Wildlife and Terrestrial Toxicology – Part 1

8:00am – 11:40am: Interactive Platform Session

  1. Enantionomics-cracking the code of chiral contaminants

11:50am - 12:55pm: Student Noontime Seminar

1:00pm - 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Louis Fortier

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions

  1. Evaluation of the Synthetic Pyrethroids in the Aquatic Environment: Regulatory and Risk Concerns
  2. The Future of Environmental Statistics and Ecological Modeling
  3. Analytical Determinations in Environmental Matrices
  4. Life cycle thinking applied to forestry, agricultural, mining, fisheries and petroleum products
  5. Aquatic Toxicology Energetics & Metabolism
  6. Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability - Part 2
  7. Mercury Fate and Biogeochemistry - Part 2
  8. Bioavailibility and effects of PAHs derived from aluminum smelter operations
  9. Weight of Evidence in Support of Ecological Risk Assessment: Lines of Evidence
  10. Toxicity / Effects of EDCs and Pharmaceuticals in the environment
  11. Wildlife and Terrestrial Toxicology - Part 2

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Interactive Platform Seminar

  1. Animal Alternatives in Ecotoxicology

8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters

5:30pm- 6:30pm: Poster Social

6:30pm - 9:00pm: Student Mentor Dinner (Open to Students and Mentors Only)

9:00pm - Midnight: Dance and Karaoke (Open to Everyone!)

Tuesday

7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open

8:00am – 7:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours

8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions

  1. Integrating Research, Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Pesticides - Part 1
  2. Cellular, Organismal and Population Biomarkers Used In Wildlife Toxicology
  3. Computational Systems Biology and Ecotoxicology
  4. Case studies on application of life cycle approaches for improved decision making
  5. Aquatic Toxicology Mechanism
  6. Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability - Part 3
  7. Metals in aquatic food webs - Part 1
  8. Soil Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment
  9. POPs in Estuarine Environments: Observations in Water, Sediments and Biota
  10. Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in aqueous systems - Part 1
  11. Perfluorinated Substances: Sources, Monitoring, Fate, Behaviour and Toxicology. - Part 1

8:00am – 11:40am: Interactive Platform Seminar

  1. A Tribute to Rick Playle: The interface of toxicology, physiology, and modeling in improving water quality regulations for metals

11:40am – 1:30pm: Women in SETAC Luncheon

1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Derek Muir

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions

  1. Integrating Research, Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Pesticides - Part 2
  2. The immune system as a target for the toxic action of pollutants
  3. Managing Impaired Aquatic Ecosystems: Defining Problems and Identifying Solutions
  4. Advances in Bioaccumulation Assessment
  5. Aquatic Toxicology Endocrine and Reproductive
  6. Metals in the Environment: speciation, geochemistry and bioavailability - Part 4
  7. Metals in aquatic food webs - Part 2
  8. Putting ecology back into ecological risk assessments: the potential of modelling
  9. Sediment Toxicity Identification Evaluations
  10. Linking Contaminated Soil to Human and Ecosystem Health Impacts
  11. Perfluorinated Substances: Sources, Monitoring, Fate, Behavior and Toxicology. - Part 2

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Interactive Platform Seminar

  1. Bioaccumulation potential of explosive compounds

8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters

5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social

7:00pm – 11:00pm: SETAC Social: 737 Altitude Club

Wednesday

7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open

8:00am – 7:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours

8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions

  1. Fungicides: Analysis, Fate, and Toxicity
  2. Evaluating Toxicological Endpoints in Field Populations Using Non-Lethal Methods
  3. Wildlife Population Risks from Mercury Exposure
  4. Innovative Planning and Quality Oversight for the Characterization of Complex Sediment Investigations
  5. Modern Biological Approaches to Medaka/Zebrafish Toxicology
  6. A Tribute to Rick Playle: The interface of toxicology, physiology, and modeling in improving water quality regulations for metals. - Part 1
  7. Metals in aquatic food webs - Part 3
  8. Aquatic macrophytes in ecological risk assessment
  9. Site-specific Toxicity Evaluations: Practical Constraints of Collecting and Integrating Soil Toxicity Data
  10. Risk Assessment: Trials and Tribulations of Limiting Factors and Data Gaps. - Part 1
  11. Biotransformation and Degradation of Brominated Flame Retardants in the Environment

8:00am – 11:40am: Interactive Platform Seminar

  1. Assessing the Impact of Uncertainty on Decisions

11:50am - 12:55pm: Student Noontime Seminar

1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Violaine Verougstraete will replace Hugo Waeterschoot as the Wednesday speaker.

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions

  1. Factors Influencing PAH Exposure and Toxicity
  2. Invertebrate biomarkers: Applications and Limitations in the assessment of aquatic pollution
  3. Integrating Science and Assessment in Environmental Management
  4. Impact Methodologies for Various Locations and Special Resolutions
  5. Aquatic Toxicology - General
  6. A Tribute to Rick Playle: The interface of toxicology, physiology, and modeling in improving water quality regulations for metals. - Part 2
  7. Metals in the Environment: Chemistry and Fate Issues
  8. Toxicology and risk assessment of reptiles and amphibians
  9. Environmental Forensics in Sediment
  10. Risk Assessment : Trials and Tribulations of Limiting Factors and Data Gaps. - Part 2
  11. Nanotechnology Nexus -- Science, Technology, Risk and Regulation

1:00pm – 5:30pm: Interactive Platform Seminar

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8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters

5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social

6:00pm – 7:30pm: And then there was light: Light and Sound Show at the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal

Thursday

7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open

8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions

  1. Remediation and bioremediation of sediments
  2. Toxicity of Complex Mixtures
  3. Effects of Transient Stressor Exposures on Aquatic Organisms
  4. Stake holders and social aspects in sustainability
  5. Research Needs for Water Quality Protection in Regulatory Programs: regional and national trends - Part 1
  6. Metals in the Environment: mechanisms and advancing the BLM - Part 1
  7. Metals in the Environment: Regulatory and Risk Concerns
  8. Ecological Fate and Effects of Explosives and Related Compounds
  9. Sediment Contamination in Rivers and Harbors
  10. Exposure of beluga whale to contaminants and toxic effects
  11. Predicting ecological effects of pollutants from biomarkers and omic responses - Part 1

8:00am – 11:40am: Interactive Platform Seminar

1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Linda J. Fisher

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions

  1. Contaminants in Alpine and Polar Ecosystems
  2. Aquatic Toxicology
  3. Environmental Contaminants in Marine Mammals
  4. Remediation: case studies
  5. Research Needs for Water Quality Protection in Regulatory Programs: regional and national trends - Part 2
  6. Metals in the Environment: mechanisms and advancing the BLM - Part 2
  7. Challenges and Innovations in the Evaluation of Birds in Ecological Risk Assessments
  8. Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in aqueous systems - Part 2
  9. Contaminated Sediment Assessment
  10. Bioavailability - recent advancements in analytical tools and models to assess bioavailability of organic pollutants
  11. Predicting ecological effects of pollutants from biomarkers and omic responses - Part 2

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Interactive Platform Seminar

  1. 1. Problem formulation for risk assessment

8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters

5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social

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