Facts:
Time: 2021-11-18 13:00 - 16:15
City: Uppsala
Location: Tanngrisner 1 and Tanngrisner 2, SLU, VHC
Organiser: CRU & GS-VMAS
CRU & GS-VMAS symposium: “Current and future challenges for animals and men: environmental pollutants and reproduction”
Last changed: 24 November 2021
An afternoon with focus on PFAS and other environmental pollutants and their effect on reproduction and the gametes. Connections between animals, humans and the environment.
Organised in collaboration between CRU and the SLU Graduate School VMAS.
Programme
13:00 Welcome and introduction (Ylva Sjunnesson)
13:05 “Endocrine disruptors, how we all get involved …” Peter Bols (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
13:35 Time for questions and short break
13:45 "Parameters to assess oocyte and embryo quality". Christine Wrenzycki (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany)
14:15 Time for questions and short break
14:25 “Dioxin and dioxin-like PCB exposure in Sweden – risk assessment of reproductive health” Anders Glynn (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)
14:45 Time for questions and coffee break
15:15 “Overview on PFASs in the environment” Lutz Ahrens (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)
15:35 Time for questions and short break
15:45 ”Next generation approaches to identifying endocrine disruptors – possibilities and challenges” Anna Beronius (Karolinska institutet, Sweden)
16:05-16:15 Time for questions and end of symposium
Contact
Centre for Reproductive Biology in Uppsala, CRU
P.O. Box 7054, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18-67 21 74
www.slu.se/cru | cru@slu.se