PCBs Workshop 2006 in Zakopane, Poland
September 6-10, 2006
Wednesday, September 6th
Special Session in the Polish Language for early arriving guests, beginning and ending in the afternoon (2 p.m.- 6 p.m.).
Polish participants may acquire more detailed information about the PCB Workshop at the following link: http://www.us.edu.pl/~zchts(http://www.us.edu.pl/~zchts)
Background, Overview and Preview of the Workshop, with special technical presentations and demonstrations (In Polish) Session Chairs: Janina Lulek, Anna Sulkowska
Izabela Korwel - Produkcja i przemyslowe zanieczyszczenie polichlorowanymi bifenylami w Polsce (PCB production and resulting contamination in Poland)
Joanna Szlinder-Richert - Poziomy wskaznikowych PCB w rybach baltyckich na podstawie badan w latach 2000-2003 (Levels of PCB indices in Baltic fish - the investigation in 2000-2003)
Alicja Niewiadowska - Poziomy PCB w zywnosci polskiej pochodzenia zwierzecego (PCB levels in Polish animal origin food)
Janina Lulek - Ocena narazenia na PCB w Polsce (Assessment of the exposure to PCBs in Poland)
Ewa Gregoraszczuk - PCB a zagrozenie funkcji rozrodczych (PCBs in developmental toxicity)
Michal Toborek - PCB a zagrozenie chorobami nowotworowymi i naczyniowymi (PCBs in carcinogenicity and cardiovascular diseases)
Adam Grochowalski - Aktualne rozporzadzenia i metodyka w zakresie oznaczania PCB i dioksyn w zywnosci i srodowisku (Actual requirements and methods for the determination of PCBs and dioxins in food and the Environment)
Piotr Konieczka - Miedzylaboratoryjna kontrola jakosci oznaczen PCB w matrycach srodowiskowych w Polsce (Inter-laboratory control of the quality of PCB determination in environmental matrices in Poland)
Evening welcoming get-together for all participants
Thursday, September 7th
Honorary Lecture
Larry Hansen – 40 years of PCBs – More or Lessons?
Session 1
Novel analytical methods of PCB sampling, analysis, and remediation Session Chairs: Tomas Ocelka, Keri C. Hornbuckle
Keri Hornbuckle - Distribution of PCB congeners in urban/industrial Chicago: experimental design
Andy Sweetman - Passive atmospheric sampling of PCBs
Benoit Van Aken - Bioremediation using plants
Peter Behnisch - Relevance of PCDD/PCDF formation for the evaluation of PCB/POPs destruction technologies – current status and assessment gaps
Vladimir Pekarek - The Copper Mediated Destruction of PCBs from the standpoint of thermodynamic calculations
Maciej Sadowski - The new national strategy for the environmentally sound management of persistent organic pollutants
Session 2
Origin of PCBs, human exposure and food safety Session Chairs: Larry Hansen, Wieslaw W. Sulkowski
Anton Kocan - Human exposure to PCBs in Slovakia
Glenn Johnson - Data analysis: PCB congener profiles
Biljana Skrbic - Assessment of Serbian Population Exposure to PCBs by Crops
Jana Weiss - Metabolism and metabolites in context of food safety
Adrian Covaci - The Belgian PCB/Dioxin Crisis - 7 years later: an overview
Session 3 (morning session)
PCBs, Nutrition and life style: nutritional modulation of PCB toxicity - nutrition as a possible paradigm of "biological" remediation, protection or increased toxicity Session Chairs: Bernhard Hennig, Jan Vondracek
Bernhard Hennig - Impact of nutrition on PCB toxicity, with a focus on cardiovascular disease
Ron Jandacek - Non-absorbable fats and PCB detoxification
Lisa Cassis - Impact of obesity/hypertension on PCB toxicity
Jan Vondracek - Interactions of fatty acids, lipid mediators and PCBs in liver epithelial cells
Margaret James - Do food natural products influence the phase II biotransformation of PCB metabolites?
Session 4 (afternoon)
Actions of PCBs I: In vitro, In vivo and Epidemiological Studies Session Chairs: Susan Schantz, Gerhard Winneke
Isaac Pessah - Structure-Activity and Stereospecificity of Non-Coplanar PCBs at Ryanodine-Sensitive Calcium Channels; Basic and Clinical Implications
Susan Schantz - Applying Data from Animal Models of PCB Exposure to Epidemiological Research: The Early Indicators Approach
Irva Hertz-Picciotto - Immunologic Actions of PCBs
Gerhard Winneke - Impact of PCBs/Dioxins on Neurodevelopment and Endocrine Function of Newborns
Tomas Trnovec - Summary of the Effects of PCBs in Slovakia
Saturday, September 9th
Session 5 (morning session)
Actions of PCB II: Carcinogenicity studies (initiation, promotion, progression, metastasis) Session Chairs: Larry W. Robertson, Dieter Schrenk
Gabriele Ludewig - Metabolic activation of PCBs to carcinogens in vivo
Ramesh Gupta - Effect of PCB exposure on DNA adduct accumulation in white blood cells of Inuits
Miroslav Machala - In vitro mechanistic studies on AhR-dependent and -independent mechanisms of action of PCBs in liver progenitor cells
Dieter Schrenk - Non-dioxin like PCBs as promoters of hepatocarcinogenesis
Howard Glauert - Role of oxidative stress in the promoting activities of PCBs
Michal Toborek - PCBs and cancer metastasis
Session 6 (afternoon)
Policy, risk, regulations, Stockholm Convention-European Issues Session Chairs: Adam Grochowalski, Heidelore Fiedler
Heidelore Fiedler - Stockholm Convention and unintentional POPs
Willem Van Loo - Dioxin/Furan formation and release in the Cement Industry
Tomas Ocelka - PCB in Czech Republic
Sonmez Dagli - Stockholm Convention and Environmental PCB Levels in Turkey
Kristofer Warman - Analytical aspects and some data from the determination of co-planar PCBs and PCDD/Fs in Sweden
Lisa Gaetke - Challenges to Superfund community nutrition programs in Kentucky
Jean-François Narbonne - Risk-based consumption advice for farmed and wild fish sold in European markets
Evening - Banquet with local music and dancing
Sunday, September 10th
Special Summary Session in the Polish Language will summarize the individual sessions, above in Polish for Polish participants Session Chairs: Wieslaw W. Sulkowski, Janina Lulek
Janina Lulek (Akademia Medyczna w Poznaniu, Wydzial Farmaceutyczny - Poznan University of Medical Sciences) - Podsumowanie wyników pracy 1 sesji IV Warsztatów PCB (Summary of 1 session of IV PCB Workshop)
Wieslaw W. Sulkowski (Uniwersytet Slaski - University of Silesia) - Podsumowanie wyników pracy 2 sesji IV Warsztatów PCB (Summary of 2 session of IV PCB Workshop)
Michal Toborek (University of Kentucky) - Podsumowanie wyników pracy 3 sesji IV Warsztatów PCB (Summary of 3 session of IV PCB Workshop)
Ewa Gregoraszczuk (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Biologii - Jagiellonian University) - Podsumowanie wyników pracy 4 sesji IV Warsztatów PCB (Summary of 4 session of IV PCB Workshop)
Michal Toborek (University of Kentucky) - Podsumowanie wyników pracy 5 sesji IV Warsztatów PCB (Summary of 5 session of IV PCB Workshop)
Adam Grochowalski (Politechnika Krakowska, Wydzial Chemii - Krakow Technical University) - Podsumowanie wyników pracy 6 sesji IV Warsztatów PCB (Summary of 6 session of IV PCB Workshop)
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