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Programme

Introduction

Following the successful edition in September 2022, the NWO/TTW project 'Exposure, hazard and risk of PFAS in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems' in collaboration with MilieuChemTox section of the KNCV, will organize a second PFAS symposium in 2023.

Programme

Date: 6 October 2023

Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), De Boelelaan 1108, Amsterdam
O2 building, Auditorium

Costs (excl VAT): € 45,- per person for members of MCT, € 55,- for non-members
Final details will follow after registration

Programme
09:00-09:30 Arrival, registration, coffee
09:30-09:35 Opening, introduction to the symposium programme
09:35-09:55 Exploring the presence of PFAS in Dutch surface waters
Sanne Brekelmans (The Water Laboratory Haarlem)
09:55-10:15 Dynamics of PFAS in the rivers Meuse and Rhine
Tessa Pronk (KWR)
10:15-10:35 Bioturbation affects bioaccumulation of PFAS: uptake from sediments by a rooting macrophyte and a benthic invertebrate
Ioanna Gkika (UvA)
10:35-11:05 Coffee
11:05-11:35 Macroinvertebrate community responses to PFAS pollution: identification of threshold body burdens Cara Byns (Antwerp University)
11:35-11:55 The contribution of PFAS to thyroid hormone-displacing activity in Dutch waters: A comparison between two in vitro bioassays with chemical analysis
Jaimy de Schepper (The Water Laboratory Haarlem)
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-14:00 Poster introductions (3 minute per poster) + posters
14:00-14:20 Chronic toxicity of PFOS to aquatic macroinvertebrates
Ayesha Siddiqa (Wageningen University)
14:20-14:40 Multigeneration toxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to Daphnia magna and Folsomia candida
Skylar Xie (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
14:40-15:00 Chinese mitten crabs (Eriocheir sinensis) as biomonitor of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution in Flanders, Belgium
Thimo Groffen (Antwerp University)
15:00-15:30 Tea
15:30-16:00 PFAS in Dutch foods: contamination of fish and crops
Stefan van Leeuwen (Wageningen Food Safety Research)
16:00-16:30 General discussion
16:30-17:30 Drinks

         

Posters:

  1. Identification and characterization of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) isomers by ion mobility - high resolution mass spectrometry (IM-HRMS) (Lu Zhao, Antwerp University)
  2. Occurrence of short- and ultra-short-chain PFAS in drinking water in Flanders (Francesca Cappelli, Antwerp University)
  3. Adsorption of PFOA and PFOS to ferrihydrite iron oxide nanoparticles (Ke Peng, Wageningen University)
  4. Accumulation of PFAS within a terrestrial food chain indicating species-specific differences (Jodie Buytaert, Antwerp University)
  5. Grounded: needs to understand soil phenomena for PFAS bioavailability and plant uptake (Stefan van Leeuwen, Wageningen Food Safety Research)
  6. Effects of fluorocarbon chain length and polar head groups on the toxicity of per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) (Skylar Xie, Vrije Universiteit)
  7. PFAS research priorities for environmental risk assessment (Ioanna Gkika, University of Amsterdam)
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