This week, we welcome the 2025 cohort of the Master’s program in Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology) at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (Landau campus). Starting in October, 35 highly motivated students will begin their studies on how environmental stressors affect ecosystems and how these risks can be effectively managed. This marks a record number of students admitted to the program.
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The Department of Plant and Environmental Science, Section for Environmental Chemistry and Physics, at the University of Copenhagen, invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in “The effect of formulations of dsRNA based pesticides on non-target species”. The project is part of the research project ENvironmental SAFEty of biotechnological plant protection products based on short interfering RNA and peptides, which is financed by The Novo Nordisk Foundation.
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Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Adetola Adebowale tells us about his AMEO experience in the Invertebrate and Residue Field Studies department at RIFCON GmbH in Hirschberg.
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A new study examining the effects of an antibiotic, a fungicide, and their mixture on the gut microbiome of Gammarus fossarum found that the antimicrobial exposure altered the relative abundance of bacterial classes within the gut microbiome, with effect directions depending on the type of antimicrobial used.
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A new study investigating temporal and spatial trends in pesticide pressure in France over 15 years (2008 to 2022) using the Total Applied Toxicity (TAT) highlights the importance of TAT for evaluating pesticide pressure and identifying areas for mitigation strategies, while also noting the impact of recent regulatory actions.
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In the framework of the project “Energy Structures – Energy Sustains Dissipative Structures in Soil Systems ” (https://soilsystems.net/projects-partners/2-p1-energy-structures/), funded by the DFG, the RPTU Landau and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) offers a PhD student position in Soil chemistry, with the earliest possible starting date in January 2026 and a project duration of three years.
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Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Krishna Venugopalan Variyer tells us about her AMEO experience in the Aquatic Department at the BASF Agricultural Center in Limburgerhof.
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Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Bailey Tock tells us about her AMEO experience in the Experimental Aquatic Unit at the Bayer Monheim campus
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Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Vivien McGuire and Janna Schulte tell us about their AMEO experience at Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME), Schmallenberg.
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A new extensive review article assessing the state of global chemical pollution highlights the challenges for global chemical assessment, regulation and management systems.