Tag Archives: ecotoxicology

AMEO in Paris: Ecotox students test potential endocrine distruptors

For the “Applied Module at External Organizations” (AMEO), Ecotox students complete an eight-week internship at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute. In this post, Manuel Ayala-Velázquez reports on his internship at the Université Pierre et Marie-Curie (UPMC), now Sorbonne Université.

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What’s driving insecticide pollution in agricultural surface waters?

In this post, Jakob Wolfram talks about his most recent paper “Insecticide Risks in United States Surface Waters: Drivers and Spatiotemporal Modeling”. This publication analyzed the drivers of insecticide nonpoint source pollution and used a modelling approach to identify regions in the U.S. where surface waters may be at risk.

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BSc or MSc theses on pesticide sensitivity of aquatic fungi at Uni Koblenz-Landau

We are looking for a student interested in a BSc or MSc project on the topic “Improving effect projection: sensitivity of aquatic hyphomycetes to pesticide exposure” to join our working group “Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology”.

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