In this blog post, Rajdeep Roy and his colleagues address the impacts of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (nTiO2)-aging on the ecotoxicity of metals. This is done by employing acute waterborne and multigenerational dietary exposures.
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Can we use an American leaf shredder to assess sediment-associated metal risks in Europe?
In this post, Jochen Zubrod reports on their recently published paper “Is Hyalella azteca a suitable model leaf-shredding benthic crustacean for testing the toxicity of sediment-associated metals in Europe?”.
Continue readingMSc thesis opportunity on dietary exposure of tawny owls towards metals
The Aarhus University Department of Bioscience in Denmark and Landau’s Institute for Environmental Sciences jointly offer a MSc thesis to study the long-term effect of global change on the exposure and dietary pathways of metals in the Norwegian tawny owl Strix aluco.
BECT 100th Volume Special Issue – Free access
In this post, we briefly highlight the 100th Volume Special Issue of the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (BECT), which is freely accessible until 23 March 2018.
PhD position in Ecotoxicological Modelling at Ghent University
The Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology at Ghent University is offering a PhD project with focus on fish population models to improve ecological risk assessment of copper and zinc.
PhD position in Aquatic Ecotoxicology of Metals at Ghent University
Ghent University is hiring a PhD student for the project “COM-MET-MIX: Ecotoxicity of metal mixtures to aquatic communities: Something from nothing?” within its Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology.