Awards

The Scientific Jury of the Joint Conference of Estonian Society of Toxicology and Scandinavian Society for Cell Toxicology “Chemicals, human, environment”, October 20-23, 2005, Toila, Estonia issued altogether 6 prizes

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION (SSCT AWARD) - Angela Ivask
“RECOMBINANT LUMINESCENT BACTERIAL HEAVY METAL SENSORS: TOOLS FOR MEASURING BIOAVAILABILITY”. Co-authors A. Leedjärv, T. Rõlova, K. Hakkila, M. Virta, A. Kahru, H.-C. Dubourguier, R.S. Marks, N. Leivuori, M. Valiente

BEST POSTER PRESENTATION (SSCT AWARD) - Parvinder Kaur
“GLUTATHIONE SUPPLEMENTATION ATTENUATES METHYL MERCURY INDUCED NEUROTOXICITY IN PRIMARY CELL CULTURES” co-authors M. Aschner and T. Syversen

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION (ETS AWARD) - Helena Gustafsson
“ACETYLCHOLINE ESTERASE ACTIVITY AS AN ENDPOINT FOR PREDICTION OF ACUTE HUMAN NEUROTOXICITY”, co-authors J. Runesson and A. Forsby

BEST POSTER PRESENTATION (ETS AWARD) - Elke Schoeters
“CYTOKINE TRANSCRIPT PROFILING IN CD34+-PROGENITOR DERIVED DENDRITIC CELLS EXPOSED TO CONTACT ALLERGENS AND IRRITANTS”, co-authors G.R. Verheyen, J.-M. Nuijten, R.L. Van Den Heuvel, I. Nelissen, H. Witters, V.F.I. Van Tendeloo, Z.N. Berneman, G.E.R. Schoeters

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUBJECT (EESTI PõLEVKIVI AWARD) - Anu Leedjärv
“ANALYSIS OF BIOAVAILABLE PHENOLS FROM NATURAL SAMPLES BY RECOMBINANT LUMINESCENT BACTERIAL SENSORS”, co-authors A. Ivask, M. Virta, A. Kahru

BEST POSTER PRESENTATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUBJECT (EESTI PõLEVKIVI AWARD) – Lee Põllumaa
“ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF GROUNDWATER IN ESTONIAN OIL-SHALE REGION”, co-authors L. Bityukova, J.E. Sorlie and A. Kahru