Scientific Programme
The programme consist of following main sessions:
- TOXICITY TESTING IN VITRO & 3R
- ALTERNATIVE METHODS IN TOXICITY TESTING: QSAR, ECOTOXICOLOGICAL TESTS & 3R
- CELLULAR TOXICITY AND TOXICITY MECHANISMS
- DEVELOPING OF REGULATORY TOXICITY TESTS
- NEUROTOXICOLOGY IN VITRO
- NOVEL IN VITRO METHODS IN BIOANALYSIS
- ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION & EXOTOCICOLOGY
- ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION & RISK TO HUMANS
- RESEARCH & EDUCATION IN ESTONIA
The presentations involve 2 invited lectures, 26 oral platform presentations (selected from the submitted abstracts) and 39 poster presentations.
The Key-Note Speaker of the Conference is Prof. John Timbrell (Pharmacy Department, King's College London). Prof. Timbrell is the author of toxicology text books "Principles of Biochemical Toxicology" and "Introduction to Toxicology". The talk of Prof. Timbrell on the Conference is "Toxicology: Old art, new science and the poison paradox" based on his brand new book about the history of Toxicology "The Poison Paradox. How and when chemicals are toxic".
BEMF (Björn Ekwall Memorial Foundation) award for 2005 to Drs. Hasso Seibert and Michael Gülden will be presented as a lecture by one of the awardees, Dr. Hasso Seibert (Institute of Toxicology and Pharmacology for Natural Scientists, University Medical School Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany)
Programme for downloading
List of posters
NOTE! For oral presentations a data projector, laptop computer and projection screen will be provided. Participants who have the oral presentations are expected to visit the Organizing Secretariat at least 2 hours prior to their presentation in order to transfer their PowerPoint file and to insure that their presentation will work with the data projector. Microsoft PowerPoint is the only supported format. Authors must insure that their PowerPoint presentation meets the following requirements:
- created in Windows format only (no Mac or Linux)
- recorded on a CD-R (no CD-RWs, no zip disks, preferably no hooking your laptop to the data projector) or recorded on a USB portable memory device
- compatible with PowerPoint 2000 saved in .ppt (PowerPoint document) format; not as .pps (PowerPoint slideshow) format.
Poster Presentations
The posters (90 x 120 cm, width x length) should be mounted on the walls of Conference Rooms latest by Friday morning and will stay there during the whole Conference. All the material for fixing of the posters to walls will be provided by Organizers. We invite authors of the posters to take with them also the copies of their posters (small A4 or A3 posters) for the distribution to interested participants.
For discussion of posters we will organise two POSTER SOCIALS - on Friday and on Saturday - where the scientific results of the presentations can be discussed in more relaxed atmosphere over a cup of coffee/tea and snacks. On both poster socials all posters will be discussed.
Awards for best presentations
The Swedish company Gambro will sponsor the Conference with awards for best poster and oral presentations.
ETS (Estonian Society of Toxicology) will give special awards for best oral presentation of young scientist (<35 years), best oral presentation of established scientist (>35 years) and best poster presentation.
Eesti Põlevkivi sponsors two awards: one for the best oral and one for the best poster presentation on environmental subjects.
Meetings of Committees, Boards and Annual Meeting of SSCT
THURSDAY October 20th
19:00 19:30 MEETING OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES OF TOILA 2005 CONFERENCE
FRIDAY October 21st
18:00 19:00 MEETING OF SSCT BOARD
SATURDAY October 22nd
17:00 17:30 MEETING OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES OF TOILA 2005 CONFERENCE 17:30 19:00 ANNUAL MEETING OF SSCT