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The EcotoxicoMic network in collaboration with the Microbiome Stress Project is supporting the organization of a session entitled ‘Adverse effects of chemicals on host-associated and free-living microbiomes’ chaired by O Admaovsky, M Simonin, J Bisesi and F Martin-Laurent at next SETAC meeting organized in Helsinki (FInland) from the 26 to 30 of May 2019. The call for abstract …

SETAC Helsinki – Special session; Chairs: Dr Marie Simonin (Duke University, USA) and Dr Fabrice Martin-Laurent (INRAE, France) Read More »

An upcoming large-scale mesocosm experiment which is part of the EU funded “AQUACOSM” project will take place at Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) in Heraklion, Greece. It will focus on the toxicity of silver nanoparticles/ions to microbial plankton with metagenomics, based on previous results  with viral and bacterial genome analysis. You can find details here: https://www.aquacosm.eu/mesocosm/cretacosmos/ It …

Announcement of HCMR Project- EU funded AQUACOSM Read More »

Please watch this conference on youtube Dr Rick Relyea  (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA)   Rick Relyea received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1998 and is currently the David D. Darrin ’40 Senior Endowed Chair in Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He has spent his career working to merge the fields of ecology, evolution, and …

Replay the EcotoxicoMic 2017 Conference Keynote by Dr Rick Relyea : “The complexities of pollutants and ecological interactions: Lessons from freshwater ecosystems” Read More »

A Research Topic on Microbial Ecotoxicology is proposed by Frontiers. Manuscripts can be submitted to this Research Topic via the following journals: Research Topic Editors Stéphane Pesce, Fabrice Martin-Laurent, Ed Topp, Jean-François Ghiglione Reduced Publishing Fees Frontiers journals are Open Access and authors pay a publishing fee. For the general fee table, please visit the Frontiers website: …

Frontiers Research Topic: Submission Extended Deadline (December 17th 2018) Read More »

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Dr Ed Topp  (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)   Impact of agriculture on environmental microorganisms: The case of antibiotics Please watch this conference on youtube  

2017: Publication on the First book focusing on microbial ecotoxicology. This book is a treatise on microbial ecotoxicology, discussing the effect of pollutants on microbial ecosystems and the role of microorganisms in ecosystems services. Emphasizing the microbial responses to pollution at different biological levels, it focuses on metabolic pathways, genetic adaptation and response at the whole-microbial community level. It …

Microbial Ecotoxicology Book Read More »