FINNISH-ESTONIAN CONGRESS OF TOXICOLOGY

"ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH RISKS
OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS"

 

22.-24.05.1997 Tartu
Hotel Kantri


PROGRAMME

Thursday, 22.05.

 
16.00 Opening of the symposium
Prof. Toomas Veidebaum, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Tallinn
16.15 Plenary lecture: Xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes-an overview
Prof. Olavi Pelkonen, University of Oulu
17.00 Poster Session and Get-together

Friday, 23.05.

Session 1. Xenobiotic Metabolism - Basic and Applied Aspects
Chair: Dr Reet Pruul, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Tallinn Dr Hannu Raunio, University of Oulu
09.00 Activation and inactivation of toxic agents by xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes
Prof. Toomas Veidebaum
09.30 Extrahepatic xenobiotix-metabolizing enzymes in human carcinogenesis
Dr Hannu Raunio
10.00 Coffee and Posters
10.30 Detection of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzyme function
Dr Arja Rautio, University of Oulu
11.00 Diseases and drug metabolism in man- Research cases in Estonia and Finland
Dr Markku Pasanen, University of Oulu
11.30 Posters
12.00 Lunch

Session 2. Evaluation of Health Risks
Chair: Dr Hanna Tähti, University of Tampere
13.00 Environmental health - priority area of EU collaborative projects
Prof. Marja Sorsa, Ministry of Education, Finland
13.30 Methods for evaluating genotoxic and carcinogenic risks
Dr Hannu Norppa, Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki
14.00 Health risks of dioxins
Prof. Jouko Tuomisto, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio
14.30 Coffee and Posters

Session 3. Ecotoxicology
Chair: Dr Pirjo Lindström-Seppä, University of Kuopio
Dr Anne Kahru, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn
15.00 Ecotoxicological interests in Estonia. Oil-shale industry as one key issue
Dr Pirjo Lindström-Seppä
15.10 Industrial waste and its environmental impact in North-East Estonia
Prof. Toomas Tenno, Tartu University
15.40 Biomonitoring of the complex oil-shale pollution: field experiments
Arvo Tuvikene, MSc, Institute of Zoology and Botany of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tartu
16.00 ffects of co-pollutants on transformation and toxicity of carcinogenic hydrocarbons
Prof. Uuve Kirso, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn
16.30 Coffee and Posters
17.00 In vitro evaluation of environmental hazards: PLHC-1cell line in field experiments in Estonia
Sirpa Huuskonen, MSc, University of Kuopio
17.20 Chemical analysis vs. toxicological analysis. Ecotoxicological test batteries Dr Anne Kahru
17.40 Genotoxicity of environmental samples
-18.00 Dr Reet Pruul

Congress Dinner

Saturday, 24.05

Session 4. Estonian-Finnish Cowork in Toxicology- Research and Education - Round Table Discussion
Chair: Prof. Kai Savolainen, the Secretary General of IUTOX

Representatives of FST
Representatives of Estonian toxicologists

 

Organizing Committee
The executive Committee of FST
Tarja Toimela, University of Tampere
Reet Pruul, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Tallinn
Anne Kahru, Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn