The 3 R's in amphibian ecotoxicology
Aveiro (Portugal): March 22-23, 2022
Most available standard guidelines aimed to assess the effects of chemicals on amphibians, involve in vivo experimentation, which makes difficult their risk assessment considering the increasing amount of chemicals to be tested and the ethical issues involved. Several international legislation encourages the reduction and replacement of the experimentation with vertebrates.
This training school will tackle theoretical and practical aspects of in vitro and in silico approaches, that integrate the 3 R´s of animal alternatives, to be used in different stages of the risk assessment of chemicals to amphibians.
The Trainin School is open to graduate and post-graduate students (PhD and MSc) and professionals with a background on amphibian ecotoxicology and risk assessment, or related fields. Limited to 20 participants.
The Training School is be organized within the COST action PERIAMAR (CA18221) and the research project Gogofrog (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030718).
Course Topics
- Amphibian ecotoxicology within the context of animal experimentation.
- The XETA protocol (3 R’s refinement)
- Predictive models (3 R’s Replacement and Reduction)
- In vitro assays with amphibian cell lines (3 R’s Replacement and Reduction)
- Avoidance behaviour (3 R’s Refinement)
- Practical with HemHas system
Course Format
The Training Schoold will be held at the Department of Biology of the University of Aveiro. Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal.
Lectures and will take place during morning and afternoon hours on March 22nd and 23rd.
Registration
The Training School has no registration fees. PERIAMAR COST Action (https://www.periamar.com) will cover travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses to the eligible participants that are selected to attend the TS. Reimbursement of expenses will be determined according to COST rules (https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2021/10/COST-094-21-Annotated-Rules-for-COST-Actions-Level-C-2021-11-01-1.pdf). To be eligible for travel reimbursement, participants must be linked to a research performing institution, association, public entity or private company through a work contract, enrolment in a research performing study programme (for example, PhD or Post-Doctoral programme), voluntary service in a NGO or emeritus professorship. MSc students are not eligible to be reimbursed according to COST rules.
Applications should be sent to Isabel Lopes (ilopes@ua.pt) and Sérgio Marques (sergio.marques@ua.pt), with a motivation letter and a Short CV.
Deadline: February 23, 2022
Participants will be informed of their acceptance in the TS until March 1, 2022
Lecturers
- Andreas Focks. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Osnabrück University, Germany.
- Cátia Venâncio. CFE and Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
- Cristiano Araújo. Institute of Marine Science of Andalusia ICMAN CSIC, Spain.
- David Du Pasquier. Watchfrog, Department of Research and Development, France.
- Isabel Lopes. CESAM and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
- Miguel Oliveira. CESAM and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
- Mónica Almeida. CESAM and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
- Sónia Coelho. CESAM and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
