The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe 36th Annual Meeting

This year, the Annual Meeting brings together scientists to address the overarching theme “Embrace the outlier. In science, regulations and networks”. The aim is to invite SETAC community to embrace outliers, advancing innovative science, inclusive regulation and diverse networks, while upholding rigorous, transparent practices to inspire sustainable solutions and cross-sector change.

Unilever SERS scientists are making several contributions to the scientific programme - co-chairing 6 sessions & co-authoring 15+ presentations – details below:

Scientific sessions:

Monday, 18^th May

9:30 – 10:50, Room 0.15: 1.01 - Advancements in Data-Driven Ecotoxicology: Integrating Data and Innovative Methods.
Chairs: Marissa B Kosnik (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland), Panagiotis Karamertzanis (European Chemicals Agency - ECHA, Finland), Claudia Rivetti (SERS, Unilever)

11:35 – 12:55, Room 0.15: 1.08 - Democratization of Big Data: Live Demonstrations of Computational Platforms and Data Resources to Advance Chemical Safety Assessment.
Chairs: Claudia Rivetti (SERS, Unilever), Niladri Basu (McGill University, Canada), Natalie Burden (UK National Centre for the 3Rs, UK), Peter Schumann (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Tuesday, 19^th May

11:35 – 12:55 and 14:25 – 15:45, Room 2.1: 3.04 - Advancing Understanding of Environmental Persistence of Chemicals. Chairs: Katie Endersby (SERS, Unilever), Anu Maarit Kapanen (European Chemicals Agency - ECHA, Finland), Jason Snape (University of York, UK), Aina Charlotte Wennberg (Norsk Instiutt for Vannforskning - NIVA, Norway)

14:25 – 15:45, Auditorium 02: 7.04 - Bridging the Data-to-Regulation Gap: How to Align NAMs with Regulatory Decision-Making. Chairs: Vanessa Srebny (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany), Anna Böhnhardt (German Environmental Agency - UBA, Germany), Claudia Rivetti (SERS, Unilever), Francesca Pellizzato (European Chemicals Agency - ECHA, Finland)

Wednesday, 20^th May

11:35 – 12:55 and 14:30 – 15:30, Auditorium 02: 3.02 - Advances in Exposure Modelling: Closing the Gap between Scientific Innovation and Regulatory Relevance.
Chairs: Juliet Hodges (SERS, Unilever), Joris T.K. Quik (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment - RIVM, Netherlands), Sam Harrison (United Kingdom Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - UKCEH, UK), Oliver Warwick (Vitis Regulatory Limited, UK)

16:00 - 16:45, Poster Corner area: 7.05 - Enhancing Chemical Safety Using NGRA: Bridging Human Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
Chairs: Jinhee Choi (University of Seoul, South Korea), Claudia Rivetti (SERS, Unilever), Xiaojing Li (University of Birmingham, UK), Maria Arena (European Food Safety Authority - EFSA, Italy)

Oral Presentations:

Monday, 18^th May

10:05 – 10:20, Room 0.15: 1.01.T-03 - Data-Driven Mechanistic Forecasting of Species-Specific Chemical Sensitivity Using Docking-Derived Molecular Features
Authors: Rama Krishnan¹, David Spurgeon², Stephen James Short², Bruno Campos³, Claudia Rivetti³, Claire Peart³ and Peter Kille^1
1Cardiff University, UK; ²UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK; ³SERS, Unilever

11:55 – 12:10, Room 0.15: 1.08.T-02 - AMIRA: Animal-free Mechanistic Inference for Risk Assessment
Authors: Richa Malik¹, Bruno Campos², Claudia Rivetti², Luigi Margiotta-Casaluci¹ and Christer Hogstrand^4
1King's College London, UK; ²SERS, Unilever; ³King's College London, UK

Tuesday, 19^th May

09:50 – 10:05, Room 2.2: 1.04.T-02 - From Theory to Practice: Employing EcR Agonism AOP for In Vitro Screening Assay
Authors: Rebeka Darmati¹, Rama Krishnan², Samantha Hughes¹, Peter Kille², Paul Carmichael³, Bruno Campos³ and Nico van den Brink^1
1Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands; ²Cardiff University, UK; ³SERS, Unilever

12:10 – 12:25, Auditorium 02:1.03.B.T-03 - In Vitro Transcriptomic Points of Departure (tPODs) for 42 diverse chemicals in a human (Caco-2) and fish (RT-Gill) cell line.
Authors: Niladri Basu¹, Ke Xu¹, Krittika Mittal², Geoff Hodges³, Bruno Campos³ and Claudia Rivetti³.
¹McGill University, Canada, ²Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Canada, ³SERS, Unilever

12:25 – 12:40, Auditorium 02: 1.03.B.T-04 - Evaluating the Protectiveness of High-Throughput Transcriptomics Data from fish cell lines for Environmental Risk Assessment
Authors: Claudia Rivetti¹, Jacob Collins¹, Geoff Hodges¹, Bruno Campos^1
1SERS, Unilever

Wednesday, 20^th May

12:10 – 12:25, Auditorium 02: 3.02.A.T-03 - Bridging Innovation and Regulation: High-Resolution Spatial Mapping of Sewage Connectivity for Refined Exposure Modelling
Authors: Juliet Hodges¹, Baile Xu¹, Jin Li¹, Simran Sandu¹, Bing Zhang², Lei Wang^2
1SERS, Unilever; ²Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China.

Poster Presentations:

Monday, 18^th May

3.01.P-Mo146 - The Influence of Biological Traits on Bioconcentration of Organic Chemicals in Freshwater
Invertebrates.
Authors: Katie Plaisted¹, Kiara Mangin¹, Claudia Rivetti², Lorraine Maltby³, Alistair Boxall^1
1University of York,UK; ²SERS, Unilever; ³University of Sheffield, UK

Tuesday, 19^th May

3.04.P-Tu161 - What Drives Variability in OECD TG 309 Studies? A Data-Driven Evaluation of 176 Surface Water Simulation Tests
Authors: Marie Collard¹, Mike Earl², Katie Endersby³, Richard Gibson⁴, Patricia Ducouret⁵, Jasmin Hafner⁶, Damian Helbling⁷, Christopher B. Hughes⁸, Aurelia Lapczynski⁹, Sven Peter⁵, David Saunders¹⁰, Balint Tamasi¹, Maria Vitale Chiara¹¹, Neil Wang¹², Philippe Lemaire¹³, Miriam Leon Paumen¹⁴, Johannes Tolls¹⁵, Lucy Wilmot¹⁶, Louise Camenzuli^14
1DSM-Firmenich SA, Belgium; ²Syngenta Ltd., UK; ³Unilever, SERS; ⁴Environment Agency, York, UK; ⁵BASF SE, Germany; ⁶Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland; ⁷Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USA; ⁸Embark Chemical Consulting, Chester, UK; ⁹Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM), USA; ¹⁰Shell Global Solutions, Netherlands; ¹¹Procter & Gamble, Belgium; ¹²Syensqo, Aubervilliers, France; ¹³TotalEnergies, Paris La Défense Cedex, France; ¹⁴ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical BV, Belgium; ¹⁵Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Germany; ¹⁶ European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC), Belgium.

3.04.P-Tu175 - Assessing the Biodegradability of Water-Soluble Polymers: Scientific and Regulatory Perspectives for Safe and Sustainable by Design Innovation.
Authors: Chris Finnegan¹, Katie Endersby¹ and Jayne Roberts^1
1SERS, Unilever

3.04.P-Tu176 - Advancing Fate Assessment: Integrating Biodegradation and Microbial Toxicity Testing,
Authors: Katie Endersby¹, Jayne Roberts¹, Chris Finnegan¹ and Emily McGrory^2
1SERS, Unilever; ²University of Warwick, UK

5.05.P-Tu423 - Decoupling Biodiversity Footprints of Food Consumption from Economic Growth Varies with the Wealth of a Country.
Authors: Hanzhong Zheng¹, Koen Kuipers¹, Selwyn Hoeks¹, Sarah Sim^1,2, Mark Huijbregts^1
1Radboud University, Netherlands; ²SERS, Unilever

Wednesday, 20^th May

3.02.P-We196 - Modelling the Fate of Chemicals from Untreated Wastewater Discharges: A Routed and Spatially refined Model.
Authors: Simran Sandhu¹, Juliet Hodges¹, Hugh Barlow¹ and Stephen Glavin^1
1SERS, Unilever

3.02.P-We197 - Generating a Robust Global Dilution Factor Estimation from River Flow and Wastewater Effluent.
Authors: Jillian La Roe¹, Christopher M. Holmes¹, Andre Roberts² and Juliet Hodges^2
1Applied Analysis Solutions LLC, USA; ²SERS, Unilever

7.05.P-We436 - Case Study-Led Evaluation of an Integrated Human Health–Environmental Next Generation Risk Assessment Framework.
Authors: Claudia Rivetti¹, Maria Baltazar¹ and Bruno Campos^1
1SERS, Unilever

4.04.P-Th153 - Evaluation of the RTgill-W1 Cell Line Assay (OECD TG 249) for Predicting Acute Fish Toxicity of Surfactants.
Authors: Jayne Roberts¹, Roman Li², Helena Villuendas Garcia², Liesa-Kristin Beuter, PhD³, Jens Bietz⁴, Kristin Connors⁵, Jay Dawick⁶, Marc Geurts⁷, Geoff Hodges¹, Erin Maloney⁸, Lauren McAnally⁶ and Frank Seitz^9
1SERS, Unilever; ²aQuaTox-Solutions GmbH, Switzerland; ³Nouryon Specialty Chemicals B.V., Sweden; ⁴Clariant, Germany; ⁵Procter & Gamble, USA; ⁶Innospec, UK; ⁷Nouryon Specialty Chemicals B.V., Netherlands; ⁸Shell Global Solutions International BV, Netherlands; ⁹Sasol Germany GmbH, Germany

8.05.P-Th450 - In Vitro Toxicological Responses in Fish Cells (RTgutGC) Following Exposure to Chemicals with Different Modes of Actions.
Authors: Utsa Saha¹, Bruno Campos², Jayne Roberts², Michael N. Moore^1,3,4, Awadhesh N. Jha^1
1University of Plymouth, UK; ²SERS, Unilever; ³European Centre for Environment & Human Health (ECEHH), UK; ⁴Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK.

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