Thursday, 2nd September Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Australasia 2021

• What else is out there? Building our understanding to protect the environment and the health of our communities  - Carolyn Brumley

• Determining the Bioaccumulation of PFASs in Resident Black Swans from an Urban Lake - Drew Szabo
• Can bees detect PFOS? - Carolyn A Sonter

• A rapid and highly sensitive assay for on-site detection of Shiga toxin Escherichia coli in the water - Alka Rani
• Occurrence of organic ultraviolet filters in Port Phillip Bay, Australia. - Megan Carve
• Infrared Spectrometers for In-Field Analysis of TPH in Soil and Beyond - Sean Manning

• Toxicity of select unconventional gas fracking chemicals to the freshwater shrimp Paratya australiensis - Daniel Willems
• Use of local freshwater snail to assess effects from different land use activities on a freshwater ecosystem - Maita Subba
• Copper toxicity assessed using a multispecies microalgal assay: influence of time-of-day and duration of pulse exposures - Sarah Stone

• Social context mediates the impacts of an antidepressant pollutant on shoaling behaviour in fish - Jake M Martin
• The impacts of a common agricultural pollutant on behaviour and growth in the spotted marsh frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) - Jack Orford
• Faster, better, later. Automated image processing for improved laboratory workflows. - Chris Williams
• TrackingBot: an automated organism tracking software suite for custom behavioral experiments. - Yutao Bai
• The endocrine disruptor 17β-trenbolone alters the relationship between pre- and post-copulatory sexual traits in male mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) - Hung Tan
• Disruption of male mating strategies in a chemically compromised environment - Michael G Bertram
• Warmer temperatures limit the effects of antidepressant pollution on life history traits - Lucinda C Aulsebrook

Introduction by Amy Heffernan

• The basics of high-resolution mass spectrometry for non-targeted analysis - Amy Heffernan
• Making the screening of environmental toxicology compounds routine using an innovative benchtop high resolution mass spectrometer and powerful data processing software - Brad Patterson
• Combining Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and DFT for detection of pharmaceutical pollutants in the aquatic environment - Timothy TO Ong
• The complexities associated with new psychoactive substances in influent wastewater: the case of 4-ethylmethcathinone - Richard Bade
• Influence of mass spectrometric settings on successful identifications using a non-target workflow - Bastian Schulze
• Environmental Forensics: Using advanced analytical methods to solve environmental crimes - Andrew Symons
• A global emerging contaminant early warning exercise through the use of retrospective suspect screening with high-resolution mass spectrometry - Pradeep Dewapriya

• How does pollution from new urban housing developments affect our waterways? - Claudette Kellar
• Try and try again; the path to utilising Antarctic soil-dwelling microinvertebrates as ecotoxicological test species. - Jordan S McCarthy
• Sensitivity of an Antarctic limnoterrestrial bdelloid rotifer to cadmium   - Katie Plaisted
• Effects of bifenthrin on endangered growling grass frog and dwarf galaxias populations - Madara Ranatunga
• Development and validation of molecular biomarkers for the green-lipped mussel (Perna canaliculus) to characterize the effects of environmental contamination - Camille G Baettig
• Changes in macroinvertebrate assemblage in a seasonally flowing stream and the implications for salinity tolerance - Tom Mooney
• Snake scales record environmental metal(loid) contamination - Damian C Lettoof

• Reflections on a decade of seabird pollution monitoring on Lord Howe Island - Jennifer Lavers

• Toxicological effect of platinum group elements on common vegetables - Zhuyun Gu
• A phylogenetic framework assessing metal uptake and translocation patterns across halophytic saltmarsh taxa globally - Md. Rushna Alam
• Trophic transfers of antimony and arsenic in aquatic freshwater food webs - Susan C Wilson
• Lethal and Sub-lethal Effects of Anti-Parasitic-Treated Canine Faeces on Eisenia fetida in Simulated Compost - Emily Bryson

Registration: Via email to - setacau21.aslp@gmail.com
Joining: In session – breakout via zoom link which you will receive via email.

The breakout session aims to investigate the issues associated with the application of the ASLP analytical tool for predicting PFAS mass flows and using the resultant data to assess risk. Better tools are required to understand the movement of PFAS within the environment and to enable more accurate modelling and risk assessment.

This session aims to identify a toolbox of suitable alternatives, which can replace or be used in conjunction with ASLP, by highlighting their measures, methodologies, advantages, and limitations. The information from this workshop will then be synthesised into a report for consideration by the National Chemicals Working Group and other key stake holders.

The program will run as a breakout session as part of SETAC Australasia 2021 proceedings, where a scoping discussion session will be used to collect and collate relevant information. These themes will be condensed into individual questionnaires and supplied to all attendees via email for response (anomalously if so desired) within a 2-week period. Questionnaire responses will provide detailed information which can be reviewed and included in a final report.

If you would like to attend the session and provide your valuable input on the above, please register your interest by email here: setacau21.aslp@gmail.com.

• Efficient catalytic removal of toxic dye from water using carbon nanodots and ecotoxicological evaluation of treated effluents using Aliivibrio fischeri - Sabrina Beker
• Impact of (nano)formulations on the fate of copper pesticides and fertilisers on leaves and in soil - Melanie Kah
• Nano-ecotoxicity evaluation of agriculturally relevant iron nanoparticles in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos - Shweta Gehlout
• Trouble relaxing: polyacrylic acid coated nanoparticles impair blood vessel physiology. - Aaron G Schultz