Scientific programme (WET)
09:00
Registration
09:15
Opening session (Fernando Almeida, President of the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorg - INSA)
09:30
Session 1 - Increasing knowledge in exposure and health
Chairs: João Paulo Teixeira (INSA) and Isabel Carvalho Oliveira (Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation - AICIB)
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From HBM4EU to PARC European Initiatives – added value of the Portuguese participation
(Maria João Silva, INSA)
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Portuguese National Hub on Human Biomonitoring – from HBM4EU to PARC
(Rita Cavaleiro, Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT and Isabel Moura, Portuguese Environment Agency - APA)
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Free Presentation 1
HBM4EU Aligned Studies: current exposure to deoxynivalenol and relevant determinants
Paula Alvito (INSA)
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Free Presentation 2
The HBM4IRE Study: Assessing Feasibility for Establishing a National Human Biomonitoring Program in Ireland
Richa Singh (University College Dublin)
09:30
09:50
10:25
10:10
10:40
Coffee break and Poster session
11:10
Session 2 - Round table: HBM in support of regulatory actions and policy making
Chair: Fernando de Almeida (INSA)
Invited speaker: Marike Kolossa-Gehring (German Environment Agency - UBA)
Round table: Luís Campos (Portuguese Council for Health and Environment - CPSA)
Maria Andrea Cara D’Anjo (General Directorate of Food and Veterinary - DGAV)
Mariana Fernandes de Barros (Authority for the Work Conditions - ACT)
Pedro Nabais (Economic and Food Safety Authority - ASAE)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 3 - HBM as a useful approach for risk assessment
Chairs: Ana Virgolino (Institute of Environmental Health, Lisbon School of Medicine - FMUL) and Carla Trindade Costa (INSA)
Keynote lecture: Human biomonitoring at the science-policy nexus
(Greet Schoeters, VITO, European Society for Toxicology in Vitro)
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Occupational studies - goals and achievements
(Susana Viegas, National School of Public Health, NOVA University of Lisbon - ENSP-UNL)
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Free Presentation 3
Urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons metabolites in wildland firefighters: BioFirEx project results
Bela Barros (REQUIMTE/LAQV)
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Free Presentation 4
Synthetic Musks in Adipose Tissue of Obese Portuguese Women - Biomonitoring and Metabolic Implications
Sara Sousa (REQUIMTE/LAQV)
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Free Presentation 5
Exposure to aminocarb promotes androstenedione production
​Sílvia Moreira (University of Aveiro)
14:30
14:50
15:05
15:20
15:35
Coffee break and Poster session
16:00
Session 4 - HBM in the Portuguese context
Chairs: Henriqueta Louro (INSA) and Isabel Moura (APA)
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Human Biomonitoring of the Portuguese population: results from INSEF-ExpoQuim
(Sónia Namorado, INSA)
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Free Presentation 6
Unraveling the impacts of artificial habitats on chronic respiratory diseases in Alentejo region - The HERO project
M. Ramiro Pastorinho (University of Évora)
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Free Presentation 7
Laboratory models as risk assessment tools for the skin absorption of the pesticide chlorpyrifos - comparison to human skin
Dorinda Silva (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria)
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Free Presentation 8
CANTE: Integrated Perspectives and Experiences in the Alentejo region under the ONE Health approach
Ana Catarina Sousa (University of Évora)
16:00
16:20
16:35
16:50
17:05
Concluding remarks