3rd International Conference on the
Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials
University of Birmingham
Monday 15 - Tuesday 16 September 2008
The conference was preceded by a one day course on the ‘Fate and Effects of Engineered Nanoparticles in the Environment’. This course, given by Jamie Lead, Richard Handy (Plymouth University) and Emma Smith (University of the West Indies, Barbados) was in great demand from industry, academia and government bodies. During the course, issues such as chemistry, fate, behaviour, ecotoxicology and risk assessment of manufactured nanoparticles were explored. The conference was sponsored by NERC, the Environment Agency, SETAC and the University of Birmingham and had approximately 170 delegates registered, from Europe, Asia, Canada and USA and elsewhere, almost doubling its attendance from the 2nd conference in this series. The scientific programme featured Keynote speakers from the USA, Canada, Switzerland and the UK and had 28 oral presentations and 47 posters. During the conference Eva Gubbins from Jamie’s research group, won the prize for the best poster presented, with her poster ‘Investigation of phytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles using the Duckweed growth inhibition test’.
From left to right: Richard Handy (organizing committee), Richard Owen (organizing committee), Gregg Goss (invited speaker), Richard Jones (invited speaker), Stephen Klaine (invited speaker), Jamie. Lead & Frank von der Kammer (participant)
