GhEnToxLab researcher Dr. Dieter De Coninck wins SETAC Europe Best Publication Award

Every year SETAC Europe organises the Best Publication Award in the categories risk assessment, chemical analysis and ecotoxicology. SETAC is the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, a not-for-profit, global professional organization comprised of some 5,500 individual members and institutions from academia, business and government. The SETAC Europe awards are given to a student or early career scientist.

This year the SETAC Europe Best Publication Award for risk assessment went to Dr. Dieter De Coninck, for his paper “An approach to assess the regulatory relevance of microevolutionary effects in ecological risk assessment of chemicals: a case study with cadmium”. The paper deals with the issue of the regulatory relevance of microevolutionary effects, such as development of enhanced tolerance, of chemicals. An approach is suggested based on a comparison of concentrations at which microevolutionary effects have been reported in the literature and conventionally derived ecotoxicological threshold concentrations. At the time of publication of the paper, Dieter was associated with the Environmental Toxicology group  (GhEnToxLab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering) under guidance of Prof. Karel De Schamphelaere and Prof. Colin Janssen. Currently, he is associated with the Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences).

Read more: http://www.ecotox.ugent.be/research-in-the-spotlight/157-setac-dieter