1. Responsible mining (Room A – Belvedere Hotel)

2. Workshop on opportunities to strengthen the collaborative research initiatives in the area (Room B – Belvedere Hotel)

3. Use of new biomarkers generated by the -omic technologies and risk assessment (Room B – Belvedere Hotel)

4. Training workshop on children's environmental health (Room C – Belvedere Hotel)

Registration (Belvedere Hotel)

Opening Reception

Information Fair

Registration (Babes-Bolyai University – Main building)

Opening Plenary

     Welcome from Babes Bolyai University – Rector, Prof. Andrei Marga

     Welcome from Cluj-Napoca Local Authority – Mayor, Emil Boc

     Welcome from Romanian EPA – President, Zoltan Levente Nagy

Keynote 1 – Environmental burden and environmental cancer in Europe – Tony Fletcher (UK)

Keynote 2 – New Tricks for an Old Poison: Use of “-omics” to Study Arsenic Effects – Claudia Thompson (USA)

Keynote 3 – Science based decision-making: Translating science for environmental decision makers and the public – Ron Kreizenbeck (USA)

Keynote 4 – Romania’s commitments in waste management after the adhesion to the EU – Mihaela Petcu (RO)

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Session Co-Chairs:

David Reisman (USA)

Calin Baciu (RO)

Methods, approaches, and outcomes in Environmental Epidemiology

C.G. Lewis – Use of Resource Equivalency Analysis in Restoration of Mining Sites

A. Maharramov – The sensibility of the key neurons - Purkinje cells of cat cerebellar cortex to the microwave irradiation of decimeter range

E.R. Medves et al.– Elaboration concept of an environmental management plan for the performance of the mining activities

E. Ostrea Jr. et al. – Combined analysis of maternal hair, maternal blood, infant hair, cord blood and meconium to detect fetal exposure to environmental pesticides

M. Wireman et al. – Hydrogeologic characterization of ground waters, mine pools and the Leadville mine drainage tunnel, Leadville, Colorado

H.-T. Chon – Environmental contamination and risk assessment of arsenic and heavy metals in the vicinity of the abandoned gold mine sites in Korea

D. Costin & R. Alexandrescu – Environmental aspects of negative impact of mining wastes from Baiut mining field, Baia Mare region, Romania

L. Deac – Study on magnesium deficiency detected in several elderly persons

Mike Wireman (USA)

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Factors Modulating Responses to Environmental Contaminants  

N. Turdean et al. – Considerations on the ecological reconstruction and rehabilitation of the mining areas, affected by the operation activities and the processing of the available resources

G. Baican et al. – Assurance and sustainable ecologic arrangement of the mining waste deposits (dirt - heaps and mud-setting ponds)

B. Hennig et al. – Nutritional modulation of proatherogenic effects of persistent organic pollutants

E.R. Medves et al. – Ecological closing and reconstruction of the mining objectivese, dynamic processes in permanent adaptation to the actual field conditions and to the requirements

R. Toichuev – Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in the Southern Kyrgyzstan. Problem and possible solutions

B. Kornylovich – The use of a permeable reactive barrier against contaminated groundwater in Ukraine

B. Katsnelson et al. –"Biological prophylaxis" – one of the ways to proceed from the analytical environmental epidemiology to the population health protection.

Poster Session and Evening Mixer

V. Pidlisnyuk (Ukraine)

Geogenic chemicals in groundwaters and soil (AquaTRAIN project)

Session Co-Chairs:

Jon Schweiss (USA)

David Polya (UK)   

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Session Co-Chairs:

David Carpenter (USA)

Eugen Gurzau (RO)

J. Leventon – Falling Down the Well: Local peculiarities and the EU policy approach in the case of groundwater contaminated by arsenic in Bekes, Hungary

P. Rudnai et al. – Associations between air pollution and adverse pregnancy outcomes

H. Rowland et al. – Groundwaters of Eastern Hungary and Western Romania: general geochemistry and controls on arsenic mobilisation

T. Turnovska et al. – Cohort study about influence of different air pollution levels during early childhood on respiratory indices at later age – eight year natural experiment

L. Winkel et al. – Predicting groundwater arsenic contamination in Southeast Asia from surface parameters

E. Poole-Di Salvo et al. – Adult household smoking is associated with increased child emotional and behavioral problems.

E. Omoregie et al. – Molecular Ecology of groundwater wells in the Pannonian basin: microbial involvement in arsenic cycling

L. Rodriguez Lado, A. Hegan et al. – Environmental Hazard Mapping using Auxilliary Variables and Logistic Regression Modelling: Arsenic Hazard in Shallow Reducing Groundwaters

10:10 – 10:30

10:30 - 10:50

Poster Session C – Mining Remediation

& Break

Poster Session D – Health Effects

& Break

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Z. Klöslova et al. – Monitoring of Occupational Exposure to Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons in Slovakia

K Courtney et al. – Chronic low-dose arsenic in drinking water alters immune responses to respiratory viral infection in vivo

A. Hamdon & K. Khalid – Effect of Water Salinity and Waste Water on Soil Degradation in Tallafer Area

V. Shilonosov – The use of GIS for determining the spatial distribution of tuberculosis incidence in the population

A. Medynska et al. – Arsenic and heavy metals in bottom sediments of Kaczawa watershed in surrounding of polymetallic ore deposits Selezniak (Kacsawskie Mts., SW Poland)

8-oxodeoxyguanosine as a marker of oxidative DNA damage in children in relation to air pollutants and gene polymorphisms

11:50 -12:10

J. Mertens – Arsenic contamination of groundwaters in the Tisza River Basin and treatment of well water with Al nanoclusters

D. Wiktor-Brown et al. – ‘Recombomice’ provide a unique tool for studying the impact of age and exposure on DNA damage and repair

13:30 - 15:00

Environmental Genetics and Biomarkers of Exposure, Effect and Susceptibility    

Rajiv Kumar (D)

Ana Paldy (HU)

M. Bloom et al. – Polychlorinated biphenyl and organochlorine pesticide concentrations and thyroid function among New York State anglers

S. Khider – Effect of environmental and climatic changes for Tigris River in Nineveh province northern Iraq

W. Au – Environmental contamination and health risk for residents living around uranium-mining and milling areas

E. Stanescu et al. – Discharge of wastewater from activities of industrial units for inorganic products manufacturing - potential sources generating ecological risk on Olt River

R. Kumar et al. – MC1R variants associated susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma of skin: Interaction with host factors and XRCC3 polymorphism

V. Pidlisnyuk et L. Sokol – Sustainable Water Management and Sanitation in Ukraine: first steps ahead

M. Toborek et al. – Caveolae-associated signaling mechanisms in PCB-induced formation of brain metastases

S. Peterson – How Might Selenium Moderate the Toxic Effects of Mercury in Stream Fish of the Western USA?

R. Sram et al. – European Hot spot of air pollution by PM2.5 and B[a]P: Ostrava, Czech Republic

Poster Session (final) and Break

15:30 – 17:00

ROUND TABLE:

Sustainability of Environmental Health in Central &

Eastern Europe - Student Panel Discussion

(Open to all)

18:00 – 21:00

Conference Dinner (Hotel Belvedere)

Session Co-Chairs:

Session Co-Chairs:

C. Cascio – Volcanism and environmental health: a multidisciplinary approach applied to the Mt. Etna region

E. Oesterling et al. – Benzo[a]pyrene-Induced Vascular Endothelial Adhesion Molecule Expression Can Be Disrupted By Selective Flavonoid Treatment

G. Floor & al. – Geogenic element behaviour in soil-rainwater interaction at Mt Etna, Sicily: preliminary results

B. Casentini & al. – Irrigation practices and topsoil As accumulation in the As-rich geothermal fields, Chalkidiki prefecture, Northern Greece

S. Balici et al. – Scanning electron microscopic aspects and concentration of particulate matter emitted by “apartment” heating appliances fueled by natural gas in the indoor air

Session Co-Chairs:

Ron Kreizenbeck (USA)

John Aston (RO)

Session Co-Chairs:

H. Abu-Qdais – Global warming potential of solid waste landfills

A. Paldy – Association between Deprivation Index and mortality due to major malignant diseases in Hungary, 1994-2004

David Barry – The role of risk assessment in development control

R. Kulmatov & A. Azizov – Migration forms of heavy metals in atmospheric air of cities in arid territories

D. Polya – Probabilistic risk assessment of groundwater arsenic-attributable detrimental human health outcomes in Chakdha Block, West Bengal

R. Carter – Detection of gaseous volatile organic compounds with a subsurface ion mobility spectrometer

T. Fletcher et al. – Arsenic in residential drinking water and cancer in Central Europe – the ASHRAM study

Aramis Invest – Study on the opportunity of a new slabstock flexible polyurethane foam facility in Baia Mare, Romania

M. Evans et al. – Arsenic Doses from Soil Exposures: Soil Concentrations of Public Health Concern

Closing Plenary

Keynote: Annette Gatchett Mining: lessons learned, path forward 2010 report 13:45-14:15

Keynote: E. Gurzau, Romania 14:15-14:45

§      Student Panel Conclusions, Beth Anderson, NIEHS 14:45-15:00

§      Student Appreciation and Recognition, K. C. Donnelly 15:00-15:15

 Moderators & Closing: Calin Baciu (RO) & Jan Topinka (CZ) 15:15-15:30