SYTTY
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISK OF DIOXINS
-RESEARCH CONSORTIUM SEMINAR
30 May, 2001,
Hotel Rauhalahti,
Kuopio, Finland
The seminar is organized by SYTTY
- the Finnish Research Programme on Environmental Health/ Consortium
Environmental health risk of dioxins.
All those interested in these topics are kindly welcome to the
seminar.
There is no registration fee. Seminar language is english.
The seminar will be held in the auditorium of the hotel Rauhalahti (ab.
6 km from the centre of the Kuopio).
How to get there.
A new spa with ten pools has been opened at the hotel. SYTTY will offer the SYTTY-researcher a ticket to the spa/sauna after the seminar.
REGISTRATION by 25 May 2001 to sytty@ktl.fi
(Send us: your name, e-mail, address and information
if you are willing to go to the spa.)
More information: Coordinator Soile Juuti, SYTTY (soile.juuti@ktl.fi, phone: +358-17-201 163)
| 8.50-9.20 | Transportation from the Kuopio airport to hotel Rauhalahti:
SYTTY will arrange transportation for those who are coming from Helsinki at 8.45. |
| 9.00-9.30 | Coffee and registration |
| Chair: Matti Viluksela | |
| 9.30-9.40 | Welcome
Terttu Vartiainen Leader of the consortium Environmental health risk of dioxins |
| 9.40-10.00 | Dioxin intake in Finland
Hannu Kiviranta, National Public Health Institute |
| 10.00-10.20 | Polybrominated diphenylethers in Finnish human and fish
Jaana Koistinen, National Public Health Institute |
| 10.20-10.40 | Cloning of the guinea pig AH receptor
Merja Korkalainen, National Public Health Institute |
| 10.40-11.10 | Clinical dental findings after exposure to dioxins
Satu Alaluusua, University of Helsinki |
| 11.10-11.30 | Dose dependent response of the incisor tooth to TCDD in two rat
strains
Anu Kiukkonen, University of Helsinki |
| 11.30-11.40 | Discussion |
| 11.40-12.30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Jorma Toppari | |
| 12.30-12.50 | Dioxin-like compounds and developing teeth
Hanna Kattainen, National Public Health Institute |
| 12.50-13.10 | Male reproductive health and environmental endocrine disruption
Jorma Toppari, University of Turku |
| 13.10-13.30 | Cryptorchidism in Finland
Marko Kaleva, University of Turku |
| 13.30-13.50 | Hypospadias in Finland
Helena Virtanen, University of Turku |
| 13.50-14.00 | Discussion |
| 14.00-14.40 | Coffee / (Press conference) |
| 14.40-15.00 | In utero and lactational TCDD exposure: Effects on prostate
growth
and functional development in the mouse Ulla Simanainen, National Public Health Institute |
| 15.00-16.00 | Environmental aspects of testicular cancer
Niels Skakkebaek, Rikshospital, Denmark |
| 16.00- | Spa + sauna |
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