FINNISH RESEARCH PROGRAMME
ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
SYTTY

PROGRAM

REGISTRATION

POSTERS

VENUE - HOW TO GET THERE

ACCOMMODATION

ORGANIZERS - CONTACT ADDRESS

 

The topics of the sessions are:

• EXPOSURE
• HEALTH EFFECTS OF FINE PARTICULATE MATTER
• BIOAEROSOLS
• INDIVIDUAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ENVIRONMENTAL CARCINOGENS
• RISK ANALYSIS

Doctoral students will be awarded 0.5-1 credits for participation.
The official language of the conference is English.
 

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, October 10, 2001

12.00-	Tranportation from Kuopio to Valamo (University of Kuopio, Snellmania building)
13.30	Coffee and sandwiches
	Registration
15.00-15.05	Welcome Jouko Tuomisto, Director of SYTTY
15.05-15.20	Opening remarks Jouni Tuomisto (Finland)
SESSION I:	EXPOSURE (Moderator: Matti Jantunen)
15.20-15.25	Opening of the session Session moderator Matti Jantunen (Finland)
15.25-16.15	Key Note: Total exposure, the concept, theory and examples of appliations Karen Hammerstrom, EPA (USA)
16.15-16.45	POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Do the extremely high levels of dioxins in a river in Southern Finland pose a health threat to local population?  Description of an ongoing epidemiological study Pia Verkasalo Personal exposure to bioaerosols (HOMEX) Mika Toivola Sociodemographic differences of the elements of personal fine particle (PM2,5) exposure measurements in EXPOLIS-Helsinki Tuulia Rotko A chamber study of atmospheric behavior of fly ash particles from oil shale combustion Erik Teinemaa
16.45-17.15	Coffee
17.15-18.00	Exposure to PM - relevance of total exposure? Matti Jantunen (Finland)
18.00-18.30	Exposure to indoor air microbes Anne Hyvärinen (Finland)
18.30-18.45	General discussion
18.45-	Dinner / Get-together /Sauna

 

Thursday, October 11, 2001

8.00-9.00	Breakfast
SESSION II:	HEALTH EFFECTS OF FINE PARTICULATE MATTER: MECHANISMS AND PATHWAYS OF EFFECTS (Moderators: Juha Pekkanen and Juhani Ruuskanen)
9.00-9.05	Opening of the session  Session moderator Juhani Ruuskanen (Finland)
9.05-9.50	Key Note: Implications of mechanistic information for health impact assessment and abatement strategy of ambient air pollution Leendert van Bree, RIVM, (Netherlands)
9.50-10.30	Effects of ultrafine and fine particles on the heart - epidemiological observations Juha Pekkanen (Finland)
10.30-10.40	Discussion
10.40-11.00	Coffee
11.00-11.20	POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Health risks of particulate matter in ambient air: the Dutch perspective Flemming Cassee Source apportionment of PM2,5 in Helsinki, Finland, by principal component analysis and multivariate linear regression Marko Vallius Chemical and in vitro cytotoxic and proinflammatory characterization of winter and spring PM10 in Helsinki Arto Pennanen, Arja Hälinen
11.20-12.00	Effects of ambient air particles of different physicochemical characteristics  on cytotoxicity and inflammation Raimo O. Salonen (Finland)
12.00-12.20	POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Association between hourly variation in personal and outdoor PM2,5 concentrations and exercise induced ST depressions Timo Lanki Effects of diesel exhaust on porphyrin and heme metabolism in miners Vladimir Muzyka The effect of the shape of mica on TNF-? production in mouse macrophages  in vitro  Mikko Holopainen
12.20-12.30	General discussion
12.30-15.15	Lunch and leisure
15.15-15.45	POSTER SESSION
SESSION III:	BIOAEROSOLS (Moderator: Maija-Riitta Hirvonen and  Aino Nevalainen)
15.45-15.50	Opening of the session Session moderator Maija-Riitta Hirvonen (Finland)
15.50-16.40	Key Note: Bioaerosols sampling as a component of exposure assessment  Tiina Reponen, University of Cincinnaty (USA)
16.40-17.00	Quantifying exposure to airborne microbes in school buildings Teija Meklin (Finland)
17.00-17.20	Coffee
17.20-17.40	POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Airborne bio-aerosols at dry waste treatment plant in Tampere Marina Goryntseva Occupational airborne contact dermatitis among Polish farmers Radoslaw Spiewak Microbial status of indoor air in office buildings in Estonia Ene Indermitte
17.40-18.20	Exposure to endotoxins and b(1-3)glucans and airway inflammation due to  household waste separation in homes and selected occupational environments Dick Heederik, University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
18.20-18.40	Inflammatory responses in mouse airway caused by the specific microbes  isolated from water-damaged buildings Juha Jussila (Finland)
18.40-19.15	Comparison of the inflammatory potential of four microbes grown on different growth condition Kati Huttunen and Timo Murtoniemi (Finland)
19.15-19.35	POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Inflammatory mediators in nasal lavage fluid, induced sputum and serum of employees with rheumatic or respiratory symptoms or diseases Marjut Roponen Detection of streptomycetes in house dust samples - comparison of culture and PCR methods Helena Rintala Genotoxicity of gliotoxin, a secondary metabolite of Aspergillus Fumigatus isolated from indoor air Susanna Nieminen
20.00-	Conference Dinner on Slavic style

 

Friday, October 12, 2001

7.30-8.30	Breakfast
SESSION IV:	INDIVIDUAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ENVIRONMENTAL CARCINOGENS (Moderators: Kirsi Vähäkangas)
8.30-8.35	Opening of the session Session moderator Kirsi Vähäkangas (Finland)
8.35-9.15	Individual susceptibility to environmental carcinogens Agneta Rannug, Karolinska Institut, (Sweden)
9.15-10.00	Nitrosoamines Hiroshi Ohshima, IARC, France
10.00-10.20	Coffee
10.20-10.40	POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Rat thyroid gland tumors induced by 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone (MX) do not express p53 and p21 Ki-ras proteins Pasi Hakulinen AH receptor structure and dioxin sensitivity Merja Korkalainen BLAST as a tool for detection of novel single nucleotide polymorphisms Jarno Tuimala
10.40-11.10	Biomonitoring of PAH exposure Leea Kuusimäki (Finland)
11.10-11.50	PAH-compounds and cicarette smoking Kirsi Vähäkangas, Finland
11.50-12.00	Occupational and environmental hazards of coal fly ash in road paving Virpi Väänänen Toxicological significance of dioxin-induced defects in tooth development Hanna Kattainen
12.00-13-00	Lunch
13.00-13.30	Poster session
SESSION V:	RISK ANALYSIS (Moderators: Jouni Tuomisto and Matti Viluksela)
13.30-13.35	Opening of the session Session moderator Matti Viluksela (Finland)
13.35-14.25	Key Note: Value of information in risk assessment John Evans, Harvard University, (USA)
14.25-14.40	POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Constrained Bayesian calculation of cancer risk around a point source Esa Kokki Integrated assessment modeling of particulate matter in Finland Matti Johansson
14.40-15.00	Coffee
15.00-15.35	Comparing dioxins and ambient air particulate matter Jouni Tuomisto, Harvard University, (Finland/USA)
15.35-16.15	Uncertainty and variabilities in risk extrapolation from animals to human Andrew G. Renwick, University of Southampton (UK)
16.15-16.30	Genral discussion
16.30-16.45	CLOSING REMARKS Juha Pekkanen (Finland)
16.45-17.00	Best poster award
17.00-18.00	Dinner
18.00-19.15	Transportation to Kuopio

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
The length of an oral presentation is 20-50 minutes, including discussion. Audiovisual aids include dataprojector (allowing Power Point presentations), overhead projector, slide projector and dataprojector. (If you wish to use dataprojector, please send the presentation by e-mail beforehand to sytty@ktl.fi)
 

 

POSTERS

Instructions for preparing a poster
 

 

REGISTRATION

Call for applications

                       Deadline: August 31, 2001

 

VENUE - HOW TO GET THERE

The conference centre is located in a countryside, at about 100 km distance from Kuopio in the eastern part of Finland.
The venue has an excotic atmosphere of an orthodox monastery.
More information about the Valamo monastery: http:/www.valamo.fi

A map

There is a bus from Helsinki to Valamo daily.
(Departure from Hki at 8.30, arrival to Valamo at 14.30).
 

 

ACCOMMODATION

Participants will be accommodated in the hotel of the Monastery.
Organizers will take care of all room reservations.
 

 
 

ORGANIZERS - CONTACT ADDRESS

The conference is organized by the
Finnish Research Programme on Environmental Health, SYTTY

Organizing Committee

Soile Juuti, SYTTY, Chair
Jouko Tuomisto, SYTTY
Maija-Riitta Hirvonen
Matti Jantunen
Aino Nevalainen
Juha Pekkanen
Hannu Raunio
Juhani Ruuskanen
Raimo Salonen
Jouni Tuomisto
Raili Venäläinen
Matti Viluksela
Kirsi Vähäkangas

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