| Title | Biomarkers and bioanalytics in environmental hazard assessment |
| Institute responsible for organization | University of Bern (Helmut Segner) |
| Objectives | To introduce students into a) scopes and limits of biomarkers and bioassays in ecotoxicological site assessment (what kind of information can we obtain from these tools?, what problems are inherent to their use?, what are the “applicability domains?, etc); b) the methodology of biomarkers and bioassays |
| Contents | The course is intended as a 4-day-course, including lectures, case study discussions, and practical training. The topics of the lectures will include: 1. Biomarkers – the principles
2. Biomarker analysis at the enzyme activity, protein and mRNA level
3. –omics as emerging technologies in environmental hazard assessment
4. Bioassays - principles and methods
5. Use of bioassays in bioassay-directed fractionation
6. Application of biomarkers and bioassays in environmental monitoring: rationale, sampling strategies, epidemiology and integration in weight-of-evidence approaches |
| Background necessary | This course is thought as an introductory course, particularly for students coming from the ecological rather than toxicological field. Thus, a general biological background is sufficient |
| Place | University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Duration (h) | 4d |
| ECT | - |
| Time | June, 2nd to 6th, 2008 |
| Max number of participants | 8 |