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Roser Esplugas, PhD candiate in the Radiobiology area, will attend to the 44th European Radiation Research Congress (ERR 2018). It will be held in Pécs (Hungary) from August 21 to 25, 2018. She will be presenting the following posters:

Roser Esplugas, Noemí Serra, Montserrat Bellés, Victoria Linares, Meritxell Arenas, Joan Carles Vallvé. Effect of 2 Gy-radiation on the expression of miRNAs-146a, -155, -221 and -222 in HUVECs.

Roser Esplugas, Noemí Serra, Montserrat Bellés, Victoria Linares, Meritxell Arenas, Joan Carles Vallvé. Effect of radiotherapy, molecular parameters and treatment on the expression of blood miRNAs-146a, -155, -221 and -222 in women with breast cancer.

Mari M, Rovira J, Sánchez-Soberón F, Nadal M, Schuhmacher M, Domingo JL. Partial replacement of fossil fuels in a cement plant: Assessment of human health risks by metals, metalloids and PCDD/Fs.Environ Res. 2018 Jul 19;167:191-197. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.07.014.

Sakamoto M, Tatsuta N, Chan HM, Domingo JL, Murata K, Nakai K. Brain methylmercury uptake in fetal, neonate, weanling, and adult rats. Environ Res. 2018 Jul 5;167:15-20. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.06.038.

Prof. Josep Lluís Domingo has recently been interviewed in betevé. He talked about the high concentrations of dioxins reported in the surroundings of the municipal waste incinerator located in Sant Adrià del Besos (Barcelona). He asks for immediate measures to reduce the emissions of dioxins in the aforementioned facility, which were found up to 2.3 times the acceptable threshold.

You can watch the full interview in the following link.

Marquès M, Nadal M, Díaz-Ferrero J, Schuhmacher M, Domingo JL. Concentrations of PCDD/Fs in the neighborhood of a hazardous waste incinerator: human health risks. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2018) doi: 10.1007/s11356-018-2685-8

Sharma RP, Schuhmacher M, Kumar V. Development of a human physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPL) model for phthalate (DEHP) and its metabolites: a bottom up modeling approach. Toxicology Letters (2018) doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.06.1217

Sánchez-Soberón F, Cuykx M, Serra N, Linares V, Bellés M, Covaci A, Schuhmacher M.  In-vitrometabolomics to evaluate toxicity of particulate matter under environmentally realistic conditions. Chemosphere (2018) doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.06.065

The doctoral programme in Nanosciences, Materials and Chemical Engineering organises a day in which doctoral students have the opportunity to discuss their work and have it evaluated by a prestigious panel of experts during a platform and a poster exhibition sessions.

The TecnATox member María Ángeles Martínez presented her work in the platform session, which was entitled: "Comparing dietary and non-dietary source contribution of BPA and DEHP to prenatal exposure: A Catalonia (Spain) case study".

Dr. Jaume Folch, researcher in TecnATox, has recently published his third book entitled "El naufragi dels records. Què hi ha darrere de malalties com l'Alzheimer?" (The shipwreck of memories. What is behind Alzheimer disease?).

The book is about how the new advances in the understanding of the disease allow us to determine the origin and to influence on their prevention through diet or physical exercise, among others. You can find more information in the URV digital press release.