{"id":2363,"date":"2017-05-22T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kbfi.ee\/?page_id=2363"},"modified":"2017-07-03T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T11:11:16","slug":"cost-course2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/cost-course2018\/","title":{"rendered":"COST Action TD 1407 Training school"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Technology Critical Elements: Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Risks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>16-18 April 2018<br \/>\nNational Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Various trace elements, which were considered in the past just as laboratory curiosities, are nowadays key components for the development of new technologies. These elements, here defined as technology-critical elements (TCEs), include Ga, Ge, In, Nb, Ta, Te, Tl, the platinum group elements (Ir, Os, Pd, Pt, Rh and Ru), and most of the rare earth elements (Ce, Dy, Er, Eu, Gd, Ho, La, Lu, Nd, Pr, Sm, Tb, Y, Yb). It is expected that the increasing use of TCEs will affect their biogeochemical cycling at the Earth\u2019s surface. For most of the TCEs, the present understanding of their concentrations, transformation and transport in the different environmental compartments is scarce and\/or contradictory and their potential environmental and human health threats need to be further explored.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOPE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The training school objectives are introduction of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students as well as post-doctoral researchers to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current knowledge on environmental TCE concentrations and exposure<\/li>\n<li>Environmental and human toxicology of TCEs<\/li>\n<li>Selected exposure scenarios<\/li>\n<li>Risk assessment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Early Career Investigators (&lt;8 year PhD) are specifically encouraged to participate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Villem<\/strong> <strong>Aruoja<\/strong>, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chiara Frazzoli<\/strong>, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natalia Ospina-Alvarez<\/strong>, University of Potsdam, Germany<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sonja Zimmermann<\/strong>, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further information about COST action TD 1407:<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.costnotice.net\/\">http:\/\/www.costnotice.net<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2466 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cost_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"49\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 171px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 171\/49;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2466 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cost_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"49\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology Critical Elements: Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Risks 16-18 April 2018 National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia &nbsp; DESCRIPTION Various trace elements, which <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/cost-course2018\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page10.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2363","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kbfi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}