Lisa Devriese & Rossana Sussarellu & Charlotte Corporeau
› Two alternate mechanisms for uptake of microplastics into the Shore crab Carcinus maenas. Trophic transfer and direct exposure - Andrew Watts, University of Exeter
09:00-09:20 (20min)
› Microplastics in our food: ingestion by commercially important fish species - Amy Lusher, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
09:20-09:40 (20min)
› Ecotoxic effects of nano plastic on freshwater plankton (Scenedesmus obliquus and Daphnia magna) - Ellen Besseling, Wageningen University, Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies, Wageningen UR
09:40-10:00 (20min)
› Impact of microplastics on feeding, function and fecundity in the copepod Calanus helgolandicus - Matthew Cole, University of Exeter, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
10:00-10:20 (20min)
Lisa Devriese & Rossana Sussarellu & Charlotte Corporeau
› Microplastics: effects on oyster physiology and reproduction - Rossana Sussarellu, Ifremer
11:00-11:20 (20min)
› Microplastics are love-killers for Pacific oysters! - Marc Suquet, Laboratoire de Physiologie des Invertébrés
11:20-11:40 (20min)
› Biological effects of exposure to plastic particles in the 3-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) - Tim Katzenberger, University of Portsmouth
11:40-12:00 (20min)
› The physical impacts of microplastics on marine worms - Stephanie Wright, University of Exeter
12:00-12:20 (20min)
Microplastics, as vectors of biological and chemical contaminants
Ika Paul-Pont & Cristina Fossi
› The role of microplastics as a vector for PCBs through the marine trophic levels - Lisa Devriese, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Ostend, Belgium
14:10-14:30 (20min)
› Microplastics as vectors of chemical contaminants - Albert Koelmans, Wageningen University
14:30-14:50 (20min)
› Plastic debris as a vector in transporting toxic additive chemicals in the marine environment: hexabromocyclododecanes in expanded polystyrene fragments - Sang Hee Hong, University of Science and Technology, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology
14:50-15:10 (20min)
› Relative importance of microplastics as a pathway for the transfer of persistent organic pollutants to marine life - Adil Bakir, Plymouth University
15:10-15:30 (20min)
› Microplastics and trophic transfer of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to marine organisms - Carlo Giacomo Avio, Department of Life and Environment Sciences, University Polytechnic of Marche, Ancona, Italy
15:30-15:50 (20min)
Microplastics, as vectors of biological and chemical contaminants
Ika Paul-Pont & Cristina Fossi
› Interactive effects of microplastics and fluoranthene on mussels Mytilus sp. - Carmen González-Fernández, Spanish Institute of Oceanography - Centre of Murcia, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin
16:30-16:50 (20min)
› Are baleen whales exposed to microplastics toxicological threat? The case study of the Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) - Maria Cristina Fossi, University of Siena
16:50-17:10 (20min)
› The plastic-associated microorganisms of the North Pacific Gyre - Magnus Svendsen Nerheim, University of Bergen, University of Hawaii at Hilo
17:10-17:30 (20min)