Continuing Education Session
PAH Molecules
Dioxin
FISH TOXICOLOGY
Monday afternoon 12:30 – 5 pm
The Claim: This class will make fish toxicity issues interesting.
The Substance: Multiple instructors will keep this afternoon CE session interesting and productive, bringing useful material and news from their varied specialties and backgrounds in investigating toxicant effects on fish in our region.
Instructors:
- Dr. Evan Gallagher, Associate Professor of Toxicology, University of Washington.
- An ensemble of four researchers from NOAA who are actively investigating effects of toxicants on fish in the Pacific Northwest: Lyndal Johnson, Sandra O'Neill, Deborah Boylen, and Mark Myers.
Learn about:
- Classes of toxic substances found in the fish environment,
e.g. metals, pesticides, PCBs, PAHs, pharmaceutical and cosmetic compounds, etc.
- Modes of toxic action
- Target systems,
e.g. osmoregulatory, nervous, endocrine, immune, skeletal, developmental - Persistence, bioavailability in the environment
- Where toxicants typically occur, where fish pick them up, what levels are toxic
Questions for diagnosticians:
- How to investigate a suspected toxic situation.
- What symptoms and circumstances narrow the search for suspects?
- What are the more likely suspect toxicants?
- What are the meaningful samples to collect?
- Who can run which assays?
Particular environments
- Urban estuary exposures during migrations.
- Marine derived toxicants.
- Issues in the Columbia River, other large river systems.
Take home References and Handouts
Only $35! Sign up on meeting registration form.
Class materials will be handed out at on-site registration, 9am – 12:30pm.
Eat a light lunch, consume some (nontoxic) caffeine, and come ready to learn!