¡Bienvenidos a Sevilla!

This year’s meeting theme is “Science-based Solutions in Times of Crisis: Integrating Science and Policy for Environmental Challenges.” The conference aims to highlight the demand for new science-based solutions to many of the challenges lying ahead of us. How can we ensure environmental quality and long-term sustainable solutions in our post-pandemic world, with compounding crises such as food production, cost of living and armed conflict?

SETAC researchers are trying to tackle daunting challenges that include the re-design of the agri-food chain, countering  biodiversity loss, changes in land use and coastal ecosystems and new regulatory frameworks encouraging sustainable innovations in the chemical industry. Environmental science can contribute to understanding some of these changes, for example by realistic risk assessment of chemical pollution in soil and water (i.e., by incorporating state-of-the-art of bioavailability concepts), by determining the environmental safety of recycled materials, as well as by evaluating the life cycle of new products and processes and their effects on the ecosystem services. Integrative approaches are needed, that not only to address the new potential risks, but to identify renewable solutions to protect natural resources, following the principles of the European Green Deal.

The meeting theme complements SETAC’s mission and strategy. State-of-the-art environmental approaches should tackle the associated environmental safety concerns; sustainability aspects and remediation options for chemical pollution should occur at a global scale in times of crisis. The global dimension of SETAC and its adherence to multisector co-operation and communication between academic, industrial and regulatory stakeholders ensures an appropriate platform for discussing these environmental issues. With approximately 1,500 members from all around Europe, global thinking finds its best place in SETAC Europe, the biggest environmental community of our continent.

Jose Julio Ortega Calvo
SETAC Seville Scientific Committee Chair
Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia

Dear colleagues and delegates,

The 22^nd International Congress of the European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV 2024) will be organised in Prague, Czech Republic, from 3^rd to 6^th June 2024. The ESTIV2024 Congress theme is Application of NAMs in Drug Discovery and Drug and Chemical Safety Assessment.

The ESTIV congress will start with a pre-congress workshop and will offer 15 scientific sessions, and lunch sessions hosted by industry sponsors and non-profit organisations. More information will follow soon, as the congress program is still developing.

The Congress Committees of the ESTIV 2024 Congress warmly welcome you in Prague and look forward to seeing many colleagues working in the area of in vitro and in silico toxicology and pharmacology reuniting!

Helena Kandarova and Clive Roper

The aim of this EMBO Workshop is to bring together the scientific community working with plants on subjects around genome stability and modification, including DNA recombination and repair, chromosome stability, meiosis, replication, epigenetics and applications in plant breeding and genome engineering.

In a world faced with increasing populations and climatic change, the importance of understanding the fundamental processes used by plants to maintain and repair their genomes is of ever-increasing importance and urgency. Much of the DNA damage response occurs in the context of chromatin whose nature has a decisive role in the repair process. Both DNA damage response and epigenetics underlie «classical» plant breeding and the development of novel technologies for crop improvement. Increasing fundamental knowledge on the mechanisms of DNA damage responses will inspire development of novel biotechnological approaches and foster their implementation to plant breeding.

Welcome to the 52nd EEMGS meeting & 15th ICAW!

The 2024 meeting “Fundamental genomics. New approaches. Solutions for the changing environment and human health” will focus on basic research in the field of genomics, environmental sciences, and mutagenesis. It will feature prominent participation from regulatory professionals and industry representatives. Preceding the conference, there will be an associated HESI workshop, and the ICAW event will be integrated into the final days of the conference.

See you all in Rovinj!

The EEMGS and the Croatian Genietic Society