Online Stakeholders Workshop of the ARISTO project
Novel Methods for Assessing the Soil Microbial Toxicity of Pesticides

Type of Event: Online
Date and Time: 28 th October, 2024 10.00-12.00 am
Aim: To discuss the outcomes of the ARISTO project, and its potential implications in a regulatory and industrial context

Workshop Schedule

Session 1, Scientific presentations (1 hr 10 min):

• Welcome and General introduction to ARISTO (D. Karpouzas, Univ. Thessaly : K.Fenner, EAWAG,)
• Current testing framework (C. Sweeney, Syngenta  )
• Novel methods for in vitro assessment of soil microbial toxicity of pesticides on AM fungi
  (Marjan Roshanfekrrad UC Louvain/INOQ GmbH) and Nitrifers (Eleftheria Bachtsevani,
  Ecole Central de Lyon and NCIMB) )
• Using amplicon sequencing data in a soil microbial ecotoxicological context (Alexandre Pedrinho Univ. Thessaly and Metabolic Insights)
• Novel methods for in silico prediction of pesticide transformation and toxicity to nitrifiers (Kunyang Zhang, EAWAG and ENVIPATH)

Session 2, Panel discussion (45 mins):

• Panel participants: Claudio Screpanti (Syngenta), Anja Coors (ECT Oekotoxicologie GmbH), Fabrice Martin-Laurent (INRAE), Marco Gandolfi (Eurofins Agroscience), tbd (EFSA)
• Panel moderation: K. Fenner (EAWAG)

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