31St Annual Meeting and Symposium of Finnish Society of Toxicology (Fst, Sty)

31ST ANNUAL MEETING AND SYMPOSIUM OF FINNISH SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY (FST, STY)

and

FINCOPA SEMINAR

Time: Monday 26th April - Tuesday 27th April 2010

Place: Helsinki Tieteiden talo, room 505, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland

Scientific Program Committee

Kirsi Vähäkangas, Chair

Juha Laakso, Secretary

Kirsi Myöhänen, Treasurer

Jarkko Akkanen

Kaisa Heiskanen

Tarja Kohila

Sanna Lensu

Arja Rautio

Tuula Heinonen

Jaana Palomäki

General information

Registration:Deadline for Registration April 19, 2010

On-site registration possible, but dinner requests not guaranteed.

For registration, please send the following information to :

1. Name, email address, phone number:

2. Institution:

3. Would you like to attend to Symposium Dinner(April 26th at 7 p.m.)? Any special diet?

4. Are you a member of Finish Society of Toxicology?

5. If you are a student, please provide the name of the university, department/faculty and name of your research plan.

Before sending your registration, please pay the registration fee 70€/100€ (if you are not a student) or a dinner 20€ (if you are a student) to Sampo 800012-1716678.

Registration fee:Members of The Finnish Society of Toxicology (those who have paid FST 2009 member fee): 70€

Non-members: 100€

Free for students

Abstractsubmission:Deadline for abstract submission April 19, 2010

Abstract size: one A4 page including title, authors with affiliations, body text with font size 12

Please send the abstract to

Posters:The size of the poster stand is height 125 cm and width 95 cm.

Hotel Info:Participants are requested to make their reservations. Please contact directly hotels in Helsinki, e.g. or

The closest hotels are

Cumulus Hotel Kaisaniemi

Sokos Hotel Helsinki

Hotel Carlton Helsinki

Hotel Glo

ArthurHotel

Transportation:Tieteiden Talo Helsinki is located in Kruununhaka which is close to the Helsinki city centre, some 10 minutes' walk from the railway and bus stations.

Helsinki-VantaaAirport is about 15 km North of the city.

Those planning to use their own cars should note that parking facilities around Tieteiden Talo are limited and that parking requires a permit. In Kaisaniemi there is a parking garage with a charge.

Social ProgramApril 26th at 7 p.m. Symposium Dinner (included in the registration fee) takes place at the restaurant Piano close to the venue. For students who are not paying registration fee the dinner fee is 20 €.

Commercial Options1)Presentation at the industrial symposium (15 min) + brochures andadvertisement in the abstract book 700 €
(Includes one entrance to symposium sessions)

2) Brochures andadvertisement in the abstract book 500 €

3) Booth, presentation at the industrial symposium (15 min) + brochures andadvertisement in the abstract book 900 €
(Includes two entrances to symposium sessions)

Scientific program

Monday 26th April

Combination Effects in Risk Assessment and Endocrine Disruptors

9:00 Welcome and opening of the meeting

Chair: Professor Kirsi Vähäkangas, President of the Finnish Society of Toxicology

9:15 Combined exposure at workplaces and risk assessment, Eero Priha, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

9:45Challenges in risk assessment of mixtures of metals under REACH: ferrochromium as an example, Helene Stockmann-Juvala, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

10:15 Coffee.

10:45The effects of endocrine disrupters on male reproductive health, Annika Adamsson, University of Turku

11:15New winds in testing reproductive toxicity, Hannele Huuskonen, ECHA, EU

12-13 Lunch and poster session

Pathology in Disease Models

13:00 Pathology in Disease Models, Leena Strauss, University of Turku

13:45 Education in Toxicopathology, Kirsi Vähäkangas, University of Eastern Finland

14:30 Coffee

15:00 Annual meeting of Finnish Society of Toxicology

16:00 Meeting of toxicology register

19-22 Dinner in restaurant Piano

Tuesday 27th April: Fincopa seminar

9:00 Opening of the symposium, Tuula Heinonen

9:05 Roles and responsibilities of national (Finland) and international (ECHA) regulatory authorities, Kirsi Myöhänen, Valvira

9:35 Accepted non-animal methods today in REACH, open ECHA?

10:05 Coffee break

10:30 In vitro-methods under development for regulatory use, Hanna Tähti

11:00 In vitro and in vivo models to supplement each other, Matti Poutanen

11:30 What is Ecopa and its connection to Fincopa, Tuula Heinonen

12-13 FinCopa annual meeting

12-13 Lunch and poster session

13:00Annual Meeting of the FinnishGraduateSchool in Toxicology