On the ecotoxicity of silver with Professor Vandenbulcke

12.10.2022

Professor Franck Vandenbulcke of the University of Lille, France, gave a lecture at MUG’s Emergency Department on October 5, entitled Ecotoxicology of Silver and Silver Nanoparticles in soils and sewage sludge. The lecture was held stationary on the occasion of a meeting of Team X in Priority Research Area No. 3, separated in the Excellence Initiative – Research University program. The specialist attended the event as part of a study visit that was part of a POLONIUM grant from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). During his speech, Prof. Vandenbulcke shared with the participants the results of his research on the ecotoxicity of silver and its ions in soil and sewage sludge.

Professor Franck Vandenbulcke

The next speaker was Marta Jaskulak, Ph.D., with a lecture Sewage sludge as agricultural fertilizer – green opportunity or a hidden threat? Study on the potential spread of antibiotic resistance through long-term soil supplementation with sewage sludge, from which participants could learn whether sewage sludge can be used as a fertilizer. The speaker presented the main principles of the POLONIUM NAWA project, carried out jointly by the Division of Immunobiology and Environmental Microbiology of the MUG and the team of Professor Franck Vandenbulcke of the University of Lille. The project manager is Marta Jaskulak, Ph.D.

Later in the event, experts from the Division of Tropical Parasitology of the MUG presented their research. The first to present topics related to research on the occurrence of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis in humans and wildlife was Paweł Gładysz MD. in his presentation Genetic diversity of Echinococcus multilocularis in Pomerania and Warmia-Masuria. Another invited expert of the unit was Dr. Habil. Maciej Grzybek, Assoc. Prof., who presented the results of research on rodents and the likelihood of their transmission of diseases in a lecture on Rodent borne diseases in Poland – what we know and what is still to Discovery.

Finally, a doctoral student from the Department of Biochemistry, Ada Kawecka, M.A. presented research entitled Nucleotide precursor supplementation improved energy status in mechanical and pharmacological models of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy in vitro. Each presentation was accompanied by a lively discussion.

photo Paweł Sudara/MUG