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Schafleitner, Roland
Austrian Research Center
Seibersdorf
A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria
Phone: (0043) (2254)
780 3523
Fax: (0043) (2254) 780 3653
Email:
roland.schafleitner@arcs.ac.at
Experience: Plant Biotechnology.
Current interest:
Stress physiology, phytoremediation.
Sessitsch, Angela
group leader - microbial ecology
Austrian Research Centers,
Division of Environmental and Life
Sciences,
A-2444 Seibersdorf
Phone: +43 50550 3523
Fax:
+43 50550 3653
Email: angela.sessitsch@arcs.ac.at
Experience: molecular microbial ecology, beneficial
plant-microbe interactions, bacterial identification, soil
microbiology
Current interest: phytoremediation of diesel,
PAHs, DNA chips, plant-microbe interactions
Delperee, Christine
Catholic University of Louvain
Croix du Sud, 5/13 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
Phone: ++32
10 47.34.36
Fax: ++32 10 47.34.35
Email:
delperee@bota.ucl.ac.be
Dominique, Perrin
University of Agricultural Sciences
of Gembloux (Belgium)
Plant Biology Unit - FUSAGx - 5030 Gembloux
Belgium
Phone: +32 81 622468
Fax: +32 81 614120
Email:
perrin.d@fsagx.ac.be
Experience: Phytoremediation of organics contaminants in
soil
Sediment toxicity assessment
Phytotoxicity of sewage sludge
Interest: PAH contamination
of soils
Phytoremediation with alfafa (Medicago sativa)
Du Laing, Gijs
Ghent
University
Coupure Links 653
B-9000 Ghent
Email:
gijs.dulaing@ugent.be
Interest: Metal fate in vegetated riparian zones
(reedbeds) and constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment
Meers, Erik
PhD student
University of Ghent
Axelsvaardeken 43
Phone: 32 478 786098
Email:
meers_e@yahoo.com
Experience:
Bio-engineer in Biotechnology; Postgraduate in Environmental Science
and Technologies
Interest: Phytoremediation in general;
Phytoextraction of heavy metals in particular
Pham Tuan Anh
PhD student
University of Ghent
k417
- krijgslaan 250 - 9000 Gent - BELGIUM
Phone: ++32 933
12802
Email: tuan.pham@UGent.be
Interest:
Development of plant-based system for removal of toluene from indoor
air
Speleers, Lode
Environmental Research
Center,Hekkestraat 51, B-9308 HOFSTADE-AALST BELGIUM
Phone:
32 53 769769
Fax: 32 53 769768
Email: info@erc.be
Experience: -phytoremediation of dredging sludge
containing heavy metals by means of willows
-immobilisation, stabilisation, solidification of heavy metals in
waste and sludges.
Interest: -phytoremediation in general.
Dr. Vangronsveld, Jaco
Limburgs Universitair Centrum,
Environmental Biology
Universitaire Campus, building D
B-3590
Diepenbeek, Belgium
tel.: ++ 32 (0)11 268331
fax.: ++ 32
(0)11 268301
e-mail: jvangron@luc.ac.be
Vervaeke, Pieter
Universiteit Gent, Laboratorium voor
Bosbouw
Geraardbergsesteenweg 267, Gontrode (Melle) 9090; Belgie
Phone: +32 (0)9 2522113
Fax: +32 (0)9 2525466
E-mail:
Pieter.Vervaeke@rug.ac.be
Interest: development of a willow based phytoremediation
technique to be used on dredged silt disposal sites
Angelova, Violina
Associate Professor,
Agricultural University, Department of Chemistry, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Phone: +359-32 654 204
Fax +359-633 157
E-Mail: vileriz@yahoo.com
Field of experience: heavy metals, analytical chemistry, estimation of the bioavailability of heavy metals, transfer of pollutants in food chain, phytoremediation
Current interest: heavy metals, fate of pollutants in terrestrial environments, phytostabilization
Dinev, Nikolai
Associate Professor, Dr., Deputy Director
N.Poushkarov Institute of Soil Science
7 Shosse Bankya, 1080 Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone: +359-2-242175
Fax +359-2-242175
E-Mail: ndinev@iss-poushkarov.org
Field of experience: plant biochemistry, stress reaction, estimation of the bioavailability of heavy metals,
Current interest: phytoremediation by C4 plants, bioavailability of heavy metals, indicators for monitoring and remediation, risk assessment, transfer of pollutant in food chain
Gueorguieva, Sasha
Independent researcher,
119 Oboriste st. Sofia 1505, Bulgaria
Phone: +359-29435718
Fax +359-29435718
E-Mail: sasha_g26@hotmail.com
Field of experience: ecology
Current interest: Biological remediation of contaminated sites
Remediation of old landfill
Developing cost-effective final cover options for landfills
Implementation of evapotranspiration (ET) cover consisting of a layer of soil covered by native vegetation
Landfill Closure and Long-Term Natural Attenuation
Soil-water interactions
Modelling water movement in soil
Nedkovska, Milka
AgroBioInstitute
Dragan Tzankov Blvd 8
Sofia 1164
Phone: +359-29635409
Fax +359-29635408
E-Mail: mimose52@yahoo.com
Field of experience: phytoremediation, plant cell and tissue cultures, genetic transformation
Current interest: heavy metal hyperaccumulator plants
Shilev, Stefan Dr
Assistant
Professor
Dept. Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnologies,
Agricultural University - Plovdiv
12, Mendeleev Str.
4000-Plovdiv Bulgaria
Tel./Fax:+359 32 654266
Fax: +359 32 65427
E-mail: stefan.shilev@au-plovdiv.bg
Field of experience: Phytoextraction, Bioaugmentation, Microbial activity
Current interest: Soil health indicators, Microbial Proteomics Post-doc position on Bacterial Proteomics at the University of Cordoba, SPAIN.
Prof. Simeonov, Lubomir
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/
Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory
Latinka str.44,1113Sofia,
Bulgaria
Phone: 00-3592-659071
Fax: 00-3592-650250
Email:
simeonov@bas.bg;lsimeonov@hotmail.com
Field of experience: mass spectrometry, space
research/scientific payload, phytoremediation in-field
experiment/heavy metals.
Current interest: new
environmental technologies, technological transfer, applied physics,
mass-spectrometry.
Stoynova-Bakalova, Ekaterina
Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences
M. Popov Institute of Plant Physiology
Acad. G.
Bonchev str., bld. 21, Sofia 1113
Phone: 979-21-93
Email:
estoyn@bio.bas.bg
Field of
experience: light and electron microscopy, biochemistry
Current
interest: plant growth and development, phytohormones, drought, heavy
metals
Vassilev, Andon
assistant-professor of Plant
Physiology, PhD
Agricultural University of Plovdiv
12
Mendeleev St., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Email:
vassilev@au-plovdiv.bg
Field of experience: heavy metal phytotoxicity
Current
interest: phytoextraction of heavy metals
Bjelkova, Marie
Agritec, Research, Breeding and
Servicis, Ltd.
Address: Zemedelska 16, 787 01 Sumperk, Czech
Republic
Fax: +420-649 382 999
Email: bjelkova@agritec.cz
Experience: Phytoremediations. Agrotechnology of flax and
linseed
Current interest: Heavy metals, radionuclids.
Slejska, Antonin
Research Inst. of Crop Production,
Drnovska 507, Prague 6, 169 01, Czech Republic
Phone: 0042
02 33022354
Fax: 0042 02 365228
Email:
slejska@hb.vurv.cz
Experience: Composting, Bioremediation, Biodegradation
Interest: Composting, Bioremediation, Biodegradation,
Anaerobic digestion, Phytoenergetics, Phytoremediation
Dr. Smrcek, Stanislav
Charles Univ. Fac. Sci.
Dept.Org.Chem.
Hlavova 2030, Prague 2, 128 40 Czech
Repiblic
Phone: +420+(2)+21952326
Email:
smrcek@prfdec.natur.cuni.cz
Experience: Biosynthesis and biodegradation of radioactive
labeled organic compd, biotransformations of org. compds.,
Phytoremediation modeling fo radioactive elements uptake in plants
Current interest: phytoremediation modeling using in vitro
cultiveted plants and their cell and organ cultures
Soudek, Petr
Institute of Organic Chemistry and
Biochemistry
Academy of Science Czech Republic
Phone: +420 2 20 183 476
Fax: +420 2 20 183 574
E-mail:
domingo@uochb.cas.cz
Experience: phytoremediation of heavy metal and hazardous
organic compounds by tissue cultures of higher plants
Interest:
phytoremediation, biotransformation and bioaccumulation
Tejklova, Eva
AGRITEC, Research, Breeding and Services,
Ltd.
Zemedelska 16, 787 01 Sumperk, Czech Republic
Phone:
+420 649 382125
Fax: +420 649 382999
Email:
tejklova@agritec.cz
Experience: In vitro cultures in flax and linseed (plant
regeneration in different extirped plant parts, anther, shoot-tip and
callus cultures), flax and linseed breeding
Current interest:
flax and linseed breeding; low-linolenic acid flax and linseed; flax,
a technical plant suitable for phytoremediation - study of
availability of shoot-tip culture
Vanek, Tomas, PhD
Head of Department of Plant Cell
Cultures
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Academy
of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Flemingovo nam. 2, 166 10 Praha
6
Phone: +420 2 20 183 574
Fax: +420 2 20 183 574
E-mail:
vanek@uochb.cas.cz
Interest: phytoremediation (toxic metals, radionuclides
and organic pollutants both in soil and waters).
We utilize a
plant tissue cultures and hydroponic plants as a model system in this
time.
Ozkeser, Huseyin
Eastern Mediterranean University
Phone 0 533 8605430
Fax 0 392 2276236
E-mail:
huseyin.ozkeser@emu.edu.tr
Experience: Trace elements in soils and plants near abandoned
copper mine
Current interest: Monitoring of Metal contamination
at the site of abandoned copper mine
and determination of
phtoremediation and also developing analysis of
trace elements in
agricultural soils and plants.
Brix, Hans
Associate Professor
University of Aarhus
Nordlandsvej 68
8240 Risskov
Phone +45 8942 4714
Fax
+45 8942 4747
E-mail: Hans.Brix@biology.au.dk
Experience: Ecophysiology of plants. Use of plants in water
pollution control.
Groen, Christian
Risoe National Laboratory
Block
PBK-124
P.O. Box 49
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark
Phone
+45 46 77 42 67
Fax +45 46 77 42 60
E-mail:
christian.groen@risoe.dk
Interest: organic contaminants in plant/soil system
http://www.risoe.dk
http://www.risoe.dk/landuse
Kure, Liv Kirstin
Dept. of Plant Biology and
Biogeochemistry, Risoe National Laboratory
Block PBK-309
P.O.
Box 49
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark
Phone +45 4677 4151
Fax
+45 4677 4160
E-mail: liv.kure@risoe.dk
Web page: http://www.risoe.dk/pbk/ple/staff/liku.htm
Interests: Plant uptake of organic contaminants -
especially contaminants in sludge. We use 14C-labelled compounds to
study uptake through roots, translocation to shoots and
metabolization in plants. I also have interest in bioavailability of
organic contaminants in soil and sediments.
Laturnus, Frank
University of Copenhagen
Laboratory
for Material Sciences
Symbion Science Park
Fruebergvej 3
2100 Copenhagen O
Email: polaris3@uni-bremen.de
Experience: Ultratrace analysis of organic contaminants in
soil, sludge and plants. Analysis of volatile halogenated
hydrocarbons in water, air, soil. Analytical
experiences in GC-tandem MS, GC-ECD/FID, purge&trap,
thermodesorption, GC-MIP AED.
Interest: Plant uptake and
metabolization of organic compounds. Fate and occurrence of biogenic
volatile halogenated hydrocarbons in the environment.
Blake, Gerard
Laboratoire Transferts et Effets
des Polluants dans l'Environnement
Phone: (33) 04 79 75 88
32
Fax: (33) 04 79 75 88 90
Email:
Gerard.Blake@univ-savoie-fr
Experience: Aquatic phytoremediation for domesctic and
industrial effluents
Ecotoxicology
Fate and effects of pollutants
Pesticides
Interest: Industrial effluent treatment by
aquatic plants reed beds and artificial wetlands
Blondel, Thierry
Director
Cabinet-Conseil BLONDEL
Le parc Technologique de Lyon - 12,
allée Irène
Joliot-Curie Bâtiment B2
Phone: +33 478 90 87 60
Fax:
+33 478 90 84 26
Email: tblondel@aol.com
Experience: Hydrogeology - Polluted sites Risk assessment
studies using
modelization - Groundwater remediation and
treatment using
modelization - Field experience - Field data
acquisition - etc.
Current interest: Risk assessment
- Residual risk after polluted site treatment
Branchard, Michel
Professor, Head of the
department
West Brittany University
LBPV - ISAMOR - UBO
Technopole Brest Iroise
29280 PLOUZANE
(FRANCE)
Phone: +33 (0)2 98 05 61 00
Fax: +33 (0)2 98 05 61 01
Email: Michel.Branchard@univ-brest.fr
Experience:
phytoremediation (especially phytoextraction or phytostabilization) :
in vitro and greenhouse studies
Current interest:
improvement and selection of hyperaccumulators, early predictive
tests, molecular and physiological studies
Prof.Davidian, Jean-Claude
Ecole Nationale Superieure
Agronomique
INRA - CNRS (ura 2133)
Biochimie et Physiologie
Moleculaire des Plantes
34060 MONTPELLIER Cedex 2
FRANCE
Phone: 33(0)4 99612607
Fax: 33(0)4 67525737
Email:
davidian@ensam.inra.fr
Prof. Dubourguier, Henri Charles
I.S.A. Lab Sols et
Environnement
41 rue du Port, Lille Cedex, 59046, France
Phone:
+33 03 28 38 48 48
Fax: +33 03 28 38 48 47
E-mail:
dubourguier@isa.fupl.asso.fr
Interest: restoration of former sites of coal
industry (bioremediation, phytoremediation)
Faure
Ecophysiology Lab., Faculty of Sciences, Jean
Monnet University, 23 rue du Dr Michelon, 42023 St Etienne Cedex2,
France
Phone: (33) (0) 477 460 909
Fax: (33) (0) 477 251 817
Email: faure@univ-st-etienne.fr
Field of experience: In vitro culture, genetic
transformation.
Current interest: Starting project on the
use of phytoremediation to clean up soils contaminated with heavy
metals.
Fernandes
University of Savoie
44 LE PETIT CATON
73370 LE BOURGET DU LAC, FRANCE
Phone: 04 79 25 32 72
Email:
keit.fernandes@caramail.com
Gosselin, Jean-Philippe
ECOSITE - DRLE - 34140 MEZE -
FRANCE
Phone: 04.67.46.64.80
Fax: 04.67.43.56.13
Email:
EcositeDRLE@wanadoo.fr
Field of experience: Phytoremediation
Current
interest: Phytoremediation of soils contaminated by PAHs or
organochlorinated compounds. Industrial effluent treatment by aquatic
plants reed beds.
Granel, Thierry
ENITA Clermont-Ferrand
6 rue
Gabriel Peri
92120 Montrouge France
Email:
tgranel@hort.cri.nz
Field
of experience: Phytoremediation of heavy metals
Hutchinson, Julian J.
Research Associate
Laboratoire
Sols et Environnement,
ENSAIA-INPL/INRA,
2 Avenue de la Foret
de Haye,
BP-172,
Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, F-54505,
Phone:
+33-3-83-59-58-99
Fax: +33-3-83-59-57-91
Email:
Julian.Hutchinson@ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr
Field of experience: Soil metal bioavailability,
phytoremediation, hyperaccumulation.
Current interest:
Mechanisms of Cd and Zn hyperaccumulation in species of Thlaspi
caerulescens.
Use of isotopic exchange kinetics for the
characterization of soils varying in contamination.
Lesueur, Sophie
ORSAY/PARIS XI institut de
Biotechnologie des Plantes
19 avenue du Gnrl Leclerc, 91120
PALAISEAU
Phone: 33.1.60.14.76.95
Email:
lesueurs@netcourrier.com
Jean Louis Morel, Professor
Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)
Laboratoire Sols et Environnement - INPL/INRA
2, avenue de la forêt de Haye,
BP 172
54505 Vandoeuvre les NANCY
FRANCE
Phone: +33 3 83 59 58 47
Email: Jean-Louis.Morel@ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr
Web : http://www.lse.inpl-nancy.fr/Personnel/pperso/morel.html
Experience: soil science, soil remediation, bioavailability of soil contaminants, soil-to-plant transfer of heavy metals
Current Interest: phytoremediation of metal contaminated soils using hyperaccumulators; phytomining of Ni; phytodegradation of organic pollutants; remediation of brownfield sites (GISFI, http://www.gisfi.fr)
Pourrut, Bertrand
Ensat, Lab EcoLab
Avenue de
l'agrobiopole
31326 Castanet-Tolosan
tel: +33 6 85 14 33 19
Fax : +33 5 62 19 39 01
Email: pourrut@ensat.fr
Field of experience: ecotoxicology, molecular biology,
biochemistry, enzymology, evaluation of genotoxicity.
Current
interest: mechanism of lead genotoxicity
Pressiat, Franck
Compagnie Nationale du Rhône
2
rue André Bonin
69316 Lyon Cedex 04 (France)
tel: +33 472 00
67 65
Fax : +33 472 10 66 69
Email: franckpressiat@aol.com
Field of experience: Hydrobiology and ecological
engeneering, especialy extrem conditions
revegetation.
Current
interest: Trying to develop phytoremediation industrial or large
scales uses in
Rhône-Alpes district. Effeciency of helophytes in
phytoremediation applications.
Searching for an industrial and
scientist partenership for large scales applications of
phytoremediation (extraction and / or stabilisation)
Vieille, Philippe
KALYS, 39 avenue Lebas F-59100
ROUBAIX FRANCE
Phone: +33 320 36 30 36
Fax: +33 320 36
31 10
Email: info@kalys.com
Experience: Plant derived economic systems, R&D
applied to new crops or new valorization of crops.
Current
interest: To investigate the feasability of developing an
"ecological" solution for phytoremediation by using plants
for their capability to be produced (and harvested) in large
quantities.
Daghan, Hatice
PhD student
University of Technology
Aachen (RWTH Aachen)
Biology V - Environmental Chemistry
Worringerweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany
e-mail:
daghan@molbiotech.rwth-aachen.de
Experience: Soil Science
Current interest: phytoextraction of
heavy metal contaminated soil using plants
Doering, Olaf
University of Hamburg
Ohnhorststr 18,
D 22609 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49 40 82282 348
Fax: +49 40
82282 254
E-mail: o.doring@botanik.uni-hamburg.de
Interest: active oxygen/radicals at the plant PM
Dr. Ernst, Dietrich
GSF - Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt
und Gesundheit
Institut fur Biochemische Pflanzenpathologie
D-85764 Neuherberg; Germany
Phone: +49 89 3187 4440
FAX: +49 89 3187 3383
E-mail: ernst@gsf.de
PD Dr. Hell, Ruediger
Lehrstuhl fuer
Pflanzenphysiologie
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, 44780 Bochum,
Germany
Phone: +49-234-700-4302
Fax: +49-234-709-4187
E-mail: ruediger.hell@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Interest: sulfur metabolism during heavy metal exposure.
Phytochelatin synthesis
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Ruediger.Hell/
Kuschk, Peter
Centre for Environmental Research
Leipzig-Halle
Phone: ++49-341-235-2821
Fax: ++49-341-235-2492
Email: kuschk@san.ufz.de
Experience: phytoremediation;
http://141.65.50.113/phyto/index.html
Merkl, Nicole
University of Hohenheim, Germany
E-mail: nmerkl@freenet.de
Interest: Phytoremediation of oil-contaminated sites in
the Tropics
Dr. Schaeffner, Tony
Institute of Biochemical Plant
Pathology
GSF Research Center, Blg. 57
D-85764 Neuherberg/
Muenchen, Germany
Phone: +49 89 3187 - 2930 or - 2373
Fax: +49 89 3187 - 2726
E-mail:
schaeffner@gsf.de
Interest: uptake and metabolism of organic xenobiotics by
plants (A. thaliana)
Dr. rer. nat. Schoenmuth, Bernd
Institute for
Ecotoxicology and Ecochemistry in Plant Protection
Federal
Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry
(BBA)
Koenigin-Luise-Str. 19, D-14195 Berlin,
Germany
Phone: +49+30+8304-2354
Fax:
+49+30+8304-2304
E-mail: berndschoenmuth@yahoo.de
Field of experience: Phytoremediation of organics using
trees (Dendroremediation).
Willow (Salix), poplar (Populus), birch
(Betula), Norway spruce (Picea abies), Canadian white spruce (Picea
glauca) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
Current interest:
Dendroremediation (phytoremediation) of the explosive Trinitrotoluene
(TNT).
Prof. Stanislav, Kopriva
University of Freiburg
Institute of Tree Physiology, Georges-Köhler-Allee 053, 79085
Freiburg, Germany
Phone: +49-761-2038303
Fax:
+49-761-2038302
E-mail: kopriva@uni-freiburg.de
Field of experience: sulfur metabolism
Current
interest: phytoremediation of metals by transgenic poplar
Kalaitzis, Panos
DEPT. OF HORTICULTURE
MEDITERRANEAN
AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA
Phone: 0030-821-81151 ext.
530
Fax: 0030-821-81154
Email: PANAGIOT@MAICH.GR
Field of experience: PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY
HORTICULTURE
Current interest: PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Prof. Kalogerakis, Nicolas
Technical University of
Crete, Department of Environmental Engineering
Phone: +30
28210-37794
Email: nicolas.kalogerakis@enveng.tuc.gr
Current interest: phytoextraction of heavy metals
using salt tolrant plants. Phytodegradation of agroindustrial
wastewater. Integrated solutions to wastewater treatment.
Kannavou, Natassa
Agricultural University of
Athens, Department of Science, Laboratory of Meteorology
75 Iera
Odos , 118 55, Athens, Greece
Phone: +30 1 52 94 234
Fax: +30
1 52 94 233
Email: nkanavou@aua.gr
Current interest: Phytoremediation (phytoextraction)of
heavy metals using native plants (hyperaccumulators). Revegetation of
metal contaminated mining sites.
Paranychianakis, Nikolaos V
Megali Vrysi
70003 Heraklion
Phone: +30 6977
396137
Email: nvpar@her.forthnet.gr
Field
of experience: Wastewater management, abiotic stresses,
phytoremediation
Prof. Dr. BIRO, Borbala
Head of Laboratory Rhizobiology
Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of Hung. Acad. Sci (RISSAC HAS)
Herman Otto ut 15. H-1022 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: +361 2243 627
Fax +361 2243 627
E-Mail: biro@rissac.hu
Field of experience: Rhizosphere technology with beneficial microbes, microsymbionts, biofertilizers, microbial interactions and functioning, stress-tolerance and adaptation process, stress-buffer effect, soil quality indication.
Current interest: Soil physical, chemical and biological properties and their potential management in the natural and antropogically stressed environments. Long-term effect and microbial diversity and functionig.
Dr. Komives, Tamas
Plant Protection Institute
Herman
Otto 15, Budapest, Hungary
Email: tkom@nki.hu
Field of experience: Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry.
Current interest: Environmental fate of pollutants,
Phytoremediation.
Kovacs, Elza
University of Debrecen
H-4032
Debrecen, Boszormenyi ut 138.
Phone: +36 52 486 288 / 8014
Email: ekovacs@gisserver1.date.hu
Field of experience: chemistry, environmental management
and environmental technologies
Current interest:
phytoremediation of sites contaminated with mining by-products
containing soft and border-line heavy metals
Coyle, Cait
E-mail: ccoyle67@hotmail.com
Interest: Phytoremediation of soils. Plant peroxidases in
remediation of organic pollutants
Aglietto, Ivano
Politecnico di Torino
C.so Duca
degli Abruzzi, 24
Torino
Phone: ++39(0)11.2257.351
Fax:
++39(0)11.2257.352
Email: ivano@aglietto.com
Field of experience: Risk Assessment, remediaiton of contaminated
soils and ground water
Current interest: Innovative remediation
technologies
Prof. Alonzo, Giuseppe
Laboratorio di Chimica Agraria
viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo. Italy
Phone: +39
091 6514213
Fax: +39 091 484035
http://www.unipa.it/~alonzo
Interest: metals chemistry in soil-plant interactions
Dr. Barbafieri, Meri
Research Scientist
Institute
of Soil Chemistry,
National Research Council of Italy
Via
Corridoni, 78 - 56125 Pisa
Italy
Phone. +39-050-500939
Fax:
+39-050-500631
E-mail: Barbafieri@ict.pi.cnr.it
Bozzini, Carlo
Agronomist
CIRPS
Palazzo Doria
Pamphilj
00038 Valmontone RM
Phone: (39) 0339 3928560
E-mail: carlo.bozzini@uniroma1.it
Field of experience: GIS expert, agronomist,
agrometeorologist
Current interest: water resources and
management
Campioni, Andrea
General manager
Environ Italy
S.r.l.
Viale F.T. Marinetti, 221
Phone: +3906 5052 4632
Fax:
+3906 5052 4628
E-mail: acampioni@it.environcorp.com
Field of experience: 14 years experience in
characterisation and remediation of contaminated land from organic
and inorganic compounds using in situ and on site treatment systems
Current interest: Application on new remedial tecniques to
minimise impact on human health
Dr. Cao, Alessia
University of Cagliari
via
Albinoni 51
Cagliari
Phone: 003970882573
Email:
a.cao@tiscalinet.it
Field
of experience: phytoremediation of lead and zinc
Current
interest: Hyperaccumulation; bioavailability of heavy metals
Dr. Capotorti, Guido
ENICHEM SpA
Via Fauser 4,
Novara, ITALY
Phone: 0321-447551
Email:
guido.capotorti@enichem.it
Field of experience: Bioremediation of organic pollutants.
Carbone, Lucia Anna (Dr)
Department of Crop Biology -Physiology University of Pisa
via Mariscoglio 34 56100 Pisa
Phone: 0502216553
Fax 0502216532
E-Mail: luciacarb@yahoo.it
Field of experience: civil waste water clean-up with Phragmites australis using vertical Subsurface Flow System in microcosms . (the device used to create a typical SFS-v became an italian patent during 2005)
Current interest: Removal of As from soil with Pteris vittata
Cellini, Francesco
Metapontum Agrobios S.c. a r.l.
S.S. Jonica 106 Km 448,2 75010 Metaponto (MT) Italy
Phone:
+39.835.740239
Fax: +39.835.740204
Email:
fcellini@netsystem.it
Experience: Plant genetic engineering, Modification of
lipid metabolism in plant, Induction of virus resistance
Citterio, Sandra
Department of Environmental Science,
University of Milano-Bicocca
P.zza della Scienza 1, Milano
Phone: 39-02-64482934
Fax: 39-02-64482996
Email:
sandra.citterio@unimib.it
Experience: biology
Current interest:
biomonitoring and phytoremediation
dr. Colom, Manuel Rodolofo
University of Florence
pl.
delle Cascine 18
Firenze, Italy
Phone: +39.055.3288345
Fax:
+39.055.332472
Email: lab-ecologia@disat.unif.it
Experience: Plant eco-physiology, photosynthesis
chlorophyll fluorescence
Current interest: water stress,
hyperaccumulator species
dr. Cozza, Radiana
University of Calabria
Dept.
Ecology
Ponte Bucci, cubo 6B
Phone: +39.0984.492966
Fax:
+39.0984.492964
Email:rad.cozza@unical.it
Experience:
Plant physiology, in situ hybridization
Current interest:
physiology of marine angiosperm (Posidonia oceanica)
Prof. Cresti, M.
Universita' di Siena
Dipartimento
di Biologia Ambientale
Via Mattioli, 4
53100 Siena
Italy
Phone: +39 0577 298 854
Secretary: +39 0577
298 853
Fax: +39 0577 298 860
Email: cresti@unisi.it
Work group's interests: Biomonitoring by lichens, mosses and
higher plants; Accumulation, Tolerance and Molecular Markers in
heavy metal accumulation in vascular plants;
Plant-geochemistry survey in mine wastes.
Deflorio, Giuliana
libero professionista
via
incoronata, 8 70016 Noicattaro (Bari)
Email:
giulianadeflorio@libero.it
Prof. Filippone, Edgardo
University
of Naples "Federico II"
c/o DiSSPA, Via Università 100, 80055
Portici
Phone: +39 081 2539224
Fax: +39 081 2539224
Email:
filippon@unina.it
Field of
experience: Plant molecular biology; transgene expression in
plants
Current interest: over-expression of plant and fungal genes
into plant root cells for PAH degradation in polluted soils and
waters
Prof. Gabbrielli, Roberto
Dept. Biologia vegetale,
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via Micheli,1 - 50121 Firenze
Italy
Phone: +39 55 2757382
Fax: +39 55 282358
Email:
gabbrielli@cesit1.unifi.it
Field of experience: Heavy metal tolerance and toxicity in
plants. Nickel hyperaccumulation by serpentine plants. Plants as
indicators of soil health. Mineral nutrition.
Current interest:
Mechanisms of Ni hyperaccumulation in Alyssum bertolonii.
Antioxidative responses to heavy metal stress in plants of serpentine
soils.
Prof. Gambale, Franco
Istituto di Cibernetica e
Biofisica,
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via De Marini
6, 16149 Genova, Italy
Phone: +39010-6475550
Fax:
+39010-6475500
Email: gambale@icb.ge.cnr.it
Experience Biophysics, Plant physiology, Phytoremediation, Animal
physiology
Current interest Biophysics, Plant physiology,
Phytoremediation
Dr. Gardi, Ciro
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali
Universita` di Parma
Viale delle Scienze
43100 Parma
ITALY
Phone: +39 0521 905692
Fax: +39 0521 905696
E-mail:
c.gardi@mail.dsa.unipr.it
Interest: soil-plant interactions
http://www2.dsa.unipr.it/~gardi/
Garello, Marco
GE Oil &
Gas
Viale Felice Matteucci 2
50127 Firenze
Phone: +39
0554232078
Fax: +39 0554232800
Email:
marco.garello@ge.com
Field
of experience: EHS Assesment, Site characterization, Soil &
groundwater remediation, Risk analysis, Hydrogeology
Current interest: Bio/Phytotechniques on HCs and heavy metals remediation
Giorio, Giovanni (dr.)
(METAPONTUM AGROBIOS) SS
JONICA, Km 448.2
75010 METAPONTO (MATERA) - ITALY
Phone: +39
0835 740276
Fax: +39 0835 740204
Email:
biocel.agrobios@netsystem.it-
ggiorio@agrobios.it
Field
of experience: Plant Genetics, Molecular markers, Molecular Breeding
Current interest: Phytoremediation
Gras, Maria
CRA Istituto di Sperimentazione per la
Pioppicoltura /Unità di Ricerca Forestale, via valle della quistione
27 Roma
Phone: +39 0661571033
Fax: +39 0661571030
Email:
maria.gras@entecra.it
Field
of experience: Plants breeding and cultivation
Current interest:
phytoremediation (Pteris vittata and Robinia pseudoacacia)
Guidi, Werther
Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e
di Perfezionamento
Sant'Anna (PISA)
p.zza Martiri della
Libertà,33
56127 Pisa (Italy)
Phone: +39.050.883.774
Fax:
+39.050.883.775
Email: werther.guidi@sssup.it
Field of experience: Forestry
Current Interest: Vegetation
filters (polars and willows) for purification of wastewaters
Heimler, Daniela
Dip.Scienza del suolo e nutrizione
pianta,
University of Florence,
Florence, ITALY
Phone:
+39 055 3288201
Fax: +39 055 333273
Email: dan@iges.fi.cnr.it
Experience Metabolism of plants under abiotic stress.
Plant membranes under salt stress.
Role of flavonoids in the plants.
Current interest Olive
metabolism.
Flavonoids and radiation.
Abiotic stress.
Dr. Lo Porto, Antonio
Water Research Institute -
Italian Research Council (IRSA - CNR)
Via De Blasio, 5 - 70123
Bari - Italy
Phone: +39 80 5313354 / +39 347 7654132
Fax: +39
80 5313365
E-mail: loporto@area.ba.cnr.it
Interest: nonpoint sources pollution, groundwater remediation,
biomonitoring, GIS
http://www.ba.cnr.it/~irsaal02
Maestri, Elena
Division of Genetics and Environmental
Biotechnologies
Department of Environmental Sciences
University
of Parma
V.le delle Scienze, 43100, Parma, Italy
Phone: +39
0521 905687
Fax: +39 0521 905665
E-mail:
maestri@ipruniv.cce.unipr.it
Manfredi, Paolo
Amministratore Unico
m.c.m. Ecosistemi s.r.l.
Via Borghetto 33 Piacenza
Phone: 0523314351
Fax 0523313096
E-Mail: manfredi@mcmecosistemi.com
Company:
Dr. Marchiol, Luca
Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale
e Tecnologie Agrarie
Università di Udine
Via delle Scienze
208, 33100 Udine
Phone: +39 0432-558611
Fax: +39
0432-558603
E-mail: marchiol@palantir.dpvta.uniud.it
Interest: revegetation of polluted sites
Prof. Marmiroli, Nelson
Division of Genetics and
Environmental Biotechnologies
Department of Environmental
Sciences
University of Parma
V.le delle Scienze, 43100,
Parma, Italy
Phone: +39 0521 905606
Fax: +39 0521 905665
E-mail: marmirol@ipruniv.cce.unipr.it
Interest: heavy metals, use of plants for remediation of
municipal landfills.
Mezzalama, Roberto
Golder Associates Geoanalysis
Via
Antonio Banfo 43
Torino
Phone: +39 011 233348
Fax: +39
011 856950
E-mail: rmezzalama@golder.it
Field of experience: Aquatic ecology, biomonitoring,
ecotoxicology, waste management
Current interest: Development of
biological monitoring and applied ecotoxicology
Mezzina, Leo
Politecnico di Bari
Taranto- Italy
E-Mail:
l_mezzina@virgilio.it
Field of experience: Constructed
wetlands, wastewater management
Current interest:
phytoremediation for chromium contaminated soil
Monciardini, Paolo dr.
Division of Genetics and
Environmental Biotechnologies
Department of Environmental
Sciences
University of Parma
V.le delle Scienze, 43100,
Parma, Italy
Phone: +39 0521 905687
Fax: +39 0521 905665
E-mail: moncia@dsa.unipr.it
Interest: heavy metals, use of
plants for remediation of municipal landfills.
Nardella, Alessandro
Researcher
EniTecnologie
Via
Ramarini 32
00016 Monterotondo (RM)
Phone: ++39-0690673215
FAX: ++39-0690673296
E-mail: anardella@enitecnologie.eni.it
Field of experience: Remediation of contaminated soils by
chemical-physical technologies: solvent extraction, soil washing,
stabilization/solidification
Current interest: Soil
washing; phytoremediation
Nasser Amer
PhD student
University of
Parthenope, Napoli
Phone: +39.3204055373
E-mail:
nassera_799@yahoo.com
Field of experience: soil fertility, organic agriculture,
phytoremediation
Current interest: phytoremediaiton
Pastorelli, Giuseppe
Environmental Engineer, Ph.D. in
Environmental Engineering
Studio di Ingegneria Ambientale
Viale
Vittorio Veneto 44
Phone: +39.0542.25460
Fax: +39.0542.25460
E-mail: g.pastorelli@imola.queen.it
Field of experience: Wastewater treatment, Waste
management
Current interest: Biofilm systems, Constructed
wetlands, Phytoextraction
Pianalto, Marco
University of Padua - Department of
Agricultural Biotecnology
Via Durando 25, 36100 Vicenza, Italy
Phone: 0039-444-921748
E-mail: marcusaks@libero.it
Field of experience: Environmental sciences, Agronomy,
Genetics.
Current interest: Environmental biotecnologies.
I'm writing my master thesis on Phytoremediation.
Pirovano, Livia
Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale
University of Mialno
E-mail: Livia.Pirovano@unimi.it
Current interest: Sulfur transport in heavy metal exposure
and environmental biotechnologies
Rossetti, Marco
Furia Ecological Srl, Bargone Montauro n. 233/c, 43039 Salsomaggiore Terme - PR
Phone: +39-333-2084732
E-Mail: m-rossetti@libero.it
Field of experience: Contaminated sites remediation throughout conventional and innovative techniques
Current interest: Phytoremediation on heavy metal polluted sites
Sacco, Pasqualina
DPVTA-Universita` di Udine
via
delle Scienze 208 - I-33100 Udine (UD), Italy
Phone:
+39-0432-558658
Fax: +39-0432-558603
E-mail:
Pasqualina.Sacco@Dpvta.Uniud.It
Sanità di Toppi, Luigi
Dept. of Evolutionary and
Functional Biology, University of Parma
Parco Area delle Scienze,
43100 PARMA, Italy
Phone: +39.0521.905567
Fax:
+39.0521.905403
Email: sanita@biol.unipr.it
Field of experience: Response to cadmium, chromium and
other h.m. in higher plants
Current interest: heavy metals
and higher plants; phytoremediation
Santagostino, Angela
Dipartimento di Scienze
dell'ambiente e del Territorio(DiSAT)
Università degli Studi di
Milano Bicocca
via Emanueli 15, 20129 Milano Italy
Phone: +39
02 64474505
Fax: +39 02 64474500
Email:
angela.santagostino@unimi.it
Experience: Glutathione and enzymes connected to its cellular
Cycle, Glutathion-S-transferases, Phytochelatins.
Current
interest: Phytochelatins synthesis in plants exposed to heavy metals.
Sari Gorla, Mirella
full professor of Genetics
University of Milano
Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Phone: +39 02 5835 5014
Fax: +39 02 5835 5044
Email:
mirella.sarigorla@unimi.it
Field of experience: Plant molecular genetics;
Quantitative genetics
Current interest: Genetic control of
plant adaptability to environmental stresses
Tamborino, Giuseppe
Dip. di Scienze Ambientali -
Universita' degli Studi di Parma
v.le delle Scienze, 78
43100
Parma, ITALY
Phone: +39 0521 905692
Fax: +39 0521 905696
Email: g.tamborino@mail.dsa.unipr.it
Interest: Environmental Monitoring, GIS
Troìa, Angelo
Ecogestioni s.c.r.l.
Palermo
Email:
angelo.troia@libero.it
Trulli, Ettore
Università degli studi della Basilicata
Contrada Macchia Romana,
85100 POTENZA
Italy
Phone: +39 0971-205153
fax +39 0971-205160
E-mail:
trulli@unibas.it
Experience:
Water and wastewater treatment
Current interest: Pollution
control in urban area
Zaccheo, Patrizia
DiFCA -
University of Milan
Via Celoria 2
20123 MILANO
Italy
Phone: +39 02 26607222
fax +39 02 2663057
E-mail:
Patrizia.Zaccheo@unimi.it
Interest:Interactions between organic matter and heavy metals,
bioassay for polluted soil.
MACEDONIA
Cvetanovska, Lenka
Sts. Cyril and Methodius University
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Institute of
Biology
Gazi Baba bb.
E-mail: lenka@iunona-pmf.ukim.educ.mk
Experience: plant physiology, ecophysiology
Interest: Plant
growth and development, plant phytohormones and tissue culture,
mineral nutrition and heavy metals
Gawronski, Stanislaw
Professor
Warsaw Agricultural
University
Nowoursynowska 166
02-787 Warsaw
Phone:
(48 22) 8439041 ext. 110-91
Fax: (48 22) 8437507
E-mail:
gawronski@sggw.waw.pl
Field of experience: weed control, phytoremediation, molecular
biology
Interest: weed control, phytoremediation, molecular
biology
Gluszcz, Adam
Warsaw Agricultural University
Nowoursynowska 161 str. "Dendryt"
02-787 Warsaw
Phone: (48) 608397218
E-mail: gluszec@yahoo.com
Interest: phytoremediation of soils
Kondzielski, Igor
Institute od Environmental Protection
Krucza 5/11 D str.
00-548 Warsaw, Poland
E-mail:
igor.kondzielski@ios.edu.pl
and ikon@cc.uni.torun.pl
Interest: Phytoremediation of soils and waters contaminated with
heavy metals, bioindication of soil, sediment and water pollution by
heavy metals.
Pawlik-Skowronska, Barbara
senior researcher
Institute
of Ecology, P.A.S.
Niecala str. 18
20-080 Lublin
Phone:
(48 81) 5326182
Fax: (48 81) 5324500
E-mail:
pawlik@golem.umcs.lublin.pl
Field of Experience: ecotoxicology of heavy metals in aquatic
environment
Interest: Physiological and biochemical responses in
algae to heavy metal stress
dr Piechalak Aneta
Adam Mickiewicz University,
Department of Biochemistry
Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznan
Phone:
+4861 8294536
E-mail: anetap@amu.edu.pl
Field of Experience: Phytoremediation, Heavy metal accumulation,
Interest: Bioaccumulation of heavy metals by plants,
phytoextraction of lead ion, phytochelatins and other thiols
dr Skiba, Elzbieta
Technical University of Lodz
Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry
ul. Zwirki 36
90-924 Lodz
phone: + 48 608 632034
e mail address:
elaskiba@ck-sg.p.lodz.pl
Experience: I have an experience in the field of analytical
chemistry, complexes of
heavy metals. I have changed the
direction of my research from heavy metal complexes
to the
phytoremediation of heavy metal contamined soils.
Anselmo, Ana Maria
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia e
Tecnologia Industrial
Azinhaga dos Lameiros, 1699 Lisboa Codex,
Portugal
Phone: 351-1-7165141
Fax:
351-1-7160901
Email: ana.anselmo@mail.ineti.pt
Experience: Environmental Biotechnology, bioremediation,
ecotoxicology, microbial degradation of hazardous substances
Interest: bioremediation, phytoremediation, biotechnology for
sustainable development
De Vos, Joris
EURAMTECNA
Foros dos Vales - 7630
Bicos (odemira) - Portugal
Phone: +351 83 623.309
Fax: +351
83 623.308
Email: cobelgal.devos@mail.telepac.pt
Current interest: Constructed wetland for treat sludge with heavy
metal
Favas, Paulo
University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Apartado 1013, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Phone: +351 259 350 220
Fax +351 259 350 480
E-Mail: pjcf@utad.pt
Field of experience: Environmental geochemistry, environmental biogeochemistry
Current interest: Environmental biogeochemistry, phytoremediation, biomonitoring
Gerardo, Romeu
Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra
3040-316 Coimbra - Portugal
Phone: 351913016190
E-Mail: rgerardo@esac.pt
Field of experience: Geology and Environmental Engineering
Oliveira, Alice
University of Algarve
Email:
a9450@aaual.ualg.pt
Current
interest: Practical training in phytoremediation
Vrinceanu, Nicoleta
National Research and Development Institute for Soil Sciences, Agrochemistry and Environment
Bd Marasti 61, sector 1, 011464 Bucharest
Phone: +40213184458/265
E-Mail: nicvrinceanu@yahoo.com
Field of experience: analytical chemistry, heavy metals soil pollution
Current interest: behaviour of heavy metals in soil-plant system, bioavailability of heavy metals, use of plants for remediation of polluted soil
Ostrumov, Sergei
Moscow State University, Faculty of
Biology, Tsurupy 7-2-31
Moscow, 117418, RUSSIA
E-mail:
saostro@glasnet.ru
Interest:
effects of pollutants on plants. Ecotoxicology.
Interested
in International Collaborations!!!See the COOPERATION
page.
Shtangeeva, Irina
St.Petersburg University,
Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St.Petersburg
199034 Russia
Phone:
+7 812 106 79 90
E-mail: shtangeeva@IS15148.spb.edu
Field of experience: Instrumental neutron activation analysis,
ICP-MS; green-house
pot experiments: study of relationships
between different elements in plants;
environmental pollution of
urban lands, short- and long-term variations in elemental
composition of plants and soil; bioremediation of soils and
wastes contaminated by
heavy metals
Current interests:
unusual behaviour of elements in system plant - soil;
phytoremediation of thorium; effect of rhizosphere
micro-organisms on uptake of
different elements; statistics
Pilipovic, Andrej
Institut za
nizijsko šumarstvo i životnu sredinu
Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment
Antona Cehova 13
21000 Novi Sad
Serbia
tel: +381 21 540 382
fax: +381 21 540 385
mobile: +381 63 458 828
E-Mail: andrejp@uns.ac.rs
Current interest: Phytoremediation of
nitrates using poplars and willows
Zima, Miroslav
Head of Department
Department of
Botany and Genetics
Constantine the Philosopher University,
94976
Nitra
Phone: 421-37-7414182
Email: mzima@ukf.sk
Field
of experience: Stress research - mainly physiological aspects
of abiotic stresses (water, drought, heavy metals). Phytotoxicity and
genotoxicity of heavy metals
Current interest: Phytoremediation of
heavy metals
Abadia, Javier
Investigador Cientifico
C.S.I.C.
Estacion Experimental de Aula Dei, PO Box 50080,
Zaragoza,
Spain
Phone: 34-976-716056
Fax: 34-976-716145
Email:
jabadia@eead.csic.es
Field
of experience: Plant Physiology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Nutrition
Current interest: Iron deficiency stress in crops
Heavy metal
stress in plants
Proteomics in plants under abiotic stress
Dra. Beaucourt, Nathalie
Clean Biotec S.L.L.
San José de Calazanz 11 Bajo
Logroño la Rioja
e-mail: nathalie@clean-biotec.com
Interest: Air & water phytoremediation
Dra. Cortès, Amparo
U. Edafologia (Soil Science)
Fac.
Farmacia, Univ. of Barcelona.
Phone: 93- 402 44 94
fax: 93-
402 18 86
e-mail: acortes@farmacia.far.ub.es
Interest: exchange information on soil phytoremediation
Becares, Eloy
Department of Ecology
Faculty of
Biology
University of Leon
24017 LEON
Phone: 34-987291568
Fax: 34-987291501
Email: degebm@unileon.es
Position: Associate Professor
Experience: Macrophytes for
wastewater treatment
Bacterial removal
Ecology of submerged and emergent
macrophytes in natural wetlands
Industrial wastewaters
Pharmaceutical
industry
Solvents
Current
interest: Use of macrophytes in natural and
constructed wetlands for xenobiotics and heavy metals removal
Interactions roots-bacteria
Becerril, Josè M.
Plant Biology and Ecology,
University of the Basque Country,
Aptdo. 644, 48080 BILBAO
Phone: 34-946012000
Fax: 34-44648500
Email:
gvpbesoj@lg.ehu.es
Experience: Environmental/Stress Physiology/Biochemistry
Herbicide Mode of Action and Phytotoxicity
Stress Biomarkers
Microbe-Plant
Symbiosis
Current interest:
Phytoremediation
Abiotic Stress
Physiology
Organics and Heavy Metals
Phytotoxicity
Mechanisms of Stress
Tolerance
Soil Contamination
Boeltner, Dietmar
Post-doctoral fellow
Estación
Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC
E-Mail:
d.boeltner@web.de
Current
interest: Rhizoremediation
of pesticides
Caldelas Molina, Cristina
University
of Barcelona
Fac. Biology, Dept. Plant Biology, Unit of Plant Physiology
Diagonal 645
08028 Barcelona
Phone:
34-934021465/69
Fax: 34-934112842
E-mail:
criscaldelas@ub.edu
Field
of experience: Heavy metal phytotoxicity and hyperaccumulation in
aquatic plants. Hydroponics.
CURRENT INTERESTS: Phytotoxicity, Phytoremediation
Dary, Mohammed
Universidad de
Sevilla
Dpto. Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Fac. Farmacia
C/ Prof. Garcia Gonzalez N°2
41012 Sevilla
Phone:
34-954559895
Fax: 34-954628162
E-mail: dary@us.es
Field
of experience: Molecular biology, soil microbiology, bioinformatics,
rhizoremediation
CURRENT INTERESTS: Phytoremediation
Dr. Fernandez Piñas, Francisca
Dt. Biología
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid 28049
Spain
Phone: 34-91-397 8176
Fax: 34-91-3978344
E-mail:
francisca.pina@uam.es
CURRENT INTERESTS: Development of cyanobacterial-based optical
biosensors to detect and monitor bioavailability of heavy metals.
Bioremediation of aquatic ecosystems polluted with heavy metals
Garbisu, Carlos
NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de I+D Agrario
Berreaga, 1 - 48160 Derio (Spain)
Phone: 94-452 2295
Fax:
94-452 23 35
Email: cgarbisu@neiker.net
Experience: Bioremediation of metals.
Current
interest: Phytoremediation.
Dr. Garcia, Gregorio
Centro de Ciencias
Medioambientales - CSIC
c/ Serrano, 115 bis - 28006 Madrid -
SPAIN
Phone: + 34 91 5625020
Fax: + 34 91 5640800
Email:
gregorio@ccma.csic.es
Current interest: Phytoremediation of contaminated soils
and water resources.
Hernandez. Luis E.
Universidad Autonoma
Madrid
Laboratory of Plant Physiology
Phone: + 34 91 4978191
Fax: + 34 91 4978344
Email: luise.hernandez@uam.es
Field of experience: Plant stress physiology.
Current interest: Oxidative stress responses to heavy metals. Proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics of plants exposed to heavy metals
Martin-Esteban, Antonio
Dpto. Quimica. Fac. Ciencias.
Universidad Europea de Madrid.
Villaviciosa de Odon. E-28670
Madrid. Spain.
Phone: 34-91-6647800 (Ext: 514 or 621)
Fax:
34-91-6168265
Email: antonio.martin@qui.cie.uem.es
Experience: Methods development for pesticide analysis in waters,
soils and plants
Current interest: Phytoremediation of organic
pollutants (mainly pesticides). Monitoring of pesticides in soils and
plants during phytoremediation studies.
Moreno-Fernandez, Diego A.
Centro de Edafología y
Biología Aplicada del Segura (C.E.B.A.S. - C.S.I.C.) Dpto. Ciencia y
Tecnología de los Alimentos. Research Group on Quality, Safety and
Bioactivity in Foods of Plant Origin Apdo. Correos 164.
30.100-Espinardo (MURCIA).
Phone: +34 968 39 6253-
6200
Fax: +34 968 39 6213
e-mail:
dmoreno@cebas.csic.es
Field
of experience: Plant nutrition. Plant physiology.
Current
interest: Phytoremediation. Abiotic Stress.
Pace, Alina
University of Valencia
c/Bellavista 22
Phone: +34 629049737
e-mail: abpg@wanadoo.es
Field of experience: phytoremediation in Cu mines
Current
interest: phytoremediation, mine zones, heavy metals, utilization
of vegetation for phytoremediation
Romero, Luis
Biologia Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias,
Universidad de Granada, Fuentenueva S/N. E-18071. GRANADA. SPAIN.
Phone: +34 958 243 255
Fax: +34 958 243 254; +34 958 248 995
e-mail: lromero@goliat.ugr.es
Field of experience: Plant nutrition. Plant physiology.
Current interest: Phytoremediation. Abiotic Stress.
Environmental effects on plant physiology. Improvement of crop
plants.
Schmidt, Guido
WWF Spain
Co-ordinator for Donana
Email: guido@retemail.es
Current interest Practical application in the Guadiamar river and
Donana wetlands.
Vanaclocha, Bernat M.D.
Editor of the "Vademecum
de Fitoterapia" and "Revista de Fitoterapia"
Secretary of the Asociacion Espanola de Medicos Naturistas;
Editor of Dynamis;
E-mail: director@fitoterapia.net
http://www.fitoterapia.net
http://www.medicina-naturista.net
Greger, Maria
PhD associate professor and research
officer
The plant metal group
Dept of Botany
Stockholm
university
S-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 8
161210
Fax: +46 8 165525
E-mail: gregerm@botan.su.se
Interests: phytoremediation (phytoextraction,
rhizofiltration, phytostabilization) of heavy metals using different
Salix-clones, stormwater treatment using different higher plants and
colonisation of plants on mining waste deposits.
http://www.botan.su.se/Fysiologi/Maria/Frame.html
Hasselgren, Kenth
Group leader - environmental
technology
SWECO VIAK AB
Geijersgatan 8
SE-216 18 Malmo,
Sweden
Sweden
Phone: +46 40167243
Fax: +46
40154347
E-mail: kenth.hasselgren@sweco.se
Experience: Environmental engineering
Interests: Use
and treatment of wastewater, sewage sludge and landfill leachate in
soil-plant systems
Kihl, Anders
R&D engineer
Ragn-Sells
Avfallsbehandling AB
Box 585, 197 25 Bro
Phone: +46 8
795 46 80
Fax: +46 8 582 482 46
Email:
anders.kihl@ragnsells.se
Neuschütz, Clara
Institute of Botany, Stockholm
University
Email: clara_m_n@hotmail.com
Current interest: phytoremediation of mercury and creosote
Keller, Catherine
EPFL, IGE Ecotechnique and sanitary
Engineering, Ecublens, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21
693 27 11
Fax: +41 21 693 28 59
Email:
catherine.keller@epfl.ch
Field of experience: Soil science,pedogenesis,heavy metals, soil
solution, transfer, speciation in solution, plant uptake, studies in
both non-contaminated and contanimated soils, phytoextraction
Current interest: Soils and sites remediation, phytoremediation,
phytoextraction, plant rooting strategies and mechanisms of heavy
metal acquisition in the rhizosphere
dr. Rosselli, Walter
Swiss Federal Research Institute
WSL
Antenne romande
c/o EPFL
1015 Lausanne
Phone: +41
21 693 57 42
Fax: +41 21 693 39 13
Email: rosselli@wsl.ch
Field of experience: Biochemistry, cellular and molecular
biology, genetics
Current interest: Phytoremediation of heavy
metal contaminated soil by woody plants, search for indicators and
investigation of metal effects on forest trees
Dr. Schwitzguèbel, Jean-Paul
Gènie biologique
EPFL
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone +41 21 693
47 37
Fax +41 21 693 47 22
E-mail
jean-paul.schwitzguebel@epfl.ch
Interest: uptake and metabolism of organic pollutants by plants,
wastewater biological treatment, rhizofiltration
Dr. Wenger, Kathrin
ETH Zürich
Institute of
Terrestrial Ecology, Grabenstrasse 3, CH-8952
Schlieren
Phone:
++41 1 633 61 43
Fax: ++41 1 633 11 23
Email:
wenger@ito.umnw.ethz.ch
Field of experience: soil science, speciation in solution, metal
uptake by plant, phytoextraction
Current interest: uptake and
metabolism of organic pollutants by plants, effect of rhizosphere on
metabolism of organic pollutants
Dr.Aarts, Mark
Laboratory of
Genetics
Wageningen University
Arboretumlaan 4
6703 BD Wageningen
The Netherlands
phone: +31-317-485413
fax: +31-317-483146
E-mail:
Mark.Aarts@wur.nl
Dr. Dolfing, Jan
DLO - Research Institute for
Agrobiology and Soil Fertility (AB-DLO)
P.O. Box 129
NL-9750
AC Haren
The Netherlands
phone: +31-50-5337768
fax:
+31-50-5337291
e-mail: j.dolfing@ab.dlo.nl
ir. Eleveld, Roelof
Van Hall Instituut
Dept. of
Environmental Science
Agora 1
Postbus 1528
NL-8091 BV
Leeuwarden
phone: +31-58-2846160
fax: +31-58-2846199
e-mail:
R.Eleveld@pers.vhall.nl
Experience: Phytoextraction of heavy metals from polluted soils
and aquatic sediments
Interest: Treatment of sediments polluted
with a cocktail of organic pollutants and heavy metals with a
combination of biodegradation and phytoremediation
dr. Smit, A.L. (Bert)
AB-DLO- Research Insitute for
Agrobiology and Soil Fertility
P.O. Box 14 6700AA Wageningen (NL)
Phone: + 31 317 475877
Fax: + 31 317 423110
Email:
a.l.smit@ab.dlo.nl
Experience: Crop/root physiology
Current interest:
Phytoremediation (PAH's and BTEX), experiments at semi-field scale in
the Wageningen Rhizolab (lysimeter-facility)
van den Heuvel, Nick
Hogeschool Ijseland
Phone:
0316-248348
Email: 7897014@stud.hsij.nl
Experience: Groundwater pollution and solutions for the cleaning
of groundwater.
Current interest: Phytoremediation. Different
types of plants extracting metals of the soil. Output belonging to
the plants.
Vereijken, Pieter
Plant
Research International
p.o.box 16, Wageningen
Phone +31317-475970
Email:
Pieterh.vereijken@wur.nl
Experience:
Multifunctional land use, agronomy, agro-ecology
Current interest:
constructed wetlands to sanitise surface waters
Youjian, Chen
Soil Quality Subdepartment
Wageningen
University
P.O.Box 8005
6700 EC Wageningen
Email:
Youjian.Chen@bodsch.benp.wau.nl
Current interest: Trace metal speciation, Rhizosphere process,
Hydrogeochemistry
Dyadin, Dmytro
Kharkiv State Academy of Municipal
Economy
Kharkiv, Ukraine
E-Mail:
mdyadin@ukr.net
Field of
experience: ecological assessment of oil- and
gas-bearing
areas (north-eastern Ukraine)
Current
interest: phytoremediation
of contaminated soils
Sorochinsky, Boris
Laboratory of Cell Radiobiology,
Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering
148 Zabolotnogo
Street, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine
Phone: +380 44 2661081
Fax: +380
44 1521786
Email: bvs@public.icyb.kiev.ua
Field of experience: Radiobiology,radioecology,plant
biology.
Current interest: Phyteremediation of
radionuclides and heavy metals, biological effects of low-level
expositions,bioindication of environmetal pollutions.
Stolberg, Felix
Head of Department
Kharkov
National Academy of Municipal Economy
25, Akhsarova apt.56
61204
Kharkov
Phone: +380 572 379055
Fax: +380 572 174319
Email:
stolberg@kharkov.ua
Field
of experience: Environmental Engineering and Management.
Current
interest: Phytotechnologies for Environmental protection and
rehabilitation.
Vlasenko, Oleg
Zhitomir Institute of Engeniering and
Technology
Yakira 14, fl.15, Zhitomir, Ukraine 10000
Email:
olegv@ziet.zhitomir.ua
Zadniprovska, Anastasiia
Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy
E-Mail: avzadniprovska@mail.ru
Field of experience: Ecological education Recreation and Natural Reserve fund's territories Risk assessment
Current interest: Phytoremediation; natural and constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment
Dr Arthur, A.E. (Eddie)
Group Leader, Brassica and
Oilseeds Research Department Company
John Innes Centre, Norwich
Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
Phone: +44 1603
452571
Fax: +44 1603 456844
Email: Eddie.Arthur@bbsrc.ac.uk
Field of experience: Genetics and quantitative genetics of
brassicas, analysis of genetic variation in crop plants, especially
for agronomic traits, application of molecular techniques (such as
marker assisted breeding, selection and introgression)to crop
improvement.
Current interest: Application of these
technologies to crop improvement and phytoremediation, and improving
the role of Brassica species in phytoremediation through genetic
techniques and a better understanding of the mechanisms for
accumulation and exclusion.
Dr Ayoub, Ahmed
Researcher
Macaulay Land Use
Research Institute
Aberdeen
Phone: +44 (0)114-222-4626
Fax: +44 (0)114-276-0159
Home Tel/FAX +44-(0)114-268-5570
E-mail: a.ayoub@mluri.sari.ac.uk
Experience: studies of bioavailability of cd and zn in
soils using stable isotopes; assessment of the potential for
phytoremediation of soils contaminated with cd and zn using selected
plants.
Interest: in additon to looking into the mechanisms in
which plants are able to mobilise and uptake high levels of cd and zn
through root exudates, the microbial ability to further enhance
Bagavathiannan, Muthukumar
Department of plant sciences
Sutton Bonington campus
The university of Nottingham
Leicestershire LE12 5RD
e-mail: vbmuthukumar@yahoo.co.in
Dr. Bonwick, Graham
North East Wales Institute of
Higher Education
Plas Coch Campus, Mold Road, Wrecsam, UK
Phone:
+44 1978 293393 or 293123
Fax: +44 1978 290008
E-mail:
bonwickg@newi.ac.uk
Burkitt, Zoe
Oceans Environmental Engineering Ltd
4
Cumberland House
Greenside Lane
Lidget Green
Bradford,
West Yorkshire UK
Phone: + 44 (0) 1274 480033
Fax: + 44
(0) 1274 544491
E-mail: oceans@legend.co.uk
Interest: use of soil based reed beds to treat all kinds of
domestic and industrial waste waters.
Calder, David
University of Nottingham
Address:
Sutton Bonington, Leicestershire. UK
Phone: 01352 770 694
Email:
styld1c@hermes.nottingham.ac.uk
Current interest: Dissertation Project. An investigation into the
heavy metal hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens grown in
soil containing different Zn concentrations.
Cantu, Teo
cardiff university
ty228 - University
hall, birchwood lane cf235yb CARDIFF (UK)
Fax: +39 02 700 548980
Email: cantum@cf.ac.uk
Field of experience: Environmental engineering..
Chaudhry, Qasim
Central Science Laboratory,
United
Kingdom
Phone: +44 1904 462000
Fax: +44 1904
462111
E-mail: q.chaudry@csl.gov.uk
Collinge, Matt
University of Leeds
E-mail:
bgy8mjc@leeds.ac.uk
Current
interest: Currently undertaking final year project, regarding
selenium phytoremediation.
Dr Collins, Chris
ICCET,
Imperial College at
Silwood Park,
Ascot, Berkshire, U.K.
SL5 7PY
Tel: 0044
(0)1344 294336
Fax: 0044 (0)1344 24931
E-mail:
c.collins@ic.ac.uk
Interest:
Phytoremediation of organics using stress tolerant crops.
Grant, John
Edinburgh University
Daniel Rutherford
building, ICMB, King's buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JH
Phone: + 44
131 650 5339
Fax: + 44 131 650 5392
Email:
jgrant@srv0.bio.ed.ac.uk
Current interest Possible role of GSTs in phytoremediation
Harris, Peter James
Dept.of Soil Science,
The
University of Reading,
RG6 6DW, UK.
Phone: +44 0118 9316558
Fax: +44 01189316660
Email: P.J.Harris@reading.ac.uk
Experience: General Soil Microbiology including pesticide
degradation, microbial ecology of fungi and bacteria (including
Rhizobium) and the impact of endomycorrhizal fungi on toxic metal
effects in soil.
Current interest: Spatial distribution of soil
micro-organisms on a 10 to 100 micron scale. Effects of
endomycorrhiza on toxicity of arsenic to plants.
Hopgood, Michael
PhD student
University of Reading
Phone: +44 07941459874
Email: M.J.Hopgood@reading.ac.uk
Experience: About to start working on the phytoremediation of
metal contaminated soils
Current interest: Finding out which
natural accumulators can adapt to British weather, determine the
range of concentrations they might be useful at, establish what
fraction of the soil they obtain their metals from, and how to
manipulate soil properties to make that fraction more available.
Hutchings, Tony
Forest Research (An Agency of the
Forestry Commission),
Alice Holt Lodge, Wrecclesham, Farnham,
Surrey, GU10 4LH
Phone: +44 1420 22255
Fax:
+44 1420 23653
Email: t.hutchings@forestry.gov.uk
Experience The Establishment of Trees on Reclaimed Land
Interest
The Establishment of trees on contaminated land and Phyto-extraction
of heavy metals using Short Rotation Coppice.
Hutchinson, Julian J.
University of Nottingham
Department of Environmental Science, School of Biological
Sciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, LEICS. LE12 5RD.
Phone:
+44-115-951-5151, ext. 18719
Fax: +44-115-951-6261
E-mail:
sbxjjh@hermes.nottingham.ac.uk
Filed of Experience: Soil Science, Soil Biochemistry.
Current Interest: Phytoremediation of Cd/ Pb contaminated
soils, assessing the bioavailability of Cd and Zn to
hyperaccumulatoing plant species using isotopic dilution and the
impact for phytoremediation, role of chelating agents as
pyhtoremediatory tools.
Dr. Jones, Davey
School of Ag. & Forest Sciences,
University of Wales, Bangor, UK
Phone: +44 1248 382579
Fax: +44 1248 354997
E-mail: d.jones@bangor.ac.uk
Interest: Phytoremediation of metal contaminated mining sites.
Use of plants in remediation of leachate from municipal landfills.
Krijger, Gerard
Division of Cell Sciences, Biomedical
Sciences Building, University of Southampton, Bassett Crescent East
SO16 7PX Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Phone: ++44
(0)1703 594428
Email: gck@soton.ac.uk
Field of experience: metal transporters
Current
interest: metal transporters
Professor Phillipson, J D
School of Pharmacy, Unversity
of London
Email: ProfJDP@msn.com
Potter, Hugh
23 Brunswick Road, Pudsey,
Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS28 7NA, England.
Tel: (0113) 236 0944
Mobile: 07971 - 526156
email: Hugh.Potter@btinternet.com
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/9023/
Interest: prevention (limitation ?) of groundwater pollution from
contaminated land and landfill sites.
Dr. Pulford, Ian
Environmental Chemistry
University
of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
UK
Phone: +44 141
330 5950
Fax: +44 141 330 4888
E-mail:
I.Pulford@chem.gla.ac.uk
Interest: Use of trees and fibre crops for phytoremediation of
heavy metals contaminated soils.
Riddell-Black, Drusilla
Soil, Waste and Groundwater
Group, WRc plc, Medmenham, Henley Road, Marlow, SL7 2HD, United
Kingdom
Phone: +44 1491 636629 (direct dial)
Fax: +44 1491
579094
Email: r_black_d@wrcplc.co.uk
Current interest: Remediation of nutrient rich wastes and
wastewaters using poplar and willow: sewage sludge, sewage effluent,
industrial effluent, landfill leachate; technical secretary to
International Poplar Commission Working Group on environmental uses
of poplar and willow.
Sadler, Jane
University of Leeds
2 John Street
Leeds LS6 1JE, W. Yorks
Email: jhs8jems@leeds.ac.uk
Field of experience: about to undertake project on
phytoremediation
Dr. Skene, Keith R.
Department of biological Sciences,
University of Dundee, Dundee DD14HN, UK
Phone: 44 (0)1382 344257
Fax: 44 (0) 1382 344275
Email: k.r.skene@dundee.ac.uk
Field of experience: Rhizosphere interactions; Proteaceae,
cluster roots or proteoid roots; Ultramafic soils, vegetation and
insects; ecology of naturally contaminated regions; root exudation.
Current interest: The use of natural systems as models for
restoration ecology.
Simpson, Chris
Head of Organic Analysis
Robertson
Laboratories, Llanrhos, Llandudno, Conwy, LL30 1SA
Phone: 01492
581811 (0044)
Fax: 01492 592030 (0044)
Email:
cgs@robresint.co.uk
Field
of experience: Soil and water analysis for organic species from
contaminated land
sites
Gas chromatography mass spectrometry
Current interest: Chlorinated organic compounds in the
rhizospere, (transport,
degradation, uptake and
biotransformations)
Southall, Alex
Nottingham University
Email:
stytajs@nottingham.ac.uk
Current interest: Phytoextraction of Heavy metals (Cd)
with Z.mays amended with chelator
and herbicide treatments
Trivett, Victoria
Department of Animal & Plant
Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Phone: 0114 222
0112
Email: bop97vct@sheffield.ac.uk
Experience: Metal hyperaccumulation, plant ecology, environmental
analysis, environmental consultancy.
Current interest: Metal
hyperaccumulation, phytoremediation.
DrWaite, Stephen
Biology Divison, Department of
Pharmacy, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, Brighton. BN2 4GJ. UK.
Phone: 01273-642039
Fax: 01273-679333
Email:
S.Waite@Brighton.ac.uk
Experience: plant physiology, plant ecology and ecotoxicology.
Current interest: use of plants to accumulate and remove
heavy metals from contaminated soils and solutions.
Walton, Caron
Bolton
Institite, Environmental & Geotechnical Studies
Address:
Deane Road, Bolton Lancashire
Email:
cw3civ@bolton.ac.uk
Current interest: I am researching into
phytoremediation and how it fits into the reclamation of contaminated
land in the uk
Watt, Nick
PhD Research Student
University of the
West of England
Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Land, Frenchay,
Bristol, BS16 1QY
Email: nich.watt@uwe.ac.uk
Experience: Phytoextraction of Cs-137
Current interest: PhD
research project titled Assessing the potential of phytoextraction
for land contaminated with of Cs-137
White, Caroline
development education officer
upstairs
at traders fair,
colchester development education centre
3,
Heatley Way, Greenstead, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3UG
Phone:
(01026) 520553
Email: saoirse93@hotmail.com
Experience: education, awareness raising activities re
environment and trading issues, within schools and groups
Current
interest: education, trade issues, permaculture, issues relating to
agriculture and trips
Dr Whiting, Steve
Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences,
Univerity of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN
Phone: +44 (0)114
2220112
Fax: +44 (0)114 2220002
Email:
whiting@nature.berkeley.edu
Experience Root development and the rhizosphere of the zinc
hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens
Current interest
Metal hyperaccumulation
Wilkins, Carolyn
Consultant
South West Industrial
Crops
Little Treliever, MABE, PENRYN
Cornwall TR10 9ET
Phone
+44 (0)1326 376054
Fax +44 (0)1326 376054
Email:
cwilkins.swic@farmline.com
Field of experience: Fast growing grasses and other fibre crops;
remediation of harsh environments; colonisation of metalliferous mine
waste
Current interests: Saline wetlands, heavy metal uptake on
mine waste vegetation, arsenic and uranium uptake by plants.
Willey, Neil
Applied Sciences, University of the West
of England, Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
Phone +44 (0)117
9656261 x2314
Fax +44 (0)117 9763871
Email:
Neil.Willey@uwe.ac.uk
Field of experience and current interests: Plant uptake of
radionuclides. Environmental Plant Physiology.
Plant
taxonomy/phylogeny and contaminant uptake. Phytoremediation of soils
contaminated with radionuclides.
Dr. Williams, John H.H.
Chester University College
Chester, UK
Phone: (0044) 1244 375444 extension 3069
Email:
jhhwill@chester.ac.uk
Dr Young, Scott D
University of Nottingham,
Sutton
Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leics., UK
Phone:
(0044)1159516256
Fax: (0044)1159516261
Email:
scott.young@nottingham.ac.uk
Experience: Chemistry of metals and radionuclides in soils.
Current interest: Using isotopic dilution methods to quantify the
uptake of non-labile metals by hyperaccumulators.
Djordjevic-Miloradovic, Jasminka, Dr.
College of
Engineering
Nemanjina 2., 12000 Pozarevac Yugoslavia
Phone:
+381-12-224-354
Fax: +381-12-224-186
Email: jasdjm@ptt.yu
Field of experience: Spontaneus recolonizing and
succeseive establishment plants on the deposits of coal ash.
Current
interest: Plants hyperaccumulator of heavy metals and
phytoremediaton heavy metals from coal ash using same plants as
Cirsium arvense, Tussilago farfara etc.