16th ANNUAL CEFIC-LRI WORKSHOP “Science stakeholders consensus: what’s the trick?” PROGRAMME 19-20 November 2014 The Sheraton Brussels Hotel Place Rogier 3, 1210, Brussels Wednesday, 19 November 2014 17:30 – 18:00 Registration 18:00 – 19:30 Poster session on 2013-2014 recently started and ongoing projects. 20140912 Workshop Posters 2014.xlsx Networking cocktail 19:30 – 22:00 Workshop Dinner 20:30 - 21:00 LRI Award dinner talk session Chair: Mr John Metselaar, Procter & Gamble R&D, BE (confirmed) Dinner talk 1 (20min): Award 2013 project results: Environmental programming of respiratory allergy in childhood: the applicability of saliva to study the effect of environmental exposures on DNA methylation Dr Sabine Langie, VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research), BE, Awardee 2013 (confirmed) LRI Innovative Science Award presentation to Awardee 2014 Mr John Metselaar, Procter & Gamble R&D, BE (confirmed) 1 Dinner talk 2 (10min): Award 2014 project plans: Covalent Modification of Histones by Carcinogens: a novel proteomic approach toward the assessment of chemically-induced cancers – CarcHistonOmic Dr Alexandra Antunes, Centro de Química Estrutural, Complexo Interdisciplinar Instituto Superior Técnico, PT, Awardee 2014 (confirmed) Thursday, 20 November 2014 8:00 – 8:30 Registration and welcome coffee 8:30 – 8:50 Welcome and outline Outlook on LRI long-term challenges refocus Dr Stuart Marshall, Unilever, Chair Cefic LRI Strategy Implementation Group (confirmed) 8:50– 12:45 Plenary session: LRI projects impact with focus on exposure, biomonitoring, toxicogenomics, sediment transformation, doseresponse, and benefit-risk analysis (15min talk +5min Q’s) Chair: Dr Bruno Hubesch, Cefic, LRI Programme Manager, BE (confirmed) 8:50 – 9:10 What is Safe in Lugano? Dr Karen Niven, Shell, NL (confirmed) 9:15 – 9:35 B7: "Validation of a tiered approach to aggregate exposure modelling". Dr Natalie von Götz, ETH Zurich, CH (confirmed) 9:40 – 10:00 B9: Characterising the nature of dermal exposure from consumer products and articles Dr Hans Marquart or Dr Suzanne Spaan, TNO, NL (tbc) 10:05 – 10:25 HBM4: Representativeness of a single biomonitoring sample Dr Roel Smolders VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research), BE (confirmed) 10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break 2 10:50 – 11:10 AIMT3: Toxicogenomics and high-throughput predictions for risk assessment Dr Danyel Jennen, Univ Maastricht, NL (confirmed) 11:10 – 11:30 B10: Reference doses: does adding human data help? Prof David Jones, Imperial College London, UK (confirmed) 11:35 – 11:55 ECO18: Developing improved strategies persistence at the water-sediment interface Dr Katrin Fenner, EAWAG, CH (confirmed) 12:00 – 12:20 ECO20: An alternative testing strategy for the fish early life-stage test using the AOP framework Prof Dries Knapen, Universiteit Antwerpen, BE (confirmed) 12:25 – 12:45 S2: Foresight study on introduction of new technologies; the case of nanotechnology Dr Steve Hankin, Institute Of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK (confirmed) 12:45 – 14:15 Lunch 14:15 – 16:45 Thematic Session (with panel): What’s needed to streamline the science argumentation and consensus process? Chair: Prof Erik Lebret, RIVM, NL, ESAP (confirmed) to assays: assess improved chemical Charge questions (scientific writer-Tim Reynolds?- to capture learnings) 1. Whose opinion matters in science controversies? 2. How to deal collectively with new/emerging evidence? 3. Is media caught between two fires? 4. Looking for a referee? What suprastructure is needed? Future perspectives? 14:15 – 14:35 Science and innovation: drivers for societal benefits Dr Gernot Klotz, Board member Key Enabling Technology (KET) group or Mrs Loredana Ghinea, Executive Director SPIRE (confirmed) 3 14:40 – 16:40 Thematic Session Panel 1. Academic from Scientific Society: Prof Monica Amorim, University of Aveiro, SETAC Europe President (confirmed) 2. Academic from EC scientific advisory committee: Prof Jim Bridges, University of Surrey (confirmed) 3. Academic from epidemiological society: Prof Maurice Zeegers, University of Maastricht (confirmed) 4. Media: tbc 5. EC President Scientific Advisor: Prof Lesley Anne Glover (GKL to follow) 6. EC Scientific Committee Manager: Dr Laurent Bontoux (confirmed) 7. Chemical industry: Dr Karen Niven, Shell, LRI SIG member (confirmed) 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break 16:40 – 16:45 Conclusions and future perspectives Dr Gernot Klotz, CEFIC Research & Innovation, BE (confirmed) 16:45 Short evaluation and Close of Cefic-LRI Workshop 2014 4