Tenth International PCB Workshop: Fifty Years of PCB Research, New Approaches and Discoveries and still so much more to learn

项目总结/摘要 本提案旨在请求提供资金，以帮助支持第十届多氯联苯国际讲习班， 题为“多氯联苯研究五十年，新方法和发现，还有更多 学习”将于2018年8月27日至31日在波兰克拉科夫举行。尽管积极的研究跨越 50年来，广泛的监管行动，以及自2005年以来对其生产的有效禁止， 20世纪70年代，多氯联苯仍然存在于环境中，仍然是一个严重的公共卫生问题。一 国际多氯联苯研讨会的主要目标是为世界提供一个单一的论坛 分析、归宿和迁移、接触评估、新陈代谢和 处置，毒性和公共卫生政策的多氯联苯-一个独特的机会，科学家， 走到一起互相学习本次研讨会的具体目标是：（1）吸引 并汇集了世界上最有才华和经验的多氯联苯专家，（2） 向科学家和非专业人士提供关于这一复杂主题的最新信息， 这将是一致的，所有在场的人都能理解，（3）汇编和出版最 权威性论文，包含关于该主题的最新信息，在期刊上， 广泛的受众，（4）补充和加强研究生和博士后的培养 学生和早期职业科学家。该研讨会将包括关于国际 关于减少多氯联苯接触的协定，不断发展评估接触的方法， 环境化学品混合物的健康风险，关于多氯联苯毒性的新研究， 行动机制和减少多氯联苯接触：最近的行动、其科学依据和 新举措。将分享关于多氯联苯毒性和作用机制的新成果， 将介绍新的数字化工具，并分享新的风险评估方法和工具。 研究人员将被介绍给新同事、新信息和新研究 方向所有会议和摘要的会议记录文件将作为 在一份主要的环境卫生杂志上发表特刊。

Project Summary/Abstract This proposal is to request funding to help support the Tenth International PCB Workshop, entitled “Fifty Years of PCB Research, New Approaches and Discoveries and still so much more to learn” to be held in Krakow, Poland, August 27-31, 2018. Despite active research spanning five decades, extensive regulatory actions, and an effective ban on their production since the 1970s, PCBs still persist in the environment and remain a critical public health problem. A primary objective of the International PCB Workshops is to provide a single forum for the world experts on issues of analysis, fate and transport, exposure assessment, metabolism and disposition, toxicity, and public health policy of PCBs- a unique opportunity for scientists to come together and learn from each other. The specific aims of this workshop are to: (1) attract and bring together the most talented and experienced experts on PCBs in the world, (2) to present to scientists and lay persons the very latest information on this complex topic in a way that will be coherent and understandable to all present, (3) to compile and publish the most authoritative treatise containing the newest information on the topic, in a journal available to a broad audience, and to (4) supplement and enhance the training of graduate and postdoctoral students and early career scientists. This Workshop will include presentations on international agreements on reduction of PCB exposure, evolving approaches to assessing exposures and health risks from environmental chemical mixtures, novel studies on PCB toxicity and mechanisms of action, and reducing PCB exposure: recent actions, their scientific basis, and new initiatives. New results will be shared regarding PCB toxicity and mechanisms of action, new digital tools will be presented, and new risk assessment methods and tools will be shared. Researchers will be introduced to new colleagues, new information, and new research directions. A proceedings document with all sessions and abstracts will be published as a special issue in a major environmental health journal.