Effects on Health of Geological Material Exposure.

THE GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH

October 4 -8, 2010 Capo Granitola (Trapani)

INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. Robert H. Byrne - Distinguished Research Professor - USF College of Marine Science - USA

Prof. Yigal Erel – Head of the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem  - ISRAEL

Dr. Thomas Darrah – PhD, Researcher - Biomineral Research Laboratory - Environmental Earth and Ocean Sciences - University of Massachusetts - USA

Prof. Robyn Hannigan – Professor and Chair - Environmental Earth and Ocean Sciences - University of Massachusetts USA.

Prof. Luigi Marini – Professor of Geochemistry DipTeRis - Università di Genova - ITALY

Prof. Aldo Morrone – Director of Istituto Nazionale per la promozione della salute delle popolazioni migranti e per il contrasto delle malattie della Povertà – Roma - ITALY

Prof. Mariano Valenza – Professor of Geochemistry - Dipartimento CFTA Università di Palermo ITALY

Prof. Pierpaolo Zuddas – Professor of Geochemistry - Département Sciences de la Terre - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - FRANCE

SCOPE AND PURPOSES

The scope of the summer school is to share the most recent information on the effects of exposure to materials of geological origin on the humans including the impact of atmospheric particulates of volcanic and sedimentary origin, natural waters and volcanic gases, both according to experimental studies and to modelling approach. A case of study related to particular diseases in people living in less advanced worldwide areas will be also presented.

The summer school will explore also the state of art in terms of analytical capabilities to investigate trace element distributions and isotopic rations in human tissues and fluids in order to suggest new geochemical proxies able to evaluate origin of materials that interact with human body.

OBJECTIVES

At the completion of this Workshop, the attendees will be able to:

Know and gain information on the capability of human body fluids to interact with external materials of different geological origin and complex trace elements. Geological sources of potentially dangerous materials and their effects according to a selected case study.

Know and gain information about processes occurring in the human body in the so-called reactive interfaces, gastro-intestinal apparatus, lungs and skin and their description in terms  of a geochemical point of view.

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