The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Toxins
IECT2023 has been successfully held. Thank you for your participation.
The award winners have been announced in the Event Award section.
The accepted papers will be published as one dedicated volume in the MDPI journal Biology and Life Sciences Forum after the conference.
All participants of IECT2023 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Special Issue created for this conference in Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651, Impact Factor: 4.2) with a 20% discount on the article processing charge.
the chair
Welcome to the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Toxins
Dear scientists, researchers, and authors,
I am particularly excited this year to announce the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Toxins (IECT2023). The reason for this exuberance is that the meeting will serve to inaugurate an additional scientific domain, Toxinology, for our journal Toxins (ISSN: 2072-6651; Impact Factor: 5.075). The meeting will be hosted online by https://iect2023.sciforum.net/ from 14 to 28 July 2023.
We believe that the addition of toxicology, the science focusing on the nature, effect and detection of poisons, to the scientific domains currently covered in Toxins will provide a synergistic dimension to the field of toxinology and our journal. We feel that having toxinology as the topic for the IECT2023 is an ideal mechanism for the launch of the concept in Toxins.
Topics for IECT2023 are organized into six sessions:
S1. Novel plant, animal, insect and microbial toxins
S2. Mechanism of action and/or pathophysiology of toxins
S3. Use of toxins as tools for research, drug discovery, and therapeutics
S4. Impact of toxins on public health
S5. Impact of toxins on agriculture
S6. Evolution of toxins
Within each topic of particular interest will be those at the interface of toxicology and toxinology.
The meeting will be organized so that scientists can share their most recent findings with colleagues worldwide in Q&A sessions, as well as participate in discussion groups that will occur online. We hope this will be an engaging format.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee, and, if accepted, the author has the option to submit a proceedings paper or a poster, optionally along with an optional PowerPoint and/or video presentation of their work. The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Toxins is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal Toxins. The conference proceedings papers, posters and presentations will be available on https://iect2023.sciforum.net/ for discussion during the time of the conference, from the 14 to 28 July 2023, and will be published in the journal Biology and Life Sciences Forum.
IECT2023 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without any concerns of expenditures regarding travel—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to “attend” this conference by presenting your latest work. There is no registration fee. Abstracts (in English) should be submitted online before 5 May 2023 at https://www.sciforum.net.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information on the procedure for submission, peer review, revision and acceptance of conference proceedings papers, please refer to the Section “Instructions for Authors”.
Although the current pandemic has moved us to these rather novel formats to disseminate data and engage with colleagues worldwide, I think that this provides us with an outstanding and unique opportunity to interact with researchers in other fields and, as such, enrich ourselves and our science using this meeting format.
It is my wish that you will join me in participating in this unique event and play an active part in this online conference.
Sincerely,
Professor Jay W. Fox,
Chair of the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Toxins
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Meet the Event Chair
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineMay 05, 2023
- Abstract acceptance notificationMay 19, 2023
- Full file submission deadlineJun 15, 2023
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Paulo Vale
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Algés, Portugal;
Paulo Vale obtained his Ph.D. in Biology for the characterization of DSP toxins in shellfish from the Portuguese coast. He specialized in analysis of several marine biotoxins in shellfish and phytoplankton by liquid chromatography coupled with DAD, FLD and Mass Spectrometry detection. He has implemented LC methodologies for several toxin groups: dinophysistoxins, pectenotoxins, azaspiracids, domoic acid, saxitoxins. He is engaged with the Portuguese monitoring programme for marine biotoxins and related public health research. He studies cycles associated with coastal Harmful Algal Blooms and recent impacts from global change. He also studies photobiology, heliobiology and bioelectromagnetism in microalgae cultures.
Dr. Ioanna Varkitzi
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), Anavyssos, Greece;
Dr. Ioanna Varkitzi is a Research Scientist PhD, in the Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece. She obtained her Ph.D. in eutrophication pressures, Harmful Algal Bloom dynamics (HABs) and their impact on the marine benthic ecosystem, from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Among her major research interests are field studies and laboratory experiments on the ecology and physiology of marine phytoplankton with focus on Harmful Algal Blooms; transfer of toxins from harmful microalgae and food web interactions with other planktonic and benthic organisms. She is engaged in a european network of experts for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) monitoring programs and environmental status assessment.
Prof. Dr. Cesare Montecucco
University of Padova, Padova, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Qiu-Gang Ma
State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China;
Qiugang Ma works in the College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University（CAU）, Beijing, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition and Feed Science from one cooperative program between CAU and Hohenheim University (Germany) and then worked as a long-term fellow in CAU. The major research interest of his group includes the release, absorption, metabolism, and residues of mycotoxins in animals, the development of mycotoxin-degrading bacteria and the study of their degrading mechanisms to develop green and safe feedstuff additives, feed safety and healthy farming, and nutritional needs of monogastric animals.
Prof. Dr. Ornella Rossetto
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy;
Prof. Ornella Rossetto received her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Pathology in 1995 and since 2014 she has been an Associate Professor of General Pathology at the Medical School of University of Padova in Italy. Prof. Rossetto participated to the discovery of the zinc-endopeptidase activity of tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins and to the identification of the intraneuronal targets and peptide bond specificity of these neurotoxins. She is presently studying the molecular mechanism of action of botulinum neurotoxins at the peripheral and central synapses. Moreover, she uses these presynaptic toxins as tools to study the peripheral synaptic plasticity induced by neuroparalysis.
Prof. Dr. Fangneng Huang
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, USA;
Fangneng Huang is the L.D. Newsom Endowed Distinguished Professor for IPM in the Department of Entomology at Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, USA. He received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University, USA. Dr. Huang’s research has focused on evaluation of transgenic Bt crops for pest management, risk assessment, monitoring, and management of insect resistance to transgenic Bt crops. Other research projects are developing effective IPM methods for managing corn and small grain insect pests.
- S1. Novel plant, animal, insect and microbial toxins
- S2. Mechanism of action and/or pathophysiology of toxins
- S3. Use of toxins as tools for research, drug discovery, and therapeutics
- S4. Impact of toxins on public health
- S5. Impact of toxins on agriculture
Sponsors and Partners
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Live Session 1 (20 July 2023)
Live Session 2 (21 July 2023)
The live session is FREE to participate. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Once you have participated, you can log in to Sciforum using your registration email and easily download your Certificate of Attendance.
During the duration of the conference, a number of live online sessions will be programmed. The live-streaming platform we are using is Zoom. During each session, the participants will have the possibility to ask questions during a Q&A session. Detailed information about the topics and dates will be shared soon.
The live sessions are free of charge. The authors who submit submissions to IECT2023 will have priority for registration (with no extra cost) to the live online sessions with our keynote speakers. If it is not completely full, registration will be open for unregistered participants. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized. The number of participants in the live session is limited but the recording will be made available on Sciforum shortly afterward.
We are pleased to invite you to subscribe to our conference so that you can receive email notifications when the live session program is online and open online discussions.
Ms. Nora Zhang
Ms. Alisa Zhai
Ms. Ariel Zhang
Email: iect2023@mdpi.com