8月29日に南アフリカ・ヨハネスブルグで6th International Toxicology Symposium in Africaを開催しました。

今年で6回目の開催になります（http://aa.vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp/en/symposium-index/6th-symposium/）。

本教室からは、D1の石井さん、Lesaさん、6年生の中田くんがポスター発表、池中先生と水川先生が口頭発表しました。

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■Yoshinori Ikenaka, Yared Beyene Yohannes, Lesa Thompson, Shouta M.M. Nakayama, Hazuki Mizukawa, Johannes J. van Vuren, Victor Wepener, Nico J. Smit, Volk Wynand, Mayumi Ishizuka

Human and ecological health risk assessment of pesticides used for vector control: Current situation and problems of DDT use in Africa

■Hazuki Mizukawa, Kei Nomiyama, Susumu Nakatsu, Miyuki Yamamoto, Yoshinori Ikenaka, Shouta M.M. Nakayama, Shinsuke Tanabe, Mayumi Ishizuka

Contamination status of organohalogen compounds and their metabolites in the blood of pet dogs and cats

■Lesa Thompson, Yoshinori Ikenaka, Yared Beyene Yohannes, Shouta M.M. Nakayama, Hazuki Mizukawa, Johan van Vuren, Victor Wepener, Nico J. Smit, Volk Wynand, Mayumi Ishizuka

Effects of international land-based use of vector-control pesticides on a marine ecosystem: organochlorine analysis of fish from Maputo Bay, Mozambique

■Chihiro Ishii, Shouta M.M. Nakayama, Yoshinori Ikenaka, Hazuki Mizukawa, Yared B. Yohannes, Hokuto Nakata, Keisuke Saito, Yukiko Watanabe, Shinsuke Tanabe, Kei Nomiyama, Terutake Hayashi, Yasushi Masuda, Kentaro Q. Sakamoto, Mayumi Ishizuka

Preliminary survey of lead poisoning in raptors from Japan

■Hokuto Nakata, Shouta M.M. Nakayama, Hazuki Mizukawa, Yoshinori Ikenaka, Chihiro Ishii, Yared Beyene Yohannes, Yoshinori Ikenaka, John Yabe, Satoru Konnai, Mayumi Ishizuka

Investigation of heavy metal contamination and assessment of impact on health in Dandora dumping site, Nairobi