MUSE at lunz seminar series in aquatic ecology

PhD student Iva Kokotović was invited to give a talk at WasserCluster Lunz (WCL) as part of the WCL seminar series. Her talk titled „Under pressure – molecular responses of freshwater organisms to multiple stressors“ was held on May 17, 2023 and gave the audience an insight into the research she is currently doing as part of her PhD.

MUSE at conferences in April and May 2023

The MUSE project has entered its final phase, so our goal is to present the results to domestic and international scientific audience. Project team members participated in the 33rd international scientific meeting of SETAC Europe, i.e. the 33rd European meeting of The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), which was held from April 30 to May 4, 2023. in Dublin, Ireland. It is an extremely large gathering, at which this year there were around 2,300 presenters, so it was an exceptional opportunity to present the results but also to network with a large number of scientists from various institutions around the world. We presented the results of our research, Iva Kokotović, Filip Ložek and Marina Veseli in the form of posters, and Ana Previšić in the form of an oral communication. More information is available in the Book of abstracts.

In April, we presented the results at the 4th Symposium on Freshwater Biology (SOBS) with international participation, which took place on Friday, April 21, 2023, at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Science in Zagreb. Members of the project team gave four oral presentations at the mentioned symposium, Iva Kokotović, Filip Ložek and Ana Previšić gave lectures in which they presented the results of laboratory experiments related to the effects of increased water temperature and pollution on freshwater invertebrates. Marina Veseli gave a lecture related to the results of field research with the aim of providing new knowledge about the transfer of pollutants from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems through food webs. More information is available in the Book of abstracts.

MUSE participating in the 5th Symposium oF the Croatian entomological society

Marina Veseli, Iva Kokotović and Andreja Brigić participated in the 5th Symposium of the Croatian Entomological Society that was held in Osijek, at September 29 & 30, 2022, at the Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. For more information please check the book of abstracts.

MUSE members participating in the 17th International Symposium on Trichoptera

Marina Veseli, Iva Kokotović and Ana Previšić participated in the 17th International Symposium on Trichoptera that was held in Lunz am See, in Austria, at September 4-9, 2022. Ana presented an overview of the published and ongoing research within a keynote lecture titled “Advancing the understanding of aquatic-terrestrial contaminant transport using aquatic insects”. Marina had an oral presentation (titled “Cross-ecosystem transfer of pharmaceuticals and endocrine distruptors through emerging caddisflies), and Iva had a poster presentation (titled “Effects of climate change and pollution on caddisflies: insights from a multiple stress experiment).  For more information please check the book of abstracts.

MUSE at conferences in April and May 2022

PhD students Marina Veseli and Iva Kokotović participated at the SETAC EUROPE 32ND ANNUAL MEETING that was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, at 15–19 May 2022. They presented outcomes of our research in poster presentations titled Bioaccumulation of Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Macrophytes“  and  „Emerging Aquatic Insects Transfer Environmental Stress Across Ecosystems“. For more information please check the book of abstracts.

Iva and Marina also participated in the 6. Faculty of Science Symposium for Doctoral Students that was held in Zagreb, Croatia. Both had oral presentations, titled „Help me out, I'm in a multistress environment!“ and „Bioaccumulation and bioamplification of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds in caddisfly Silo nigricornis“. For more information please check the book of abstracts.

Online lecture and the Croatian national radio

Ana Previšić presented our ongoing research to the public and discussed the impacts of multiple stressors and particularly climate change on freshwater ecosystems within the online lecture held on Friday, 4 February 2022 as a part of the Centre of climate research at Faculty of Science lecture series (http://www.pmf.unizg.hr/geof/aktualnosti/novosti_za_naslovnicu?@=1mqpu). Ana also gave a short interview on the Croatian national radio that aired on Friday 4 March 2022 at 13:10 („Slušaj kako zemlja diše“, available for download at https://radio.hrt.hr/slusaonica/slusaj-kako-zemlja-dise).

Promoting our work at the Croatian national television (HRT)

Croatian national television (HRT) made a short interview with our project team members Ana Previšić and Marko Rožman.  They introduced ongoing research within the HRZZ projects MUSE (PZS-2019-02-9479) and UNDERSTANODR (IP-2018-01-2298). Interview aired on 03.02.2022. at HTV1.

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MUSE at conferences in July and September 2021

PhD students, Marina Veseli and Iva Kokotović, presented our research at the 12th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS 12), that was held online on 25-30 July 2021. Marina had an oral presentation titled "Taxon specific bioaccumulation and transfer of contaminants from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems“, whereas Iva had a poster presentation titled „Transfer of environmental stress across ecosystems through emerging aquatic insects“.

For more information, please refer to the link below: https://www.sefs12.com/abstract

Iva Kokotović participated in the Conference of Young Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists which was organised by the Association of Naturalists Students of the Jagiellonian University, Poland, and held online on 03-05 September 2021. Iva had an oral presentation titled „Cross-ecosystem transfer of environmental stress through emerging aquatic insects”.

For more information, please refer to the link below: http://cyeeb2021.pl/

MUSE at conferences in April and May 2021

Our doctoral students, Marina Veseli and Iva Kokotović, participated in the Faculty of Science Symposium for Doctoral Students in Zagreb, Croatia. The symposium was held on 24-25 April 2021 at the University of Zagreb. Marina had a poster presentation titled "Macrophytes as storage units for emerginig contaminants“, whereas Iva had a poster presentation and a short presentation titled „Multiple stressor effects on stream aquatic insects: insights from a microcosm experiment“.
For more information, please refer to the link below:

https://www.pmf.unizg.hr/en/study_programmes/doctoral_study/phd_student_symposium

Ana Previšić presented the latest research conducted on the movement of PhACs and EDCs between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems via food web transfer and through the emergence of aquatic insects at the SETAC Europe 31st Annual Meeting, which was held virtually from 3-6 May 2021.

Ana Previšić - Life History Traits of Aquatic Insects Determine Bioaccumulation and Transfer of Emerging Contaminants from Aquatic to Terrestrial Ecosystems

https://setac.confex.com/setac/europe2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/3926

Night of Biology 2021

Our short video explaining the impact of multipe stressors on freshwater ecosystems is located at https://daninoc.pmf.unizg.hr/biologija/ or at the youtube channel of the Faculty of Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM2WI5diMxg

The video is part of the 12th Annual Day and Night at the Faculty of Science.

Making a video contribution for Night of Biology 2021 on multiple stressors in aquatic ecosystems

In preparation for a virtual edition of the 2021 Night of Biology (organized by the Biology Department of Zagreb’s Faculty of Science), MUSE (Ana Previšić, Marina Veseli, Iva Kokotović) and UNDERSTANDOR (Marko Rozman, Ivana Grgić, Katarina Cetinić; Ruđer Bošković Institute) combined forces to film a short informative video explaining the impact of multiple stressors (with a special focus on microplastics and pharmaceuticals) on freshwater ecosystems.

The video will be shown as part of the 12th Annual Day and Night at the Faculty of Science (https://nocbiologije.biol.pmf.unizg.hr/). We were beyond excited to be able to participate in such an inspiring project that aims to present new scientific discoveries, research, and methods to the general public in a concise, engaging, and easily understandable way!

Promoting our work at the Croatian national television (HRT)

Ana Previšić was again guest at the Croatian national television (HRT). She and Assoc. prof. dr. sc. Ivana Herceg Bulić from Department of Geophysics gave a short interview with the aim of presenting the Centre of climate research at Faculty of Science. This newly established research centre will foster interdisciplinary research on climate and impacts of climate change. Ana presented ongoing work conducted within the MUSE project related to impacts of climate change on freshwater communities.

Croatian national television (HRT) made a short interview with our project members Ana Previšić and Marko Rožman about recent paper in the Science of the Total Environment article Aquatic macroinvertebrates under stress: Bioaccumulation of emerging contaminants and metabolomics implications. Ana and Marko explained observed bioaccumulation of emerging contaminants and metabolic response of aquatic invertebrates to the induced stress. In addition, they introduced ongoing HRZZ projects MUSE (PZS-2019-02-9479) and UNDERSTANODR (IP-2018-01-2298). Interview was aired 25.02.2020. and 11.07.2020.