News

2020.12.02

Doctoral Thesis Status: Done

By Carina Schönsee After 3 ½ years working on my NaToxAq project at Agroscope and ETH Zürich, I…

2020.11.26

Closing time status

By Project coordinator, Hans Christian Bruun Hansen Our NaToxAq ESRs and the consortium members hav…

Phd defences

2020.11.19

The first PhD projects defended in NaToxAq

As the NaToxAq project is comming to an end, the first Phd defences are succesfully completed.

2020.10.02

NaToxAq final conference was an online success

The COVID-19 pandemic made us rethink how to organize our NaToxAq final conference, that was meant…

NaToxAq, Water Chemical Society

2020.08.03

NaToxAq Fellows on the spot with the lastest research

Even though the annual conference of the Water Chemical Society was cancelled

2020.06.24

NaToxAq in its integration phase

NaToxAq is now entering an integration phase with all our young investigators being busy with…

2020.06.12

Open Research Europe platform

Your opinion matters

2020.06.11

NaToxAq chemicals in online databases

NaToxAq chemicals in online databases to support suspect and non-target screening

2020.06.08

1st NaToxAq PhD thesis submitted

The thesis entitled Toxic secondary metabolites from plants: A new aspect of water quality

2020.06.03

Time is flying by! UK Updates from Lockdown

Despite the COVID-19 situation the databases still needs to be updated.

Removal of natural toxins in biological sand filters for drinking water treatment

2020.06.02

Removal of natural toxins in biological sand filters for drinking water

In Denmark, 99% of water supply is abstracted from groundwater.

2020.05.26

Finishing PhD in quarantine. Can the timing be better?

I guess, I am one of the lucky ones as I finished the major experimental part in the beginning of…

Call for abstract postponed:

2020.02.04

New deadline - NaToxAq Confence

Call for abstract postponed: New deadline February 20, 2020

2019.11.27

Our new published article selected as a hot article of the journal ’’ RSC Advances’’

Our new article published in journal RSC Advances, entitled ‘’Pyrrolizidine alkaloids quantified i…

Back in September,

2019.11.25

ESR 15 and ESR 16 presents at Fera Science Symposium.

Back in September, ESR’s 15 and 16 took the chance to present their projects for the first time at…

On Secondment to Fera Science Ltd. in York

2019.11.11

Escaping the academic microcosm for some mesocosms

On Secondment to Fera Science Ltd. in York I am learning how to conduct a risk assessment. Since…

WA Micropol & Ecohazard - 2019

2019.10.31

Award for the best student oral presentation

Written by Natasa Skrbic With an oral presentation, I participated at the 11th IWA International…

ITN Network

2019.10.28

NaToxAq at the EU REA Clean Water Cluster Event

The second ever MSCA Cluster Event focused on the topic “Clean Water” and NaToxAq was one of twelve…

Secondment

2019.10.14

ESR 9 on Secondment

The year 2019 is the year of secondments for many ESRs. From August to December, I am also spending…

More secondments and conferences

2019.10.04

The end seems near

I am slowly but steadily approaching the end of my Ph.D. studies

2019.09.23

New Project Manager of NaToxAq

As of 23rd of September Angelika Lene Rasmussen will take over all the project managing in NaToxAq

2019.09.19

Training event in Agilent Technologies

In 16-17 of September, a group of students, lecturers, laboratory technicians and PhD students from…

2019.09.18

Summer whirlwind Secondment at Agroscope

Ellie Stone went to learn about the ToxicPlants-PhytoToxin database from its creator Barbara…

2019.09.17

First conference experience for ESR15 and ESR16 at Cranfield University Water Conference 2019

This week Bilal Tariq (ESR15) and Ellie Stone (ESR16) were invited by Yorkshire Water’s John Haley…

TV report

2019.09.13

NaToxAq on Swiss TV

The Swiss TV channel SRF visited Eawag to report about cyanobacteria and their toxins in local lake…

2019.09.09

Secondment at EAWAG

Daria Filatova is sampling lake Greifen

2019.08.26

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in surface and shallow ground waters

Written by Vaidotas Kisielius, Jawameer Hama, Natasa Skrbic More than 6,000 plant species produce…

2019.08.26

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in surface and shallow ground waters

We investigated the invasive plant Petasites hybridus, and identified at least 9 different PAs in…

2019.08.26

Lupin field harvested – Agroscope, Zurich

Friday 9th of August, lupins were harvested in Agroscope field

FROM SECONDMENTS, CONFERENCES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

2019.07.01

Life of a Ph.D. student

Being a Ph.D. student does not always mean spending hours and hours in the lab…

Final PhD school

2019.06.28

4th NaToxAq PhD school Leipzig 3-8 June 2019

In June we attended our last PhD school before NaToxAq final conference in Brno next year.

2019.06.21

Lupin update from Switzerland

Read about the progress in the joint field study...

Conference

2019.06.12

NaToxAq @SETAC Helsinki

Let us share our SETAC experience...

Networking

2019.05.23

Phytotoxin meets Plant Protection Product

Read about our visit to Syngenta Soil Competence Centre in Stein (CH)

2019.04.15

The Start of the joint NaToxAq Field Study

The field season at Agroscope has started and lupins are ready to grow...

New fellows

2019.03.28

Two new faces in the NaToxAq family

We have recruited Bilal Tariq from Pakistan for position ESR15 and Ellie Stone from Australia for…

2019.02.20

3rd NaToxAq PhD-school and Midterm Review by the European commission

Halfway into our NaToxAq-journey, we met again – this time in nice and sunny Barcelona.

2019.02.20

3rd NaToxAq PhD-school and Midterm Review by the European commission

Halfway into our NaToxAq-journey, we met again – this time in nice and sunny Barcelona.

2019.01.15

Here we have a new scientific paper from NaToxAq

Publish or perish. This is the most important sentence we all know. One of the most important goals…

MY SECONDMENT AT THE INP IN GREIFSWALD

2019.01.07

Fighting natural toxins with plasma

When electric discharges are used to degrade cyanotoxins…

Soil samples

2018.11.26

The network of NaToxAq is great! Just use it

NaToxAq network is great; it helped us to have soil samples from different places of Europe

Conference

2018.11.14

Going global at ICHA2018

From October 21-26 Barbara Kubíčková attended the International Conference on Harmful Algae (ICHA)…

OUR SECONDMENT AT THE ST. GALLER STADTWERKE

2018.11.09

From Lake Constance to the tap

About our experiences at the St. Galler Stadtwerke drinking water treatment plant in Switzerland

Training event

2018.10.11

Training event

From September 25 to 26 a delegation of teachers and students of University College Copenhagen and…

Conference

2018.09.29

ESR4 and ESR7 at the 10th International Symposium for Poisonous Plants

Read about ESRs 4 and 7's experiences at the International Symposium for Poisonous Plants in Utah

2018.09.26

IMSC2018 - my first large international conference

Daria Filatova (ESR6) presented at poster and was amazed by the scale of the conference

Vacancies

2018.09.13

Two available positions

Two Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions are available at Fera in York, UK.

2018.08.22

First poster presentation

ESR6 (Daria Filatova) attended 14th Annual LC-MS/MS workshop on environmental applications and food…

Database

2018.08.16

The Toxic Plants-Phytotoxins (TPPT) database is now available

The TPPT database is published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (JAFC) and…

Training event

2018.06.25

News from Scarborough

For the week of the 9th to 15th of June, NaToxAq met up for the second summer school in Scarborough…

Training event

2018.06.25

News from Scarborough

For the week of the 9th to 15th of June, NaToxAq met up for the second summer school in Scarborough…

2018.06.06

Lupine Field Excursion on a Nice Danish Summer Day

By Xiaomeng Liang (ESR2) Jawameer Hama (ESR 8) and Daniel Jorgensen (ESR 11) With nice summer…

2018.06.05

Looking back at my first year PhD trip

Mulatu Nanusha (ESR5) looks back at his first year as Marie Curie fellow.

SETAC

2018.05.25

SETAC ROME

Five fellows write about their experiences at the 28th Annual SETAC Europe Meeting

News from ESR3

2018.05.22

First year is almost finished - how is the PhD going?

This is a brief resume of the first year of Massimo Picardo's PhD at CSIC in Barcelona.

News from ESR6

2018.04.20

Method development and optimization

Daria (ESR6) tells about her experience in the laboratory during the first part of NaToxAq project

DISCUSSING AND PLANNING MY SECONDMENT

2018.04.10

RECETOX’s visit at the INP Greifswald

A brief summary of the meeting of RECETOX with Prof. Jürgen Kolb in Greifswald, Germany…

Networking

2018.04.09

ESR9 and ESR10 present their first poster

ESR9 and ESR10 presented their work at the annual IBP PhD Congress at ETH Zurich.

2018.03.20

Lupin Field Experiment at Agroscope – Zürich

Read about the second day of the Zürich meeting

Network Meeting

2018.03.14

NaToxAq in Zürich

ESRs and supervisors focussing on toxic plants and plant toxins got together in Zürich...

SPOT ON:

2018.03.13

NaToxAq in the press

Our project gains attention in the quarterly institutional RECETOX Newsletter

FRUITFULL DISCUSSIONS AND ACTIVITY PLANNING

2018.03.05

EAWAG meets RECETOX

A brief summary of the meeting of parts of the cyanotoxin-related group within the NaToxAq network

2018.02.28

Newsletter February 2018

Find our latest newsletter, for February 2018, here. You can subscripe to receive future…

2018.02.21

ACES meets Eawag

In February 2018, the Department of Environmental Sciences and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) from…

Networking

2018.02.13

Learning from other disciplines – visit of Novartis’ PhysChem Lab

When it comes to the determination of physicochemical properties one can learn a lot from other…

2018.02.07

Starting the journey towards a doctoral degree

As winter is a reasonable time for water sampling to examine the chemical fingerprints of plant…

Experiments

2018.01.22

Getting started with columns and batch experiments

A little introduction of the first months of work at University of Copenhagen (KU)

Cyanobacteria

2018.01.05

When lakes are blooming - are our lungs at risk?

My first months as a PhD student at RECETOX, investigating the toxic potential of cyanobacterial…

First steps towards a doctoral degree

2017.12.08

The beginning of a long, but interesting journey

Read about the first months of my life as a PhD student within the NaToxAq network.

Meeting

2017.12.06

Frankfurt meeting – toxins selection

On 27th November, in the NaToxAq network we had meeting in Frankfurt, that organized by Helmholtz…

Network meeting

2017.12.04

Network meeting within emerging plant toxins and distribution

Researchers working on plant toxins - emerging toxins and distribution - met in Frankfurt to…

MUSEUM

2017.11.29

Visit to the German Pharmacy Museum, Heidelberg

Anytime is a good time to learn more about natural toxins! We took advantage of our trip to…

Network

2017.11.03

Welcome to Agroscope Inés!

The first out of five NaToxAq ESRs seconding to Agroscope over the next few years arrived...

News and events

2017.10.24

Newsletter October 2017

The second newsletter of NaToxAq is available now. Make sure to sign up for future editions

A day off and C2

2017.10.10

1st PhD school - day 9-11

On the 1st of October the fellows had a day off and could go and explore Helsingør, and on the…

Excursion

2017.10.09

1st PhD school - day 8

As a part of the course C2 we were on an excursion to a waterworks and to the forest on the 30th of…

Kick-off

2017.10.08

1st PhD school - day 7

On the 29th September all fellows and Work Package leaders for WP2-5 gave presentations at the…

Course S1 and C3

2017.10.07

1st PhD school - day 6

On 28 September the fellows had the course S1, while the supervisors had the course C3. The day als…

Course S2 and S3

2017.10.05

1st PhD school - day 4 and 5

The 26-27 September the courses S2 and S3 started and ran in parallel. We also had Work Package…

Communication

2017.09.27

1st PhD school - day 3

The 25th of September course C1 continued, which included a visit from two students from the…

Training event

2017.09.25

Training event at Agilent Technologies in Waldbronn, Germany.

From 13 to 14 of September, a mixed group of students, lecturers, laboratory technicians and ESR7…

Day 2 in Helsingør

2017.09.25

1st PhD school - day 2

The day included a field trip where the fellows learned how to sample the different soil layers in …

Helsingør

2017.09.24

1st PhD school - day 1

Finally we are all meeting each other and are having a great time at the 1st day of the NaToxAq PhD…

Field campaign

2017.08.31

First field campaign: Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum)

ESR4 at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, has started the collection of…

NaToxAq Network

2017.08.08

Surface Water as Drinking Water Resource – Excursion to the NaToxAq Partner Organization St. Galler Stadtwerke

Find out more about our excursion to the drinking water supplier at the shore of Lake Constance

Field work

2017.08.07

Copenhagen-based ESRs have started their sampling campaigns

The Early Stage Researchers have started the field works, documenting relevant data and gathering…

Field work

2017.08.07

Copenhagen-based ESRs have started their sampling campaigns

The Early Stage Researchers have started the field works, documenting relevant data and gathering…

2017.07.24

How do you feel being a Marie Curie Ph.D. ?

How do you feel being an ESR with a Marie Curie Fellowship Ph.D.?

PhD projects

2017.06.13

14 fellows selected

All but one of the 15 Early Stage Researchers have been selected and most have started their…

2017.06.06

NaToxAq get-together in Zurich

Read about our first NaToxAq visitors in Zurich

Bracken

2017.01.09

Institute of Technology receives 2.16 million DKK for international research on water

Read about the studies on bracken which form the background for the participation of PI Lars Holm…

Drinking water

2016.10.07

EU will protect future drinking water from natural toxins

The new research network, NaToxAq, will train early stage researchers across borders to tackle the…

2016.09.13

Project starts 1st of Jan 2017

We will soon advertise for 15 fellowships