Dear colleagues and friends,
we cordially invite you to submit an abstract to join our session at the
EMC 2024 Congress next August in Ireland!
I wish you all the best,
Alessandro Gualtieri
Congress: European Mineralogical Conference 2024
Venue: Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) - 18–23 August 2024
Session: Medical mineralogy and hazardous natural materials. State of the
art and future trends
Description: Medical Mineralogy is a highly multidisciplinary field of
research promoting cross investigations aimed at understanding the
interaction between natural materials and humans. This research field is
focused on the bio-chemical processes responsible for health conditions,
both normal and pathological, that involve the interaction of inorganic
species and organic molecules with natural materials. To do this, different
approaches are followed including kinetic studies of mineral reactions
under conditions relevant to the human body, molecular modelling studies,
and studies aimed at evaluating environmental factors as causes for
exposure modes and activating diseases in genetically predisposed subjects.
Special attention is devoted to the crystal-chemical-physical properties of
natural materials responsible for the onset of adverse effects in vitro
and in vivo. This interdisciplinary session welcomes contributions on
natural toxicants causing exposure to humans such as respirable crystalline
silica, asbestos and mineral fibres in general, metals’-containing
nanoparticulate, metals in soils and water, and much more. The outcome of
this session should be of broad inspiration for future research lines
directed towards a multidisciplinary action, involving different
perspectives such as medicine, toxicology, bio-chemistry, mineralogy,
crystallography, and many more. Sharing different perspectives and working
in synergy with a multidisciplinary view is not just a need, but the
awareness that it is the only key to disclosing the very mechanisms of
carcinogenesis prompted by natural toxicants.
Chairs: Alessandro F. Gualtieri (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia,
Italy), Andrij Holian (University of Montana, USA), Melanie Kah (University
of Auckland, New Zealand), Alessandro Pacella (La Sapienza, University of
Roma, Italy), Jasmine Rita Petriglieri (University of Torino, Italy).
Web site: https://emc-2024.org/