SEURAT
SEURAT-1 Kick-off Meeting, 1-3 March 2011, Cascais
SEURAT-1 Kick-off Meeting, 1-3 March 2011, Cascais





 

Programme

The meeting will start on the 1st March at 11:00 and end on the 3rd March at 13:30.
Preliminary programme (to be finalized soon)

Day 1: Opening Session

Time Topic
11:00 - 12:30 Introduction
The strategy
The projects
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 The projects (contd')
The management structure
The expected outcome after 5 years
The coordinated approach' towards the implementation of a long-term strategy
The servicing project
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 International cooperation
17:30 End of day 1
20:00
Common dinner

 

Day 2: Parallel Focus Workshops

Time Topic
09:00 - 12:00 Workshop 1: Mechanisms relevant to repeated dose toxicity.

This workshop aims to define mechanisms that are peculiar to repeated dose systemic toxicity. Short presentations will introduce into the topic. Consequences for experimental design will be discussed.

Workshop 2: Common data management and analysis.

The SEURAT-1 cluster will putatively generate a mass of experimental data which will be very diverse in structure and quality. The strategy on how these data will be stored and ultimately analyzed will be discussed in this workshop.

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 16:00 Workshop 3: Definitions and ontology.

The generation of a common SEURAT-1 database requires a generally accepted "toxicity" ontology, which is not existent. This workshop will discuss the existent initiatives to generate such an ontology and the strategy of SEURAT-1 in this environment.

Workshop 4: Test substances.

The definition of suitable test substances is one of the most delicate tasks in test development. A "Gold-Chemicals" working group has been established by the ToxBank project to achieve this goal. The demands of the different projects and the criteria of chemicals selection will be discussed in this workshop.

17:00 - 18:00 Plenary session:
Discussions on practical issues related to in vitro toxicity testing relevant for most of the cluster participants, such as: concentration-range finding, EC50-determination, control for cytotoxicity, mycoplama contamination, etc.)
18:00 End of day 2

 

Day 3: Plenary Session

Time Topic
09:00 - 11:00 Feedback from focus workshops
11:00 - 12:00 The SEURAT-1 first 5-years research strategy
12:00 - 12:20 Roadmaps for future research
12:20 - 12:30 Wrap-up and close
12:30 - 13:30 End of day 3 / Lunch