NeXED search menu search content The NeXED Consortium NeXED brings together 9 Beneficiaries, 1 Employing Associated Partner and 10 Associated Partners from 10 countries. The consortium consists of academic experts in the field of ED assessment, with an equal distribution of scientists with a main ba…

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NeXED search menu search content Contact Contact Dries Knapen (Coordinator) Show email address Campus Drie Eiken - Building UC, UC.173 Universiteitsplein 1 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium Contact Evelyn Stinckens (Project manager) Show email address Campus Drie Eiken - Building UC, UC.170 Universiteitsplein…

NeXED search menu search content Research NeXED aims to facilitate a paradigm shift in ED assessment by addressing the following Research Objectives. NeXED Research Objectives: Objective 1: Provide new mechanistic knowledge and approaches to strengthen cross-species ED assessment using a One Health …

NeXED search menu search content Secondments * Subject to change All DCs will participate in at least two secondments: One interdisciplinary secondment from a main supervisor with a core background in environmental health to one in human health or vice versa. This secondment is designed to exchange …

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NeXED search menu search content Training NeXED aims to facilitate a paradigm shift in ED assessment by training the next generation of interdisciplinary toxicologists specialised in using harmonised approaches across species in a One Health framework, no longer approaching assessment of chemicals f…

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NeXED search menu search content Work Packages The NeXED project consist of six work packages, including a work package on Network coordination and project management (WP1), Training the Next generation toxicologists for a harmonized ED assessment (WP2), three scientific work packages (WP3-5) corres…

NeXED search menu search content Supervisory Teams Every Doctoral Candidate (DC) will have a Supervisory Team consisting of the lead supervisor, an interdisciplinary co-supervisor (i.e., with main background in ecotoxicology when the lead supervisor has a main background in human toxicology and vice…

NeXED search menu search content Doctoral Candidates DC 1: Clara Kempkens Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU, the Netherlands) Lead supervisor: Lisa Baumann Endocrine disruption of zebrafish brain and sensory organ development DC 2: Tommaso Giorgi Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU, Denmark) Lead supe…

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NeXED search menu search content Training events * Subject to change All NeXED training events will be announced and educational materials, such as recordings from online trainings, will be made available on this webpage. Network-wide training events will be open for, or materials made available for…

NeXED search menu search content Lead Supervisors University of Antwerp Dries Knapen Zebrafishlab Coordinator of NeXED Supervisor of DC 3 Co-supervisor of DC 12 and 13 Lucia Vergauwen Zebrafishlab Supervisor of DC 8 Co-supervisor of DC 10 Adrian Covaci Toxicological Centre Supervisor of DC 9 Co-supe…

NeXED search menu search content DC14 - Nora Karlsson Disruption of thyroid hormone transport to the brain in organoid models, zebrafish, and humans The main objective of this project is to determine the effects of EDC mixture exposure on thyroid hormone transport to the developing brain in novel hu…

NeXED search menu search content DC12 - Emilie Daut Development of a zebrafish metabolome atlas and bridging to EDC exposure The objective of this project is to investigate at a molecular level (metabolome) the developmental and neurotoxic effects of endocrine disruptors in whole zebrafish embryos w…

NeXED search menu search content DC10 - Lea Berger Novel approaches to assess the impact of EDCs in the adult nervous system Project Overview - This project aims to identify novel endpoints sensitive to endocrine disruption (ED) in the adult nervous system and to develop assays by focusing on mechan…

NeXED search menu search content DC13 - Giorgio Repossi Central integration of peripheral endocrine signals The endocrine system is extremely well preserved among vertebrates. Among the most well-preserved elements are the glands (thyroid, gonads, adrenals, etc.) and the integration of signals from …

NeXED search menu search content DC9 - Javier Marin Exposomics and metabolomics in zebrafish embryos for complex exposure scenarios The key objectives of this project are to develop comprehensive analytical strategies for the characterization of the chemical exposome and metabolome of zebrafish in e…

NeXED search menu search content DC15 - Megan Parker Explore the link between food, metabolic state and endocrine signalling across aquatic taxa The objectives of this project are to: Map out the different strategies life evolved to synchronise abundance and quality of food with key metabolic decisi…

NeXED search menu search content Individual Research Projects DC 1: Endocrine disruption of zebrafish brain and sensory organ development, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU, the Netherlands), Lead supervisor: Lisa Baumann DC 2: NAMs-based testing of ED-mediated reproductive toxicity, Danmarks Teknisk…

NeXED search menu search content DC11 - Yann Stehly Exploring nuclear receptor cross-talk in aquatic molluscs and how it translates to vertebrates The main objective of the research project is to achieve a better understanding of the organizational and functional commonalities in the evolutionary co…