UQ

About UQ

The National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology (Entox), The University of Queensland (UQ), addresses environmental toxicology issues relevant to risk assessment in a world of change. The Bioanalytical Tools group at UQ aims to develop and validate in vitro cell-based bioanalytical tools for water quality assessment. UQ will apply their expertise to SOLUTIONS, with a particular focus on bioassays indicative of adaptive stress response pathways (e.g. oxidative stress). UQ will also contribute to SOLUTIONS through extraction techniques for biota, mixture toxicity modelling and cumulative risk assessment (CRA) techniques.

Adress

Kessels Road 39,
QLD4108 Coopers Plains,
Australia

Role in the SOLUTIONS project

  • Participant in WP11, WP12, WP18, WP19 and WP20

Main scientific contributions

  • Effect-based tools
  • Cumulative risk assessment

Member portraits

Beate Escher

Beate Escher is head of the Department of Cell Toxicology at UFZ, professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and honorary professor at the University of Queensland – UQ, Australia. Within SOLUTIONS, she represents the team of UQ. UQ will apply their expertise in water quality assessment to SOLUTIONS, with a particular focus on bioassays indicative of adaptive stress response pathways, such as oxidative stress. UQ will also contribute to SOLUTIONS through extraction techniques for biota, mixture toxicity modelling and cumulative risk assessment techniques.

Peta Neale

Peta Neale is a research fellow at Griffith University, Australia and honorary research fellow at The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. Within SOLUTIONS, she is part of the UQ team along with Prof Escher. Her primary research interest is to understand micropollutant fate and effect in the aquatic environment and engineered systems. In SOLUTIONS, she will focus on the application of bioassays indicative of adaptive stress response pathways.