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Presentations

Below, you can find the presentations that members of this research group has presented at national and international scientific conferences.

A source of plastics to terrestrial ecosystems: Characterizing the microplastic content of biosolids and biosolid-amended fields in Southern Ontario

Letwin, N.V., Stephenson, G.L., Gillespie, A.W., Prosser, R.S. Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop, Winnipeg, MB, October 6, 2022

Life in plastic, is it fantastic? Assessing accumulation and toxicity of environmentally relevant microplastics exposures in freshwater macroinvertebrates. 

Allamby, Q., Kidd, K.A., Prosser, R.S. Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop, Winnipeg, MB, October 6, 2022

Microplastic ingestion of the juvenile stage of freshwater mussel Lampsilis siliquoidea

Kudla, Y., Gillis, P.L., Kidd, K.A., Prosser, R.S. Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop, Winnipeg, MB, October 6, 2022

Assessing wastewater treatment plants as sources of microplastics using freshwater bivalves in the Grand River, Southern Ontario 

Robson, E., Sun, E., Kidd, K., Prosser, R.S., Gillis, P.L. Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop, Winnipeg, MB, October 6, 2022

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Quantifying the microplastic content of biosolids

Letwin, N.V., Stephenson, G.L., Gillespie, A.W., Csajaghy, J.D., Prosser, R.S. Canadian Residuals and Biosolids Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, September 18, 2022

Microplastics characterization and their effects on agricultural soil and soil biota

Csajaghy, J., Letwin, N.V., Lebeau, B., Prosser, R.S. Canadian Residuals and Biosolids Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, September 18, 2022

A characterization of microplastic content within biosolids and biosolid-amended fields in Southern Ontario

Letwin, N., Prosser, R.S. Laurentian and Prairie Northern Chapters of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Burlington, ON, June 13, 2022

Do microplastic fibres modulate the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on its host? 

Kanold, E., Dunfield, K., Prosser, R.S., Antunes, P.M. Canadian Society of Microbiologists, Guelph, ON, June 22, 2022

Effect of microplastics on viability and ingestion of the juvenile stage of freshwater mussel Lampsilis siliquoidea

Yaryna, K., Gillis, P.L., Bennet, C.J., Salerno, J., Prosser, R.S. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, May 14, 2022

Microplastics in caged and wild organisms near municipal wastewater treatment plants

Weir, E., Robson, E., Sun, E., Bartlett, A., Gillis, P.L., Tetreault, G., Servos, M., Hamilton, B., Prosser, R.S.  Karen, K. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 1, 2022

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Using wild-caught freshwater mussels as bio-indicators for microplastic accumulation downstream of municipal wastewater treatment plants in the Grand River watershed

Robson, E., Weir, E., Kidd, K., Prosser, R.S., Gillis, P., Bennett, C.J., Salerno, J. Canadian Freshwater Mollusc Research Meeting. Burlington, ON, December 7, 2021

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Microplastic menace? Exploring the potential effects of microplastics on early life stages of freshwater mussels

Kudla, Y., Patricia G.L., Bennet, C.J., Salerno, J., and Prosser, R.S. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America, Portland, OR, November 16, 2021

Effects of microplastics on viability of the larval (glochidium) stage of freshwater mussel Lampsilis fasciola

Kudla, Y., Gillis, P.L., Bennet, C.J., Salerno, J., and Prosser, R.S. Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop, Halifax, NS, October 3, 2021

Fingernail  clams as a novel indicator of microplastics pollution in freshwater environments

Sun, E., Robson, E., Kidd, K. Laurentian Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Burlington, ON, June 14, 2021

Impacts of pristine microplastic spheres to the larval (glochidium) stage of freshwater mussel Lampsilis fasciola 

Kudla, Y., Gillis, P.L., Bennet, C.J., Salerno, J., and Prosser, R.S. Laurentian Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Burlington, ON, June 14, 2021

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