We live in a world contaminated by man- made chemicals, yet only now are we beginning to understand that exposure to mixtures of low levels of chemicals can subtly change wildlife and human health. In this lecture, Professor Hill will describe how the use of latest chemical profiling approaches have allowed us to identify key contaminants that are changing the sex of fish, and potentially influencing the health of the human neonate. She will discuss how the identification of estrogenic and androgen blocking chemicals in the environment has led to concerns that exposure to complex mixtures of chemical cocktails present in the environment can disrupt hormonal systems in humans and wildlife.
Speaker: Elizabeth Hill, Professor of Environmental Technology, School of Life Sciences
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