WATERS ARE MORE POLLUTED THAN TESTS SAY: STANDARD TOXICITY ANALYSES COME UP SHORT

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Q: For the benefit of our readers, could you give a bit of information on your academic background, areas of interest, and tell us why you chose to carry out this study? A: Currently I'm a post-doctoral scholar at Dr Richard Connon's lab at the Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology Dept. at The University of California Davis. I got my PHD degree from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany, but I conducted all my research for my previous studies at the University of California Davis, in collaboration with TUM. I have been in the US since 2010, and I've been working mainly on the effects of pesticide mixtures on the aquatic environment. My main focus currently is on the invertebrate species that all fish and higher trophic organisms need -1 am convinced that if we know what is going on at the lower end of the food chain that we can help all the other organisms throughout the chain.