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About the research group

In environmental toxicology we are especially concerned with how compounds are being distributed in the environment and taken up in the food chain, thereby affecting important components of the ecosystem. At the same time knowledge about how these compounds exert their mechanisms of action in a few species provides a basis for understanding effects in related groups. In this way fish, e.g. zebrafish, can be useful model organisms for understanding mechanisms that cannot be studied in humans or polar bears.

Master's opportunities at the Environmental Toxicology group

Hundreds of thousands of different chemicals are currently being produced in industrial quantities. Many of these find their way into nature with the potential of causing harmful effects.聽Environmental toxicology is the study of how such manmade chemicals can cause adverse effects on organisms and ecosystems. It is an interdisciplinary research field that among others combines knowledge in聽biology, chemistry, and molecular biology.聽

The master projects in our research group are laboratory focused. We are studying the biological effects of pollutants at molecular, cellular, and organismal levels by using a variety of different model systems, including cell cultures, tissue cultures, and live animals. Moreover, we are using molecular methods and techniques to study how pollutants interact with cells and molecules, and how these interactions translate into physiological and phenotypic effects at higher biological levels. We offer master projects for MSc students in both biology and molecular biology. Before embarking a master project in environmental toxicology you should have the courses 鈥 Toxicology鈥 and 鈥 Selected topics in environmental toxicology鈥 (can be taken during the first year of the master). Since we are a laboratory-focused discipline and largely working with molecular techniques, we strongly recommend you to take courses in molecular biology, including those that offer practical lab experience (e.g. , and MOL221). We also recommend the courses and where you can do a small research project in the environmental toxicology research group and familiarize yourself with the techniques and methods that we are commonly using in our laboratory. 聽

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