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    This document provides information about the Environmental Toxicology course TOX 301.3 offered from January 3rd to April 3rd, 2008. The course will be taught by Dr. Som Niyogi and will cover major environmental pollutants, their effects on organisms and environments, and approaches for assessing toxic impacts. It will consist of lectures on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Evaluation will be based on two midterm exams and a final exam.

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    This document provides information about the Environmental Toxicology course TOX 301.3 offered from January 3rd to April 3rd, 2008. The course will be taught by Dr. Som Niyogi and will cover major environmental pollutants, their effects on organisms and environments, and approaches for assessing toxic impacts. It will consist of lectures on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Evaluation will be based on two midterm exams and a final exam.

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    The key takeaways from the document are that the course will provide an overview of major environmental pollutants, their sources, effects and interactions in the environment. It will discuss approaches to assess toxic effects at different biological levels from organisms to communities.

    The course will cover major classes of pollutants like metals, hydrocarbons, pesticides and endocrine disruptors. It will discuss their properties, sources, fate and transport in the environment as well as their toxicity. The course will also discuss issues like nutrient pollution, effects of industrial effluents and ecological risk assessment.

    The course will be assessed through two midterm exams worth 25% each and a final exam worth 50%. Academic honesty is expected from the students as per the university guidelines.

    Environmental Toxicology

    (TOX 301.3)
    January 3rd April 3rd, 2008

    Instructor: Dr. Som Niyogi


    Office:
    Department of Biology, Room No. 317
    Office hours: 11:00 -12:00 am on Tues & Thursday. Alternatively, students may make
    appointments ahead of time by phone or email.
    Phone:
    966-4453
    Email:
    [email protected]
    Lecture Time & Venue:
    Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 - 9:50 am; Room # 130 Physics
    Course Description:
    This course will provide a survey of major environmental pollutants, their sources, and
    interactions with atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic environments. Pollutants will also be
    discussed regarding exposure of people, animals or other biota, and their dose-response
    relationships. Some of the physical and chemical changes induced in the environment by
    pollutants, and contaminant fate and transport in the environment will also be discussed.
    Objectives:
    Provide an overview of major classes of environmental pollutants. The general chemical
    properties, sources, mechanisms and effects of toxicity in biota will be discussed for each
    class of pollutant.
    Discuss bioavailability and abiotic/biotic factors affecting toxicity of pollutants.
    Introduce how chemical properties of different contaminants determine their fate and
    transport in the environment.
    Provide an overview of air, water, and terrestrial pollution.
    Discuss the approaches for assessing of toxicant effects at organism, population and
    community level.
    Discuss a few current issues dealing with global environmental pollution and its
    consequences.
    Course Outline:
    See attached Lecture Schedule
    Prerequisites:
    Required:
    1) BIOL 110.6 2) CHEM 111.3 or CHEM 112.3/115.3
    Recommended: One course in basic physiology and TOX 300.3 (General Principles of
    Toxicology)

    Environmental Toxicology (TOX 301.3)

    Format:
    The principal instructor of the course is Dr. Som Niyogi (Dept. of Biology). Guest lectures will
    be provided by other members of the Universitys Toxicology Group. This course will consist of
    two 80 minute lectures per week. There is no laboratory to this course.
    Textbooks:
    There is no required textbook for this course. The instructor will provide a handout for each
    lecture which will be posted on the web [www.usask.ca/biology/niyogi/tox301], except for the
    Guest Lectures. The handouts will be available for download in the afternoon on the day before
    the respective lecture. Students are advised to bring a printed copy of the handouts to the class for
    additional note taking. Students will also be recommended to consult the following books and
    websites for supplementary reading, as necessary.
    Supplemental texts:

    [Available in the Veterinary Medicine library]


    Principles of Ecotoxicology. 3rd Edition, 2006. C.H. Walker, S.P.
    Hopkin, R.M. Sibly & D.B. Peakall (Eds.), Taylor & Francis, New
    York, NY. [On Reserve]
    - Environmental Toxicology. 2002. D.A. Wright and P. Welbourn
    Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. [On Reserve]
    - Introduction to Environmental Toxicology, 3rd Edition, 2003. W.G.
    Landis & M.H. Yu. Lewis Publishers, Florida.
    - Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology, 2nd Edn. 2003. M.C. Newman &
    M.A. Unger, Lewis Publishers, Florida.
    -

    Useful websites:
    -

    [for government regulations and information on pollutants]


    Health Canadas website contains the Canadian Environmental
    Protection Act (CEPA) regulations and detailed reports on specific
    priority pollutants at http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/exsd/psl1.htm or
    http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/exsd/psl2.htm. If the pollutant youre
    interested in is on the list, a file containing its chemical properties,
    known toxicology and regulatory levels will be available there.
    Other regulatory information can be found on Environment Canadas
    website at http://www.ec.gc.ca/envhome.html.
    A searchable database to find toxicology journal articles is free from
    the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US. Go to
    http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TOXLINE and type in
    the name of the pollutant you are interested in. Warning you may
    have to narrow your search terms in order to retrieve a smaller,
    reasonable number of articles to consider looking at (e.g. mercury and
    Saskatchewan River fish rather than just mercury).
    The NIH also has a Hazardous Substances Database (HSDB) for most
    known toxicants that can be accessed from the TOXLINE site above.
    Other regulations can be found by using Google or Yahoo searches
    with name of toxicant and regulation as search words. Youll have
    to pick through the results to find the relevant sites, but World Health
    Organization, USA and Canadian regulations can sometimes be found
    this way.
    2

    Environmental Toxicology (TOX 301.3)

    Evaluation:
    Grades for the class will be based on the following:
    Mid-term exam I
    Mid-term exam II
    Final exam

    25%
    25%
    50%

    Academic Honesty:
    Students enrolled in this course must follow the Universitys Guidelines for Academic Honesty
    (http://www.usask.ca/honesty).

    Environmental Toxicology (TOX 301.3)

    Lecture Schedule Winter 2008


    Lecture #
    1

    Date
    Jan. 3

    Jan. 8

    Topic
    General introduction to environmental toxicology; National and
    International regulatory agencies and their roles
    Dose-response relationships, Toxicity testing

    Jan. 10

    Bio-accumulation & Toxicokinetics

    Jan. 15

    Jan. 17

    Major classes of Pollutants: fate and transport, bioavailability, and


    modifying factors
    Metals and Metalloids: source, mode of action, and toxicity

    Jan. 22

    Jan. 24

    Hydrocarbons and halogenated hydrocarbons: source, mode of


    action and toxicity [Guest Lecture]
    Pesticides: types, mode of action, and toxicity [Guest Lecture]

    Jan. 29

    Endocrine Disruptors: source, mode of action, and toxicity

    Jan. 31

    Radionuclides: source, mode of action, and toxicity

    10

    Feb. 5

    Gaseous pollutants: source, types, and toxicity

    11

    Feb. 7

    Nutrient pollution in natural waters

    Feb. 12

    Midterm Exam #1

    Feb. 14

    Toxicology of industrial effluents: an aquatic perspective

    Feb. 19,21

    Midterm break no classes

    13

    Feb. 26

    14

    Feb. 28

    15

    Mar. 4

    Assessment of pollutant effects at organism level: biochemical and


    molecular biomarkers
    Assessment of pollutant effects at organism level: physiological,
    reproductive and behavioral indicators
    Assessment of pollutant effects at population and community level

    16

    Mar. 6

    Evolution of resistance to pollution in biota [Guest Lecture]

    17

    Mar. 11

    Ecological Risk Assessment: General Principles and a case study

    Mar. 13

    Midterm Exam #2

    18

    Mar. 18

    Pollution in the Northern & Arctic Ecosystems

    19

    Mar. 20

    Global Amphibian Decline

    20

    Mar. 25

    Pharmaceuticals in the Environment [Guest Lecture]

    21

    Mar. 27

    Global Warming and Climate Change

    22

    Apr. 1

    Review for final exam

    12

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