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Wednesday, September 10, 2003
8.30
Conference opening
Eckardt Johanning (Conference Chair and Director)
8.40 –
9:45 Session A: Health effects I – epidemiological research
Session
chairs/monitors:
Torben Sigsgaard
Carl-Gustaf Bornehag
Aa.
Summary presentation, Health effects I (Patho-mechanism)
Torben Sigsgaard
Ab.
Summary presentation, Health effects I
Dampness in buildings as a risk factor for health effects –
Multidisciplinary review of the literature on dampness in buildings
and health effects, NORDAMP and EUROEXPO
A1. Effects of repair of school mold problems and teachers’
health
Riita-Liisa Patovirta, Tuula Husman, Ulla Haverinen, Mika Toivola,
Marjut Reiman, Mikko Vahteristo, Jukka Uitti, Hannu Tukiainen, and
Aino Nevalainen
A2. Assessment of exposure to indoor environmental factors for
an infant cohort at risk for asthma
Catherine M. Catranis, Susan E. Anagnost, Analie
Fernando, Shannon Morey,
Chun J.K. Wang, Paula Defestano, Chris Garback, Melanie LaMoy, Geralyn
Hall, Deepa Naishadham, Judith Crawford, Andrew Hunt, and Jerrold L.
Abraham.
A3. Cluster of autoimmune disease in association with
microbial exposure
in moisture damaged buildings
Tuula Husman, J. Pelkonen, and R. Luosujärvi
9.45 – 10.00 Coffee break
10.00 – 11.45 Session B: Health effects II –
Toxicology and Neurological Effects
Session chairs/monitors:
Harriet Ammann
Manfred Gareis
Ba.
Summary presentation, Health effects II
Harriet Ammann
Bb. Summary presentation, Health effects II
Manfred Gareis (Mycotoxin analytical issues and public
health prevention)
A. Mehrer, Wolfgang Lorenz, Manfred Gareis,
C.
Trautmann, R.M. Kroppenstedt, and E. Stackebrandt
B2. Human and animal pathology of inhalation trichothecene
mycotoxicosis
William A. Croft, Bonnie Jastromski, Amanda Croft, and
Henry Peters
B3. Sick building syndrome in water damaged buildings:
Generalization of the chronic biotoxin associated illness paradigm
to indoor toxigenic-fungi exposure
Ritchie C. Shoemaker, H. Kenneth Hundell, and Dennis House
B4. Visual contrast sensitivity: a sensitive indicator of
neurotoxicity for risk assessment and clinical applications
H. Kenneth Hudnell, Dennis E. House, and Ritchie C.
Shoemaker
B5. Clinical evaluation of suspected mold neurotoxicity
Raymond Singer
B6. Cognitive impairment associated with exposure to toxic
mold: a replication of previous findings
Wayne A. Gordon, Joshua Cantor, Heather Charatz,
Janis Breeze, and Eckardt Johanning
B7. The chronicity of cognitive impairment associated with
exposure to toxic mold
Wayne A. Gordon, Joshua Cantor, Heather Charatz, Teresa Ashman, and
Eckardt Johanning
B8. Association of molds indoor with neurobehavioral and
pulmonary impairment
Kaye Kilburn
11.45 – 12.45 Lunch
12.45 – 1.45 Poster session 1
Presenters A1 – B8
2.00 – 3.20 Session C: Health effects III – Health
assessment & case studies
Session chairs/monitors:
Tuula Husman
Eckardt Johanning
Ca. Summary presentation, Health Effects III: Health Effects
of moisture damage associated microbes
Tuula Husman
C1. Laboratory signs of sickness due to mold metabolites in
indoor environment
Anja Tiilikainen, Irmeli Heikkinen, Leila Mikkilä, and Aini Bloigu
C2. Assessing the allergic potential of indoor air fungal
contaminants
Marsha D.W. Ward, Michael E. Viana, Yongjoo Chung, Najwa Haykal-Coates,
Lisa B. Copeland, Steven H. Gavett, and MaryJane K. Selgrade
C3. Alleged mercury poisoning symptoms in sewage treatment
workers likely linked to bacteria,
fungal, and endotoxin exposure
Chris van Netten and Karen Bartlett
C4. Clinical evaluation of surviving twin after fatal case of
pulmonary
hemosiderosis following Stachybotrys chartarum and other indoor
mold
product exposure – first case control study
Gary J. Ordog, Jonathan Wasserberger, and Dennis Hooper
C5. Epidemiological investigation of a mold-contaminated
“sick” building
James Craner, Stuart Alderman, and Neil Willits
C6. Symptomatic improvement after cessation of mold exposure:
clinical experience in environmental and occupational health
Iris G. Udasin, Howard Lu, Elisheva Rovner, and Howard
Kipen
C7. Clinical Experience with exposure to fungi and laboratory
testing
Eckardt Johanning and Raymond Luhrman
3.20 – 3.35 Coffee break
3.35 – 5.00 Session D: Health Effects IV –
Experimental research
Session
chairs/monitors:
Maija-Riitta Hirvonen
Dorr Dearborn
Da. Summary presentation, Health effects IV. Cytotoxicity and
inflammatory
responses induced by moldy house microbes
Maija-Riitta Hirvonen
D1. Nasal effects of VOC-ozone reaction products: Do reactions
with ozone
enhance irritation due to MVOCs?
Robert Laumbach
Robert J. Laumbach, N. Fiedler, C. Weschler, C.R.
Gardner, J. Zhang, P. Lioy,
T. Fan, K. Kelly-McNeil, and H.M. Kipen
D2. Occular effects in humans by experimental exposure to
different types of dust
Zhiwei Pan, Lars Mølhave, Søren K. Kjœrgaard, Torben Sigsgaard,
Jan-Erik Juto,
Kjell
Andersson, and Göran Stridh
D3. The synergistic interaction between microbial metabolites
and actionbacteria
Streptomyces californicus
Kati Huttunen, J. Pelkonen, U. Nuutinen,
Kristian Fog Nielsen, and Maija-Riitta Hirvonen
Marjut Roponen
D5. Effects of spores of two Stachybotrys chartarum
strains on pulmonary
surfactant formation, in vitro
Thomas G. Rand, and J.E. Scott
D6. Inflammatory lung responses in mice after intra-tracheal
exposure to spores
of two
Stachybotrus chartarum strains
Thomas G. Rand, B. Hudson, L. Gregory, and J. Flemming
D7. Comparison of the acute effects of S. chartarum and
other indoor molds
on the
lungs of infant rats
Iwona Yike, Ronald Walenga, and Dorr G. Dearborn
C8. Glucan spiking of office dust increases nasal inflammation
in volunteers
Torben Sigsgaard, S.K. Kjargaard, L. Molhave, E.C. Bonefeld-Jorgensen,
J.H. Bonlokke, ,
J-E
Juto, G. Stridh, and H. Lofstedt
5.00 – 6.00 Poster session 2
Presenters C1 – D8
6.00 – 7.00 Dinner
7.30 – 8.30 Plenum discussion: Health and Microbes
Introductions by Torben Sigsgaard, Harriet
Ammann, Tuula Husman, and Maija Riita Hirvonen
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8.00 – 10.00 Session E:
Assessment I – Assessment methods and field findings
Session
chairs/monitors:
Aino Nevalainen
Phil Morey
Ea. Summary presentation, Assessment I
Exposure in moldy buildings
Aino Nevalainen
E1. Development of a gel-trap system coupled with PCR for
Nasal effects of
VOC-ozone Development of a gel-trap system coupled with PCR for
microorganisms environmental detection: application to
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Valerie Bex, C. Vadrot, L. Bordenave, A. Mouilleseaux,
V.Joseph, and F. Squinazi
E2. Home dust: an efficient and affordable tool for the
assessment of microbial contamination
Paul Widden, Tonia DeBellis, Charles Deblois, Claude Mainville, and
Marie-France Pinard
Hans Schleibinger, H. Samwer, D. Laußmann, A. Nickelmann, D. Eis, and
H. Rueden
E4. Microbial indoor air quality in office buildings with
central air conditioning installations
in Belgium. An easy tool for a fungal quality evaluation
Camille Chasseur, Sébastien Gofflot, and Nicole Nolard
E5. Microbial indoor air quality in office buildings with
central air conditioning installations
in Belgium. An easy tool for a bacterial quality evaluation
Camille Chasseur, Sébastien Gofflot, V. De Maertelaer, and Nicole
Nolard
E6. Comparison of PVC cassettes
versus vacuum bags for collection and enumeration
of culturable filamentous fungi in settled dust
Brad Prezant
E7. Assessment of mold sources in the indoor environment
Satheesh Kumar Sivasubramani, Tiina Reponen, and S.A. Grinshpun
E8. Evaluation of bacterial and fungal indoor air
contamination using a preventative
approach and an alternative bacterial identification method
Sara Bonetta, Silvia Bonetta, Simonetta Sampò, Sabrina
Mosso, and Elisabetta Carraro
E9. Wall relative humidity: A simple and reliable index
for predicting
Stachybotrys chartarum infestation in dwellings
Sandrine Boutin-Forzano, Carmel Charpin-Kadouch, Henri
Dumon, Nadia Bennedjai, and Denis Charpin
E10. Comparison of mold, allergen and endotoxin exposure among
residential,
academic and commercial buildings
Cynthia M. Lange, W. Elliot Horner, and Phil Morey
E11. The Natural Distribution of MVOC (Microbially Produced
Volatile Organic Compounds)
in
Buildings without Mold Infestation
10.00 –
10.15 Coffee break
10.15 – 12.15 Session F: Assessment II – Field findings
(continued) and mycology
Session
chairs/monitors:
Anna-Liisa Pasanen
Fa. Summary presentation,
Assessment I : Sampling: a neglected part of
building investigations and microbial exposure
assessment
Anna-Liisa Pasanen
F1. Airborne allergens, bacteria, and fungi in 100 office
buildings: Study, sampling
and database design and selected results from the BASE study
Derek G. Shendell, Feng C. Tsai, Janet M. Macher, and Laureen Burton
F2. Comparison of fungal air sampling in water damaged
buildings vs. base buildings and outdoors
Michael S. Andrew, Phil R. Morey, and B.K. Ligman
F3. Shared air: examining the contribution of mold from home
crawl spaces to home interiors
Wayne Thomann and Marie Lynn Miranda
F4. Modeling the
equilibrium spore load for a building
John C. Banta and James
Holland
F5. Physical factors and distribution of fungal contamination
in a high rise building
Herman Sabath and Eric Shapiro
F6. Release of Aspergillus versicolor fragments and
spores from contaminated surfaces
Seung-Hyun Cho, Sergey Grinshpun, Mikhail Yermakov, and
Tiina Reponen
F7. Micro-particles from fungi
Anne Mette Madsen, J. Kildesø, and O.M. Poulsen
F8. Methods for detecting indoor bacteria producing
substances toxic to human cells
Maria A. Andersson, Elina Jääskeläinen, Camelia Appetroaie,
Douwe Hoornstra,
Vera Teplova, and Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen
F9.
[POSTER ONLY] Multidisciplinary Survey of a Microbial Contaminated
Complex
of
Residential Apartments
Herman Sabath
12.00 – 1.00 Lunch
1.00 – 2.00 Poster session 3
Presenters E1 – F9
2.15 – 3.55 Session G: Assessment III - Mycology
Session chairs/monitors:
Robert Samson
Ken Dillon
Ga. Summary presentation, Assessment III - Fungal
identification of indoor molds:
current methods and new developments
Robert Samson
Gb. Summary presentation, Assessment III
Ken
Dillon
G1. Gypsum amendment in nutrient medium enhances the growth
of Stachybotrys chartarum
Anna-Mari Pessi and Auli Rantio-Lehtimäki
G2. Nutrient and pH demands of
Streptomycetes isolated from indoor environments
Ulla Lignell, M. Kontro,
Marja-Riita Hirvonen, and Aino Nevalainen
G3. The microbial interactions between Stachybotrys chartarum
and Streptomyces californicus
Piia Penttinen M.M. Keinänen, M. Toivola, Kati Huttunen,
J. Pelkonen, and Maija-Riita Hirvonen
G4. Methods to classify environmental samples based on mold
analysis by QPCR
Richard A. Haugland, Manju Varma, Larry Wymer, Teija
Meklin, and Steve Vesper
G5. Qualitative identification of Meruliporia incrassate using
real time polumerase chain
reaction (real time PCR)
King-Teh Lin, De-Wei Li, Derrick A.
Dennis, Ray C. Woodcock, and Chin S. Yang
G6. A new ecological niche for the pathogenic yeast,
Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii,
in a temperate climate zone
Karen H. Bartlett, Murray Fyfe, Laura MacDougall, Craig
Stephen, and Sarah Kidd
G7. Individual exposure assessment in residents near large
scale composting sites
Caroline E.W. Herr, A. zur Nieden, J. Bünger, N.I.
Stilianakis, and Th.F. Eikmann
3.55 – 4.10 Coffee break
4.10 – 5:15 Session H: Assessment IV – Mycology (continued)
Session chairs/monitors:
Linda Stetzenbach
Ed Olmsted
Ha. Summary presentation, Assessment IV
H1. Cross-reactivity patterns of monoclonal antibodies against
Aspergillus versicolor
and
their implications for the development of antibody-based monitoring
techniques
for
fungi
Detlef Schmechel, Janet P. Simpson, and
Daniel M. Lewis
H2. Characterization of fungal flora from moisture damaged
building material by molecular methods
Miia Viikari, H. Rintala, and L. Paulin
H3. Fungal enzymes in indoor dust
Anne Mette Madsen
and H. Würtz
H4. Fungal growth enhancement
and solubilization ability on calcareous building materials
Anna-Mari Pessi, Minna Rekola, and
Auli Rantio-Lehtimäki
H5. Evaluation of airborne data for small sample sizes:
Results from PCR field
validation study, and its incorporations into data assessment
David Kahane
H6. [POSTER ONLY] Rapid detection and quantitation of fungal
spores from
dust samples using real-time PCR
Jyoti Keswani, M. Kashon, and B. Chen
5.15 – 5.30 Refreshment break
5.30 – 6.30 Poster session 4
Presenters G1 – H6
6.30 – 7.30 Plenum discussion: Assessment and Field Studies
Introductions by Anna-Liisa Pasanen, Linda Stetzenbach, Aino
Nevalainen, and Ken Dillon
7.30 – 9.30
Reception/buffet, Hall of Springs, Saratoga Springs
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Friday, September
12, 2003
A. Shadwell, Nceba Gqaleni, and L. Schlebusch
Ajay Gansan, Nceba Gqaleni, and J.E. Ehiri
Loay Wady, Asem Shehabi, Bogumila Szponar, Christina Pehrson,
Yezhou Sheng, and Lennart Larsson
J4. Assessment and remediation of mold contamination in fan coil
units of a 341 suite residential condominium
Michael D. Larrañaga, M.G. Beruvides, H.W. Holder, S.C. Wilson, and D.C.
Straus
Olaf C.G. Adan, M.M. Sanders, and Robert A. Samson
Introductions by Nceba Gqaleni, Phil Morey, and
Laura Kolb
providing best medical care while medical science is in development”
