Cyanotoxins in Fresh Waters, Advances in Analysis, Occurrence and Treatment

Action "ARISTEIA" - Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Project No:2455

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 PAPERS

1. Kaloudis, T., Zervou, S.-K., Tsimeli, K., Triantis, T.M., Fotiou, T., Hiskia, A. (2013) “Determination of microcystins and nodularin (cyanobacterial toxins) in water by LC-MS/MS. Monitoring of Lake Marathonas, a water reservoir of Athens, Greece”, Journal of Hazardous Materials 263, pp 105-115.

2. Fotiou T., Triantis T. M., Kaloudis T., Hiskia A., (2014) Evaluation of the photocatalytic activity of TiO₂ based for catalysts on the degradation and mineralization of cyanobacterial toxins and water off-odor compounds under UV-A, solar and visible light. Chemical Engineering Journal, 261 (2015) 17–26.

3. Fotiou T., Triantis T. M., Kaloudis T., Hiskia A., (2014) Photocatalytic degradation of Cylindrospermopsin under UV-A, solar and visible light using TiO2. Mineralization and intermediate products, Chemosphere, 119 (2015) S89–S94.

4. T. Fotiou, T. M. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, K. E O'Shea, D.D Dionysiou, A. Hiskia, "Photocatalytic Degradation of Microcystin-LR, Cylindrospermopsin and Water Taste and Odor Compounds, using C-TiO2 under Visible Light. The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species Involved", Water Research, under revision

5. S.-K. Zervou, C. Christophoridis, T Kaloudis, T. Triantis, A. Hiskia, “Development, optimization and validation of a sensitive and fast multi-class method for the determination of various cyanotoxins in water with SPE, LC-MS/MS”Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, submitted

6. C. Christophoridis, S.-K. Zervou, T. Kaloudis , T. Triantis, A. Hiskia, “A  fast, robust and simple analytical method for the simultaneous determination of cyanotoxins Cylindrospermopsin and Anatoxin-a in water, using LC-MS/MS and experimental design” under preparation

7. M. Katsiapi, S.-K. Zervou, C. Christophoridis, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, A. Hiskia, M. Moustaka-Gouni, “Cyanotoxins diversity within phytoplankton cyanobacterial communities in diverse freshwater types and watershed land uses” under preparation

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BOOKS / CHAPTERS

1. "Water Treatment for Purification from Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins" Ed. A. Hiskia, D. Dionysiou, M. Antoniou, T. Kaloudis, T. Triantis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., under preparation

2. “Handbook on Cyanobacterial Monitoring and Cyanotoxin Analysis”, Ed. J. Meriluoto, G.A. Codd, L. Spoof, under preparation

3. G. Zhang, X. He, X. Duan, Y. Huang, C. Han, K. O’ Shea, D. Kyung Kim, V.K. Sharma, N. Johnson, B. Ren, V. Vogiazi, T. Fotiou , C. Christophoridis, A. Hiskia, and D. D. Dionysiou, Chapter 6 Title: “Advanced Oxidation Processes.” In "Water Treatment for Purification from Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins" Ed. A. Hiskia, D. Dionysiou, M. Antoniou, T. Kaloudis, T. Triantis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., under preparation

4. T. Fotiou, T. Triantis, A. Hiskia, D. Dziga, S. Merel, C. Edwards, and M. G. Antoniou, Chapter 8: “Transformation products (TPs) of cyanobacterial metabolites during treatment” In "Water Treatment for Purification from Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins" Ed. A. Hiskia, D. Dionysiou, M. Antoniou, T. Kaloudis, T. Triantis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., under preparation

5. M. G. Antoniou, C. Zhao, K. E. O’Shea, G. Zhang, D. D. Dionysiou, C. Zhao, C. Han, M. N. Nadagouda, H. Choi, T. Fotiou, T. Triantis, and A. Hiskia, Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Water: Process optimization and degradation pathways, Photocatalysis: Quo vadis? The Royal Society of Chemistry, Edited by Detlef W. Bahnemann, Jenny Scheider, Junhua Ye, Gianluca Li, Puma, Dionysios D. Dionysiou accepted-pending publication

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 Conference Publications

1. A. Hiskia, “Recent advances towards water purification from cyanotoxins and taste & odor compounds using photocatalysis with TiO₂ and polyoxometalates” 14th EuChemMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment ICCE 2013 Barcelona Spain, 25-28/6/2013 . WORKSHOP ON “Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins in Aquatic Environments”, Oral Presentation

2. S-K. Zervou, K. Tsimeli, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, A. Hiskia. “Monitoring of Microcystins in Lake Marathonas, a Water Reservoir of Athens, Greece” 14th EuChemMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment ICCE 2013", 25-28/6/2013, (poster)             

3. T. Fotiou, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, A. Hiskia, "Photocatalytic Degradation of Cylindrospermopsin in the presence of TiO₂ under UV-A and solar light" 13th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST2013), Athens, 5-7/9/2013  

4. S-K. Zervou, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, A. Hiskia. “Optimization of Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) and LC-ESI-MS/MS for the Determination of Cyclic Peptide Cyanotoxins (CPCs) in Water”. 8th International Conference of Instrumental Methods of Analysis - Modern Trends and Applications (IMA 2013), Thessaloniki, Greece, 15-19/9/2013

5. A. Hiskia, T. Fotiou, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis. “Evaluation of the photocatalytic activity of TiO₂ based catalysts on the degradation and mineralization of cyanobacterial toxins and water off-odor compounds under UV-A, solar and visible light” 3rd European symposium on photocatalysis, JEP 2013, Portoroz, Slovenia, 25-27/9/2013  

6. T. Kaloudis. "Laboratory methods for the analysis of cyanotoxins in water", "Water challenges of the future", Belgrade, Serbia, 24-25/3/2014

7. A. Hiskia, "Water treatment for purification from cyanotoxins", "Water challenges of the future", Belgrade, Serbia, 24-25/3/2014

8. T. Kaloudis, A. Hiskia, “Preliminary Project Proposal, WATER-1-2014/2015: Bridging the gap: from innovative water solutions to market replication”, WssTP Working Groups event and the Joint WssTP-ERRIN Brokerage event, Brussels, 22/11/2013

9. A. Hiskia, CEN/TC 386 “Photocatalysis” Meeting, Convenorship of WG3 “Water Purification”, Athens, 18-20/3/2014     

10. COST Info Day in Greece, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, 25/2/2014  

11. Workshop on Cyaotoxins in Fresh Waters – Advances in Analysis, Occurrence and Treatment, NCSR Demokritos, Athens, 5/5/2014

12. A. Hiskia, T. Fotiou, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis. Photocatalytic Degradation of Cyanobacterial Metabolites MC-LR, CYN, MIB and GSM under Visible Light. 8th European Meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications – SPEA8 - Thessaloniki, Greece, 25-28/6/2014.

13. C. Christophoridis, M. Kontaxaki, T. Fotiou, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, A. Hiskia., “Photocatalytical degradation of cyanotoxin Cylindrospermopsin (CYN) using polyoxometalate H₃PW₁₂O₄₀, TiO₂ and impregnated TiO₂-POM”, Frontiers in Metal Oxide Cluster Science 2014, Muffliers, Paris, France, 12-15/7/2014 (Poster Presentation).

14. T. Fotiou, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, A. Hiskia, PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION OF MICROCYSTIN-LR UNDER VISIBLE LIGHT USING DOPED TiO₂, 5^th EUCheMS Chemistry Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 31/8 – 4/9/2014 (Oral Presentation)

15. C. Christophoridis, A. Droungou, S-K. Zervou, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis , A. Hiskia., “SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF CYANOTOXINS CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN AND ANATOXIN-A IN WATER USING LC-MS/MS. OPTIMIZATION OF EXTRACTION WITH EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN”, 5^thEUCheMS Chemistry Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 31/8 – 4/9/2014 (Oral Presentation)

16. A. Hiskia, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, C. Christophoridis, T. Fotiou, S.-K. Zervou., “CYANOWATER - CYANOTOXINS IN FRESH WATERS, ADVANCES IN ANALYSIS, OCCURRENCE AND TREATMENT”, 8th European Conference on Pesticides and Related Organic Micropollutants in the Environment, Ioannina, Greece, 18-21/9/2014 (Poster presentation)

17. C. Christophoridis, S-K. Zervou, T. Fotiou, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, A. Hiskia, “Analysis of cyanotoxins and their transformation products using mass spectrometry”, Symposium on Mass Spectrometry and Health, Athens, 18-19/11/2014, Greece (oral presentation)

18. CEN / TC 386 “Photocatalysis meeting. A. Hiskia. Συμμετοχή στις εργασίες της επιτροπής καθορισμού Ευρωπαϊκού προτύπου για φωτοκαταλυτικά υλικά με σκοπό τον καθαρισμό νερού. 10-13/3/2015, Βergamo, Italy

19. “BMAA analysis”, Μάιος 18 – 22,  2015, Wageningen, The Netherlands

20. S.-K. Zervou, C. Christophoridis, T. Kaloudis, T. Triantis, A. Hiskia «Development of a multi-class analytical method for the determination of cyanotoxins in water using SPE, LC-ESI-MS/MS», 3rd Mediterranean Sea Region Countries Mass Spectrometry (MEDMS III) Workshop, 28 June – 2 July, 2015, Athens, Greece (Oral presentation)

21. Fotiou T., Triantis T., Kaloudis T., N. Ioannidis, Hiskia A., “Visible light photocatalysic: an EPR spin trapping study”, PAOT-3, 3rd International Conference on Photocatalytic and Advanced Oxidation Technologies for the Treatment of Water, Air, Soil and Surfaces, 1– 4 September 2015, Gdansk, Poland (Oral presentation)

22. S.-K. Zervou, C. Christophoridis, T. Kaloudis, T. Triantis, A. Hiskia «Development and validation of an SPE-LC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of multiclass cyanotoxins in water», 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST 2015), 3-5 September, 2015, Rhodes, Greece (Oral presentation)

23. Fotiou T., Triantis T., Kaloudis T., N. Ioannidis, Hiskia, “Photocatalytic Degradation of cyanotoxins under Visible Light; Elucidation of the Reaction mechanism”, 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST 2015), 3-5 September 2015, Rhodes, Greece (Oral presentation)

24. Triantis T., Fotiou T., Kaloudis T., Hiskia A., “Test method for water purification performance of photocatalytic materials”, Photocatalytic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces Workshop, PSS2015, 10– 11 September 2015, Guimaraes, Portugal (Oral Presentation)

25. K. Manolidi, S.-K. Zervou, C. Christophoridis, T. Kaloudis, T. Triantis, A. Hiskia, "Simultaneous determination of BMAA, 2,4-DAB, Saxitoxin and neoSaxitoxin in water, using SPE HILIC-LC-MS/MS", 15th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment, 20-24 September 2015, Leipzig, Germany (Oral presentation)

26. Hiskia A., Fotiou T., Triantis T. M., Kaloudis T., Ioannidis N., "ESR Investigation of the Photocatalysis Mechanism of Cyanotoxins Under Visible Light",  4th European Conference on Environmental Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes – EAAOP4, 21-24 October 2015, Athens, Greece (Oral Presentation)

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Workshops

"Cyanotoxins in Fresh Waters: Advances in Analysis, Occurrence, Treatment"

Workshop orginized by NCSR Demokritos - Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology – Laboratory of Nanomaterial - Based Catalytic-Photocatalytic Processes and Environmental Analysis) and CyanoWater Project, on Monday, May 5^th (9:00 – 16:00) in NCSR Demokritos Conference Center, Ag. Paraskevi Attiki, Greece

Cyanotoxins comprise a large group of potent toxins (e.g. peptides, alkaloids, amino-acids) produced by cyanobacteria that are common in surface waters and tend to form blooms in lakes and other freshwater bodies. Exposure through drinking or bathing in waters containing cyanotoxins can seriously affect human and animal health: cyanotoxins may damage the liver, kidneys, central nervous system or may cause respiratory and gastrointestinal problems. Cyanotoxins are now recognized as an important emerging threat for water resources by WHO, USEPA and other authorities.

The subject of this Workshop was of interest to those involved in the general field of water quality, being interdisciplinary, involving analytical chemistry, biology, toxicology, ecology as well as life and environmental sciences.Advances in the analysis of cyanotoxins, their presence in natural waters, their health effects and advanced water treatment processes for their removal were presented by recognized experts and researchers in the field (Prof. Dionysios Dionysiou - Univ. Of Cincinatti, USA, Dr. Jussi Meriluoto - Abo Akademi, Finland, Prof. Zorica Svircev - Univ. Of Novi-Sad, Serbia, Dr. Anastasia Hiskia, Dr Theodoros Triantis – NCSR Demokritos, Prof. Nikolaos Thomaidis, Univ. of Athens, Dr. Triantafyllos Kaloudis – EYDAP SA) as well as by doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. In addition, a special session was dedicated to prospects and opportunities for research, development and scientific jobs in the field, especially for graduate students, young scientists and early-stage researchers.

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