1. 6th International Hans Wolfgang Nürnberg Memorial Symposium on “Metal Compounds in Environment and Life”

   • Hans W. Dürbeck

   OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 506

2. Environmental specimen banking – Aspects of metal determination and distribution

   • H. Emons

   Lecture Pages: 507 - 510

3. Air pollution monitoring at the Environmental Specimen Bank of Germany: spruce and pine shoots as bioindicators

   • M. Rossbach
   • R. Jayasekera

   Poster Pages: 511 - 514

4. CRMs for quality control of determinations of chemical forms of elements in support to EU legislation

   • P. Quevauviller

   Lecture Pages: 515 - 520

5. Speciation of mercury, platinum and tin – focus of research and future developments

   • J. Bettmer
   • W. Buscher
   • K. Cammann

   Lecture Pages: 521 - 528

6. Electrochemical methods for quantification and characterization of metallothioneins induced in Mytilus galloprovincialis

   • B. Raspor
   • Jasenka Pavicic

   Lecture Pages: 529 - 534

7. Speciation analysis of arsenic and selenium compounds by capillary electrophoresis

   • D. Schlegel
   • J. Mattusch
   • R. Wennrich

   Lecture Pages: 535 - 539

8. Tributyltin biomonitoring using prosobranchs as sentinel organisms

   • J. Oehlmann
   • B. Markert
   • P. Fioroni

   Lecture Pages: 540 - 545

9. Speciation of metals and metalloids in sediments with LTGC/ICP-MS

   • E. M. Krupp
   • R. Grümping
   • A. V. Hirner

   Lecture Pages: 546 - 549

10. Arsenic speciation in marine organisms: from the analytical methodology to the constitution of reference materials

    • A. El Moll
    • R. Heimburger
    • E. Maier

    Lecture Pages: 550 - 556

11. Capillary electrophoresis – a useful tool in speciation investigations

    • Bernhard Michalke

    Lecture Pages: 557 - 565

12. Toxicity of cadmium species on luminescent bacteria

    • I. Villaescusa
    • M. Pilar
    • J. C. Murat

    Lecture Pages: 566 - 570

13. Cadmium-selenium antagonism and detoxifying enzymes in insects

    • A. Kędziorski
    • M. Nakonieczny
    • E. Szulińska

    Lecture Pages: 571 - 575

14. Separation of free iodide from other I-species in human serum – Quantification in serum pools and individual samples

    • B. Michalke
    • P. Schramel
    • S. Hasse

    Poster Pages: 576 - 579

15. Binding and chemical fractionation of heavy metals in typical peat matter

    • I. Twardowska
    • Joanna Kyziol

    Poster Pages: 580 - 586

16. Preconcentration and determination of Sn- and Pb-organic species in environmental samples by SPME and GC-AED

    • S. Tutschku
    • S. Mothes
    • R. Wennrich

    Poster Pages: 587 - 591

17. Preliminary studies on arsenic species in some environmental samples

    • Z. Šlejkovec
    • A. R. Byrne
    • M. Rossbach

    Poster Pages: 592 - 595

18. Accuracy of determination of trace metals in soil and sewage sludge

    • C. J. Ackers
    • M. J. Gardner
    • J. E. Ravenscroft

    Lecture Pages: 596 - 601

19. Determination of chromium(III) and total chromium in marine waters

    • M. J. Gardner
    • J. E. Ravenscroft

    Poster Pages: 602 - 605

20. Analysis of metal-induced oxidative DNA damage in cultured mammalian cells

    • A. Hartwig
    • Regina Schlepegrell
    • Detmar Beyersmann

    Lecture Pages: 606 - 608

21. The structure of organometals determines cytotoxicity and alteration of calcium homeostasis in HL-60 cells

    • T. Ade
    • F. Zaucke
    • H. F. Krug

    Lecture Pages: 609 - 614

22. Expression of stress proteins in cultured human cells as a sensitive indicator of metal toxicity

    • F. Delmas
    • V. Trocheris
    • I. Villaescusa

    Lecture Pages: 615 - 619

23. Determination of organometallics in intra-oral air by LT-GC/ICP-MS

    • Thomas Riechmann
    • Alfred V. Hirner
    • J. Feldmann

    Lecture Pages: 620 - 623

24. Soil bacteria sensitivity towards heavy metals – Experimental system optimisation using chemical speciation calculations

    • G. Geiger
    • Michael Gfeller
    • Rainer Schulin

    Poster Pages: 624 - 628

25. Heavy metals as indirect causative factors of capillaropathy

    • R. Andrzejak
    • J. Antonowicz
    • B. Kochel

    Poster Pages: 629 - 632

26. Determination of traces of heavy metals (Mn, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb) in microsamples of teeth material by ETV-ICP-MS

    • K. Grünke
    • H. -J. Stärk
    • U. Franck

    Poster Pages: 633 - 635

27. Synthesis, structure, spectra and redox activities of model compounds for methanogenic bacteria

    • T. Pandiyan
    • C. Durán de Bazúa
    • M. Soriano-Garcia

    Poster Pages: 636 - 640

28. Different growth response of Euglena gracilis to Hg, Cd, Cr and Ni compounds

    • J. Gajdosova
    • E. Reichrtova

    Poster Pages: 641 - 642

29. Metal body burdens and detoxifying enzymes in spiders from industrially polluted areas

    • Grażyna Wilczek
    • Paweł Migula

    Poster Pages: 643 - 647

30. Determination of heavy metal concentrations in plants exposed to different degrees of pollution using ICP-AES

    • V. Kos
    • Bojan Budič
    • Marko Zupan

    Poster Pages: 648 - 652

31. Heavy metals as stressing factors in the red wood ants (Formica polyctena) from industrially polluted forests

    • P. Migula
    • Elżbieta Głowacka

    Poster Pages: 653 - 659

32. Platinum metal concentrations in urban road dust and soil in the United Kingdom

    • M. E. Farago
    • P. Kavanagh
    • G. M. Hall

    Lecture Pages: 660 - 663

33. Determination of low amounts of platinum in environmental and biological materials using thermospray nebulization inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

    • M. Parent
    • H. Vanhoe
    • R. Dams

    Lecture Pages: 664 - 667

34. Arsenic concentrations in successive needle age classes of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.)

    • A. Wyttenbach
    • S. Bajo
    • L. Tobler

    Lecture Pages: 668 - 671

35. Decomposer animal communities in forest soil along heavy metal pollution gradient

    • Jari Haimi
    • Anne Siira-Pietikäinen

    Lecture Pages: 672 - 675

36. Assessing toxicity and mobilisation of impregnation salts at a contaminated site

    • S. Andersen
    • G. Rasmussen
    • T. Westby

    Lecture Pages: 676 - 680

37. Atmospheric heavy metal pollution in Slovenia derived from results for epiphytic lichens

    • Z. Jeran
    • R. Jaćimović
    • H. T. Wolterbeek

    Poster Pages: 681 - 687

38. An Energy-dispersive Miniprobe Multielement Analyzer (EMMA) for direct analysis of Pb and other trace elements in peats

    • Andrij K. Cheburkin
    • William Shotyk

    Lecture Pages: 688 - 691

39. Voltammetric copper(II) determination with a montmorillonite-modified carbon paste electrode

    • Petr Kula
    • Zuzana Navrátilová

    Poster Pages: 692 - 695

40. Influence of hydrodynamic conditions of the solution on the sensitivity of stripping analysis of trace metals

    • Saulius Armalis
    • Daiva Pockeviči¯utė
    • Ona Tatolytė

    Poster Pages: 696 - 698

41. Changes in the heavy metal contents of soil from the Park Grass Experiment at Rothamsted Experimental Station

    • Zoltán Győri
    • Keith Goulding
    • József Prokisch

    Lecture Pages: 699 - 702

42. Comparison of metal concentrations in three species of mosses and metal freights in bulk precipitations

    • L. Thöni
    • Norbert Schnyder
    • Fritz Krieg

    Lecture Pages: 703 - 708

43. Sampling anoxic pore waters in peatlands using “peepers” for in situ-filtration

    • Philipp Steinmann
    • W. Shotyk

    Lecture Pages: 709 - 713

44. Comparison of chromium and nickel uptake of plants grown in different soils

    • I. Vágó
    • Zoltán Győri
    • Jakab Loch

    Lecture Pages: 714 - 717

45. Determination of metal ions by ion chromatography with precolumn electrochemical preconcentration

    • Frank Hißner
    • Jürgen Mattusch
    • G. Werner

    Lecture Pages: 718 - 721

46. Analytical fractionation of aquatic humic substances and their metal species by means of multistage ultrafiltration

    • Brit Aster
    • P. Burba
    • Jose A. C. A. C. Broekaert

    Lecture Pages: 722 - 728

47. Heavy metals and nutrients in coastal, surface seawaters (Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic Sea): an environmental study by factor analysis

    • Edoardo Reisenhofer
    • Gianpiero Adami
    • Andrea Favretto

    Poster Pages: 729 - 734

48. Voltammetric method for the determination of Zn, Cd, Pb, Cu and Ni in interstitial water

    • Jerzy Golimowski
    • Teresa Szczepańska

    Poster Pages: 735 - 737

49. Ion Chromatographic determination of trace anions and cations in high-purity water

    • Van Dy Nguyen

    Poster Pages: 738 - 741

50. Platinum solubility of a substance designed as a model for emissions of automobile catalytic converters

    • D. Nachtigall
    • H. Kock
    • R. Schlögl

    Poster Pages: 742 - 746