BeneluxMetabolomicDays-23andExposome-NL 23: BMD-2023; Exposome-NL: Analysing and simulating the exposome in space and time Utrecht, Netherlands, November 17, 2023

The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome.

The Exposome-NL conference is an annual gathering of international researchers on studying environmental exposure, organised in the context of the Exposome-NL project. This year's conference topic is: Exposome and Preventive Health: Analysing and simulating the exposome in space and time.

Exposome-NL has teamed uo with the Netherlands Metabolomics Centre for this year's conference: together we will organise several break-out sessions and a poster session

Abstract submission is now open. The selection process will take place and the results announced within three weeks after the abstract submission deadline (25 September 2023).

Submission Guidelines

We welcome submissions of abstracts describing ongoing or finished work on exposome research. Abstracts should be the size of a paragraph and should be submitted in pdf format:

• An abstract is a compendious summary of a research paper’s substance including its background, purpose, methodology, results, and conclusion.
• It should be one paragraph with a word limit of 300.
• Keywords should be provided (no more than 6 words).
• Please do not include subheadings, bullets, lists and header/footer in the abstract.
• Abstract titles should be short, but descriptive. Informative titles, indicating key points are encouraged. Abbreviations should not be used in the title.
• Acronyms should be written in full the first time, mentioned in the text, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses.
• Always follow SI Units.
• Scientific names must be in Italic.
• Use a negative exponent (g. kgm^-3) and do not indicate units as divisions (e.g. kg/m 3).
• Chemical formulae should be written in a standard form such as “CaCO₃”, not as “CaCO3”. Use a zero before decimal points such as “0.45,” not “.45.”
• There shall be no citations or references in the abstract specifically. If there is a need to cite references, please provide the sources in brackets.

Abstracts will be peer reviewed and selected for presentation of either of two forms:

• Break-out session presentations
• Poster presentations

Break-out sessions

The break-out sessions will cover the following topics related to exposure studies:

• Built environment
• Data science
• Digital exposome
• Drivability
• Early life
• Ethics
• Geospatial modelling
• Simulation modeling
• Microbiome
• Metabolomics
• Obesogenic environment
• Policy
• Sensoring
• Social environment
• 3D exposome

Committees

Program Committee

• Gerard Hoek
• Jeroen Lakerveld
• Joreintje Mackenbach
• Alex Kurilshikov
• Amy Harms

Organizing committee

• Martje Ebberink
• Ilonca Vaartjes
• Simon Scheider
• Roel Vermeulen

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to exposome.office@uu.nl