The 2024 Center for PFAS Research 3rd Annual Symposium will focus on the theme of PFAS Challenges and Solutions in the Great Lakes Basin: A Model for Freshwater Ecosystems. The symposium will allow participants to exchange scientific information and discoveries, remediation, policy, and emerging issues of PFAS. Participants will have the opportunity to learn new skills and technologies that may influence the scientific direction and management strategies for PFAS contamination and solutions. Expected attendance includes university faculty and researchers, public and private industry professionals, regulators, scientists, and students.

A group room block is available at the adjacent DoubleTree by Hilton Lansing, 111 North Grand Ave., Lansing, MI 48933.

A welcome reception will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, October 6. Opening remarks for the symposium will begin at 9 a.m. on Monday, October 7, followed by a plenary speaker and panel discussion.

More information including the symposium agenda and participant registration will be available soon. Details will be added to the symposium website as they are made available.

Abstract Submissions

Abstracts are being accepted for posters and oral presentations. Posters will be presented during a poster reception on Monday, October 7. Accepted oral presentations will be scheduled as concurrent sessions on Tuesday, October 8.

Oral presentations should focus on one of three topics: Grand Challenges and New Technologies for PFAS Research in Aquatic Ecosystems, Community, or Miscellaneous. Concurrent sessions will be 15 minutes each, followed by 5 minutes for questions. 

All abstracts are due Sunday, September 8 at 11:59 p.m. Notification will be sent to submitters in the week following the deadline.