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Aaron Schultz is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Greg Goss at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is a fish physiologist and aquatic toxicologist and received his B.Sc. (with 1st Class Honours) in 2006 and Ph.D. from Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, in 2010. His primary research interests focus on studying the adaptive mechanisms employed by fish and other aquatic organisms that allow them to survive in constantly changing environments and in response to anthropogenic contaminants such as nanomaterials.

David Boyle is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the research group of Prof. Greg Goss at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Bath, UK, in Applied Biology in 2001 and his M.Sc. in 2003 and Ph.D. in 2008 both from King's College London, UK. After an appointment as a Research Scientist at the National Institute for Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway, he has worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the field of aquatic nanotoxicology, firstly at Plymouth University, UK, and since 2012, at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Danuta Chamot is a Senior Research Associate in the laboratory of Prof. Greg Goss in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta. She received her B.Sc. in 1988 and M.Sc. in 1990 from the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. in plant molecular biology from the University of Bern (Switzerland) in 1993. She has spent most of her career studying stress-regulated gene expression in aquatic microbes. Since joining the Goss lab, she has been closely involved in research on the physiological and toxicological effects of pollutants on fishes.

Kimberly J. Ong is a graduate of the Biological Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in 2013. She earned her B.Sc. in Marine and Freshwater Biology at the University of Guelph in 2006. Her most recent work focussed on developing and validating appropriate biological testing techniques for nanotoxicity studies, and is also interested in the effects of nanoparticles on fish development, behaviour and physiology.

Kevin J. Wilkinson is Professor at the Université de Montréal. His research is aimed at gaining a molecular level understanding of contaminant bioavailability and mobility. Current projects are examining the nature of the physicochemical processes influencing trace metal bioaccumulation by microorganisms and determinations of the fate (dissolution, aggregation) and bioavailability (bioaccumulation, genomic and proteomic effects) of engineered nanomaterials. Wilkinson is currently an Associate Editor of Environmental Chemistry (2010–) and in the past has edited two volumes of Biophysicochemistry of Environmental Systems. He has over 100 publications, over 4000 citations to his work and an h-index of 40. He has recently established a world-class analytical laboratory specialising in the characterisation of nanomaterials: Center for the Analysis and Characterization of Engineered Nanomaterials (CACEN).

Jim McGeer is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department and Director of the Institute for Water Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. He completed B.Sc. Agr. and M.Sc. degrees at the University of British Columbia and then a Ph.D. at the University of Dundee in 1995. He joined Laurier in 2006 following postdoctoral studies at Ben-Gurion and McMaster Universities and then a period as a federal government scientist and research manager at Mining and Mineral Sciences division of Natural Resources Canada. The McGeer lab is focussed on solutions based research directed at integrating fundamental understandings of how inorganic contaminants impinge on physiological processes in aquatic organisms and the application of this understanding in prediction models that contribute to environmental protection by reducing uncertainty.

Geoffrey Sunahara is a Senior Research Officer at the National Resource Council of Canada (NRC). He received his B.Sc. in 1976 and M.Sc. in 1979, both from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Sciences) in 1984 from the University of British Columbia. He completed a 2-year Fogarty post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH). After working at the Nestec Research Centre (Switzerland) until 1994, he then joined NRC to develop the Applied Ecotoxicology group that focuses on the ecotoxicology of emerging contaminants including nanomaterials, biodiesel and other bioproducts. A major emphasis is made upon innovation, ecological relevance, risk assessment and modes of toxicity.

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