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Marc Elskens is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and focuses on environmental science with a significant emphasis on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. They have contributed extensively to research on endocrine disrupting chemicals and toxic organic pollutants, reflecting a specialized interest in how various environmental contaminants affect health and ecosystems.

Their research spans several key topics, including:

  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Toxic organic pollutants impact
  • Dental materials and restorations
  • Carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution

Marc Elskens has published papers in a variety of venues, predominantly in:

  • Dental Materials
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Food and Chemical Toxicology
  • Chemosphere
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Some recent publications include:

  • "Estrogenic activity and ecological risk of steroids, bisphenol A and phthalates after secondary and tertiary sewage treatment processes" (2022) in Water Research
  • "Naturally occurring potentially toxic elements in groundwater from the volcanic landscape around Mount Meru, Arusha, Tanzania and their potential health hazard" (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Bisphenol A as degradation product of monomers used in resin-based dental materials" (2021) in Dental Materials
  • "Assessing the receptor-mediated activity of PAHs using AhR-, ERα- and PPARγ- CALUX bioassays" (2020) in Food and Chemical Toxicology
  • "Zooplankton-based δ13C and δ15N isoscapes from the outer continental shelf and slope in the subtropical western South Atlantic" (2020) in Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers

Frequent collaborators include researchers with whom Elskens has co-authored multiple publications:

  • Imke Boonen
  • Yue Gao
  • Siemon De Nys
  • Radu Corneliu Duca
  • Adrian Covaci

Marc Elskens's fields of study are primarily within environmental science, with subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, ecology, orthodontics, and cancer research. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in a research portfolio of 49 works in environmental science, with 24 focused on toxicology and related health impacts.

Best Publications

  • Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone

    Ken O. Buesseler;Carl H. Lamborg;Philip W. Boyd;Phoebe J. Lam

  • Accumulation of trace metals in the muscle and liver tissues of five fish species from the Persian Gulf.

    Homira Agah;Martine Leermakers;Marc Elskens;S. Mohamad Rez Fatemi

  • Linearity of calibration curves: use and misuse of the correlation coefficient

    Joris Van Loco;Marc Elskens;Christophe Croux;Hedwig Beernaert

  • Bioconcentration and Biomagnification of Mercury and Methylmercury in North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Fish

    W Baeyens;M Leermakers;T Papina;A Saprykin

  • Metabolism and functions of glutathione in micro-organisms.

    Michel J. Penninckx;Marc T. Elskens

  • 234Th sorption and export models in the water column: A review

    Nicolas Savoye;Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson;Adrian B. Burd;J. Kirk Cochran

  • A Room Temperature Procedure for the Manual Determination of Urea in Seawater

    Leo Goeyens;N Kindermans;M Abu Yusuf;M Elskens

  • VERTIGO (VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean) : A study of particle sources and flux attenuation in the North Pacific

    Ken O. Buesseler;Thomas W. Trull;Deborah K. Steinberg;Mary W. Silver

  • Assessing the reproducibility and reliability of estuarine bivalve shells (Saxidomus giganteus) for sea surface temperature reconstruction: Implications for paleoclimate studies

    David Paul Gillikin;Fjo De Ridder;Hans Ulens;Marc Elskens

  • New production of the NW Iberian shelf during the upwelling season over the period 1982–1999

    Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;S. Beloso;Ian Joint;Enrique Nogueira

  • Total Mercury and Methyl Mercury Concentrations in Fish from the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea

    Homira Agah;Martine Leermakers;Marc Elskens;S. Mohamad Reza Fatemi

  • Phytoplankton and microzooplankton variability between the Subtropical and Polar Fronts south of Australia: Thriving under regenerative and new production in late summer

    Elzbieta E. Kopczynska;Frank Dehairs;Marc Elskens;Simon Wright

  • Geochemical behavior of trace elements in sub-tidal marine sediments of the Belgian coast

    Yue Y. Gao;Ludovic L. Lesven;David Gillan;Koen K. Sabbe

  • Correlations, partitioning and bioaccumulation of heavy metals between different compartments of Lake Balaton.

    Hong Lien Nguyen;Martine Leermakers;Marc Elskens;Fjo De Ridder

  • Pelagic production at the Celtic Sea shelf break

    Ian Joint;Roland Wollast;Lei Chou;Sonia Batten

  • Trace metal pollution and its influence on the community structure of soft bottom molluscs in intertidal areas of the Dar es Salaam coast, Tanzania

    Cyrus C. Rumisha;Cyrus C. Rumisha;Marc Elskens;Martine M. Leermakers;Marc Kochzius

  • Seasonal variation of phytoplankton community structure and nitrogen uptake regime in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean

    Semeneh Mengesha;Frank Dehairs;Michel Fiala;Marc Elskens

  • Export production in the Bay of Biscay as estimated from barium - barite in settling material: a comparison with new production

    F. Dehairs;Nathalie Fagel;A. Antia;R. Peinert

  • Comparison between δ13C of α-cellulose and bulk wood in the mangrove tree Rhizophora mucronata : Implications for dendrochemistry

    Anouk Verheyden;Anouk Verheyden;Maarten Roggeman;Steven Bouillon;Marc Elskens

  • Barium in twilight zone suspended matter as a potential proxy for particulate organic carbon remineralization: Results for the North Pacific

    F. Dehairs;S. Jacquet;N. Savoye;B.A.S. Van Mooy

  • Production and dissolution of biosilica, and changing microphytoplankton dominance in the Bay of Brest (France)

    C. Beucher;P. Tréguer;R. Corvaisier;A. M. Hapette

  • Phosphate adsorption on hydrous ferric oxide (HFO) at different salinities and pHs

    Hailong Zhang;Marc Elskens;Guoxing Chen;Lei Chou

Frequent Co-Authors

Willy Baeyens
Willy Baeyens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Frank Dehairs
Frank Dehairs Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Martine Leermakers
Martine Leermakers Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Damien Cardinal
Damien Cardinal Sorbonne University
Leo Goeyens
Leo Goeyens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Michael S. Denison
Michael S. Denison University of California, Davis
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Eric Deleersnijder
Eric Deleersnijder Université Catholique de Louvain
Luc André
Luc André Royal Museum for Central Africa
Michel Frankignoulle
Michel Frankignoulle University of Liège

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