DOE-NASA Annual WS June 2001

Wednesday, June 27
Welcome
DOE - David Thomassen
NASA - Walter Schimmerling
Guest speaker:  Claire Fraser
"Microbial Genome Sequencing:  Insights Into Physiology and Evolution"
Session A - Tools and Technology
Overview speaker:  Leslie Braby
Panel:  New Technologies and Exposure Facilities
LA Braby, MS Lipton, D Lowenstein, G Nelson, W Wilson, H Yasuda
Panel:  Radiation Environments of Concern to NASA
FF Badavi, G Badwhar, MS Clowdsley, G DeAngelis, P Goldhagen, J Miller, G Reitz, JW Wilson
Panel: Radiation Dosimetry and Shielding in Space
BM Anderson, S Blattnig, J Clem, MY Kim, GA Feldman, BB Gersey, RH Maurer, J Nealy, L Townsend, RK Tripathi, RC Singleterry, J Shinn, A Tang, J Tweed, SA Thibeault, J Verhage, R Wilkins
Guest speaker:  Douglas Spitz
"How Metabolic Oxidation/Reduction Reactions Might Contribute to Cellular Responses to Ionizing Radiation"
Session B - Characterization of Initial Biological Damage and Repair
Overview speaker:  Susan Wallace
Panel:  DNA, Mutation, and Chromosome Damage and Repair
M Cornforth, WS Dynan, T Kawata, A Kronenberg, B Rydberg, L Thompson, H Wu
Panel:  Radiation vs Endogenous Damage and Repair
B Sutherland, A Haung, K Held, P O'Neill, M Pinak, L Prakash, F Yatagai, Y Zhang
Thursday, June 28
Guest speaker:  Mina Bissell
"The structural basis of tissue specificity:  epithelial polarity overrides genomic mutation in apoptosis & cancer"
Session C - Processing of Cellular and Molecular Damage
Overview speaker: Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff
Panel:  Gene Induction and Adaptive Response
SA Amundson, SM Bailey, T Criswell, L Green, J Haber, B Marples, L Redpath, J Tucker, R Warters, T Weber, A Wyrobek, SM Yannone
Panel:  Bystander Effects and Genomic Instability
J Beford, H Evans, C Geard, E Goodwin, B Lehnert, J Little, K Leskov, M Kadhim, T Onhishi, K Prise
Christian Desaintes:  The European Union Radiation Research Program
Ruth Neta:  The Russian Human Radiobiology Tissue Repository
John Dicello:  The NASA Space Radiation Biology Institute (NSBRI)
William Blakely:  DoD's Biological Dosimetry Research Program
Guest speaker:  Sharon Friedman
"The Problems of Communicating About Radiation"
Session D - Communication and Outreach
Panel:  Communication and Outreach
T Brooks, R Bull, J Flynn, S Friedman, J Wassom
NASA Particle Accelerator User's Meeting
Friday, June 29
Guest speaker:  Michael Gould
"Genetics and Genomics of the Susceptibility to Breast Cancer in a Rat Model"
Session E - Tissue and Animal Models
Overview speaker:  Eleanor Blakely
Panel:  Late Degenerative Radiation Effects
E Blakely, BA Carnes, HJ Majima, M Pecaut, B Rabin, B Shukitt-Hale, ME Vasquez
Panel:  Expression of Radiation-Induced Cancer
MH Barcellos-Hoff, F Burns, PY Chang, D Gridley, A Miller, J Morris, K Suzukawa, G Woloschak
Guest speaker:  Kenneth Mossman
"The Radiobiological Basis for Regulatory Decision-Making"
Session F - Modeling and Radiation Risk Assessment
Overview speaker:  Francis Cucinotta
Panel:  Modeling Risk of Low Doses, Low Dose Rates, and Different Radiation Qualities
D Brenner, K Bogen, A Chatterjee, F Cucinotta, S Moolgavkar, T Radivoyevitch, R Scott
Session G - Genetic Susceptibility in Radiation-Induced Cancer
Overview speaker:  Eric Hall
Panel:  Genetic Susceptibility
M Bose, E Hall, H Mohrenweiser, J Schwartz