Schedule:

Thursday 22nd August Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, PS108
8:30am	Douglas P. Wells Idaho Accelerator Center, Idaho State University Radiation Research Opportunities at the Idaho Accelerator Center
9:00am	Michael A. Resnick National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/NIH Double-strand breaks and repair: an ENDless pursuit
9:45am	Michael Weinfeld Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta The role of polynucleotide kinase in processing radiation-induced DNA strand-break termini
10:30am	Break
10:45am	Frank Roberto INEEL Research Center Radiotolerance in bacteria: evolutionary significance and experimental approaches
11:30am	Lunch Break
1:00pm	Antone L. Brooks Environmental Science, Washington State University, Tri-Cities The role of Microbeams in Radiation Biology
1:45pm	John Ward Department of Radiology, UCSD Questions about Radiation-Induced DNA Double Strand Breaks
Friday 23rd August Plant Sciences Lecture Hall, Dept. Biological Sciences
8:30am	Larry Thompson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory How DNA repair and checkpoint pathways minimize genetic damage from ionizing radiation
9:15am	R. Joel Lowy Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute Ionizing Radiation Inactivation of Viruses
10:00am	Bjorn Rydberg Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory DNA double-strand breaks induced by high LET radiation and formation of chromosome aberrations
10:45am	Break
11:00am	John Battista Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University Deinococcus radiodurans: Mechanisms of Extreme Ionizing Radiation Resistance
11:45am	Lunch Break
1:15pm	Alexander James Roy Bishop Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Atm/p53 dependent X-ray induced DNA homologous recombination
2:00pm	David Murray Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta Radiation quality, p53 signaling and biological outcome