RRS Podcasts

Please see the attached statement from Derek Gates about the new Podcasts!

http://lsmr1.lbl.gov:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Radiation+Research+Society/
http://www.radres.org/RRS%20podcast%20March%202007.mp3





Dear RRS Member,

The first podcast is now available online thanks to a group of RRS members.



Podcast Website



The March 2007 podcast, Issue 1


Featuring one paper from the January issue and one from the February issue of Radiation Research. Our first interview is to Dr. Eric Hendrickson, senior author of the paper "The Lethality of Ku86 (XRCC5) Loss-of-Function Mutations in Human Cells is Independent of p53 (TP53)". The second interview is to Linda Yasui and Amin Kassis, co-authors, with colleagues, of "Using Hoechst 33342 to Target Radioactivity to the Cell Nucleus". Finally, the pod gets the blessing of Sara Rockwell, Editor in chief of the Journal, who highlights the content of the March issue. Special thanks to Sara Rockwell for her contribution.



Since this was our first podcast, surely we have a lot to learn. We are aware of the low quality of the audio that we recorded, and we are embarking on a fund raising campaign to acquire a more appropriate podcasting station as well as a telephone-conferencing recording software.

The next issue is scheduled to appear in June 2007. We plan on matching the frequency of the podcast to that of the journal Radiation Research by the end of 2007.

For your critics and suggestions, which would be most welcome, please email us at podcast@radres.org



On behalf of the RRS Podcast Production Team,

Derek Gates

RRS Association Manager

Audio Interviews with 2006 Award winners

At the 2006 RRS Meeting in Philadelphia the 2006 Award winners for the Marie Curie Award (Lei She) and the Jack Fowler Award (Tracey Dobbs) were recorded in an interview. Check out the link to hear these award winning scientists!

http://www.kumc.edu/rrsnews/Audio/Audio_Interviews.htm

What's Hot speaker

The Radiation Research SIT Committee is pleased to announce the Dr. Thea Tisty from the University of California San Francisco is going to the be the “What’s Hot” speaker at this year’s ICRR. We are all very excited to have this opportunity to here her speak. Here’s an overview of some of her research as posted on her website:

“We study the epigenetic and genetic alterations that confer genomic instability and fuel cancer initiation and progression. Recently we identified a variant subpopulation of human mammary epithelial cells (vHMEC) that express properties of premalignant lesions without any exposure of the cells to carcinogens. These variant cells exist in vivo in disease-free women. We have also demonstrated that stromal changes extend beyond a supportive role and play key functional roles in facilitating tumorigenesis. We are studying the ability of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts from human tissues to facilitate the transition to tumorigenicity in an otherwise non-tumorigenic cell population.”

Please be sure to attend this seminar at this year’s ICRR!

Kathy Mason receives a special award for her mentoring excellence

Kathy Mason received a special excellence in mentoring award for her outstanding commitment to the scholar contingent of the Radiation Research Society and her continuous support to its SIT committee. The special award was made at the Business Meeting during the 53rd Annual Meeting of the RRS in Philadelphia, PA, on November 7, 2006.
Photo by courtesy of James Osborne (2005)

RRS 2006 Annual Meeting: SIT events day by day

Please remember that throughout the meeting, the SIT lounge in room 106b will have three PC stations with internet access, a noticeboard with announcements and job posts, and a table with chairs.

Saturday, November 4th

SIT Workshop
8.30-9.30 Freya Schafer: Career planning and academic ladder transitions
9.30-10.30 Bob Sutherland: Alternatives to academia after training in radiation
sciences
10.30-10.45 coffee & tea break
10.45-11.45 Mike Joiner: How to prepare good posters and scientific
presentations
11.45-12.30pm Sara Rockwell: How to review a paper
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
11.30-12.00 Brad Wouters to introduce grant writing workshop
2.00-3.30 Group excersise “Write a grant”
3.30-4.00 Coffee & tea break
4.00-5.15 Presentation of grant proposals
5.15-5.45 Evaluation of proposals and presentation of award for “best grant”

Social with ARRO Residents
7:30-9:30 pm on top ot the LOEWS Hotel, 1200 Market Street

Sunday, November 5th

Failla Reception
6:00-8:00 pm Commonwleath Hall - Loews Hotel, 1200 Market Street

Monday, November 6th

SIT Luncheon
12:00 pm Liberty Room, the Marriot Hotel. Tables sign-up sheet in the SIT lounge in room 106b

Marie Curie Lecture: Lei Shi
5:55-6:15 pm followed by Awards Mixer in the Foyer

Tuesday, November 7th

Business Meeting
12:30-1:30 pm in room 103BC. Events:

• Jack Fowler Award: Tracey Dobbs
• Excellence in Mentoring Award: Joel Bedford
• SIT Awards and group photo

Boxed lunches will be made available here at the price of $20 and may be purchased beforehand at the registration booth. It you are hungry and need lunch, act promptly as it will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Wednesday, November 8th

What's Hot Symposium
09:00-10:00 - Dr. Vincenzo Costanzo

Tracey Dobbs wins the 2006 Jack Fowler Award

Tracey Dobbs is the winner of the 2006 Jack Fowler Award of the Radiation Research Society. Tracey is currently a third year PhD student under Professor P. O’Neill and Prof I.M. Jones at the University of Reading/Medical Research in Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Tracey will be presenting a poster (#22) on Sunday, November 5th at the RRS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA on her ongoing work regarding the repair of complex double-strand DNA breaks when 8-oxoguanine is found in close proximity to the break termini. Tracey’s presented work will be focusing on both the processing of the lesion and the break individually, but she will also be looking at the hierarchy of the repair and the interplay between non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) and base excision repair (BER). The members of the SIT Committee will produce an audio interview to Tracey and publish it on the website of the Society after the Annual Meeting.

Dr Lei Shi wins the 2006 Marie Curie Award

Dr Lei Shi, M.D. Ph.D., is the winner of the 2006 Marie Curie Award of the Radiation Research Society. Dr Shi is a fellow in Dr. Brunso-Bechtold's laboratory at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr Shi's Marie Curie Award lecture, scheduled for November 6th at 5:55pm at the RRS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, will focus on his work on whole brain irradiation for metastatic brain tumors and long-term radiation-induced brain injury in a rodent model. Dr Shi will also give an oral presentation titled "Changes in the composition of NMDA receptors in hippocampal CA1 are associated with radiation-induced spatial learning and memory impairment" at mini symposium 19 (Normal Tissue Response to Radiation) on Wednesday, November 8th, at 10:15AM. The members of the SIT Committee will produce an audio interview to Dr. Shi and publish it on the website of the Society after the Annual Meeting.