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.