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.