The Radiation Research Podcast

 

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Welcome to the October 2008 Radiation Research Podcast. 

In her News Minute, Vered introduces our FaceBook group, which will  give you listeners an extra opportunity to contribute toward the content of this podcast. At the time of publishing this podcast, the group lists 35 members. So…check it out!

The interview of the month is curated by Sylvain, who spoke to David Cassatt, a program officer at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) at the NIH. NIAID encourages communication among academic and industry/commercial researchers as well as government agencies involved in medical countermeasure development and drug candidate approval. To this end, on September 17–18, 2007 in Bethesda, MD, the NIAID Radiation Countermeasures Program sponsored a workshop on “Medical Countermeasures against Nuclear Threats: Radionuclide Decorporation Agents”. Dr. Cassatt discusses here his October 2008 Radiation Research article summarizing this workshop. Presentation slides from the workshop can also be found at http:/ /www3.niaid.nih.gov/research/topics/radnuc/MeetingSlides.htm.

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 October 2008 extra: bystander effect in vivo [19:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Anna Saran (pictured on the left) works at ENEA,  the Italian Institute for Research in New Technologies, Energy and the Environment, where she leads a research group that focuses on carcinogenesis in animal models. Serendipitously, her group stumbled upon a much sought-for experimental evidence: an in vivo carcinogenic bystander effect, which was presented last August in a PNAS paper, first authored by Maria Teresa Mancuso (pictured on the right) and titled Oncongenic bystander radiation effects in Patched heterozygous mouse cerebellum.

Massimo met with Anna Saran, in Rome, to discuss about their work.

This extra podcast  is open for discussion.

 

 The 2008 Failla Award: Mark Dewhirst [11:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At the Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society in Boston, Sylvain and Massimo spoke to Mark Dewhirst about his Failla Award. Their conversation spun from cycling hypoxia to the key values of a good mentor.

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 Marjan Boerma [16:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At the 54th meeting of the Radiation Research Society, in Boston, Vered and Massimo hosted an interview to Marjan Boerma, from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, first author of the paper ‘Influence of Endothelin 1 Receptor Inhibition on Functional, Structural and Molecular Changes in the Rat Heart after Irradiation‘.

This paper is open to discussion.

 

 2008 Bacq and Alexander Award: Eric Wright [11:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The European Radiation Research Society (ERRS) has long ago established the Bacq and Alexander Award, to recognize excellence of senior investigators.

Earlier this September, Massimo was in Tours (France) to attend the ERRS meeting and spoke to Eric Wright, the winner of the 2008 Bacq and Alexander Award, just a few hours before his award lecture and ceremony.

This podcast contains Eric Wright’s conversation with Massimo in France.

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 The August 2008 Radiation Research Podcast [20:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The August 2008 Radiation Research podcast is presented by Massimo.

In her News Minute, Vered speaks about a new evidence suggeting that Viruses are an intermediate form of life.

For the interview of the month, Massimo spoke to Jean-Pierre Pouget (left) from INSERM in Montepellier, France. Jean-Pierre Pouget is the first author of the paper Cell Membrane is a More Sensitive Target than Cytoplasm to Dense Ionization Produced by Auger Electrons. The paper focuses on evidence for the plasma membrane as a strategic target in radioimmunotherapy.

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 The July 2008 Radiation Research Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The July 2008 Radiation Research Podcast is here, presented by Tracy.

Vered Anzenberg’s News Minute features how radiation science can help dating artwork produced since World War II.

The interview of the month is curated by Sylvain, who spoke to Jeffrey Idle, from the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bern, Switzerland, and last author of the paper entitled Radiation Metabolomics. 1. Identification of Minimally Invasive Urine Biomarkers for Gamma-Radiation Exposure in Mice

Sara Rockwell, Editor of Radiation Research, presents the Radiation Research Editor’s Award, recognizing an outstanding paper submitted by a young scholar in the previous year. The inaugural award goes to Kurt Hofer. Also in Sara Rockwell’s column, some highlights on what is this month in the journal.

This forum welcomes your views on Jeffrey Idle and collaborators’ work.

 

 The June 2008 Radiation Research Podcast [13:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The June 2008 Radiation Research Podcast is here, presented by Vered.

In this month issue of the News Minute, Vered highlights progress in Positron Emission Tomography Technology (PET), talking about a Japanese breakthrough in PET scanning based on semi-conductor detector technology.

This month’s interview is hosted by Massimo, who spoke to Dave Springer and John Miller, from Pacific North West Laboratories and Washington State Tri-Cities, respectively. The work that they published with several co-authors is entitled Profiling Mitochondrial Proteins in Radiation-Induced Genome-Unstable Cell Lines with Persistent Oxidative Stress by Mass Spectrometry.

This paper is open to your comments.

 

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The May 2008 Radiation Research podcast is presented by Massimo.

Massimo spoke to Jean-Marc Bertho (pictured left) from IRSN, France, first author of the paper New Biological Indicators to Evaluate and Monitor Radiation-Induced Damage: An Accident Case Report.
The paper deals with a radiation accident in France and a discussion on biological indicators of radiation damage in a human individual.

Sara Rockwell, Editor-in-Chief of Radiation Research, highlights the new NIH policies that dictate public access of scientific papers on the NIH repository PubMed Central, and introduces some of the papers in this month’s issue of Radiation Research.

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