The Radiation Research Podcast

 

 Ian Stratford [21:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the May issue of the Radiation Research podcast. In this issue, Vered’s News Minute focuses on collaborative research via The Citizen Scientist.

The interview of the month is with Dr Ian Stratford (pictured above by Suzi Davies) from Manchester, last author of a paper appeared in the May issue of Radiation Research and entitled  The Impact of Intracellular Generation of Nitric Oxide on the Radiation Response of Human Tumor Cells.

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 The April 2009 Radiation Research Podcast [33:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the April issue of the Radiation Research podcast. In this issue, the News minute with Vered Anzenberg focuses on self-experimentation.

The interview of the month is with Joel Bedford (pictured on the left), Yuanlin Peng (middle), and Christy Warner (right) from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, co-authors, with others, of the twin papers entitled Radiation Leukemogenesis in Mice: Loss of PU.1 on Chromosome 2 in CBA and C57BL/6 Mice after Irradiation with 1 GeV/nucleon 56Fe Ions, X Rays or γ Rays. Part I. Experimental Observations and Part II. Theoretical Considerations Based on Microdosimetry and the Initial Induction of Chromosome Aberrations.

Last, Sara Rockwell, Editor-in-chief of Radiation Research, highlighting what’s this month in the Journal.

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 Interview of Marlis Frankenberg-Schwager [19:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this month’s episode, an interview with Marlis Frankenberg-Schwager from the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Goettingen, Germany.

The title of her manuscript was: Single-Strand Annealing, Conservative Homologous Recombination, Nonhomologous DNA End Joining, and the Cell Cycle-Dependent Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks Induced by Sparsely or Densely Ionizing Radiation.

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 The February 2009 Radiation Research Podcast [24:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this month’s episode, the News minute with Vered Anzenberg on evolution and left-handedness, an interview with Fiona Stewart (left) and Marion Scharpfenecker from NKI, Amsterdam, and our regular column by Sara Rockwell, Editor-in-chief of Radiation Research, highlighting what’s this month in the Journal.

The paper featured this month is entitled Radiation-Induced Activation of TGF-β Signaling Pathways in Relation to Vascular Damage in Mouse Kidneys.

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 Interview with Berkeley team [28:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the January 2009 Radiation Research Podcast.  Authors for this month interview are scientists working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California. Picture below shows them from left to right: Sanchita Bhattacharya, Francesco Marchetti, Xiu R. Lowe and Andrew J. Wyrobek

This month, Sylvain Costes discusses with Drs Andrew Wyrobek and Sanchita Bhattacharya suprising results about the low dose response of brain tissues in mice. Their work is entitled: Early Brain Response to Low-Dose Radiation Exposure Involves Molecular Networks and Pathways Associated with Cognitive Functions, Advanced Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease.

 

 Interview with Ron Mitchel [36:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the December 2008 Radiation Research Podcast. In this issue, an interview with Dr Ron Mitchel of Atomic Energy of Canada, first author of the paper entitled: A Lower Dose Threshold for the in vivo Protective Adaptive Response to Radiation. Tumorigenesis in Chronically Exposed Normal andTrp53 Heterozygous C57BL/6 Mice

Also in this issue Sara Rockwell highlighting what’s this month in the journal and announcing the upcoming Radiation Research Society Annual Meeting in Savannah, Georgia.

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 David R Cassat: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.

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 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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