The Radiation Research Podcast

 

 Interview with Robert Bristow [38:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the January 2010 issue of the Radiation Research Podcast.

Nirmal Bhogal and Robert Bristow

Our interview of the month is with Robert Bristow, in which we discuss his recent work which appeared in the January issue of the Journal. The paper is entitled Late Residual γ-H2AX Foci In Murine Skin are Dose Responsive and Predict Radiosensitivity In Vivo

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 Disha Dayal and Doug Spitz [30:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the December issue of the Radiation Research Podcast. In this issue, Vered’s News Minute introduces our new jingles, written and performed by Solarpunch.

Our interview of the month is to Disha Dayal (pictured on the left) and Douglas Spitz (pictured on the right), to discuss about their recent work appeared in the December issue of the Journal, of which they are first and last authors, respectively. The paper is entitled Mitochondrial Complex II Dysfunction Can Contribute Significantly to Genomic Instability after Exposure to Ionizing Radiation.

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Happy festive season to all our listeners!

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 Khan and Eastman [24:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the November issue of the Radiation Research podcast!

In this issue, Vered’s News Minute focuses on the risks of radiation exposure from multiple X-ray imaging tests.

The interview of the month is with Drs. Khan and Eastman from The Dartmouth Medical School and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, describing the potentials of tumor pO₂ measurements and the use of cell cycle checkpoint inhibitors in cancer treatment. This discussion is based on their article that appeared in the November issue of Radiation Research: Radiotherapy in Conjunction with 7-Hydroxystaurosporine: A Multimodal Approach with Tumor pO₂ as a Potential Marker of Therapeutic Response

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 Joel Greenberger screens for radioprotectors [30:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The October 2009 episode is curated by Marjan Boerma and features her interview with Dr. Joel Greenberger on hunting for radioprotector drugs using short interfering RNA screening. The title of the featured paper is Synthetic Protection Short Interfering RNA Screen Reveals Glyburide as a Novel Radioprotector.

Introducing this issue, Vered’s News Minute highlights some of the popular science books that received an award from the Royal Society this year.

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 Sisko Salomaa Bacq and Alexander 2009 [16:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sisko Salomaa from STUK, the Finnish Nuclear Safety Authority, is the winner of the 2009 Bacq and Alexander Award. Massimo met her in Prague, Czech Republic, last August at the 37^th annual meeting of the European Society for Radiation Research, and discussed with her about her research career.

Find out more about Sisko Salomaa’s career in the radiation sciences on the STUK website.

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 Interview on Bystander [33:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is a special issue of the podcast, recorded at the RRS 2009 meeting in Savannah, Georgia.

In this recording, Sylvain Costes speaks to Drs Jack Little, Edouard Azzam, and Mary-Helen Barcellos Hoff, about radiation-induced bystander effects.

The speakers gave their own definition of the radiation-induced bystander effects, highlighting the history of the phenomenology,  providing some early anecdotes, and much, much more.

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 August 2009 Podcast [26:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the August issue of the Radiation Research podcast. In this issue, Vered’s News Minute focuses on the anniversary of the Word Wide Web.

The interview of the month is with Dr Marta Parazzini (In the picture, fifth from left) and Paolo Ravazzani (sixth from right), both from CNR in Milan, Italy, co-authors of the paper appeared in the August issue of Radiation Research and entitled Effects of UMTS Cellular Phones on Human Hearing: Results of the European Project ‘‘EMFnEAR’’.

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 July 2009 Interview - Part 1 [15:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 July 2009 Interview - Part 2 [20:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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. 2. Dose- and Time-Dependent Urinary Excretion of Deaminated Purines and Pyrimidines after Sublethal Gamma-Radiation Exposure in Mice.

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 Radiation Research June 2009 [17:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the June issue of the Radiation Research podcast, live from the “Heavy Ions in Therapy And Space Symposium 2009″, held in Cologne, Germany.

Dr. Sylvain Costes (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) interviews Dr Joel Bedford (Colorado State University) , last author of a paper appeared in the June issue of Radiation Research and entitled Comparison of Several Radiation Effects in Human MCF10A Mammary Epithelial Cells Cultured as 2D Monolayers or 3D Acinar Stuctures in Matrigel.

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 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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