Program
Radiation Biomarker Workshop
NASA Ames Research Center - Bldg. 943 (Public Affairs Office Bldg.)
27 - 28 September 2007
| CHAIR: |
Tore Straume, Ph.D. Chief, Radiation & Space Biotechnologies Branch Space Biosciences Division NASA Ames Research Center |
| Thursday September 27 Morning Session |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration & Coffee and Pastries |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome Steve Zornetzer, Ph.D., Associate Director for Institutions and Research, NASA Ames Research Center |
| 9:10 – 9:30 | Overview, key Issues and goals Tore Straume, Ph.D., NASA Ames Research Center |
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Biomarker research of space radiation effects at NASA Francis Cucinotta, Ph.D., NASA Johnson Space Center |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Gene expression in the central nervous system of mice at low and high doses of gamma rays, and molecular signatures of radioadaptive protection Andrew J. Wyrobek, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Integrated platform for radiation biodosimetry and triage using gene expression Sally Amundson, Ph.D., Columbia University |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Catered In-Room Lunch |
| Afternoon Session | |
| 1:00 – 1:45 | Multivariate analysis of cytokine gene expression after low dose radiation exposure Nicholas Dainiak, M.D., Yale University |
| 1:45 – 2:30 | Lessons from biodefense biomarkers Kenneth Turteltaub, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Coffee Break |
| 2:45 – 3:30 | Individual susceptibility and biomarkers of radiation sensitivity William Morgan, Ph.D., University of Maryland |
| 3:30 – 4:15 | Space exploration biodosimetry - use of integrated and multiple biomarkers William F. Blakely, Ph.D., Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute |
| 4:15 – 5:00 | Biomarkers: confounding factors Terry Pellmar, Ph.D., Armed Forces Radiobiological Research Institute |
| Friday September 28 | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Radiation oncology perspective on biomarkers Srinivasan Vijayakumar, M.D., Andrew Vaughan, Ph.D., Stephen Franklin, M.D., and Allen Chen, M.D., UC Davis Medical Center |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Comprehensive query of large genomes using tiling microarrays Viktor Stolc, Ph.D., NASA Ames Research Center |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Structural proteomics at both the small molecule and large protein complex level Julie Leary, Ph.D., UC Davis Genome Center |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 11:10 | DNA double strand breaks as biomarkers of cancer risk in the rat skin model Fredric Burns, Ph.D., NYU School of Medicine |
| 11:10 – 11:55 | Biomarkers from the world of hematology David Loftus, M.D., Ph.D., NASA Ames Research Center |
| 11:55 – 12:00 | Comments by Chair, Tore Straume |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Catered In-Room Lunch |
| 12:45 – 2:00 | Speakers Roundtable Discussion |
