Programme
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Wednesday 16th March
 
 
Afternoon Arrival and Registration  
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner  
     
Thursday 17th March
 
 

08:00 - 08:45

Breakfast

 

09:00 - 09:30

Opening

Nico Stolterfoht and
Nigel Mason

  Chair: Nico Stolterfoht  

09:30 - 10:10

Modelling transient negative ion formations
in gas-phase biosystems (T)

Franco Gianturco CASPUR, Roma, Italy
 

10:10 - 10:40

Coffee Break
 

 

  Chair: Kevin McGuigan  

10:40 - 11:10

Ionizing radiation track structure and DNA damage (T)

Melvyn Folkard
Gray Cancer Institute, Northwood, UK

11:10 - 11:40

The use of isotope and site labelling for the identification of DEA peaks in biomolecules (T)

Paul Scheier
Universität Insbruck, Austria

11:40 - 12:05

Photo-absorption measurements of protein chromophores in vacuo

Lars Andersen
University of Aarhus, Denmark

12:15 -

Lunch and free time
 

 

  Chair: David Field  

14:00 - 14:20

Ab initio calculation of the potential energy surfaces describing electron transfer in a stack dimer of DNA bases

Emilie Cauët
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

14:20 - 14:40

Ion-biomolecule collisions: Fragmentation products and cross Sections

John Sabin
University of Odense, Denmark

14:40 - 15:00

Absolute cross sections for the fragmentation of water molecules in
collisions with slow He2+ ions

Przemek Sobocinski
Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin, Germany

15:00 - 15:20

Ion irradiation of DNA

Sandrine Lacombe
Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France

15:20 - 15:50

Coffee Break
 

 

  Chair: Bratislav Marinkovic  

15:50 - 16:20

Low and high energy radiation femtochemistry of biological interest (T)

Yann A. Gauduel
Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, Paris, France

16:20 - 16:40

Low energy electron interactions with porphine derivates

Sylwia Ptasinska
Universität Innsbruck, Austria

16:40 - 17:05

Energy deposition model at molecular level in tissue equivalent materials

Gustavo Garcia
CSIC, Madrid, Spain
 

  Chair: Ronnie Hoekstra  

17:05

Poster Introduction

 

18:15

Session End

 

19:00 - 20:00

Dinner

 

20:00 -

Poster Session

 

 

 

 

Friday 18th March
 

 

08:00 - 08:45

Breakfast

 

  Chair: Eugen Illenberger  

09:00 - 09:40

Conical intersections of potential-energy surfaces and ultra fast deactivation of excited electronic states (T)

Wolfgang Domcke
Technische Universität München, Germany

09:40 - 10:20

Which radiation track structure properties couple physics interactions to biology
effects (T)

Herwig Paretzke
Institut für Strahlenschutz, Neuherberg, Germany

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee Break
 

 

  Chair: Marie-Christine Bacchus  

10:50 - 11:25

DNA damage, repair and mutagenesis (T)

Evelyne Sage
Institute Curie, Paris, France

11:25 - 12:00

Radiation-induced bystander responses (T)

Kevin Prise
Gray Cancer Institute, Northwood, UK

12:15 - 13:00

Lunch and free time

 

14.00 – 18.00

Excursion to Potsdam

 

19:00 - 20:00

Dinner

 

20:00 -

Poster Session

 

 

 

 

Saturday 19th March
 

 

08:00 - 08:45

Breakfast

 

  Chair: Michel Farizon  

09:00 - 09:35

Supramolecular and subcellular effects of ionizing radiation (T)

Bojidar Galutzov
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria

09:35 - 10:10

Radiolysis of DNA binding proteins and functional consequences (T)

Melanie Spotheim-Maurizot
CBM, Orleans, France

10:10 - 10:30

Effect of estrogen receptor on radiation-induced damage to DNA

Ing.Viktorie Stisova
Nuclear Physics Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break
 

 

  Chair: Rita Plukiene  

11:00 - 11:40

Biomolecular ions in accelerators and storage rings (T)

Preben Hvelplund
University of Aarhus, Denmark

11:40 - 12:00

Ion induced fragmentation of DNA building blocks: isolated molecules and clusters

Thomas Schlathölter
KVI, Groningen, The Netherlands

12:15 - 14:05

Lunch and Free Time
 

 

  Chair: Bela Sulik  

14:05 - 14:30

Sources traps and rings which can be used for radiation damage experiments at the molecular level (T)

Hendrik Cederquist
Stockholm University, Stockhom, Sweden

14:30 - 15:10

Ion-induced fragmentation and aggregation of small biomolecular systems (T)

Bernd Huber
CIRIL, Caen, France
 

15:10 - 15:45

Formation of ionization clusters in
nanometric targets by electrons (T)

Berndt Grosswendt
PTB, Braunschweig, Germany

15:45 - 16:10 Microdosimetric measurements of track structure quantities Stanislaw Pszona
Soltan Institute, Otwok/Swierk, Poland

16:10 - 16:40

Coffee Break
 

 

  Chair: Nigel Mason  

16:40 - 17:05

Microscopic target structures in the biophysical simulation of radiation effects
in cells

Werner Friedland
GSF, Neuherberg, Germany

17:05 - 17:30

Modelling the evolution of radiobiological damage with focus on target structures

Andrea Ottolenghi
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

17:30 - 17:50

Free radical DNA damage and repair - a chemical perspective

Clemens von Sonntag
MPI
 

17:50 - 18:10

Final Remarks and Goodbye

Herwig Paretzke
Institut für Strahlenschutz, Neuherberg, Germany

19:00 - 20:00

Dinner

 

 

 

 

Sunday 20th March
 

 

08:00 - 09:00

Breakfast

 

09:00 – 11:00

Committee meeting

 

 

Morning: departure