COSTUK Meeting

St. Catherine's College, Oxford
10th to 12th September 2007

Programme

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Sunday 9th September
	Participants Arrive List of participants (*.pdf file)
Monday 10th September
09:00-10:00	Electron Interaction With Biomolecules And Clusters Embedded In Helium Droplets	Tilmann Märk
10:00-10:30	A New Understanding of Radiation Damage at the Molecular & Cellular Level	Melvyn Folkard
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:30	Proton transfer driven by excess electrons in bound anionic states	Maciej Gutowski
11:30-12:00	Electronic structure of proteins in the deep-UV	Jonathan D. Hirst
12:00-12:30	Low-energy electron collisions with uracil	Amar Dora
12:30-13:00	1. Ion-Molecule and Electron Attachment Investigations 2. Towards the modelling of molecular interactions in radiation therapy dosimetry	Richard P. Hugtenburg Chris Mayhew
13:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	Solar UV Disinfection of Waterborne Pathogens in Drinking Water for use in Developing Countries or in the Aftermath of Humanitarian Crises	Kevin G McGuigan
14:30-15:00	VUV irradiation of plasmid DNA – damage analysis	Małgorzata Śmiałek
15:00-15:30	Polarized Stimulated Emission Depletion in Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP)	Angus Bain
15:30-16:00	Tea
16:00-17:30	Poster Session See below for a list of posters
19:00-20:30	Dinner
Tuesday 11th September
09:00-10:00	Fragmentation of gas-phase nucleobases following direct ionisation and electron capture by incident protons	Sam Eden
10:00-10:30	DNA Strand Breakage and Fragmentation Induced by Low Energy Ions	Robert W McCullough
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:30	Aiming High – a new UK facility for targeted irradiation, analysis and modelling	Karen Kirkby
11:30-12:00	Biomolecules, Traps and Femtosecond Lasers	Ian Williams
12:00-12:30	Narrow-band orthovoltage x-ray generators for cancer therapy: Why? and How?	Fred Currell
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	Radiation Damage in Macromolecular Cryocrystallography	Elspeth Garman
14:30-15:00	Irradiation Studies on Protein Integrity in High Flux Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism (SRCD) Spectrometers show that Denaturation Caused by Local Heating Rather than Denaturation is the Primary Effect	Bonnie Wallace
15:00-15:30	Dissociation electron attachment to the DNA-water complex	Sylwia Ptasinska
15:30-16:00	Tea
16:00-16:30	Experimental Dissociative Electron Attachment Investigations	Tom Field
16:30-17:00	Anion TOF Detection for Electron transfer in Atom-biomolecule Collision Experiments	Rodrigo Antunes
19:00-20:30	Dinner
Wednesday 12th September
09:00-10:00	Thermalisation of high energy electrons in H2O: from MeV to meV energies	Gustavo Garcia
10:00-10:30	Production of low energy electrons and hydroxyl radicals by heavy ions	Simon Plimblott
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:30	Occupation Radiation Doses from Therapeutic, Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology	Jamie Harle
11:30-13:00	Discussion
13:00	Lunch and Departure
Posters Radiation Damage induced by soft X-rays in the DNA molecule Sylwia Ptasinska, Agnieszka Stypczynska, Tony Nixon and Nigel J. Mason Charge-Transfer Transitions in the Vacuum-Ultraviolet of Protein Circular Dichroism Spectra Benjamin M. Bulheller, Jonathan D. Hirst Removing Irradiation Problems Associated with a High Flux Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism Beamline Robert W. Janes Electronic excitation energies of pyrimidine probed by synchrotron radiation D Almeida, F Ferreira da Silva, R Antunes,N J Mason and P Limão-Vieira Non-Targeted Effects of Radiation: the Use of Computer Model M C Richard, K J Kirkby, R P Webb and N F Kirkby Searching for Global Minima in Conformational Spaces Sanliang Ling, Maciej Gutowski Irradiation of DNA-Amino Acid Complexes by Low-Energy (1 and 10 eV) Electrons Sylwia Ptasinska, Thanyawee Pengpan, Zejun Li, J. Richard Wagner and Léon Sanche A Fluorescence Imaging Apparatus for the Study of Biomolecular Plume Evolution During Laser Desorption from Surfaces T. L. Merrigan, C.A. Hunniford, R.W. McCullough, D.J. Timson