Publications

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Published Papers

2008

Chromatin structure influences the sensitivity of DNA to γ-radiation.
Falk M., Lukasova E, Kozubek S.
Biochim Biophys Acta MCR 1783(12) 2398-2414. (2008)

Local changes of higher-order chromatin structure during DSB-repair. Falk M., Lukasova E., Gabrielova B., Ondrej V., Kozubek S.
Journal of Physics Conference Series 101 (2008) 012018

2007

Chromatin dynamics during DSB repair
Martin Falk, Emilie Lukasova, Barbora Gabrielova, Vladan Ondrej, Stanislav Kozubek
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research Volume 1773, Issue 10,October 2007, Pages 1534-1545.

Disinfection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in drinking water using natural sunlight and the photocatalyst TiO2.
Méndez-Hermida F, Ares-Mazás E, McGuigan KG, Boyle M, Sichel C, Fernández-Ibáñez P.
J Photochem Photobiol B. (2007) 88: 105-11

2006

Electron-loss and target ionization cross sections for water vapor by 20-150 keV neutral atomic hydrogen impact
F. Gobet, S. Eden, B. Coupier, J. Tabet, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, M.J. Gaillard, S. Ouaskit, M. Carré, and T.D. Märk
Chem. Phys. Lett. 421 (2006) 68

Electron spectroscopy in proton collisions with dry gas phase uracil base
P.Moretto-Capelle and A. Le Padellec
Phys.Rev.A 74 (2006) 062705

Ion-Induced Biomolecular Radiation Damage: From Isolated Nucleobases to Nucleobase Clusters
Thomas Schlathölter, Fresia Alvarado, Sadia Bari, Aurelie Lecointre, Ronnie Hoekstra, Virgil Bernigaud, Bruno Manil, Jimmy Rangama, and Bernd Huber
ChemPhysChem 2006, 7, 2339 – 2345

Batch solar disinfection (SODIS) inactivates oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum and cysts of Giardia muris in drinking water.
McGuigan KG, Méndez-Hermida F, Castro-Hermida JA, Ares-Mazás E, Kehoe SC, Boyle M, Sichel C, Fernández-Ibáñez P, Meyer BP, Ramalingham S, Meyer EA.
J Appl Microbiol. 2006;101(2):453-463

Quantification of ion-induced molecular fragmentation of isolated 2-deoxy-D-ribose molecules
Fresia Alvarado, Sadia Bari, Ronnie Hoekstra and Thomas Schlathölter
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 8 (2006) 1922

Modification of DNA radiolysis by DNA-binding proteins. Structural aspects.
Davídková, M., Štísová, V., Goffinont, S., Gillard, N., Castaing, B., Spotheim-Maurizot, M.
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2005, submitted.

High resolution VUV photoabsorption cross section of Dimethylsulphoxide (CH₃)₂SO
L Drage, P Cahillane, S Spyros, N J Mason, S V Hoffmann and P Limão- Vieira
Chem. Phys. Lett., (2006) to be submitted.

Acetic acid electronic state spectroscopy by high-resolution VUV photo-absorption, electron impact, He(I) photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio calculations
P Limão-Vieira, A Giuliani, M-J Hubin-Franskin, J Delwiche, R Parafita, R Mota, D Duflot, J-P Flament, E Drage, P Cahillane, N J Mason, S V Hoffmann
Chem. Phys., in press.

Batch solar disinfection (SODIS) inactivates oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum and cysts of Giardia muris in drinking water.
McGuigan KG*, Méndez-Hermida F, Castro-Hermida JA, Ares-Mazás E, Kehoe SC, Boyle M, Sichel C, Fernández-Ibáñez P, Meyer BP, Ramalingham S, Meyer EA J. Appl. Microbiol. In press. 2006.

VUV electronic spectroscopy of water under cellular conditions
R Mota, R Parafita, M J P Maneira, N J Mason, G Garcia, P A Ribeiro, M Raposo and P Limão-Vieira
Radiat. Prot. Dosim., (2006)submitted in 2005.

Inelastic scattering and stopping power of electrons in methane based tissue equivalent materials at intermediate and high energies, 10 – 10000 eV
J C Oller, A Muñoz, J M Pérez, F Blanco, P Limão-Vieira, G Garcia
Chem. Phys. Lett., in press.

Radiobiological Yeast Cell Experiments Using Self Assembled Monolayer Technology
R. Plukienė, Š. Vaitekonis, E. Stanaitytė and D.Čitavičius
Lithuanian Journal of Physics (submitted for publication in 2006)

Radiation damage to DNA-protein specific complexes: Estrogen response element – estrogen receptor complex.
Štísová, V., Goffinont, S., Spotheim-Maurizot, M., Davídková, M.
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2005, submitted.

2005

Dissociation of water molecules upon keV H+- and Heq+-induced ionization
F. Alvarado, R. Hoekstra, T. Schlathölter
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 38 (2005) 4085–4094

Radiolysis of DNA-protein complexes.
Běgusová, M., Gillard, N., Sy, D., Castaing, B., Charlier, M., Spotheim-Maurizot, M.
Radiation Physics and Chemistry, (2005) 72, 265-270.

Electron impact ionization of C₃H₈: appearance energies and temperature effects
Denifl S., Matejčík S., Skalný J. D., Stano M., Mach P., Urban J., Scheier P., Märk T. D., Barszczewska W.
Chem. Phys. Lett. 402 (2005), 80 –87.

Electron impact ionization of CH₃D and CD₄ near threshold: Isotope and temperature effects
Denifl S., Matejcik S., Skalny J. D., Mark T. D.
Int. J. of Mass Spectrom 248 (2005), 29-35.

Positive and negative ion formation via slow electron collisions with 5-bromouridine
S. Denifl, P. Candori, S. Ptasinska, P. Limao-Vieira, V. Grill, T.D. Märk, P. Scheier
Eur. Phys. J. D 35 (2005) 391-398
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/ionen-angewandte-physik/nanobio/publ/papers/epjd35_391.pdf)

Ab initio and experimental study of the K-shell spectra of 2,5-dihydrofuran.
D.Duflot, J.-P. Flament, A. Giuliani, J. Heinesch, and M.-J. Hubin-Franskin.
Chemical Physics, 310 (2005) 67-75.

Negative corona discharge in flowing N₂O and its mixtures with N₂ and O₂
Galuska D., Manole D., Vladoiu R., Matejcik S., Skalny J. D.
J. Opt. Elec. and Adv. Mat. 7 (2005), 2371-2378.

Temperature dependence of electron attachment to CHCl₂Br a crossed beams study
I. Ipolyi, S. Matejcik, and E. Illenberger
Eur. Phys. J. D 35 (2005) 257-260

Temperature dependences in dissociative electron attachment to CCl₃Br
I. Ipolyi, M. Stano, S. Matejčík
Acta Phys. Slov., 55 (2005) 531

A new probe for ion temperature measurements in the tokamak scrape-off layer
Kocan M., Panek R., Gunn J. P., Stockel J., Skalny J. D.
ECA 29C (2005), P- 2.008

Reactions in trifluoroacetic acid (CF3COOH) induced by low energy electron attachment
Judith Langer, Michal Stano, Sascha Gohlke, Victor Foltin, Stefan Matejcik, Eugen Illenberger
Chem. Phys. Lett. 419 (2005) 228–232

Low energy electron driven reactions in single formic acid molecules (HCOOH) and their homogeneous clusters
I Martin, T. Skalicky, J. Langer, H. Abdoul-Carime, G. Karwasz, E. Illenberger, M. Stano, S. Matejcik,
Phys . Chem. Chem. Phys . 7 (2005) 2212 -2216

Elastic scattering of electrons from tetrahydrofuran molecule.
R. Milosavljević, A. Giuliani, D. Šević, M.-J.Hubin-Franskin, and B.P.Marinković.
European Journal of Physics. D, 35 (2005) 239-248

Water VUV electronic state spectroscopy by synchrotron radiation.
R. Mota, R. Parafita, A. Giuliani, M.-J. Hubin-Franskin, J.M.C. Lourenço, G. Garcia, S.V. Hoffmann, N.J. Mason, P.A. Ribeiro, M. Raposo, and P. Limão-Vieira.
Chem. Phys. Lett. 416 (2005) 152-159.

Dissociative electron attachment to gas phase alanine
Ptasinska, S. Denifl, P. Candori, S. Matejcik, P. Scheier, T.D. Märk,
Chem. Phys. Lett., 403 (2005) 107-112

Bond- and Site-Selective Loss of H- from Pyrimidine Bases
S. Ptasinska, S. Denifl, V. Grill, T.D. Märk, E. Illenberger and P. Scheier
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 093201
(http://www2.uibk.ac.at/ionen-angewandte-physik/nanobio/publ/papers/prl95_093201.pdf),
also selected for the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 10(2005) issue 5

Dissociative ionization of the nucleosides thymidine and uridine by electron impact
S. Ptasinska, P. Candori, S. Denifl, S. Yoon, V. Grill, P. Scheier and T.D.Märk
Chem. Phys. Lett. 409 (2005) 270-276
(http://www2.uibk.ac.at/ionen-angewandte-physik/nanobio/publ/papers/cpl409_270.pdf)

Electron attachment to monomeric and dimeric forms of glycolaldehyde.
S. Ptasinska, P. Limao-Vieira, S. Denifl, P. Scheier and T.D. Märk
Chem. Phys.Lett. 401 (2005) 227-231
(http://www2.uibk.ac.at/ionen-angewandte-physik/nanobio/publ/papers/cpl401_227.pdf)

Reactions in condensed formic acid (HCOOH) induced by low energy (<20eV) electrons
T. Sedlacko, R. Balog, A. Lafosse, M. Stano, S. Matejcik, R. Azria, E. Illenberger
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. , 7 (2005) 12777-1282

2004

Ionization of water by 20-150 keV protons: separation of direct ionization and electron capture processes
F. Gobet, S. Eden, B. Coupier, J. Tabet, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, M.J. Gaillard, M. Carré, S. Ouaskit, T.D. Märk, and P. Scheier
Phys. Rev. A 70 (2004) 062716

Sensitization of 5-Bromouridine by slow electrons
H Abdoul-Carime, P Limão-Vieira, S Gohlke, I Petrushko, N J Mason E Illenberger
Chem. Phys. Lett., 393 (2004) 442 – 447.

On the valence shell spectroscopy of 2-vinyl furan and its relationship with linear polynenes
A Giuliani, I Walker, J Delwiche, S V Hoffmann, C Kech, P Limão- Vieira, N J Mason and M-J Hubin-Franskin
J. Chem. Phys., 120 (2004) 10972 – 10982

The effect of ozone treatment on the microbial contamination of pork meat measured by detecting the emissions using PTR-MS and by enumeration of microorganisms
Jaksch D., Margesin R., Mikoviny T., Skalny J. D., Hartungen E., Schinner F., Mason N. J., Märk T. D.
Int. J. of Mass Spectrom. 239 (2004), 209-214.

An experimental study of SF5CF3 by electron energy loss spectroscopy, VUV photo-absorption and photoelectron spectroscopy
P Limão-Vieira, S Eden, P A Kendall, N J Mason, A Giuliani, J Heinesch, M-J Hubin-Franskin, J Delwiche and S V Hoffmann
Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 233 (2004) 335 – 341.

Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae response to UV and Gamma Irradiation
B. Remeikytė, R. Plukienė, D. Čitavičius, V. Remeikis, Š. Vaitekonis
Environmental and Chemical Physics, Vol. 26, No 4, (2004) pp. 148-156. (Issued in January 2005)

The electronic states of isoxazole studied by VUV absorption, electron energy-loss spectroscopies and ab initio multi-reference configuration interaction calculations
I C Walker, M H Palmer, J Delwiche, S V Hoffman, P Limão-Vieira, N J Mason, M F Guest, M-J Hubin-Franskin, J Heinesch and A Giuliani
Chem. Phys., 297 (2004) 289-306.

Conference Proceedings

2006

Solar Disinfection of diarrhoeal pathogen Yersinia enterocolitica in drinking water - A laboratory study
M. Boyle, C. Sichel, P. Fernandez, KG McGuigan.
Poster Presentation submitted to American Society for Microbiology conference in Orlando, FLA, USA, May 2006.

2005

Temperature effects on dissociative electron attachment to HBr, Book of Abstracts of Negative Ions, Experiment and theory
Fedor J., Skalny J. D., Scheier P., Horacek J., Stamatovic A., Mark T. D.
Smolenice (Slovakia), 2005, pp. 27

Biomolecular chemistry with synchrotron radiation
P J Gomes, Q Ferreira, J M C Lourenço, P A Ribeiro, M Raposo and P Limão-Vieira
5th Iberian Vacuum Meeting, Guimarães, Portugal (2005) 149.

Ion mobility study of the negative ions formed in negative corona discharge in mixtures of halogenated molecules with dry air
Husarik J., Stano M., Skalny D., Matejcik S.
In Proc. 15th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes and 3rd EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing : Book of Contributed Papers. (Edit. Hensel K., Matejčík Š., Skalný, J. D., Mason, N. J., Bratislava : Comenius University Press, 2005, pp. 179 –180, ISBN 80-223-2018-8.

Mobility spectrometry of ions formed in negative corona discharge in oxygen
Janky F., Stano M., Husarik J., Skalny J. D., Matejcik S
Book of Abstracts of Negative Ions, Experiment and theory, Smolenice (Slovakia), 2005, pp. 43.

Mobility spectrometry of ions formed in negative corona discharge in O₂
Janky F., Stano M., Husarik J., Matejcik S., Skalny J. D.
Book of Contributed Papers of the XVIth Symposium on Physics of Switching Arc of Negative Ions, Brno (Czech Rep.), 2005, Vol. 1 pp. 101-104

Electron scattering from cytosine at intermediate and high energies
P Kendall, J Coller, F Blanco, J Rosado, P Limão-Vieira and G García
RADAM Conf., Radiation Damage in Biomolec. Systems, Potsdam, Berlin (2005) 44.

Particle-in cell simulations of segmented tunnel probe for ion temperature measurements in the tokamak scrape-off layer
Kocan M., Panek R., Gunn J. P., Stőckel J., Skalny J. D. Kuhn. S, Tskhakaya
Proc. Of Int. Conf. Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2005, Bled (Slovenia), pp. 11-12.

Particle simulations of the non-linear electron dynamics in the classical Pierce diode
Kocan M., Kuhn S., Tskhakaya D., Skalny J.
Book of Abstracts of Joint conference of 19th Int. Conf. on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas and 7th Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, Nara (Japan), 2005, pp. 50-51.

Electron transfer by atom (potassium) – biomolecule (DNA bases) collisions
V Kokhan, R Parafita, R Mota, N J Mason, G Garcia, Maneira and P Limão-Vieira
VII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Lisboa (2005) 45.

Electron transfer in biomolecules by atomic scattering
V Kokhan, R Parafita, R Mota, N J Mason, G Garcia, M J P Maneira and P Limão-Vieira
RADAM Conf., Radiation Damage in Biomolec. Systems, Potsdam, Berlin (2005) 56.

Probing the Mechanisms of DNA Damage; New experiments with light and electrons
N J Mason, M A Smialek, D Jaksch, P Cahillane, S A Moore and P Limão- Vieira
VII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Lisboa (2005) 18.

VUV electronic state spectroscopy of water
R Mota, R Parafita, N J Mason and P Limão-Vieira
RADAM Conf., Radiation Damage in Biomolec. Systems, Potsdam, Berlin (2005) 55.

The electronic state spectroscopy of acetic studied by VUV synchrotron radiation, electron energy loss and He(I) photoelectron spectroscopy
R Mota, R Parafita, A Giuliani, M-J Hubin-Franskin, J Delwiche, E Drage, P Cahillane, N J Mason and P Limão-Vieira
RADAM Conf., Radiation Damage in Biomolec. Systems, Potsdam, Berlin (2005) 57.

Water (bio)molecule studied by VUV synchrotron radiation
R Mota, R Parafita, N J Mason and P Limão-Vieira
VII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Lisboa (2005) 46.

Spectroscopic studies of valence, Rydberg and ionic states of acetic acid, CH3COOH
R Mota, R Parafita, A Giuliani, M-J Hubin-Franskin, J Delwiche, D Duflot, J-P Flament, E Drage, P Cahillane, N J Mason and P Limão- Vieira
XXIV ICPEAC, Rosário, Argentina (2005) 108.

The electronic states of acetic acid studied by photon absorption and electron impact spectroscopies
R Mota, R Parafita, A Giuliani, M-J Hubin-Franskin, J Delwiche, D Duflot, J-P Flament, E Drage, P Cahillane, N J Mason and P Limão- Vieira
VII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Lisboa (2005) 42.

Radiation damage in cellular environment: the case of water
R Mota, R Parafita, N J Mason, G Garcia and P Limão-Vieira
14th Symposium on Microdosimetry, Venetia, Italy (2005) A10.

W- values and stopping powers for electrons in methane based tissue equivalent materials from 10 to 10000 eV
A Muñoz, J C Oller, J M Pérez, A Williart, F Blanco, P Limão-Vieira and G. García
14th Symposium on Microdosimetry, Venetia, Italy (2005) A9.

Decomposition of ozone produced in negative corona discharge fed by air, oxygen an carbon dioxide
Orszagh J., Skalny J. D., Mason N. J.
Book of Abstracts of Negative Ions, Experiment and theory, Smolenice (Slovakia), 2005, pp. 36.

Irradiation of Yeast Cells Monolayer
R. Plukienė, Š. Vaitekonis, B. Remeikytė
June 7-12 (2005), EYIC2005 Gniezno, Poland

Radiobiological Yeast Cell Experiments Using Self Assembled Monolayer Technology
R. Plukienė, Š. Vaitekonis, B. Remeikytė and D. Čitavičius
June 16-18 (2005) Vilnius, Lithuania, 36th Lithuanian National Physics Conference

Decomposition of ozone produced in negative corona discharge fed by air, oxygen and carbon dioxide
Skalny J. D., Orszagh J., Mason N. J.
In Proc. 15th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes and 3rd EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing : Book of Contributed Papers. (Edit. Hensel K., Matejčík Š., Skalný, J. D., Mason, N. J., Bratislava : Comenius University Press, 2005, pp. 243-244, ISBN 80-223-2018-8.

Ion mobility in a negative corona discharge containing mixtures of nitrous oxide and oxygen
Skalny J. D., Matejcik S., Mason N. J.
Gaseous Dielectrics X, Edit. L. G. Christophorou, J. K. Olthoff, P. Vassiliou, Springer Sciences-Business Media, Inc., (2004), ISBN 0-387-23298-2, pp. 143-148. (fyzicky bola vydaná až v roku 2005)

Mobility spectrometry of ions in positive corona discharge
Stano M., Husarik J., Janky F., Skalny J. D., Matejcik S.
Book of Contributed Papers of the XVIth Symposium on Physics of Switching Arc of Negative Ions, Brno (Czech Rep.), 2005, Vol. 1 pp. 174-177.

Role of excited atomic O(1D) and molecular O2(1Dg) states in generation of ozone in negative corona discharge fed by oxygen
Tarana M, Kocan M., Matejcik S., Skalny D.
In Proc. 15th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes and 3rd EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing : Book of Contributed Papers. (Edit. Hensel K., Matejčík Š., Skalný, J. D., Mason, N. J., Bratislava : Comenius University Press, 2005, pp. 253 -254, ISBN 80-223-2018-8.

Radiobiological Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae cell array experiments using SAM technology
Š. Vaitekonis, R. Plukienė, A. Plukis, V. Remeikis and D. Čitavičius
March 17-20 (2005), RADAM05 Potsdam, Germany

SAM Technology for Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Cells Irradiation
Š. Vatekonis, R. Valiokas, R. Plukienė, V. Remeikis and D. Čitavičius
June 7-12 (2005), EYIC2005 Gniezno, Poland

2004

Electronic states of tetrahydrofuran studied by vacuum ultraviolet photoabsorption
A Giuliani, P. Limão-Vieira, E Vasekova, João M C Lourenço, P M Santos, J Delwiche, N. J. Mason and M-J Hubin-Franskin
RADAM Conf., Radiation Damage in Biomolecular Systems, Lyon, France (2004) 54.

Electronic state spectroscopy of acetic acid by VUV photoabsorption
P. Limão-Vieira, A Giuliani, E Drage, P Cahillane, R Mota and N. J. Mason
RADAM Conf., Radiation Damage in Biomolecular Systems, Lyon, France (2004) 61.

Inelastic electron interaction (attachment/ionization) with sugar molecules and amino acids
S. Ptasińska, S. Denifl, P. Candori, P. Limão-Vieira, P. Scheier and T. D. Märk
ION 2004 – V International Conference on Ion Implantation and Other Applications of Ions and Electrons, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, (2004) P- We-15.

Damage of sugar molecules by electron impact
Sylwia Ptasińska, Stephan Paul Denifl, Paulo Limão-Vieira, Paul Scheier and Tilmann D Märk
8th Eur. Conf. on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Rennes, France, vol. II (2004) 13-15