Overview
The COST Action RADAM
was established by the COST Physics Committee as its ninth Action Programme
(P9) in 2002. Funded for 4 years it has been ratified by 14 European
countries and was formally launched in November 2003. Its main objective is
to obtain a detailed understanding of the fundamental interaction processes
initiated by the deposition of various types of radiation in biological
material. This also introduces the exciting prospect that it may be possible
to manipulate the effects of ionizing radiation at a molecular level within
the cell.
A wide range of complementary experimental and theoretical expertise is
brought together under this Programme. The research requires
interdisciplinary approaches to the interaction of photons, ions and
electrons with bio-molecular systems. The elucidation of fundamental energy
transfer and coupling mechanisms, ionization, charge transport, and reaction
behaviour will in turn be used to develop models of track structures in
irradiated media. Such models can be used to determine a more reliable
quantification of human epidemiological experience when subject to low
radiation doses.
The RADAM '07 taking place in Dublin (19/06/2007 - 22/06/2007) is the fourth
annual conference organized by the COST P9 network. It follows the
RADAM
’06
in Groningen, RADAM '05
in Potsdam (Germany) and the
RADAM '04
in Lyon (France). The RADAM '08 will be held in Debrecen (Hungary).
The RADAM07 Conference programme will present new and original results from
leading researchers in the areas of:
Working Group 1: Electron and biomolecular interactions (Chair: David Field )
Working Group 2: Ions and Biomolecular Interactions (Chair: Thomas Schlath?ter )
Working Group 3: Radiation Damage in Physiological (Cellular)
Environments.
(Chair: Kevin McGuigan )
Working Group 4: Theoretical Developments for Radiation Damage
(Chair: Marie-Christine Bacchus )
Working Group 5: Track Structure in Cells (Chair: Herwig Paretzke )
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