8th Annual JBL Symposium
“Molecular and Cellular Responses to Toxic Agents and Radiation Injury”
October 28-29, 2005
Friday, October 28, 2005
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Drs. John B. Little and Bruce Demple Harvard School of Public Health |
John B. Little Award Lecture given by Dr. Susan S. Wallace University of Vermont “Repair and Biological Consequences of Free Radical DNA Damage: Meandering Through the Maze” |
SESSION I: RESPONSES TO STRESS (I) |
DISCUSSION LEADER: Albert J. Fornace, Jr. Harvard School of Public Health |
Dr. Frederick Alt Children’s Hospital, Boston “Role of the DNA Double Strand Break Response in Suppression of Chromosomal Translocations and Cancer” |
Dr. Joshua Hamilton Dartmouth Medical School “Use of Genomics to Examine Low Dose Effect of Environmental Agents” |
Dr. William Greenlee CIIT Centers for Health Research “Studies on Dioxin Actions Elucidate a Molecular Switch Controlling Epithelial Cell Proliferation and Differentiation” |
Dr. Francis Cucinotta NASA Johnson Space Center “Space Radiation Biology and Missions to the Moon and Mars” |
Saturday, October 29, 2005
SESSION II: RESPONSES TO STRESS (II) |
DISCUSSION LEADER: Dr. William A. Toscano University of Minnesota School of Public Health |
Dr. Judah Folkman Harvard Medical School “Role of Angiogenesis in the Radiation Response” |
Dr. Jeff Trent Translational Genomics Research Institute “Towards Systems Medicine: Applications in Biodefense” |
Dr. Leona Samson Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Complex Responses to Damaging Agents” |
Dr. Richard Kolodner Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research “Identification of Pathways that Prevent Genome Instability” |
SESSION III: RADIATION RISK AND POLICY |
DISCUSSION LEADER: Dr. S. James Adelstein Harvard Medical School |
Dr. Andrei Gudkov Lerner Research Institute “Radioprotection by Pharmacological Modulation of p53 and NF-kB Pathways” |
Dr. David J. Brenner Columbia University Medical Center “Can Radiological Examinations Cause Cancer?” |
Dr. Richard Monson Harvard School of Public Health “Overview of BEIR VII: Report on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation” |
Dr. James Walsh Kennedy School of Government “Radiological Terrorism: Risk, Consequences, and Policy” |