Microbeam Training Course at RARAF

Held March 19-21, 2012

The second RARAF microbeam training course at Columbia University's Nevis Laboratory in Irvington, New York will be held on March 19-21, 2012. The course is designed to provide a “pipeline” of researchers interested in the use and development of microbeam facilities for research in biology, radiation biology, and radiation physics. The course will follow the 10th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response hosted by RARAF on March 15-17, 2012

Sponsored by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the three-day course will be offered for the second time to a limited group of scientists, selected by an open competitive application process. Application to the program is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty with an interest in the use and development of microbeam facilities. Both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens may apply to the program.

This intense program is taught by leading Columbia University biologists and physicists who are pioneers in the development and use of microbeam technologies.

Applicants are required to submit:

1. a copy of their curriculum vitae
2. a statement (one page or less) of how they intend to use the knowledge gained from the course and whether they will need financial support.

Applications should be sent to Course Director Marcelo Vazquez, MD, Ph.D. by 5 p.m. EST Tuesday, January 3, 2012.

Microbeam Training Course Agenda

Day 1: Lectures

a.         Introduction to microbeams:These presentations are designed to give biologists an understanding of microbeam physics and physicists an understanding of biology requirements and applications.

1. Why microbeams?

2. Physics of microbeams: from accelerator to targeting.

3. Biology of microbeams: specimens, endpoints and motivations.

b.      Tour of RARAF microbeam facilities

c.       Designing and building a microbeam

d.      Designing a microbeam experiment

e.       Day-to-day issues running a microbeam

f.        Preparing cells for irradiation

Day 2: Demonstrations and hands-on experience

a.      Set up the microbeam: scan the beam spot size, focus the beam, locate beam spot

b.      Imaging procedures

c.       Irradiation procedures

d.      Irradiate cells: operate microbeam for different irradiation protocols

e.       On-line/off-line analyses

Day 3: Demonstrations and hands-on experience (Cont.), discussions and final lectures

a.         Data gathering, processing and analysis

b.      Microbeam facility development

c.       User facility interfase

d.      User community development

 

 

2012 Faculty

	Alan Bigelow, Ph.D. is an Associate Research Scientist in the Center for Radiological Research. His research focuses on cellular dynamic imaging using laser-based systems.
	David J. Brenner, Ph.D., D.Sc. is the Higgins Professor of Radiation Biophysics and Director of the Center for Radiological Research. He is the Director of RARAF.
	Guy Garty, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist in the Center for Radiological Research. His research focuses on cell manipulation techniques such as the flow and shoot microbeam and optoelectronic tweezers.
	Charles Geard, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Center for Radiological Research. He has been the senior biologist at the RARAF for most of its existence.
	Andrew Harken, Ph.D. is a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist in the Center for Radiological Research. He has developed the x-ray and point and shoot microbeams.
	Steve Marino, M.S. is a Senior Staff Associate in the Center for Radiological Research. He is the Manager of RARAF.
	Radoslaw Pieniazek. M.S. is a Staff Associate in the Center for Radiological Resear. He is the Developer of the microbeam training course.
	Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Radiological Research. He is the Chief Physicist of the Radiological Research Accelerator Facility.
	Marcelo Vazquez, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor in the Radiation Medicine Department at Loma Linda University. He is the Course Director of the microbeam training course.

 

For questions or more information please check our website (www.raraf.org) or contact Marcelo E. Vazquez, Director vazquez.m1958@gmail.com Phone: 516 512 2032

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