2006 NASA Space Radiation Summer School
Schedule of Course Activities
Arrival and Orientation
Thursday, June 8
Morning, Medical Department:
8:30-11:00 Students arrival. Security and housing.
Afternoon, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
13:00 Student orientation. General Tour
BNL Training Part 1, RHIC-AGS USER CENTER
14:00 Verification of Credentials and Training Status
15:30 Complete On-line course work at Users’ Center and Medical (Rad. Worker I)
Friday, June 9
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room 8:30 Daily Announcements
BNL Training Part 2, CAD Snyder Room
9:00 NSRL Radiobiology User Training lecture and exam Issue Film Badges Iris
Scans at AGS MCR
Afternoon, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
13:00 Orientation to Medical Department and Labs BLAF Animal Care Video
WEEKEND: study of materials in prep for Monday (physics-bio)
Monday, June 12
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Welcome, Registration and Announcements, M. Vazquez, G. Nelson
Lecture Series 1: Overview
8-9 Space Environment and Radiobiology Overview, G. Nelson
9-10 Accelerator Experiment Design and Implementation, G. Nelson & M.Vazquez
10-11 Brookhaven-Specific Issues and Logistics, M. Vazquez
11-12 Designing your own NSRL experiments (Beam Time Request Assignment)
Afternoon, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
13:00 Brookhaven Facilities Tour: NSRL-MCR-AGS-CAD
Lecture Series 1, continued: Overview
14-16 Cell Biology Fundamentals, M. Vazquez
16-18 Physics Fundamentals, G. Nelson
18:00 Reception for Course Participants (TBD Location)
Tuesday, June 13
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
Lecture Series 2: Physics Introduction
9-10 Measurement of Radiation, Rusek (Confirmed)
Lecture Series 3: Accelerators
10-11 Accelerators Made Simple, Rusek/Brown (Confirmed)
11-12 Accelerator Operations, Brown (Confirmed)
Afternoon, NSRL
High LET Laboratory I: Introduction to Target Area, Exposure Design and
Dosimetry
14:00 Tour NSRL Beam line-Target Area, A. Rusek, M. Vazquez
Target Area Entry Procedures
Introduction to Control Software
Beam Line Equipment Orientation
Parallel plate, thimble and segmented ion chambers, binary filters and Phosphor
Imaging Systems
Evening
Wednesday, June 14
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
Lecture Series 4: Physics 1
9-10 Properties and Types of Ionizing Radiation, T. Borak (Confirmed)
10-11 Interactions of Radiation with Condensed Matter, T. Borak (Confirmed)
11-12 Track Structure, L. Braby (Confirmed)
Afternoon, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
Lecture Series 5: Physics 2
13:14 Doses, Fluences and Dose Rates, L. Braby (Confirmed)
In-class exercises and general discussion
Evening
18:00 Informal reception with physics lecturers
Thursday, June 15
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
Lecture Series 6: Space Radiation Environment and Shielding
9-10:30 Radiation Transport & Shielding, C. Zeitlin (Confirmed)
10:30-12 Modeling, C. Zeitlin (Confirmed)
Lunch Beak
14-15 Space Radiation Environment - SPEs R. Turner (Confirmed)
15-16 Risk Analysis Synthesis, F. Cucinotta (Confirmed)
Classroom Problem Set and General Discussion
16:00 Physics Experiment Design-Planning and Set-Up
Friday, June 16
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
9:00 Physics Experiment Design-Planning and Set-Up
Saturday, June 17
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 High LET Laboratory I: Physics at NSRL, A. Rusek, M. Vazquez
Afternoon, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
14:00 Run debriefing, lessons learned
Laboratory Protocols and Planning for June 21
General Discussion
Monday, June 19
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
Lecture Series 7: Radiation Chemistry
9-10 Radiochemistry of Water and Macromolecules, K. Held (Confirmed)
10-11 DNA Damage and Measurement, B. Sutherland (Confirmed)
Lunch Beak
Lecture Series 8: Cellular Radiobiology 1
13-14 DNA Repair Mechanisms, B. Sutherland (Confirmed)
14-15 Cell Cycle, K. Held (Confirmed)
15-16 Apoptosis, C. Troy (Confirmed)
Evening Social Event
Tuesday, June 20
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
9-10 Chromosomal Aberrations, M. Durante (Confirmed)
Lecture Series 9: Cellular Radiobiology II
10:11 Low Dose and Dose Rate Responses, Azzam (Confirmed)
11-12 Bystander Effect, Azzam (Confirmed)
Afternoon
14-15 Microenvironment, Barcellos-Hoff (Confirmed)
15-16 Tissue Remodeling and Late Effects, Williams (Confirmed)
16:00 Cell and Animal Experiment Planning and Set-Up
Evening.
Wednesday, June 21
Morning, Medical Dept. NSRSS Laboratories
8:00 Daily Announcements
High LET Laboratory II: Biology
8:30 Logistics \Instructors / Physicist
Set-ups and Calibrations. Final Sample Preparation and Exposures
Afternoon,
13:00 Post-Irradiation Processing, Vazquez, Guida Nelson
16:30 Tear Down Logistics. Collect Dosimetry Data and images
Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
17:00 Post Run Discussion and Evaluation Instructors
Evening
Thursday, June 22
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
9:00 Dosimetry Data Reduction Instructors
Lorini visit
Afternoon, Medical Dept. NSRSS Laboratories
High LET Laboratory III: Biology
13:00 24 Hour Sample Processing Instructors
Evening.
Friday, June 23
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
High LET Laboratory IV: Biology
9:30 48 Hour Sample Processing. Instructors
Afternoon, Medical Dept. NSRSS Laboratories
High LET Laboratory IV continued: Biology
13:00 48 Hour Sample Processing and Data Reduction Instructors
Monday, June 26
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
9-11 Mutation and Genomic Instability, A. Kronenberg (Confirmed)
11:00 Data collection and reduction
Afternoon, Medical Dept. NSRSS Laboratories
13:00 Final data collection and reduction
Tuesday, June 27
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements.
Deadline for student’s beam time proposals
Lecture Series 11: Radiation Carcinogenesis
9-10 Cell Neoplastic Transformation (models), T. Hei (Confirmed)
10-11 Leukemogenesis, M. Weil (Confirmed)
11-12 Solid Cancers, Hlatky (?)
Afternoon, Medical Department
Lecture Series 12: Nervous System Effects
13-14 Responses of Neural Cells, J. Fike (Confirmed)
14-15 Responses of Brain, M. Vazquez (Confirmed)
15-16 Behavioral Responses, B. Rabin (Confirmed)
General Discussion
Wednesday, June 28
8:30 Daily Announcements
Series 13: Tissue Responses
9-10 Cataractogenesis, Kleiman (Confirmed)
10-11 Cardiovascular, Berkowitz (Confirmed)
11-12 Immune System, Pecaut (Confirmed)
Series 14: Countermeasures
13-14 Medical Countermeasures, Kennedy (Confirmed)
Thursday, June 29
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
Lecture Series 15: NASA Program and Risk Assessment
9-10 Human space flight and radiation studies, Vazquez-Nelson
10-11 Shielding Design and Strategies, Shavers (Confirmed)
11-12 NASA NEW VISION for Exploration, Sulzman (Confirmed)
General Discussion
Afternoon, Medical Dept.
13:00 Student Presentations of Final Experimental Results
Social Event: Banquet
19 :00 Dinner Talk: Humans in Space, J. Clark (Confirmed)
Friday, June 30
Morning, Medical Dept. Small Conference Room
8:30 Daily Announcements
9-11 Review of Beam Time Proposals
Afternoon, Medical Dept. NSRSS Laboratories
Issue Certificate of Completion and Social Event (barbecue)
Summer Course Ends
Last Modified: February 1, 2008
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