Workshop : « Modelling the biological effects of radiation : From earth studies to space and planetery exploration »

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Workshop : « Modelling the biological effects of radiation : From earth studies to space and planetery exploration »

March 28, 2019
AMPHITHEATER IEMN, VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ
Organized by: F. Da Pieve (IASB-BIRA), E. Botek (IASB-BIRA), F. Cleri (U. Lille)

A 1-day specialist meeting dedicated to the modelling and simulation of radiation damage and its effects on human health in space travel

Monte Carlo simulations will be presented for a mission on Mars at mid-latitudes, for an interplanetary travel, as well as ab-initio quantum chemistry/Molecular Dynamics simulations on water/DNA targets and lessons learnt from experiments

Preliminary Progrram

09h00-09h30	Radiation effects during human astrobiology-driven exploration of Mars and (some) challenges ahead	Fabiana Da Pieve, IASB-BIRA Brussels (BE)
09h30-10h00	From airplanes to Mars: modeling and observing the effects of energetic ions	Guillaume Gronoff, NASA, Hampton (USA)
10h00-10h30	Biological effects of ionising radiation on cells	Robert-Alain Toillon, INSERM U908, Lille (FR)
Break
10h45-11h15	Recent aspects of radiation-induced DNA damage	Jean-Luc Ravanat, CEA Grenoble (FR)
11h15-11h45	Vive la radiorésistance !: potential biological strategies to enhance human radioresistance deep space exploration missions	Marjan Moreels, SCK•CEN (BE)
11h45-12h15	Radiation damage of biological matter from first-principles simulations	Jorge Kohanoff, Queen's University Belfast (UK)
Lunch
13h30-14h00	Radiation induces cell reprogramming to convert cancer cells into cancer stem cells	Chann Lagadec, INSERM U908, Lille (FR)
14h00-14h30	Radiation damage to DNA at all scales: from the nucleotide to the chromosome	Fabrizio Cleri, IEMN Univ. of Lille (FR)
14h30-15h00	The Geant4 toolkit status for simulation of space radiation effects	Vladimir Ivanchenko, CERN Geneva (CH)
Break
15h15-15h45	On the search of novel materials for radiation protection during manned space missions	Edith Botek, IASB-BIRA Brussels (BE)
15h45-16h15	Electronic stopping from non-adiabatic molecular dynamics: application to polymers	Pere Alemany, IQTCUB (SP)
16h15-16h45	Dose reporting for radiation dose: converting dose to medium to dose to water in the radiotherapy energy range	Frederik Crop, Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille (FR)