Host: The Japan Radiation Research Society
Co-host: City of Kitakyushu, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
Radiobiological research with microbeam started at the Gray Cancer Institute and Columbia University. Dr. Hatsumi Nagasawa proposed a phrase "Bystander Effects", and the research thereafter spread out all over the world. We have five working facilities in Japan and abound in variety of beams such as Heavy-ions, Lighter-ions and X-rays. Number of microbeam facilities in the world expands and the scientific interests also spread out to cellular effects by nuclear direct hit, cytoplasm irradiation, effects on non-irradiated cells, survey of bystander factors, gene expression, and so on. We plan this symposium to introduce history and trends in microbeam research in the world as a satellite symposium of the 8th International Workshop on Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response that will be held in 13-15 November at NIRS cosponsored by the Microbeam Biology Research Union.
