Host: The Japan Radiation Research Society
Co-host: City of Kitakyushu, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
Scientific evaluation of the biological effects of low dose radiation has been long regarded as a challenging topic in radiation research. However, the application of new technologies in life science and computer science was thought to have potential to clarify the effects. Under such circumstances, a 5-year project was started as a crossover research project in 2004 by the financial support from MEXT. As the project has passed 4.5 years, we hoped to have an occasion to present our results and get discussion and critical comments from the researchers involved in the field of the low dose radiation research. In this symposium, alteration of gene expression in mice exposed to long-term low dose-rate radiation will be presented as one of the achievements of the project. We invite Dr. Ignacia B. Tanaka III to give us a lecture on the pathological aspects of mice exposed to long-term low dose-rate radiation in order to deepen our understanding of the low dose-rate radiation effects. In addition we are happy to have three distinguished scientists from abroad for lectures on the latest advances in the low dose radiation study.
