In another coup for Autoscan, our MD has been invited to say a few words about our company and its products at his old Alma Mater ...

We have been kindly invited to speak about the role of our products at a workshop entitled "Irradiation of living cells with high resolution X-ray microbeam".

This is indeed an honour, and we look forward to speaking about a whole other role which our products have played, aside from our mainstream role in Fission Track Dating.

Details of workshop :

Workshop on “Irradiation of living cells with high resolution X-ray microbeam”

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 (9:00 – 15:00)

Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science (MCSS) Teaching Room, Building 220

Monash University Clayton Campus 770 Blackburn Rd, Clayton

During this workshop we will discuss:

• Development and application of the live cell irradiation system at the X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XFM) beamline at the Australian Synchrotron.

• Funding options for such project(s) in the 2010 funding season

Program:

9:00 – 9:10 Introduction to the Workshop (Prof. Rob Lewis, Director of MCSS)

9:10 – 9:25 Live cell irradiation system at Australian Synchrotron (Dr Marian Cholewa, Monash University)

9:25 – 9:40 Biological imaging of charged particles and the response to DNA damage (Prof. Martin Lavin, Queensland Institute of Medical Research)

9:40 – 9:55 Bio-medical applications with high resolution X-ray microprobe (Dr Roger Martin, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute)

9:55 – 10:10 Recent data from sub-cellular X-ray microbeam irradiation of V79 and N1RGB cells at the Photon Factory (Dr Carl Sprung, Monash University)

10:10 – 10:25 Inhomogenous dose distributions in clinical radiotherapy: questions about the bystander effect (Dr Tomas Kron, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute)

10:25 – 11:00 Coffee/tea break

11:00 – 11:15 Systems for cell recognition and positioning (Mr Michael Krochmal, Director of Autoscan Systems Pty Ltd)

11:15 - 11:30 Cell recognition with quantitative phase contrast microscopy (Dr Brendan Allman , IATIA Vision Sciences)

11:30 – 11:45 Nanodosimetry and use of magnetic fields during irradiation (Prof. Anatoly Rozenfeld, Wollongong University)

11:45 – 12:00 Bio-medical applications with high resolution X-ray microprobe (Prof. Moshi Geso, RMIT)

12:00 – 12:15 Antioxidant capacity and oxidative stress in live cell irradiation (Prof. Stephen Robinson, Monash University)

12:15 – 12:30 High resolution microprobe at XFM beamline (Dr Martin de Jonge, Australian Synchrotron)