Biophysics News

Here you can find recent information from our staff and around our work.

24.11.2011	The Awarding the Christoph Schmelzer Award 2011 to Dr. Ingmar Schlampp from the University Heidelberg und Dr. Robert Kaderka from the Technical University of Darmstadt for their work in the field of cancer therapy with heavy ion beams. To the press release (German)
01.11.2011	The GSI celebrated with a festive colloquium on November 1 the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gerhard Kraft. >> more
30.08.2011	The Head of the Biophysics Department, Marco Durante, has been elected President of the International Association for Radiation Research (IARR) by the delegates of the International Radiation Research Societies during the 14th International Congress for Radiation Research in Warsaw, Poland. IARR is the International Association of the Radiation Research Societies from all over the World. Its principal aim, as laid down in the 1974 Constitution, is to advance radiation research in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. Prof. Durante will serve as President for 4 years.
17.08.2011	The next block of carbon beamtime at the SIS high energy beam line / Cave M is scheduled from October 12 - 16. For limited time slots, therapy-like conditions, i.e. 3D-scanning capabilities, will be available for biology experiments, as usual during the last days. In parallel, we will have carbon beam at the UNILAC / X6 during that period, preferentially during the first days from October 12 – October 14. If you are interested in these beamtime, please fill the corresponding beamtime application form and send it back latest 4 weeks before the beamtime. Please keep in contact with your GSI-liason scientists for any details. SIS beamtime application form UNILAC beamtime application form Prozedere für die Anmeldung zur Strahlzeit
01.08.2011	Four students from the HGS-HIRe Sommer Student Program are engaged in the biophysics research projects this summer.
27.07.2011	The DLR seminar on Space radiobiology and astrobiology (Statusseminar Strahlen- und Astrobiologie) will be held at GSI on November 15-17.
20.06.2011	Special Workshop organized for the 70th Birthday of Prof. Gerhard Kraft will take place on November 1, 2011 at 14:00 in GSI-Hörsaal. Program
19.05.2011	The next block of carbon beamtime at the SIS high energy beam line is scheduled from July 27 until July 31. Therapy-like conditions, i.e. 3D-scanning capabilities, will be available. Part of these beamtimes will be reserved for radiobiology experiments. If you are interested in these beamtime, please fill the beamtime application form and send it back latest 4 weeks before the beamtime. Please keep in contact with your GSI-liason scientists for any details. Procedure to Apply for Beam Time
19.05.2011	The kick-off meeting of the International Open Laboratory at NIRS will be held on September 5, 2011 at GSI. Program of the new International Open Laboratory at NIRS.
05.04.2011	Rebecca Grün received the PTCOG Travel-Fellowship to the Annual PTCOG 50 meeting in Philadelphia.
23.03.2011	The course RADIATION BIOPHYSICS will start on April 12 at TU Darmstadt, Room S207/109. The lectures will take place every Tuesday and Wednesday from 17:10 to 18:50. All students are welcome to register at the TUCaN website. Registered students can download from the TUCaN course (# 05-21-1662) website the slides of the lectures and other course material.
23.03.2011	The course ANGEWANDTE STRAHLENBIOLOGIE will start on March 31 from 8:30 to 10:00 in HDA, FB Biotechnologie, E50 R16.
23.03.2011	Due to the tragic earthquake in Japan, the Heavy Ion Workshop and the IOL KO meeting are unfortunately postponed to a date to be defined. GSI is collecting donations to help our Japanese friends (boxes in the secretariat).
23.03.2011	Daniela Becker has been selected for the 2011 NASA Space Radiation Summer School.
21.03.2011	FIRST collaboration meeting 2011 was held at the GSI on March 25-26.
07.03.2011	Marco Durante receives the 8th Warren K. Sinclair award.
14.02.2011	New International Open Laboratory in Japan led by GSI. GSI-Biophysics will co-operate with NIRS for an International Open Laboratory (IOL) called “Particle Beam Quality Research Unit”. This is the 4th IOL established at NIRS, the others being led by Karolinska Institute (Sweden), Colorado State and Columbia University (USA). The kick-off meeting for the new IOL will be held in Chiba on June 3-4.
07.02.2011	The next blocks of carbon beamtime at the SIS high energy beam line are planned for: April 8 – 13 July 27 -31 October 12 – 16 Slight adjustments of the dates might still be possible. Therapy-like conditions, i.e. 3D-scanning capabilities, will be available. Part of these beamtimes will be reserved for radiobiology experiments. If you are interested in one of these beamtimes, please fill the beamtime application form and send it back latest 4 weeks before the corresponding beamtime. Please keep in contact with your GSI-liason scientists for any details. Procedure to Apply for Beam Time
04.02.2011	The kick-off meeting of the European training network in digital medical imaging for radiotherapy (ENTERVISION) project was held in Lyon (France) on February 4, 2011. ENTERVISION aims to reinforce research in online 3D digital imaging and the training of professionals in order to deliver some of the key elements and building blocks for realizing the vision for early detection and more precise treatment of tumours. ENTERVISION brings together ten academic institutes and research centers (including GSI) of excellence and one company (IBA). The network will train 12 ESR and 4 ER during a 48 month period.
24.01.2011	The article 'Development and performance evaluation of a dynamic phantom for biological dosimetry of moving targets' published in Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB) has been selected to be part of the journal's Highlights collection of 2010. The journal's Highlights are a selection of papers that collectively represent the high quality and breadth of contributions that were published in the journal last year. The article was chosen since it received some of the highest praise from the referees and a high number of downloads from the journal website during 2010.
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