【2017年2/17締切、6/5-23開催】2017 NASA Space Radiation Summer School

• 2016年11月21日

~ ~ ~ Sent on behalf of Dr. Amy Kronenberg, Scientific Director, 2017 NASA Space Radiation Summer School ~ ~ ~
November 7, 2016

Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2017 NASA Space Radiation Summer School. The deadline for applications is February 12, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time.

Up to 15 students will be selected for the course to be held this summer at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Long Island, New York from June 5-23, 2017 (arrival on May 31 for registration and orientation on June 1 and 2). The goal of the course is to provide scientific and practical information to graduate students and scientists who are either new to the NASA program or to charged particle radiobiology. At the completion of the summer school, students will have received the full complement of training required to conduct their own experiments at BNL.

Course topics will include DNA damage and repair, genotoxicity, cell cycle checkpoints and apoptosis, mutagenesis, genomic instability, epigenetics, cell and tissue signaling, neurodegeneration, systems biology, and the relationship of these processes to carcinogenesis and late degenerative effects following exposure to space radiation, as well as the space radiation environment, physics and biochemistry of charged particle interactions, track structure, dosimetry, accelerator operations, and space radiation protection.

Both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens may apply to the program. All selected students must satisfy BNL and Department of Energy safety and security requirements in order to be admitted. Due to the intense nature of the course, applicants must demonstrate oral and written proficiency in the English language. Expenses for travel within the U.S. and for room and board will be covered for program participants, with the exception of U.S. civil servants or employees of some government agencies. Successful applicants from outside the U.S. must provide for their travel to and from one of the three New York/Long Island Airports (Kennedy, LaGuardia, or MacArthur/Islip).

The course curriculum as well as the participant and faculty lists from the 2016 course may be found online at: https://spaceradiation.jsc.nasa.gov.

Application information may be found online at
https://spaceradiation.jsc.nasa.gov/nsrss/2016/
The Online Application Deadline is 11:59 p.m. Central Time on February 12, 2017.
Student Selection Announcement is expected in Mid-March

Sincerely,


Katy Buckaloo on behalf of
Amy Kronenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (a_kronenberg@lbl.gov)
Scientific Director, 2017 NASA Space Radiation Summer School