Modern problems of genetics, radiobiology, radioecology and evolution

IV International Conference
"Modern problems of genetics, radiobiology, radioecology and evolution"
(June 2-6, 2015, Saint Petersburg) The conference is dedicated to N. V. Timofeev-Resovsky and his scientific school.

Organizers:

• Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders of Russia,
• All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology, Obninsk,
• Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow,
• Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk,
• N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
• Institute of Industrial Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg,
• Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg,
• Department of Genetics and Biotechnology of St. Petersburg State University,
• Department of Genetics of Moscow State University,
• Medical Radiological Research Center, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Obninsk,
• St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• and others .

Topics of the symposium:

1. Genetics:

• Genome integrity.
• Protein heredity.
• Mechanisms of general and site-specific control of mutagenesis.
• Stress-induced mutagenesis.
• Cancer genetics.
• Radiobiology:
• Unmarked effects of radiation.
• Modulating effect of linear energy transfer.
• Epigenetics of radiation-induced genome instability.
• Genomic instability in generations of irradiated parents.
• Radiation epidemiology.
• Space radiobiology.

2. Radiation ecology:

• Characteristics of natural and anthropogenic radiation.
• Patterns of migration of radionuclides.
• The effect of radiation on populations and ecosystems.
• Biodiversity: speciation/degradation of a community of species.
• The influence of the habitat on radiation effects.

3. Evolution:

• Progressive evolution in terms of physics.
• Evolution of the genome space.
• The evolution of biodiversity.
• A space of possibilities for evolution.
• Evolution of bacterial genomes.
• Evolution of the ethological structure of populations.
• Anthropogenesis.

5. Memorial.

At the same time, a scientific conference of the International Union of Radioecology "Ideas of radiobiology in radioecology: mechanisms and effects of radiation" and IV Readings in memory of V.I. Korogodin and V.A. Shevchenko will be organized there.

A competition of young scientists in memory of N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky and a Competition of young scientists in memory of V.I. Korogodin and V.A. Shevchenko are announced.

Deadline for acceptance of registration forms and abstracts: March 1, 2015

The working language of the conference is English.

Contacts:
141980, Moscow region, Dubna, Joliot Curie St., Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Victoria Lvovna Korogodina;
tel. (496 21) 637-23, (496 21) 48873;
E-mail: korogod@jinr.ru or vkorogodina@rambler.ru .

Details are available on the conference website.

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