Three tours of the USTUR’s laboratory facility were given to attendees of the Low Dose Conference in Richland, WA, September 30 – October 3, 2018.
Prior to the meeting, Oleg Belyakov of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gave a presentation at the USTUR titled, “Overview of NAHU/ARBR Radiation Biology Coordinated Research Projects (CRPs)”. This was followed by a tour of the laboratory facility, which includes an autopsy room, a radiochemistry laboratory, an alpha spectrometry counting room, and a sample storage area.
During the conference, several additional individuals expressed interest in a laboratory tour. A tour was given to Michael Bellamy and Sandra Davern of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Yuliya Lyamzina of Fukushima Medical University, Japan. The different types of tissue materials that are available at the USTUR, such as frozen organs and paraffin embedded tissue blocks, were discussed. Following the tour, Maia Avtandilashvili demonstrated unique features of the USTUR’s academic version of the Integrated Modules for Bioassay Analysis (IMBA) biokinetic modeling software. An additional tour was given to Doug Boreham (Bruce Power, Canada), Stephanie Puukila (Flinders University, Australia and Laurentian University, Canada), Jake Pirkkanen (Laurentian University, Canada), and Christopher Thome (Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada).