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Sean Paling (STFC)19/08/2024, 13:30
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Aldo Ianni19/08/2024, 14:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
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Charles Cockell19/08/2024, 14:30
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Since 2013, the Boulby Underground Laboratory has been used as a subsurface scientific site to study life in deep subsurface environments and to test equipment for the robotic and human exploration and settlement of space. Over ten subsurface campaigns as part of MINAR (Mine Analogue Research) have been hosted by the laboratory. They have involved teams...
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Carlos Garay19/08/2024, 15:30
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Alex Iordachescu19/08/2024, 16:00
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Bernard Foing19/08/2024, 16:30
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
EuroMoonMars is an ILEWG/LUNEX programme in collaboration with space agencies, academia, universities and research institutions and industries. The programme includes research activities for data analysis, instruments tests and development, field tests in MoonMars analogue, pilot projects , training and hands-on workshops , and outreach activities....
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Marcus Horn19/08/2024, 17:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) with its vast underground footprint provides opportunities for research activities beyond astroparticle physics, rare event searches and neutrino physics. SURF is hosting biology research focusing on microorganisms in extreme environments, biofilms, as wells as astrobiology and in-situ cultivation. A brief...
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Shaun Hall20/08/2024, 09:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
SNOLAB, with its underground facilities at 2070 m within Creighton Mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, has already hosted biological experiments, including FlaME and REPAIR, providing a unique environment for experiments requiring isolation from surface background radiation. Improvements at SNOLAB, including the introduction of local ICP-MS analysis for...
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Jari Joutsenvaara20/08/2024, 09:30
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Callio Lab is one of the northernmost deep underground laboratories and research environments in Europe. It is located at the Pyhäsalmi mine, Finland. The early focus of the laboratory has been underground physics, but since 2015, it has been open for trans- and multidisciplinary research and art. Pilot projects with underground farming, including plant...
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Tebogo Kwape20/08/2024, 10:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
There is currently no Deep Underground Laboratory in Africa despite the research challenges Africa faces in Bio Science, some of these research challenges can be addressed partly through the existence and utilization of Deep Underground Laboratories. There is however one envisaged project to construct a Deep underground laboratory in South Africa, named...
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Chris Thome20/08/2024, 11:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Living systems are continually exposed to background ionizing radiation and have evolved and adapted in its presence. However, the potential biological impacts of this chronic low dose rate exposure remain poorly understood. The REPAIR (Researching the Effects of the Presence and Absence of Ionizing Radiation) project, located at SNOLAB in Sudbury,...
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Vincent Breton20/08/2024, 11:30
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Our knowledge is limited on the long-term impact of natural radioactivity on living organisms, particularly those inhabiting aquatic ecosystems. Living organisms have developed resistance to ionizing radiation, but it remains to be determined whether they have fully adapted to this radiation or whether they continue to be influenced by this stress....
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Santiago Elena20/08/2024, 12:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
In the near future, space missions will be extended to meet exploration goals. Space conditions, particularly microgravity and radiation, present unique stresses for organisms that they have not evolved to handle. The impact of these conditions on viral infections and host antiviral defenses is not well understood. C. elegans, a model organism, and its...
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Jens Holtvoeth20/08/2024, 13:30
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Our study aims to produce a biogeochemical fingerprint of fossil and living microbial organisms in salt and brines of the mine at Boulby by analysing lipid biomarkers (alkyl lipids, GDGTs) and DNA. Outcomes are expected to contribute insights into late Permian hydrology and paleoecology, extremophile ecology and astrobiology. Biomarker distributions in...
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Scott Perl20/08/2024, 14:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
The understanding of microbial life in extreme (salty) environments regarding survivability, ecology, and nutrients on Earth can be applied to Martian subsurface regolith and salt mineral features precipitated meters to km below the crust. The MINAR program at the Boulby Underground Laboratory has given rise to significant insights to 250 Gyr evaporite...
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Mikhail Zarubin20/08/2024, 14:30
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Deep underground laboratories at physical research centers possess an outstanding potential for hosting biological experiments in fields of biophysics, radiobiology, astrobiology, microbiology and medicine. Molecular genetics group of DLNP JINR initiated cooperative studies in the deep underground low radiation background laboratory (DULB-4900) and...
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Laurence Wilson20/08/2024, 15:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
The ability of cells to move - their motility - is important across a very wide range of species from eukaryotes, bacteria and archaea. Although their motility structures (such as cilia and flagella) evolved from different precursor organelles, the physical laws that constrain their performance are the same. Archaea in the deep subsurface environment...
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Patricia Suárez Ara20/08/2024, 16:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Background radiation is an abiotic component of Earth's surface environment that has potentially influenced biophysical and biochemical processes throughout evolution. One of the most critical evolutionary transitions was the emergence of multicellularity in animals, which led to the vast diversity observed in animals today. By studying the unicellular...
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Patrizia Morciano20/08/2024, 16:30
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Patrizia Morciano1,2; Matthias Laubenstein1; Valentina Dini3,4; Giorgio Baiocco5,6; Valeria Conte7; Antonella Sgura8,9 1INFN-Laboratori Nazionalli del Gran Sassso, Assegi L’Aquila, Italy 2Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Dipartimento di Medicina clinica, sanità pubblica, scienze della vita e dell'ambiente, L’Aquila, Italy 3 Centro Nazionale di...
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Anna Bianchi20/08/2024, 17:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
While high doses of ionizing radiation are known to harm human health, the effects of low dose radiation (LDR) are debated. LDR has been shown to influence immune responses, possibly inducing beneficial effects, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Research on LDR effects is often affected by uncertainties like unmonitored radiation...
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20/08/2024, 17:30
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Umberto Galderisi21/08/2024, 09:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
A number of experiments have shown that cells grown under chronic and/or acute low doses of radiation exhibit growth and fitness traits different from cells grown at control radiation levels, suggesting a radioadaptive response. Adult stem cells are a rare population of undifferentiated cells located within a differentiated organ or tissue, in a...
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Guillaume Warot21/08/2024, 09:30
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David Nkwe21/08/2024, 10:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Viruses have small genomes that encode a few proteins required for their propagation. To complete their replication cycles, viruses usurp host cell machineries. By studying virus replication, we gain insights into the biology of host cells and organisms. A classic example is the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the most studied virus. HIV affects host...
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Goabaone Gaobotse21/08/2024, 11:00
20-minute talk + 10-minute questions
Deep underground science facilities and research laboratories have the potential to provide a sustainable outlet for the disposal of radioactive waste. These deep underground science facilities and research laboratories can also be used to train qualified personnel. Working underground affords a highly controlled and stable environment for research and...
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Jonathan Gutteridge (STFC)21/08/2024, 11:30
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Carlos Garay, Charles Cockell21/08/2024, 13:00
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ALL (Organising Committee)21/08/2024, 13:45
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Emma Meehan (STFC), Paul Scovell (STFC), Sean Paling (STFC)21/08/2024, 14:45
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22/08/2024, 06:00
Max. 20 people (email will be sent to all attendees who have requested visit)
Transport from York to Boulby Underground Laboratory
06:00 pick-up – York Train Station to Boulby Mine
PLEASE ARRIVE BY 05:50 OUTIDE THE FONT OF THE STATION
The transport is Coatham Coaches, Driver: Mark Sanderson +44 (0)7904 01564414.30 pick-up – Boulby to York Train Station
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ALL (Organising Committee)
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