2nd DULIA-bio Workshop

Europe/Rome
Room "B. Pontecorvo" (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

Room "B. Pontecorvo"

Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
Alba Formicola (INFN-LNGS), Aldo Ianni (INFN-LNGS), Patrizia Morciano (INFN-LNGS), Carlos Peña Garay (LSC), Stefano Ragazzi (INFN-LNGS), Geoffrey Smith (NMSU), Luigi Satta (La Sapienza University), Maria Antonella Tabocchini (ISS & INFN Roma 1)
Description

DULIA-bio is a series of meetings organized in deep underground laboratories around the world. The focus of these meetings will be cross-fertilization of research in biology with the community working in underground laboratories.

The 2nd edition of DULIA-bio will be held at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN, Assergi, L’Aquila, Italy, and is organized in collaboration with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, and with the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc, Spain.

The aim of the Workshop is to establish a common path for European/International underground laboratories in deep life studies and its application to astrobiology, biophysics, human health and radiation protection.


Topics

•    Astrobiology
•    Extremophile Biotechnology
•    Life in Deep Biosphere
•    Life in Low Radiation Environments
•    Life in Acoustic and Electromagnetic Fields
•    Cosmogenic Background
•    Mitigation of Radioactive Backgrounds
•    Low Radioactivity Techniques
•    New Technologies for Acoustic, Electromagnetic and Radioactivity Silence Characterization

 

  • Monday, 4 November
    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 30m Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
    • 09:00 10:00
      Welcome 1h Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
    • 10:00 13:00
      Session 1 - Chair: Aldo Ianni Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
      • 10:00
        Low Radioactive Techniques (KEY SPEAKER) 30m
        Speaker: Matthias Laubenstein (INFN - LNGS, Italy)
      • 10:30
        Life in Low Radiation Environment: biological response and role of background radiation (KEY SPEAKER) 30m
        Speaker: Mauro Belli (MELODI Scientific Committee & INFN Roma 1, Italy)
      • 11:00
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:30
        Low dose radiobiology at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso: results, challenges and future plans (LNGS Review) 30m
        Speaker: Patrizia Morciano (INFN - LNGS, Italy)
      • 12:00
        Research on proliferation inhibition in Chinese hamster V79 cells and highly differentiated laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma FD-LSC-1 cells in deep underground (rock cover 1470m) environment and its mechanism based on transcriptomics and proteomics (CJPL Review) 30m
        Speaker: Jifeng Liu (West China Hospital)
      • 12:30
        A case for cells sensing the absence of background levels of ionizing radiation: overview of the transcriptional response of four species at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) (WIPP Review) 30m
        Speaker: Hugo Castillo (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
    • 13:00 13:30
      Safety course 30m Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
    • 13:30 15:00
      Lunch 1h 30m Canteen (LNGS)

      Canteen

      LNGS

    • 15:00 15:50
      Session 2 - Chair: Carlos Peña Garay Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
      • 15:00
        Biotechnological applications of extremophiles (KEY SPEAKER) 30m
        Speaker: Ricardo Amils (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
      • 15:30
        Exploring microbial biosignature in Mn-patinas of deep biosphere: a cross-disciplinary approach to investigate geomicrobiological interactions in Grotta Grande del Cervo (Abruzzo, Italy) (Submitted Abstract) 20m
        Speaker: Ilaria Vaccarelli (L'Aquila University, Italy)
    • 15:50 17:15
      Coffee break and poster session 1h 25m Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
    • 17:15 19:30
      LNGS underground tour 2h 15m LNGS

      LNGS

    • 19:30 22:30
      Welcome reception 3h
  • Tuesday, 5 November
    • 09:15 13:30
      Session 3 - Chair: Maria Antonella Tabocchini Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
      • 09:15
        Deep Life, Volatiles and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (KEY SPEAKER) 30m
        Speaker: Donato Giovannelli (Federico II University of Napoli, Italy)
      • 09:45
        Astrobiology and Planetary Science at the Boulby Mine (REMOTE) 30m
        Speaker: Charles Cockell (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
      • 10:15
        Boulby Geo and Bio Science status and future plans (BOULBY Review) 30m
        Speaker: Sean Paling (Boulby Underground Laboratory, UK)
      • 10:45
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:15
        Cosmogenic Background and Mitigation of Radiactive Backgrounds (KEY SPEAKER) 30m
        Speaker: Ian Lawson (SNOLAB, Canada)
      • 11:45
        Low Radon Cleanroom for Underground Laboratories (Submitted Abstract) 20m
        Speaker: Jiri Hulka (SURO, National Radiation Protection Institute, Czech Republic)
      • 12:05
        Modane Underground laboratory as a shield to protect stem cells from cosmic rays and radioactivity during cryogenized storage (MODANE Review) 30m
        Speaker: Guillaume Warot (CNRS - LPSC, France)
      • 12:35
        New Technologies for Acoustic, electromagnetic and radioactivity Silence Characterization (CANFRANC Review) 30m
        Speaker: Carlos Peña Garay (LSC, Spain)
      • 13:05
        The RENOIR Experiment at the LNGS (Submitted Abstract) 15m
        Speaker: M. Antonella Tabocchini (ISS & INFN Roma 1, Italy)
    • 13:30 15:00
      Lunch 1h 30m Canteen (LNGS)

      Canteen

      LNGS

    • 15:00 17:30
      Session 4 - Chair: Richard Ford Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Room "B. Pontecorvo"

      Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

      Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 - 67100 Assergi, L'Aquila (Italy)
      • 15:00
        The Phenotypic and Genotypic Response of the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode to Background and Below-Background Radiation Underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Submitted Abstract) 20m
        Speaker: Geoffrey Smith (New Mexico State University, USA)
      • 15:20
        Flies in a mine: Understanding the physiology of deep underground mining (Submitted Abstract) (REMOTE) 20m
        Speaker: Thomas Merritt (Laurentian University, Canada)
      • 15:40
        The REPAIR project: Investigating the biological effects of sub-natural background radiation exposure (SNOLAB Review) (REMOTE) 30m
        Speakers: Christopher Thome (Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada), Jake Pirkkanen (Laurentian University, Canada)
      • 16:10
        Coffee break 30m
      • 16:40
        Opportunities at the Sanford Underground Research Facility 20m

        Geoffrey Smith will be the speaker for presentation of Jaret Heise about Sanford Lab.

        Speaker: Geoffrey Smith (New Mexico State University, USA)
      • 17:00
        Panel discussion 30m
        Speakers: Alba Formicola (INFN - LNGS, Italy), Aldo Ianni (INFN - LNGS, Italy), Carlos Peña Garay (LSC, Spain), Geoffrey Smith (New Mexico State University, USA), M.Antonella Tabocchini (ISS & INFN Roma 1, Italy), Ricardo Amils (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), Richard Ford (SNOLAB, Canada)