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Melvyn Folkard
Folkard@graylab.ac.uk
Gray Cancer Institute
Website: http://www.graylab.ac.uk/usr/folkard/home.html


Currently Funded Projects:

A Variable Energy Soft X-ray Microprobe to Investigate Mechanisms of the Radiation-Induced Bystander Effect

Technical Abstracts:

A Variable-Energy Soft X-ray Microprobe to Investigate Mechanisms of the Radiation-Induced Bystander Effect.
Folkard, M.,
Vojnovic, B., Schettino, G., Prise, K.M. and Michael, B.D.

  • 2001 Workshop:

Comparisons of IR and ROS for Induction of Damage to Cells.
Held, K.D., McCarey, Y.L., Tartier, L., Rusyn, E.V., Schettino, G., Folkard, M., Prise, K.M. and Michael, B.D.

Studies of low-dose bystander effects using a focused soft x-ray microprobe.
Prise, K.M., Folkard, M., Schettino, G., Rusyn, E., Newman, H.C., Held, K.D. and Michael, B.D.

  • 1999 Workshop:

Low-Dose Studies with Focused X-rays in Cell and Tissue Models: Mechanisms of Bystander and Genomic Instability Responses
Michael, B.D., Held, K.D., Folkard, M. and Prise, K.M.

Publications:

Shao, C., Prise, K.M., and Folkard, M. (2008) Signaling factors for irradiated glioma cells induced bystander responses in fibroblasts. Mutation Research 638(1-2):139-145.

Shao, C., Folkard, M., and Prise, K.M. (2008) Role of TGF-[beta] 1 and nitric oxide in the bystander response of irradiated glioma cells. Oncogene 27(4):434-440.

Burdak-Rothkamm, S., Short, S.C., Folkard, M., Rothkamm, K., and Prise, K.M. (2007) ATR-dependent radiation-induced γH2AX foci in bystander primary human astrocytes and glioma cells. Oncogene 26:993-1002.

Prise, K.M., Burdak-Rothkamm, S., Folkard, M., Kashino, G., Shao, C., and Tartier, L. (2007) New insights on radiation-induced bystander signaling and its relationship to DNA repair. International Congress Series1299:121-127.

Hamada, N., Schettino, G., Kashino, G., Vaid, M., Suzuki, K., Kodama, S., Vojnovic, B., Folkard, M., Watanabe, M., Michael, B.D., and Prise, K.M. (2006) Histone H2AX phosphorylation in normal human cells irradiated with focused ultrasoft X-rays: Evidence for chromatin movement during repair. Radiation Research 166(1):31-38.

Barber, P.R., Locke, R.J., Pierce, G.P., Newmann, R.G., Folkard, M., and Vojnovic, B. (2006) Session 3. The GCI multitarget X-ray microprobe: Imaging, control and software automation. In: Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response.Radiation Research 166:663-664.

Flaccavento, G., Atkinson, K.D., Barber, P.R., Locke, R.J., Pierce, G., Gilchrist, S., Michette, A.G., Prise, K.M., Vojnovic, B., and Folkard, M. (2006) Session 2. Performance of the GCI multitarget x-ray microprobe. In: Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 7 th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response.Radiation Research 166:660-661.

Folkard, M ., Atkinson, K.D., Flaccavento, G., Barber, P.R., Locke, R.J., Pierce, G., Gilchrist, S., Michette, A.G., Prise, K.M., and Vojnovic, B. (2006) Session 2. Development of the GCI multitarget x-ray microprobe. In: Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response.Radiation Research 166:659-660.

Folkard, M., Greubel, C., Hable, V., Dollinger, G., Hauptner, A., Krucken, R., Strickfaden, H., Dietzel, S., Cremer, T., Drexler, G.A., Deutsch, M., and Friedl, A.A. (2006) Session 1: Microbeam source development, The Munich Microprobe SNAKE, a single-ion cell irradiation facility. In: Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 7 th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response.Radiation Research 166:654.

Kirkby, K.J., Grime, G.W., Webb, P.B., Folkard, M., Prise, K., and Vojnovic, B. (2006) Session 1. A scanning focused vertical ion nanobeam: A new UK facility for cell irradiation and analysis. In: Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 7 th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response.Radiation Research 166:654-655.

Moore, S.R., Macdonald, D.A., Folkard, M., Patel, G., Prise, K.M., and Kadhim, M.A. (2006) Session 6. Inter-and intraindividual differenced in geonomic instability after targeted microbeam irradiation. In: Proceedings of the 7 th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response.Radiation Research 166:678-679.

Prise, K.M., Folkard, M., and Michael, B.D. (2006) Radiation-induced bystander and adaptive responses in cell and tissue options. Dose-Response 4(4):263-276.

Shao, C., Lyng, F.M., Folkard, M., and Prise, K.M. (2006) Calcium fluxes modulate the radiation-induced bystander responses in targeted glioma and fibroblast cells. Radiation Research 166:479-487.

Belyakov, O.V., Folkard, M., Mothersill, C., Prise, K.M., and Michael, B.D. (2006) Bystander-induced differentiation: A major response to targeted irradiation of a urothelial explant model. Mutation Research 597(1-2):43-49.

Prise, K.M., Folkard, M ., Kuosaite, V., Tartier, L., Zyuzikov, N., and Shao, C. (2006) What role for DNA damage and repair in the bystander response? Mutation Reasearch 597(1-2):1-4.

Shao, C., Folkard, M., Michael, B.D., and Prise, K.M. (2005) Bystander signaling between glioma cells and fibroblasts targeted with counted particles. International J. of Cancer 116(1):45-51.

Schettino, G., Folkard, M., Michael, B.D., and Prise, K.M. (2005) Low-dose binary behavior of bystander cell killing after microbeam irradiation of a single cell with focused C K X-rays. Radiation Research 163:332-336.

Moore, S.R., Marsden, S., Macdonald, D., Mitchell, S., Folkard, M., Michael, B.D., Goodhead, D.T., Prise, K.M., and Kadhim, M.A. (2005) Genomic instability in human lymphocytes irradiated with individual charged particles: Involvement of tumor necrosis factor α in irradiated cells but not bystander cells. Radiation Research 163:183-190.

Kashino, G., Prise, K.M., Schettino, G., Folkard, M., Vojnovic, B., Michael, B.D., Suzuki, K., Kodama, S., and Watanabe, M. (2004) Evidence for induction of DNA double strand breaks in the bystander response to targeted soft X-rays in CHO cells. Mutation Research 556(1-2):209-215.

Shao, C., Folkard, M., Michael, B.D., and Prise, K.M. (2004) Targeted cytoplasmic irradiation induces bystander responses. PNAS 101(37):13495-13500.

Prise, K.M, Folkard, M., and Michael, B.D. (2004) Radiation-induced bystander and adaptive responses in cell and tissue models, The 14th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Shao, C., Stewart, V., Folkard, M., Michael, B.D., and Prise, K.M. (2003) Nitric oxide-mediated signaling in the bystander response of individually targeted glioma cells. Cancer Research 63:8437-8442.

Prise, K.M., Folkard, M., and Michael, B.D. (2003) Bystander responses induced by low LET radiation. Oncogene 22:7043-7049.

Schettino, G., Folkard, M., Prise, K.M., Vojnovic, B., Held, K.D., and Michael, B.D. (2003) Low-Dose studies of bystander cell killing with targeted soft X-rays. Radiation Research 160(5):505-511.

Belyakov, O.V., Folkard M., Mothersill, C., Prise, K.M., and Michael, B.D. (2002) Bystander-induced apoptosis and premature differentiation in primary urothelial explants after charged particle microbeam irradiation. Radiation Protection Dosimetry 99(1-4):249-251.

Prise, K.M., Belyakov, O.V., Folkard, M., Ozols, A., Schettino, G., Vojnovic, B., and Michael, B.D. (2002) Investigating the cellular effects of isolated radiation tracks using microbeam techniques. Adv. Space Res. 30(4):871-876.

Prise, K.M., Belyakov, O.V., Folkard, M., Ozols, A., Schettino, G., Vojnovic, B., and Michael, B.D. (2002) Investigating the cellular effects of isolated radiation tracks using microbeam techniques. Adv. Space Research 30(4):871-876.

Folkard, M., Vojnovic, B., Prise, K.M., and Michael, B.D. (2002) The application of charge-particle microbeams in radiation biology. Nucl. Instr. Meth. in Phys. Res. B188:49-54.

Folkard, M., Prise, K.M., Turner, C.J., and Michael, B.D. (2002) The producation of single-strand and double-strand breaks in DNA in aqueous solution by VUV photons below 10eV. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 99:147-149.

Mitchell, C.R., Folkard, M., and Joiner, M.C. (2002) Effects of exposure to low-dose-rate 60Co gamma rays on human tumor cells in vitro. Radiation Research 158:311-318.

Belyakov, O.V., Malcolmson, A.M., Folkard, M., Prise, K.M., and Michael, B.D. (2001) Direct evidence for a bystander effect of ionizing radiation in primary human fibroblasts. Br. J. Cancer 84(5):674-679.

Folkhard, M., Schettino, G., Vojnovic, B., Gilchrist, S., Michette, A.G., Pfauntsch, S.J., Prise K.M., and Michael, B.D. (2001) A focused ultrasoft X-ray microbeam for targeting cells individually with submicrometer accuracy. Rad. Res.156:796-804.

Folkhard, M., Vojnovic, B., Prise, K. M., Gilchrist, S., Schettino, G., Belyakov, O.V., Ozols, A., and Michael, B.D. (2001) The impact of microbeams in radiation biology. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms (NIMB) 181:426-430.

Michael, B.D., Schettino, G., Folkard, M., Prise, K.M., Held, K.D., and Vojnovic, B. (2001) Charged-particle and focused soft X-ray microbeams for investigating individual and collective radiation responses of cells. Rad. Res. 156:439-440.

Schettino, G., Folkard, M., Michette, A.G., Prise, K.M., Vojnovic, B., and Michael, B.D. (2000) A focused soft X-ray microbeam for investigating the radiation responses of individual cells. In: Workshop on X-rays from electron beams, (H. Prade, ed.), FZR, Dresden, FZR -287 ISNN 1437-322x, pp. 229-246.

Prise, K.M., Belyakov, O.V., Folkard, M., and Michael, B.D. (1998) Studies of bystander effects in human fibroblasts using a charged particle microbeam. Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 74(6):793-798.

Belyakov, O.V., Folkard, M., Mothersill, C., Prise, K.M., and Michael, B.D. (2003) A proliferation-dependent bystander effect in primary procine and human urothelial explants in response to targeted radiation. British Journal of Cancer 88:767-774.

 
 



                   
                   
                   
 

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