STARS2015 - 3rd Caribbean Symposium on Cosmology, Gravitation, Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics / SMFNS2015 - 4th International Symposium on Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars

Natural background radiation and mutagenesis in bacteria

14 May 2015, 15:00

30m

Talk STARS2015

Speaker

Augusto González (Instituto de Cibernética, Matemática y Física, La Habana)

Description

We suggest a possible correlation between the ionization events caused by the natural background radiation and the experimental data on mutations with damage in the DNA repair mechanism, coming from the Long Term Evolution Experiment in E. Coli populations.

Presentation materials

Slides

Gonzalez.pdf