The 36th annual meeting of the European radiation research society (ERRS): an overview of radiation biology.

The 36th annual meeting of the European Radiation Research Society (ERRS), the ERR 2008 meeting, was organized by a team from the French Radiation protection and nuclear safety institute (IRSN) in Tours (France), from September 1st to 4th, 2008. More than 150 researchers and physicians, coming from all over the world participated in this meeting. Beyond these data, this meeting highlighted several major fields of research, among which biological dosimetry, genetic instability and bystander effects, and normal tissue damages. Epidemiological studies were also represented for the first time in an ERRS meeting. The goal of this paper is to present an overview of major results presented during this meeting.