John Ford

Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering

Date of Appointment: 1999
Office: 58A Zachry Engineering Center
Phone: 979/845-6271
Lab: 979/862-3660
Fax: 979/845-6443
E-mail: ford@ne.tamu.edu

Mailing Address: Texas A&M University
Department of Nuclear Engineering
3133 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3133

Education
Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1992
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1986
B.S., Nuclear Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1982

Courses
LBAR 489, University Honors Seminar
NUEN 673, Radiation Biology
NUEN 674, Radiation Carginogenesis
NUEN 675, Internal Dose Assessment

Areas of Interest
My research interest is the response of intact tissues to ionizing radiation and a microbeam is required to determine how the response of individual cells in a tissue are modified by neighboring unirradiated cells. This is a critical question for the determination of the carcinogenic risk of exposures to low doses of ionizing radiation.

Radiation Biology Site

Student Organizations
Texas A&M Univeristy Chapter of Sigma Xi
Texas A&M University Student Chapter of American Nuclear Society
Texas A&M University Student Chapter of Alpha Nu Sigma
Texas A&M Cancer Society

Curriculum Vita

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Engineering Education
American Nuclear Society
Health Physics Society
Radiation Research Society
Sigma Xi

GRANTS AND AWARDS

APPOINTMENTS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

PUBLICATIONS

A. S. Pasciak and J. R. Ford, A new high-speed solution for the evaluation of Monte Carlo radiation transport computations. IEEE Nuclear Science 53(2): 491-499 (2006).

J. R. Ford, A. J. Maslowski, R. A. Redd and L. A. Braby, Radiation responses of perfused tracheal tissue. Radiation Research 163(4 Part 2): 487-492 (2005).

M. A. Hill, J. R. Ford, P. Clapton, S. J. Marsden, D. L. Stevens, K. M. S. Townsend and D. T. Goodhead. Bound PCNA in nuclei of primary rat tracheal epithelial cells after exposure to very low doses of Plutonium-238 a-Particles, Radiation Research 163:.36-44 (2005).

N. Medvedeva, J. R. Ford and L.A. Braby, Effects of growth surface irradiation on micronuclei formation frequencies. Radiation Research 162: 660-666 (2004).

N. G. Ostrovskaya and J. R. Ford, A combined tissue kinetic and dosimetric model of an airway. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 90: 57-58 (2004).

L. A. Braby and J. R. Ford, Energy deposition patterns and the bystander effect. Radiation Research 161: 113-115 (2004).

T. W. Botting, L. A. Braby and J. R. Ford, Development of an electron microbeam for cell culture studies. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 89: 665-666 (2003).

N. G. Medvedeva, J. R. Ford and L. A. Braby, Micronuclei resulting from pre-irradiation of cell-culture surface. Health Physics 84: S245, (2003).

N. G. Ostrovskaya and J. R. Ford, Modeling the radiation response of respiratory tissue. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 88: 349 (2003).

N. D. Turner, L. A. Braby, J. Ford and J. R. Lupton, Opportunities for nutritional amelioration of radiation-induced cellular damage. Nutrition 18: 904-912 (2002).

L. A. Braby and J. R. Ford, Microbeam irradiation patterns to simulate dose. Radiation Research 153: 225 (2000).

J. R. Ford, N. F. Metting, S. J. Marsden, D. L. Stevens, K. M. S. Townsend and D. T. Goodhead, Visualization of damage generated along alpha-particle tracks in irradiated rat tracheal epithelial cells. In Microdosimetry: An Interdisciplinary Approach (D. T. Goodhead, P. O’Neill and H. G. Menzel, Eds.) pp. 335-338. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge (1997).

J. R. Ford and M. Terzaghi-Howe, Difference in the sensitivity to transformation in two proliferative populations of the rat trachea.
International Journal of Radiation Biology 70(6): 784 (1996).

M. Terzaghi-Howe, J. R. Ford and J. E. Turner, Influence of cell position relative to planar alpha-particle sources on survival and preneoplastic transformation of primary rat tracheal epithelial cells. Radiation Research 145: 432-441 (1996).

M. Terzaghi-Howe and J. Ford, Effects of radiation on rat respiratory epithelial cells: critical target cell populations and the importance of cell-cell interactions. Advances in Space Research 14: 565-572 (1994).

J. R. Ford, and M. Terzaghi-Howe, Effects of 210Po alpha particles on survival and preneoplastic transformation of primary rat tracheal epithelial cells irradiated while in suspension or in the intact tissue. Radiation Research 136: 89-96 (1993).

J. R. Ford and M. Terzaghi-Howe, Characteristics of magnetically separated rat tracheal epithelial cell populations. American Journal of Physiology 263 (Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 7): L568-L574 (1992).

J. R. Ford and M. Terzaghi-Howe, Basal cells are the progenitors of primary tracheal epithelial cell cultures. Experimental Cell Research 198: 69-77 (1992).

Mantovani, J. G., D. P. Allison, R. J. Warmack, T. L. Ferell, J. R. Ford, R. E. Manos, J. R. Thompson, B. B. Reddick, and K. B. Jacobson, Scanning tunneling microscopy of tobacco mosaic virus on evaporated and sputter-coated palladium/gold substrates. Journal of Microscopy 158: 109-116 (1990).