Exploring New Science Frontiers at NSLS-II
September 17, 2019
Welcome back, everyone, to our fall issue of News @ NSLS-II!
At NSLS-II, we had a very busy summer and I am excited to share updates with you about past and upcoming events.
Exploring New Science Frontiers at NSLS-II
Let’s start with an upcoming event. We hope you will join us for our strategic planning workshop, “Exploring New Science Frontiers at NSLS-II,” which will be held on October 21-23 at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven Lab. The workshop will serve as a forum for the community to discuss the big questions in various areas of science and explore ways in which future capabilities at NSLS-II could have impact in addressing those questions. For more details and to register, please read our announcement in this newsletter or visit the workshop website.
On the last day of the workshop, we will also celebrate the fifth anniversary of first light at NSLS-II.
Update on the Laboratory of BioMolecular Structure
Our new sister facility and next-door neighbor, the Laboratory of BioMolecular Structure (LBMS), will be an advanced laboratory for life science imaging using cryo-electron microscopes. From my window in building 745, I can watch how quickly the new building went up, and I am excited to share with you that, in the few short months, the building will be ready to house a new high-resolution Krios electron microscope. I am looking forward to seeing the synergy between the two facilities that will benefit the whole structural biology community.
New Beamlines in General User Operations
I am pleased to be able to tell you that, since the last newsletter, three more beamlines have entered General User operations. These are a structural biology beamline (NYX), built and operated in partnership with the New York Structural Biology Consortium, and two soft and tender x-ray spectroscopy beamlines (SST-1 and SST-2), built and operated in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. We are excited to have all three of these beamlines hosting users and are looking forward to exciting science coming out of each of them!
Reminder: Multimodal Proposals
The next proposal deadline is coming soon (September 30th) and I would like to remind you that you can now submit multimodal beam time proposals. Using this option, when submitting your General User Proposals, you can request time on up to three beamlines, while for Block Allocation Groups (BAGs), Partner User, and Proprietary Proposals, you may request up to five beamlines in a single proposal. If you need more information on the different types of proposals, please consult our proposal guide in the NSLS-II user guide.
In the rest of this newsletter, you will find articles on some of the exciting science that has recently been carried out at NSLS-II, as well as a link to submit your beam time proposals.
Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter and I hope to see you at NSLS-II in the near future!
John Hill, NSLS-II Director
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