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=================================================================== Synchrotron Beam Time available for Macromolecular Crystallography at upgraded ALS Sector 5.0 beamlines (5.0.1, 5.0.2 and 5.0.3). The ALS is now accepting General User applications for July/August. =================================================================== The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB) has recently completed a major upgrade of the Sector 5.0 wiggler beamline optics. A five- to ten-fold improvement in available flux has been achieved at the side-station beamlines (5.0.1 and 5.0.3), which now generate 1.5x10^11 photons per second at 1 Angstrom wavelength. The performance of 5.0.2 (the tunable beamline) has improved by a factor of 3 to 4. It now generates a peak flux of 8x10^11 photons per second. The upgrade has also extended the energy range of 5.0.2 to 17 keV, enabling the routine use of shorter wavelengths and anomalously scattering elements such as bromine. Please visit http://bcsb.lbl.gov/ for more details about the Center and its beamlines. If you'd like to take advantage of the upgrades to these BCSB beamlines, submit a General User proposal by May 15, 2007 in order to be considered for the July-August schedules at the Advanced Light Source. To find out more, click on: http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/quickguide/independinvest.html We invite you to submit a proposal at: http://alsusweb.lbl.gov/4DCGI/WEB_GetForm/PXProposalEntry.shtml/Initialize. You can also request open beam time by e-mailing our scheduler at [log in to unmask] Any industrial or academic group interested in becoming part of the Participating Research Team for beamlines 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 should contact the Head of the BCSB (Paul Adams: [log in to unmask], 510-486-4225). (Please note that executed user agreements and proprietary fees, if applicable, must be received at least five working days prior to scheduled beam time.) -- Paul Adams Senior Staff Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division Head, Berkeley Center for Structural Biology Deputy Principal Investigator, Berkeley Structural Genomics Center Building 64, Room 248 Tel: 510-486-4225, Fax: 510-486-5909 http://cci.lbl.gov/ Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road BLDG 64R0121 Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. --