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Dear SRS Users,
Applications are now invited for beam-time in allocation period 50 (April - December 2008) on PX station 10.1 at the SRS. The deadline for submission of proposals is Thursday 1st November.
Further details on how to apply for beamtime can be found here :- http://www.srs.ac.uk/srs/userSR/AP50_announcement.htm
Station 10.1 (http://www.biophysics.dl.ac.uk/srsbl10.html) at the SRS Daresbury is a world competitive high throughput PX/XAFS structural biology facility. It has a XAFS capable sagittal focussing monochromator (tuneable between 5 and 14 keV) a state-of-the-art MarMosaic CCD225 detector and a state of the art low-profile monolithic 4-element x-ray fluorescence Ge detector, with an energy resolution of 170-200 eV. This is the first time that such a high quality fluorescence detector is included as an integral part of a PX beamline. A crystal microspectrophotometer for measuring optical data is also available on-line. Station 10.1 is therefore ideally suited for combining optical, PX and XAFS data collection on the same protein crystal, identifying metal redox states of crystals in-situ, anomalous diffraction measurements, monitoring crystals for radiation damage and long wavelength (up to 2.3Å) SAD phasing experiments. In addition, automated cryogenic sample changing allows high-throughput crystal screening and data collection.
Please feel free to contact me ([log in to unmask]) or Richard Strange ([log in to unmask]) if you have any questions.
Yours sincerely,
Mark Ellis
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Dr. Mark Ellis
SRS Station Scientist 10.1
Researcher Molecular Biophysics Group
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Daresbury Laboratory
Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus
Warrington
Cheshire
WA4 4AD, UK
tel : +44 (0)1925 603830 http://www.stfc.ac.uk
fax : +44 (0)1925 603748 http://www.biophysics.dl.ac.uk