Dear Colleagues, We announce a call for synchrotron beam time applications in biological small-angle scattering (SAXS) and macromolecular crystallography (MX). The beamtime will be available at the PETRA-III storage ring from *March, 1st, 2013 to September, 15th, 2013* (please note the end date change compared to the announcement in December 2012!).
In biological SAXS, we offer access to an undulator beamline P12: * 200 x 100 micron2 beam with 1013 ph/sec * Automated data collection with a robotic sample changer * Online FPLC and biophysical characterization of the sample * Remote and Fedex access * PILATUS 2M pixel detector covering the resolution from 2000 to 10 Å * http://www.embl-hamburg.de/facilities/saxs/index.html Part of the beamtime on P12 will be available for soft condensed matter applications through a Collaborative Research Group model in partnership with the Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht. For MX, access to two undulator beamlines - P13 and P14 - is offered. P13: * 50 x 50 micron2 beam with 1013 ph/sec * Apertures of 10/50/100 micron diameter * Energy 4.5 to 15 keV / Wavelength 0.82 - 2.7 A * MD2 diffractometer * PILATUS 6M (25 Hz) with 80 core compute server for XDS-processing * http://www.embl-hamburg.de/facilities/mx/P13 P14: * 5 x 10 micron2 focused beam with up to 5 x 1012 ph/sec * Quick toggling (<1 min) to unfocused flexible beam mode with 5-150 micron beam size. * Fixed energy 10 keV = 1.24 A * MD3 diffractometer with vertical spindle and kappa goniostat * PILATUS 6M (25 Hz) with 80 core compute server for XDS-processing * http://www.embl-hamburg.de/facilities/mx/P14 Electronic beam proposal forms and a detailed description of the beamlines are available at http://www.embl-hamburg.de/facilities/access_infrastructures/index.html *The deadline for submission of proposals is January, 20th, 2013. *An external Project Evaluation Committee will assess the proposals. Access to the EMBL Hamburg facilities will in part be supported by the European Commission, Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 project BioStruct-X (http://www.biostruct-x.eu/). Users that are interested in assistance with crystallization, sample preparation and characterization (SPC, also in combination with SAXS measurements) are encouraged to apply to the Biostruct-X support at http://www.biostruct-x.eu/content/embl-hamburg-protein-production-and-htx For further information tel. +49 40-89902-111 s...@embl-hamburg.de (SAXS) m...@embl-hamburg.de (MX) s...@embl-hamburg.de (SPC) With best regards, EMBL Hamburg User Office
