Dear All The call for proposals via peer-review for non-proprietary access to Diamond MX beamlines from October 2023 until March 2024 is now open (https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Users/Apply-for-Beamtime.html). The deadline for this call is Wednesday 29th March at 17:00 hrs UTC+1/GMT+1.
Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, provides access for users worldwide to a suite of seven MX beamlines<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx.html>. The beamlines cover a very broad range of capabilities including: * high throughput (I03<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I03.html>, I04<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I04.html>, I04-1<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I04-1.html>, I24<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I24.html>, VMXi<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/VMXi.html>) * micro (I04<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I04.html>, I24<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I24.html>, VMXi<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/VMXi.html>, VMXm<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/VMXm.html>) and nano-focus (VXMm<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/VMXm.html>) beams * extremely long wavelengths (I23<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I23.html>) * room temperature in situ collection from crystallisation plates (VMXi<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/VMXi.html>) * (time resolved) serial synchrotron crystallography (I24<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I24/I24-serial.html>, VMXi<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/VMXi.html>) * the fragment-based screening platform (XChem<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/Fragment-Screening.html>) * additionally the suite can handle biological agents up to Hazard Group 3 Experiment sessions on the beamlines are via responsive scheduling<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/Common/MX-Beamtime-guide-2021.html>, pre-scheduled visits (either remote or on-site) and automated unattended data collection<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/I03/I03-Manual/Unattended-Data-Collections.html>. The route for access through this call to I03, I04, I04-1, I23, I24, VMXi and the XChem facility is either via a Block Allocation Group<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Users/Apply-for-Beamtime/BAG-Access.html> or standard access<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Users/Apply-for-Beamtime/Standard-Access.html> proposal. The nano-focus beamline VMXm is currently accessible via a user commissioning call – please contact Gwyndaf Evans for more details. Additionally, as part of iNEXT-Discovery (https://inext-discovery.eu/ & https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Users/Support-for-European-Access-to-Life-Sciences/iNEXT-Discovery---access-to-Diamond.html) we are supporting access for European based research groups to the following modalities within the MX group at Diamond. Before applying directly to iNEXT-Discovery please do touch base with the following for advice: * Serial Crystallography @I24 – Robin Owen * Serial Crystallography @VMXi – Mike Hough * Long Wavelength @I23 – Armin Wagner * Micro/nanofocus crystallography @VMXm – Gwyndaf Evans * Drug discovery: Fragment screening – Frank von Delft If you have any queries on particular beamline capabilities or techniques please contact the relevant principal beamline scientist or myself. Best regards Dave Hall on behalf of the MX group at Diamond. -- MX Group Diamond Light Source Didcot United Kingdom OX11 0DE https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx.html -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
