Dear PyMOL Users,
I serve as the 2016-2017 chair of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation
Lightsource (SSRL) Users Executive Committee (UEC). This is a volunteer group
that is independent of SSRL.
You probably have heard that the proposed DOE budget absorbs a large cut in
part by shutting down SSRL. SSRL is one of four DOE synchrotron radiation labs
in the US. SSRL has a very efficient mail-in crystallography program. It is so
successful that only 3% of crystallographers show up at SSRL to collect data
manually. Usually, this latter group has very challenging crystals that require
manual intervention. The closure of SSRL will shift a massive workload onto the
remaining three synchrotron radiation labs that are run by DOE. This will
reduce access to synchrotron radiation for all crystallographers and other
users of synchrotron radiation (SAXS, XFAS, and so on). One lab, (APS), is
scheduled to be shutdown for several years for a major upgrade, thereby further
reducing access to synchrotron radiation. This situation will further reduce
the productivity and world standing of US science. The SSRL UEC is asking all
concerned scientists to go to the SSRL UEC facebook page for more information
about what they can do. Please follow this link to a infographic
(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1zncsHsyAevUGpWQkJzeG9mN1k) and to
the SSRL UEC Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ssrluec).
If you are not a US citizen, please do not contact the US Congress. Instead,
please ask your US colleagues that use or rely on the products of synchrotron
radiation to contact Congress.
The above are my opinions as a private citizen and do not necessarily reflect
those of my employer nor of SSRL.
Best regards,
Blaine
Blaine Mooers, Ph.D.
201-2017 Chair SSRL UEC
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
975 NE 10th Street, BRC 466
Oklahoma City, OK 73104-5419
Faculty
webpage<http://www.oumedicine.com/department-of-biochemistry-and-molecular-biology/faculty/blaine-mooers-ph-d->
X-ray lab
(LBSF)<http://http://research.ouhsc.edu/CoreFacilities/LaboratoryofBiomolecularStructureandFunction.aspx>
Molecular
Graphics<https://www.oumedicine.com/docs/default-source/ad-biochemistry-workfiles/moleculargraphicslinks.html>
Links
<https://www.oumedicine.com/docs/default-source/ad-biochemistry-workfiles/MolecularGraphicsLinks.html>
Small Angle Scattering
<http://www.oumedicine.com/docs/default-source/ad-biochemistry-workfiles/small-angle-scattering-links-27aug2014.html?sfvrsn=0>
office: (405) 271-8300 lab: (405) 271-8313 e-mail: blaine-moo...@ouhsc.edu
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