NE-CAT Technical Advisory Committee

Dr. D. Peter Siddons (Chair)
National Synchrotron Light Source, Bldg. 725D
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973
Email: siddons@bnl.gov

Dr. John J. Chrzas
Argonne National Laboratory
432-A003
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
Email: chrzas@anl.gov

Dr. John P. Quintana
Argonne National Laboratory
432-A003
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
Email: jpq@northwestern.edu

 Dr. Albert C. Thompson
Advanced Light Source
Berkeley Lab - MS2R0400
Berkeley, CA 94720
Email: acthompson@lbl.gov

Recent Highlights

8/21/2008

Mechanism of homologous recombination from RecA-ssDNA structures

Zhucheng Chen, Haijuan Yang, and Nikola P. Pavletich

Nature 453, 489-484 (22 May 2008)

Click here for full article.

08/19/2008

July-August status report now available.

7/07/2008

June status report now online.

06/24/2008

NE-CAT Hires Three New User Support Staff (More Info)

06/12/2008

May status report is now available.

05/06/2008

NE-CAT organizes a successful workshop titled “Software for Challenging Cases in Macromolecular Crystallography”  at APS User Week 2008. A photo of the organizers and speakers is shown. Presentations can be found here.

4/04/2008

Featured Publication

Crystal Structure of a Self-Spliced Group ll Intron

Navtej Toor, Kevin S. Keating, Sean D. Taylor, and Anna Marie Pyle

Science 4 April 2008, Vol. 320. No. 5872, pp. 77-82

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04/02/2008

Agenda now available for NE-CAT workshop "Software for Challenging Cases in Macromolecular Crystallography" to be held May 6 as part of User Week 2008. See agenda.

04/01/2008 

With the success users have had using the MD2 Microdiffractometer on 24-ID-E, NE-CAT is acquiring a second MD2 for 24-ID-C, delivery October 2008

2/27/2008 

NE-CAT hosting the workshop “WK04, Software for Challenging Cases in Macromolecular Crystallography” to be held May 6, 2008 at APS User Week. See the APS User Meeting Website

1/22/2008

Modified ALS sample placement robotic system installed on 24-ID-C beamline.

11/16/2007

Resource Advisory Committee Meeting Held

NE-CAT Director Steven Ealick Provides Introductory Overview (see additional pic )

10/01/2007

24-ID-E equipped with a MD-2 Microdiffractometer has been declared operational and accepting General User proposals for the 2008-1 run cycle. (See pic)

09/04/2007

The move of the 8-BM Bending Magnet Beamline to 24-BM is in progress. Shown is the installation of the detector support frame.

6/08/2007

16x16x300 micron crystal irradiated at 5 different positions using a 20 micron beam with the MD2 microdiffractometer to obtain a complete data set with a radiation-damage sensitive crystal. (See pic)

4/13/2007

First Data Frames Obtained Using the MD2 Microdiffractometer (see additional pictures)

03/21/2007

MD2 Microdiffractometer Installed on 24-ID-E beamline

02/16/2007

First Data Taken on Phase 2, 24-ID-E Beamline

12/15/2006

MD2 Microdiffractometer being bench tested (shown with covers removed). See December Status update for more details.

11/06/2006

Phase 2 User Control Area Instrumented (rose color panel area). Phase 1 control area in foreground. User common area in background.

10/19/2006

Phase 2 installation nearing completion with installation of ADSC Q315 Detector.

10/01/2006

NECAT ceases 8-BM user operations in preparation for moving the 8-BM Beamline to 24-BM. See September 2006 Report.

8/08/2006

Phase 2 End Station Instrumentation Being Installed. See Status Report August 2006

July 12, 2006

APS verifies that the Phase 2 end station enclosure meets the radiation standards and grants approval for NE-CAT to begin building out the end station.

5/30/2006

Obtained “first light” (monoenergetic X-rays) from Phase 2 Monochromator. See Status Report May 2006

5/22/2006

Phase 2 Horizontal Focusing Mirror and Photon Shutter Installed

5/22/2006

Phase 2 Vertical Focusing Mirror in Place.