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BioXFEL STC 3rd Annual International Conference

Category: Meeting

REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 18TH The BioXFEL National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its third annual international conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico January 13th - 15th, 2016.  This segment of the series will focus …

SACLA Beamtime - Panels

Category: Experiment

G-protein Coupled Receptors

February Journal Club with Reyhaneh Sepehr (UWM) and Fatemeh Jamalidinan (UWM)

Category: Seminar

Every month our BioXFEL Scholars present an XFEL-related publication. This month Reyhaneh Sepehr (UWM) will present: A novel inert crystal delivery medium for serial femtosecond crystallography. CE Conrad, S Basu, D James, D Wang, A Schaffer… - IUCrJ, 2015 and Fatemeh Jamalidinan will …

BioXFEL Lecture Series - Dr. Kornberg

Category: Seminar

Nobel Laureate and BioXFEL member, Dr. Roger Kornberg, will present for our monthly lecture series on Thursday February 18th at 8AM PST (9AM MST, 10AM CST, 11AM EST). More details to follow. Contact Bill Bauer (wbauer@hwi.buffalo.edu) to be included in this seminar.          

LCLS Beamtime - Kirian

Category: Experiment

LJ69 - Femtosecond damage and dynamics  CXI Station

March Journal Club with Chelsie Conrad (ASU)

Category: Seminar

Chelsie Conrad (ASU) and Gihan Ketawala (ASU) will be presenting the following papers: 1. Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-ray laser. Y Kang, XE Zhou, X Gao, Y He, W Liu, A Ishchenko… - Nature, 2015. …

External Advisors Meeting 2016

Category: Meeting

The external advisors to the BioXFEL Center will convene via teleconference for an update on Center activities. The Center external advisors are Keith Moffatt, James Naismith, Martin Caffrey, Victor Lamzin, Wah Chiu, Dirksen Bussiere, Henry Frierson, Nora Berrah and Stefano Marchesini.

BioXFEL Lecture Series - Dr. Richard Kirian (ASU) - "Liquid jets and aerosol injectors for XFEL measurements"

Category: Seminar

ASU Professor and BioXFEL member, Dr. Richard Kirian, will present for our monthly lecture series in March. He will talking about "Liquid jets and aerosol injectors for XFEL measurements" This lecture will take place at 3PM (EDT), 2PM (CDT), 1PM (MDT) or 12PM (MST/PDT). Please check your email …

BioXFEL Lecture Series - XFELs and Virus Biology by Dr. Brenda Hogue (ASU)

Category: Seminar

  ASU Professor and BioXFEL member, Dr. Brenda Hogue, will present 'XFELs and Virus Biology' for our monthly lecture series on Wednesday April 6th. This lecture will take place at 3PM (EDT), 2PM (CDT), 1PM (MDT) or 12PM (MST/PDT). Please check your email for the Zoom Meeting access code …

April Journal Club with Yujie Chen (Cornell) and Andrea Katz (Cornell)

Category: Seminar

Yujie Chen (Cornell) and Andrea Katz (Cornell) will be presenting the following papers: 1.  Room temperature structures beyond 1.5 Å by serial femtosecond crystallography .  Schmidt, M., Pande, K., Basu, S. & Tenboer, J. (2015). Structural Dynamics , 2 , 041708. …

BioXFEL Lecture Series - Wei Liu - Femtosecond crystallography of membrane proteins in LCP

Category: Seminar

Every month a BioXFEL investigator or collaborator presents their work or something closely related to their research via a virtual meeting. These presentations are recorded and posted to our website. This month ASU assistant professor Wei Liu will discuss his recent work with Femtosecond …

BioXFEL Protein Production and Purification Workshop at UPRM

Category: Workshop

BioXFEL Protein Production and Purification Workshop   The BioXFEL Science and Technology Center will be sponsoring a 1-day event on May 11th, 2016 for all interested UPR researchers. The full day course will cover the basics of the biochemistry, cloning, expression and purification of …

May Journal Club with Garrett Nelson (ASU) and Jose Martin Garcia (ASU)

Category: Seminar

Garrett Nelson (ASU) and Jose Martin Garcia (ASU) will be presenting the following papers: 1.  One Crystal, two Temperatures ‐ Cryocooling Penalties alter Ligand Binding to Transient Protein Sites.  M Fischer, B Shoichet, J Fraser - ChemBioChem, 2015   …

XFEL Lightsource Seminar

Category: Seminar

BioXFEL is pleased to announce its XFEL Lightsource Seminar for Industry Scientists and BioXFEL members.  This seminar will be held Monday, June 20th and is free of charge.  Participants may attend in person at the Hauptman-Woodward Institute in Buffalo, NY or through the web conferencing service …

NSF 3rd Annual Site Visit

Category: Meeting

The Center will be holding its Third Annual Site Visit June 20-23, 2016.  Below is a very general outline of the week’s agenda. June 20th XFEL Lightsource Applications Seminar June 21st Prep Day & Group Dinner June 22nd NSF Review June …

July Journal Club with Jeremy Copperman (UWM) and Ali Dashti (UWM)

Category: Seminar

This month Jeremy Copperman (UWM) and Ali Dashti (UWM) will be presenting the following papers. Structure of the Angiotensin receptor revealed by serial femtosecond crystallography Zhang, H., Unal, H., Gati, C., Han, G. W., Liu, W., Zatsepin, N. A., James, D., Wang, D., Nelson, G., …

2016 Serial Crystallography Data Analysis Workshop at the American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting

Category: Workshop

We are running a  serial femtosecond crystallography data analysis workshop at ACA 2016 in Denver, CO, focused on "Serial Crystallography Data Analysis with Cheetah and CrystFEL: Concepts and Tutorials". The event will be held the day prior to the ACA conference, on Friday, July 22nd, …

BioXFEL Online Seminar - Abbas Ourmazd

Category: Seminar

The BioXFEL August Seminar will be given by Dr. Abbas Ourmazd of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Machine learning is guided by the intrinsic properties of the data, rather than user-directed notions. It is thus possible to determine the structure, conformations, energy landscapes, and …

August Journal Club with Tim Stachowski (UB/HWI/RPCI)

Category: Seminar

This month Timothy Stachowski, new graduate student in the Snell lab at HWI, will present the following paper: In cellulo serial crystallography of alcohol oxidase crystals inside yeast cells   Arjen J. Jakobi,a,b*‡ Daniel M. Passon,a‡ Kèvin Knoops,c Francesco Stellato,d§ Mengning …

LCLS Users' Meeting 2016 - BioXFEL Event

Category: Meeting

BioXFEL is sponsoring an event following the LCLS Users' Meeting on Saturday, October 8, 2016. This is a half-day session open to all users' meeting graduate students, postdocs, and young scientists. The intent is to facilitate peer-to-peer networking and multi-disciplinary interactions. The …

An NIH Workshop on XFEL

Category: Workshop

About the Workshop X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) is a new type of X-ray source with two distinct features that have never been possible in the past: extreme brilliance and femtosecond (fs) time resolution. It is billions of times brighter than the latest synchrotron source, which is in turn a …