Support

Yun-Xing Wang in collaboration with BioXFEL Researchers, publishes new article "Structures of riboswitch RNA reaction states by mix-and-inject XFEL serial crystallography" in Nature. 

BioXFEL is sponsoring a summer internship program to be held at Rice University. This 10 week internship will be designed to incorporate undergraduate students from the surrounding greater Houston area. Special consideration will be given to students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as well as other underrepresented groups. Students will be given the opportunity to engage in scientific research projects involving crystallography, biochemistry, protein chemistry and other XFEL-related topics.

NSF BioXFEL STC Discretionary Funding 2015

Applications due by January 31, 2015

Purpose: The BioXFEL STC has reserved some discretionary funds intended to support graduate students or postdocs of US faculty outside the current STC membership in the application of X-ray lasers to structural biology, for a limited period. This will include collaboration with the BioXFEL Center, and it is expected that an application for beamtime at one of the world's XFEL facilities will be associated with the work.

Procedures: Funding requests must be sponsored by a current BioXFEL Center member. Requests can be made at any point during the year. Discretionary fund awardees will be reviewed on an annual basis for renewal in October of each funding year, with an annual maximum of $60,000.

BioXFEL researchers have captured the highest-resolution protein snapshots ever taken with an X-ray laser, revealing how a key protein in a photosynthetic bacterium changes shape when hit by light.