2010 X-ray Runs:
Feb. 3rd - March 16th
June 2nd - July 20th
Oct. 13th - Dec. 7th
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source...
...is a high-intensity X-ray source supported by the National Science Foundation.
CHESS provides our users state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facilities for research in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Environmental and Materials Sciences. A special NIH Research Resource, called MacCHESS, supports special facilities for protein crystallographic studies.
CHESS serves a wide spectrum of experimental groups from Universities, National Laboratories and Industry. Each year, 500-600 scientists, graduate and undergraduate students visit CHESS to collect data. In addition, a significant effort of the staff is aimed at developing synchrotron radiation experimental facilities and methods that utilize the high intensity photon flux provided by the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR).

Wilson Lab,
Cornell University
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Undergraduates Study Role of Oxygen Vacancies in SrTi03
Study confirms role of lattice relaxation around vacancies...
Controlling Contraction
Jia group's study of proteins from a slime mold illuminate how myosin filaments work to reshape cells and make muscles contract...
Cerione group works to understand RNA processing
Elucidating important steps in RNA post-transcriptional modification...


