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CHESS Welcomes New Staff Scientist - Steve Meisburger
Steve Meisburger joins CHESS as a staff Scientist at the FlexX beam line. Steve comes from the Ando Lab at Cornell, which studies how enzymes work by using a combination of biophysical and biochemical techniques. We are thrilled to have Steve join the CHESS team!
Follow Steve on twitter: @meisborg
MacCHESS visits ACA: The Structural Science Society
A sizable group of MacCHESS personnel attended the annual meeting of the ACA (ACA: The Structural Science Society, formerly the American Crystallographic Association), held July 29-August 3 in Portland, Oregon. Home base was a booth in the Exhibit Hall, assembled, beautified, and manned by Irina Kriksunov. At the booth, visitors could read about activities at Sector 7, ask questions about whether they could make use of CHESS, and leave with informational postcards (as well as chocolates).
Welcome Jeney Wierman - New MacCHESS Director
Jeney Wierman started as the new MacCHESS Director on July 1st, 2022. Below is a welcome message to the whole CHESS Community.
Jeney takes over the MacCHESS directorship from Marian Szebenyi, who will be retiring later this year after 30 years at MacCHESS.
Summer 2022 Undergraduate Students at CHESS
The Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE) funds summer research opportunities in the areas of x-ray and accelerator sciences, materials science, chemistry, and mechanical engineering for pre-selected undergraduate students from primarily undergraduate institutions and minority serving institutions. Approximately a dozen REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) students each summer are hosted by CLASSE. Students from the CHESS summer programs -- SERCCS, PREM, and SUNRiSE -- are midway through their summer undergraduate research experience.
New Experimental Hall - Construction Continues
As many inhabitants of Wilson lab have heard, seen, smelled, and felt, the New Experimental Hall (NEH) civil construction project is full speed ahead.
CHESS celebrates expansion and $8.5M funding for subfacility
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) celebrated the groundbreaking for a new $32.6 million high magnetic field project April 14 – the facility’s latest milestone.
HMF - A first-of-its-kind X-Ray facility
X-rays can uniquely address fundamental, long-standing questions about the nature of matter in high magnetic fields. The new HMF facility will enable research that is currently not achievable anywhere in the world.
How two cancer drugs can look the same but behave differently - revealed by serial room temperature crystallography
Many cancer cells require the enzyme glutaminase synthase C (GAC) to grow well. Consequently drugs that inhibit GAC are potential cancer treatments, and much work is being done to find the best ones. The Cerione group reports some of this work.