For two short days on the Cornell Campus, the students from around the country - including four students from Puerto Rico - were able to meet their mentors from CHESS and their peers from other community colleges and undergraduate institutions. Their trip to Cornell offered the opportunity to tour the CHESS facility, explore the Ithaca area, and present their summer projects to an audience of CHESS directors, graduate students, and their fellow summer research students. 

What is the new work?

What is the discovery?

What is the new discovery?

What is the discovery?

Richard Gillilan, a MacCHESS/CHEXS staff scientist, has been named a member of the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA), in recognition of his many career achievements, especially the development of a world-class BioSAXS facility at CHESS.

What did the scientists do?

The main objectives of commissioning were to enable communication between the existing control system of the beamline (SPEC) and the new control system of RAMS IV (Aerotech), and to synchronize triggering of X-ray detectors with positions of the rotation stages on RAMS IV.

What is the discovery?

Developing a better understanding of protein folding and unfolding reactions is a significant challenge for structural biology. In a new paper, a team lead by Catherine Royer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reports a high-pressure small-angle x-ray scattering study of the model  protein CTL9-I98A in solution, which allows direct observation of the pressure-induced unfolded state.

Two new detectors developed by Sydor Technologies are now available for user experiments at CHESS.