Beamlines in Focus: FlexX
FlexX is shorthand for “Flexible Beamline for Macromolecular Crystallography,” where the second, capital “X” stems from a common shorthand for “Crystal,” or “X-tal.” The name also indicates the flexibility of the beamline in accommodating a wide variety of crystallography-related experiments. Finke and the beamline work to accommodate challenging experiments that would be difficult to perform at other beamlines across the U.S.
PREM connection, operando research lead to ACS Award for CHESS User
Mario Ramos-Garcés, CHESS User and former Ph.D. student at UPR-Río Piedras has been honored by the American Chemical Society's Division of Inorganic Chemistry with the Young Investigator Award for his Ph.D. research.
A virus recognizes the starting point on the DNA to be packaged inside its protein shell
The Cingolani group (Thomas Jefferson U) has now determined the structure of TerS from the Pseudomonas phage PaP3. Phage DNA to be packaged contains multiple copies of the genome, but just one copy is needed to fill a procapsid. Terminases attempt to package this one copy by various methods; in PaP3 a termination signal is provided by the interaction of a specific sequence in the DNA (the cos sequence) with TerS.
CHESS Virtual Town Hall - April 14, 2021
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Incommensurate charge order in a low-dimensional superconductor
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Autonomous materials development using in situ laser annealing and scan-probe, grazing incident x-ray microdiffraction.
The experiment employed an AI-driven, fully autonomous infrastructure controlled across campus from CHESS to direct the synthesis and characterization in combinatorial thin-film material processing. Using high-throughput, closed-loop robotics, new materials were synthesized through laser-annealing, analyzed with x-ray diffraction, and the resulting data was fed into a machine-learning model to propose the next best experiment.
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Asking Good Questions - Outreach workshop leads to Critical Thinking
The Graduate Student School Outreach Program, GRASSHOPR, pairs Cornell graduate students with teachers across neighboring counties. The students visit the schools and teach courses on topics related to their fields of interest. The K-12 students are able to experience new mentors that are eager to share their knowledge, while the graduate students and teachers benefit from exchanging ideas as they dev
2021 CHESS Users' Meeting - Save the Date!
Our annual Users' Meeting consists of: