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.
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.
What is the new discovery?
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.
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
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Functional materials, like semiconductors, polymers, and nanoparticles, are materials that have interesting non-mechanical properties. The definition of a functional material is usually used as a distinction from a structural material, which refers to load-bearing materials.
The information gained at the beamline can help model existing materials, while also helping to tailor new materials to better withstand harsh conditions.
What did the scientists discover?
Nondestructive residual strain measurements of thick, DOD-relevant armor steel with typical forming and welding procedures were possible using MSN-C capabilities.