Protein family shows how life adapted to oxygen
Cornell scientists have created an evolutionary model that connects organisms living in today’s oxygen-rich atmosphere to a time, billions of years ago, when Earth’s atmosphere had little oxygen.
CHESS Welcomes New Staff Scientist - Steve Meisburger
Steve is very interested in structural biology methods that let us see "molecular movies" -- i.e. how molecular machines like enzymes actually work. Diffuse scattering is one such method that he’s worked on with Nozomi Ando's group. But he’s also interested in using time-resolved techniques to include more types of perturbations, such as temperature, pressure, and electric fields.
CHEXS Lending Library offers valuable teaching resource
The CHEX Lending Library is a far-reaching program. In the past year, a total of 3,560 students have used our kits including 1,011 underrepresented minority students and 1,770 female students. The Lending Library provides students with the opportunity to interact with lessons and kits they would not otherwise have access to.
Rebecca, an experienced teacher at Cortland High School in New York State, sent us a heartfelt thank you note (after implementing the DNA Profiling Lab) that read in part:
Nanocrystals with Metastable High-Pressure Phases Under Ambient Conditions
Several spectroscopy techniques are implemented at CHESS for in-situ monitoring of materials properties, enabling simultaneous build-up of materials structure-property relations under real environments.
Super Cornell Compact Undulator (sCCU) Compact Variable-Gap Undulator with Hydraulic-Assist Driver and Enhanced Magnetic Field
A team at CHESS in collaboration with PHAD has developed, prototyped, built, and tested a compact variable-gap undulator with hydraulic-assist driver and innovative hybrid magnetic structure.
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Energy center receives $12.6 million in renewed funding
The center, part of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, was created in 2018 with an initial $10.75 million grant from the DOE Office of Science.
New Experimental Hall - Latest Construction Updates
Today's latest still shot of the construction area.
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MacCHESS visits ACA: The Structural Science Society
Richard Gillilan, BioSAXS guru, assisted in running a workshop on small-angle scattering. He also co-chaired the session "Phase Separation and Aggregation of Biomolecular Systems and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins", and gave a talk in it about the use of multi-protein simulations and structure factor measurements. It was noteworthy that all the speakers at the session reported on work done at the CHESS BioSAXS station!