Summer Engineering Research for Community College Students (SERCCS) selects 2 students from (2-year) community colleges for eight-week internships in accelerator and x-ray sciences research, during which students also

What is the discovery?

We are happy to report that Cornell Facilities & Campus Services Project Manager Alex Chevallard has asked contractor Streeter and their subcontractors to provide all the finishing touches and polish to the new Wilson West building by the end of January 2024. At that time the beautiful new building will be ready for the start of installation of the new sector 5 X-ray beamline - also knowns as the High Magnetic Field (HMF) facility.

Wilson West houses a new large experimental hall to accommodate the upcoming High Magnetic Field X-ray Beamline.

Ando has dedicated her career to “seeing” atoms using high energy X-rays with a technique called diffuse scattering; imagine a pair of glasses that allow you to see atoms and molecules. These glasses not only let you see these molecules but also very specific ways molecules move.

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Just as space holds infinite mysteries, when we zoom in at the level of biomolecules (one trillion times smaller than a meter), there is still so much to learn.

Summer Engineering Research for Community College Students (SERCCS) selects 4-5 students from (2-year) community colleges for eight-week internships in accelerator and x-ray sciences research, during which students also attend/lead formal seminars, tour research facilities, and enjoy social and recreational events.

PyMOL is a popular molecular visualization software used by scientists and researchers to visualize and analyze molecular structures. It is designed to work with a variety of file formats, including PDB (Protein Data Bank) files, and can display a range of molecular properties, such as protein linkage, electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding.

The development, outlined in a paper published March 3 in Nature Communications, provides researchers with the tools to interpret the once-discarded data from X-ray crystallography experiments – an essential method used to study the structures of proteins. This work, which builds on a study released in 2020, could lead to a better understanding of a protein’s movement, structure and overall function.