Crystal structure of a type III Rubisco in complex with its product 3-phosphoglycerate
What is the discovery?
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.
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.
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!
Summer 2022 Undergraduate Students at CHESS
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
Welcome Jeney Wierman - New MacCHESS Director
Dear CHESS Community,
CHESS celebrates expansion and $8.5M funding for subfacility
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York), who secured an extension of CHESS’s funding from the National Science Foundation 10 years ago amid concerns that it wouldn’t be renewed, was on hand to celebrate. He also announced that $8.5 million from the 2022 omnibus appropriations bill will go towards operating the Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C).