CHESS celebrates construction milestone with Wilson West open house
Wilson West houses a new large experimental hall to accommodate the upcoming High Magnetic Field X-ray Beamline.
CHESS user Ando wins award for contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology
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.
Gabrielle Illava: From SERCCS to PhD
Q: Could you tell me a little bit about your initial experience as a community college student in the SERCCS program at CLASSE?
CHESS Research Uses Pressure To Understand RNA Dynamics
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.
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!