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The CHESS Users' Meeting 2003 was held:
June 24-25, 2003
Tuesday & Wednesday
Location: Clark Hall,
7th floor,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The program featured an exciting agenda of invited user presentations, special topic workshops, a poster competition, and a chance to visit one of the area's many glacier-cut gorges (Follow this link for pictures taken on the hike!).
This year's workshops focused on two very active areas of research and development at CHESS:
1) progress and applications of micro-beam techniques, and 2) novel data collection techniques for macromolecular crystallography.
As always, the CHESS users meeting provides a unique forum for users to share their ongoing research at CHESS, ideas for the future, and to discuss how CHESS can serve its user community more effectively.
Due
to ongoing hardware upgrades by CESR in June, this year's tour of
CHESS featured a rare opportunity to spelunk in the remoter depths
of the CESR tunnel. Some of our natural rock formations date back over
30 years! CHESS tours took place on Tuesday and/or Wednesday
afternoon.
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| Tuesday - June 24th - (see Agenda for details) | |
| Invited Speakers: | |
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George Malliaras Cornell University |
"Growth of Pentacene Films for Transistor" |
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Aaron Fleet Cornell University |
"Atomic-Scale Monitoring of Step-Flow Growth During Perovskite Pulsed Laser Deposition" |
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Rhiju Das Stanford University |
"Probing the Counterion Atmosphere around DNA by Anomalous Small-angle X-ray Scattering" |
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Zongchao Jia Queen's University |
"Structural Mechanisms of Calpain (in) Activation" |
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Dimitar Nikolov Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute |
"Structural Studies of Eph Receptor Signaling" |
| Activities | Visits to Cornell Plantations, Upper Treman Gorge, or CHESS |
| Dinner & Poster Viewing/Competition | 7th floor, Clark Hall |
| Wednesday - June 25th | |
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Workshop I: (see Agenda for details) "Current & Potential Applications and Capabilities of Micron-scale X-ray Beams" |
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| Jennifer Mass Winterthur Foundation |
"The Potential for Fluorescent X-ray Mapping and Depth Profiling of Oil Paintings at CHESS" |
| Ning Gao X-ray Optical Systems |
"Application of Polycapillary Optics to Synchrotron Radiation Experiments" |
| Karin Limburg SUNY Syracuse |
"Microchemistry of Otoliths Yields New Insights into Fish Ecology" |
| Alex Kazimirov CHESS, Cornell University |
"Microbeam X-ray Standing Wave and High Resolution Diffraction Techniques at CHESS" |
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Workshop II: (see Agenda for details) "Data Collection for Macromolecular Structural Determination: New Twists to Crystallographic and Related Techniques" |
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| Ana Gonzalez SSRL |
"Optimizing Data Collection for Crystal Structure Determination using Anomalous Dispersion Methods" |
| Matthew Latimer SSRL |
"Polarized XAS of Protein and Inorganic Single Crystals at SSRL" |
| Ulrich Genick Brandeis University |
"Data Collection Strategies for Kinetic Crystallography SS" |
| Brian Crane Cornell University |
"Measuring Electron Transfer Rates in Protein Crystals with Transient Absorption Spectroscopy" |
| Joint Workshop: | |
| Zachary Stum Cornell University |
"Microfabricated Mounts for Microcrystal Cryocrystallography: A New Approach to Crystal Mounting and Handling" |
| Richard Gillilan MacCHESS, Cornell University |
"Tiny Crystals, Tiny Beams: Microcrystallography at MacCHESS" |
| Don Bilderback CHESS, Cornell University |
"Designing X-ray Microbeam Experiments with Glass Capillaries - Present and Future Opportunities" |
2008 Run
Nov 19th - Dec 22nd
