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If you were here at the beginning of July, you would have seen flow in both directions: the last of our spring x-ray run users were going home while a stream of more than 50 undergraduate students and faculty began arriving to begin summer projects! With Cornell professor Carl Franck helping out this summer, read the article by Lora Hine on how the CHESS SUNRiSE program is trying an innovative plan combining home-institution faculty with local staff to provide summer research experiences for undergraduates. With the x-ray source down for the summer, the list of construction and remodeling projects is much larger than typical because of the need to get a head start on the major CHESS-U construction that will commence in the middle of 2018. See below how major components are moving out and in, although not mentioned in that article is the complete replacement of the control system at the G-line stations, as well as the pending installation of a new extra-large hutch that will extend the capabilities of the F2 station; pictures coming in the near future. And keeping x-rays on our minds, note that the fall 2017 running periods and proposal deadlines are now posted on the CHESS web site. Enjoy your summers!.
-Ernest Fontes
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Analyzing pigments in medieval illuminated manuscript pages at CHESS is opening up some new areas of research bridging the arts and sciences... more »
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By taking a series of near-atomic resolution snapshots, Cornell University and Harvard Medical School scientists have observed step-by-step how bacteria defend against foreign invaders such as bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria... more »
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Integral membrane proteins, or IMPs, are a major class of proteins that play crucial roles in many cellular processes, including the catalysis of disulfide bonds, which are essential for the function... more »
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On April 26, CHESS managers Joel Brock and Ernie Fontes traveled with graduate students David Agyeman-Budu and Chris Budrow to attend the annual CNSF Exhibition at the Rayburn House Office Building... more »
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Delivery of components for CESR CHESS-U systems is well underway. Short summaries for various systems follow... more »
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The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), a national user facility, is supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF award DMR-1332208. CHESS is operated and managed for the National Science Foundation by Cornell University. Structural biology at CHESS is supported by MacCHESS award GM-103485 from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
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