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APS 'Dark' Period Rescheduled

At the Plenary Session for the APS/CNM User Meeting, it was announced that the storage ring installation period of the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade project is now scheduled to begin April 17, 2023.  NE-CAT and the APS will be 'dark' for 1 year following this date.

Speakers at Current and Future Trends in Macromolecular Crystallography Experiments

Malcolm Capel and Frank Murphy will be speaking at "Current and Future Trends in Macromolecular Crystallography Experiments." This workshop is hosted by NSLS-II and will be held virtually March 16-18, 2021. The workshop will be from 12pm - 6pm EST each day.

Malcolm will be speaking in Session I (March 16, 2021).  His talk is entitled, "New endstations at NE-CAT:  MD3UP microdiffractometer and 30 puck ALS-style loader."

A Cryptic Site of Vulnerability on the Receptor Binding Domain of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein

SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus that has caused a pandemic of severe respiratory disease—COVID-19— within several months of its initial identification. Comparable to the first SARS-CoV, this novel coronavirus’s surface Spike (S) glycoprotein mediates cell entry via the human ACE-2 receptor, and, thus, is the principal target for the development of vaccines and immunotherapeutics.

Illinois Stay-At-Home Order

Per the Illinois Stay-At-Home Order, NE-CAT has only has available beamtime for COVID-19 related research.  On-site access is not available and all data collection must be conducted remotely.


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