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CHESS News 2015 - Mutations in the canine parvovirus capsid make it more infectious
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Skip to main content. Mutations in the canine parvovirus capsid make it more infectious. Apply for Beamtime;. Proposal deadline is 8/1/16. 2016 October 26 - December 13. 2017 January 25 - March 7. A) Capsid reconstruction of the CPV-2a variant; B) The 3Å GH loop movement is caused by a single point mutation from Ala to Gly. X-ray diffraction data was collected at the F1 beamline at CHESS. 1] Organtini LJ, Allison AB, Lukk T, Parrish CR, Hafenstein S,. J Virol. 2015 Feb; 89(3):1909-12. 33: 16.08.15. The C...
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CHESS News 2014 - Unwrapping DNA from nucleosomes
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Skip to main content. Unwrapping DNA from nucleosomes. Apply for Beamtime;. Proposal deadline is 8/1/16. 2016 October 26 - December 13. 2017 January 25 - March 7. Software available from MacCHESS. Theoretical scattering curves for comparison with observed data were calculated using the ATSAS. Package, particularly the program CRYSOL. Comparison of observed and predicted curves (Figure 1) revealed that the depth of the dip in the scattering curve at q=0.14 Å. PloS One 8, e78587 (2013). 33: 16.08.15. 11: 1...
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CHESS News 2015 - GIAC students tear it up at Xraise
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Skip to main content. GIAC students tear it up at Xraise. Apply for Beamtime;. Proposal deadline is 8/1/16. 2016 October 26 - December 13. 2017 January 25 - March 7. Rich Sholtys from the CLASSE computer group and physics graduate student Sam Whitehead help high school participants from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center explore the components of an old desktop computer and donated laptops as part of the Xraise laptop refurbishing program. Lora Hine, CHESS, Cornell University. 33: 16.08.15. CHESS/Wilso...
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CHESS News 2015 - X-rays get handle on very long time scale glassy behavior
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Skip to main content. X-rays get handle on very long time scale glassy behavior. Apply for Beamtime;. Proposal deadline is 8/1/16. 2016 October 26 - December 13. 2017 January 25 - March 7. Getting a handle on long time constant phenomena, in this case the terminal relaxation of soft glassy materials, can be quite difficult because in many cases the time required to observe complete cage escape can be of geological time scales. 1] Wen YH, Schaefer JL, Archer LA,. American Chemical Society 4. 18: 15.05...
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CHESS News 2015 - High school students begin research journey at CHESS
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Skip to main content. High school students begin research journey at CHESS. Apply for Beamtime;. Proposal deadline is 8/1/16. 2016 October 26 - December 13. 2017 January 25 - March 7. During the last week of May, twelve high school students and two high school teachers visited CHESS from Oakville, Ontario. The Integrated Science Club from Appleby College travelled hundreds of miles to the United States to spend three days analyzing specimens using X-ray Fluorescence at our facility. In addition to their ...
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CHESS News 2015 - CHESS Student Paper Prize to Gaurav “Gino” Giri
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Skip to main content. CHESS Student Paper Prize to Gaurav Gino Giri. Apply for Beamtime;. Proposal deadline is 8/1/16. 2016 October 26 - December 13. 2017 January 25 - March 7. CHESS Director Joel Brock was pleased to announce this year’s winner of the CHESS Student Paper Prize as Gaurav Gino Giri [1]. Gino, a graduate student of Zhenan Bao at Stanford and then post-doctoral associate at MIT in the group of Klavs Jensen, proceed to explain his work entitled. 1] Gaurav Giri, Ruipeng Li, Detlef-M Smilgies,...
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CHESS News 2015 - X-ray data and simulations nail peptide/lipid membrane structure
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Skip to main content. X-ray data and simulations nail peptide/lipid membrane structure. Apply for Beamtime;. Proposal deadline is 8/1/16. 2016 October 26 - December 13. 2017 January 25 - March 7. Their method of measuring diffuse X-ray scattering from fully hydrated membranes allows determination of not only the membrane structure, but also its elastic properties, including the bending modulus, K. In the T-cell plasma membrane and the highly basic region of MA31. And PS containing membranes. This ten...
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CHESS News 2015 - CHESS hands-on workshop on x-ray emission spectroscopy
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Skip to main content. CHESS hands-on workshop on x-ray emission spectroscopy. Apply for Beamtime;. Proposal deadline is 8/1/16. 2016 October 26 - December 13. 2017 January 25 - March 7. A complete list of talk titles and abstracts is available at http:/ meetings.chess.cornell.edu/UserMeeting2015/agenda.html#xes. Ken Finkelstein conducting the XES workshop. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Chemische Energiekonversion) opened the morning session with an overview on XES entitled. Aimed at understanding the multiple...
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Cornell Xraise - Synchrotron Tours
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Deep beneath Cornell University. Tour The Synchrotron. Visitors to our laboratory enjoy being immersed in the culture of science in the context of a world-class research facility. Xraise invites the public into a behind-the-scenes look at scientists and their apparati while experiments are underway—literally witnessing science history in the making. Hourly tours of Wilson Laboratory are available on most Tuesday mornings. Please fill out the following form to schedule a tour of the synchrotron:.
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