Advanced Photon Source, Sector 21 - The Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team (LS-CAT) - CAT Member Macromolecular Crystallography

The Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team (LS-CAT) provides Macromolecular Crystallography support to our CAT members from eight Universities in the USA, including Northwestern University, University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Michigan State University, University Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and University of Illinois at Chicago, and also to General Users. With a one-year dark period approaching for the upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source (APS-U), we are seeking beam time for our CAT Member laboratories at ESRF by way of this Block Allocation Group, consisting of a portion of our CAT Member PIs and their laboratory members, in order to keep supporting their research and future funding. LS-CAT is organizing our CAT Members into this BAG Proposal, and other proposals we will submit, in order to streamline the process for our CAT Members, and for the Staff of Lightsources to which we are applying for access to beam time.

生命科学协作访问团队（Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team，LS-CAT）为来自美国8所高校的合作成员单位提供大分子晶体学（Macromolecular Crystallography）技术支撑，合作高校涵盖西北大学、密歇根大学、韦恩州立大学、密歇根州立大学、威斯康星大学、范德堡大学与伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校，同时亦面向通用用户提供服务。鉴于先进光子源（Advanced Photon Source，APS-U）的升级计划即将迎来为期一年的束流中断期，我们正通过本次区块分配组（Block Allocation Group，BAG）向欧洲同步辐射装置（ESRF）申请束线时间，服务本团队成员实验室。本次申请团队由本团队部分首席研究员（Principal Investigators，PIs）及其实验室成员组成，以保障成员单位的科研工作可持续开展及后续项目资助申报。为简化申请流程、便利本团队成员及本次束线时间申请所涉及的光源机构工作人员，LS-CAT正将本团队成员整合为本区块分配组提案，并将同步提交其他相关申请。