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.

生命科学合作访问团队（Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team，LS-CAT）可为来自美国8所高校的合作访问团队（Collaborative Access Team，CAT）成员提供大分子晶体学（Macromolecular Crystallography）技术支持，涉及高校包括西北大学、密歇根大学、韦恩州立大学、密歇根州立大学、威斯康星大学、范德堡大学以及伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校，同时也面向通用用户开放服务。随着先进光子源升级项目（Advanced Photon Source Upgrade，APS-U）即将迎来为期一年的升级停机暗期，我们正通过本次区块分配组（Block Allocation Group，BAG）向欧洲同步辐射光源（European Synchrotron Radiation Facility，ESRF）为CAT成员实验室申请束流时间；该区块分配组由部分CAT成员首席研究员（Principal Investigator，PI）及其实验室团队组成，以保障对成员科研工作及后续经费申请的持续支撑。LS-CAT正将CAT成员纳入本次BAG提案及其他拟提交的提案中，旨在为CAT成员以及我们申请束流访问权限的光源机构工作人员简化申请流程。