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）技术支持，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开放服务。随着先进光子源升级项目（Advanced Photon Source，APS-U）即将进入为期一年的停机升级阶段，我们计划通过本次区块分配组（Block Allocation Group，BAG）申请欧洲同步辐射装置（European Synchrotron Radiation Facility，ESRF）的束线时间，本次区块分配组由本团队的部分首席研究员（Principal Investigator，PI）及其实验室成员组成，旨在保障合作成员实验室的科研工作持续开展，并维系后续科研资助资质。为优化申请流程，便利合作成员单位及我方拟申请束线访问权限的光源设施工作人员，LS-CAT将本合作团队成员整合为本次BAG提案，并将同步提交其他相关提案。