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，以下简称LS-CAT）为来自美国8所高校的CAT成员提供大分子晶体学（Macromolecular Crystallography）技术支持，合作高校包括西北大学、密歇根大学、韦恩州立大学、密歇根州立大学、威斯康星大学、范德堡大学以及芝加哥伊利诺伊大学，同时也面向通用用户提供服务。随着先进光子源升级项目（APS-U）为期一年的停机期即将到来，我们正依托本次区块分配组（Block Allocation Group，以下简称BAG）为CAT成员实验室申请欧洲同步辐射光源（ESRF）的束流时间；该区块分配组由部分CAT成员首席研究员（Principal Investigators，以下简称PIs）及其实验室团队组成，以持续保障成员单位的科研工作及后续科研经费申报。LS-CAT正将CAT成员整合至本次BAG提案及后续拟提交的其他提案中，以期简化CAT成员以及我们申请束流时间所对接的光源设施工作人员的申请流程。