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）为来自美国8所高校的合作团队成员提供大分子晶体学（Macromolecular Crystallography）技术支持，合作成员所属高校包括西北大学、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，同时也面向普通用户开放服务。鉴于先进光子源（Advanced Photon Source，APS-U）的升级改造即将迎来为期一年的束流停机期，本团队将通过本次区块分配组（Block Allocation Group，BAG）申请，为合作团队成员单位的实验室争取欧洲同步辐射装置（European Synchrotron Radiation Facility，ESRF）的束流使用时间。本次申请由部分合作团队成员单位的首席研究员及其实验室成员组成，旨在持续支撑成员单位的科研工作及后续项目申报。为优化合作团队成员的申请流程，同时简化我方向光源运营机构提交束流使用权限申请的工作环节，LS-CAT将把合作团队成员整合进本次BAG提案及后续将提交的其他提案中。