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Space Crystals
Bycorie October 2, 2017

Recently, Marc helped a user run some crystals which the user had arranged to have grown in zero-gravity. Here are pictures of the crystal capillaries mounted at the beamline, and the raster grid used to locate crystals within a capillary.

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Back up and running
Bycorie April 3, 2017

We are back up from the long ALS shutdown, and the beamlines are in good shape. We completed a number of projects on the sector 5 beamlines, in particular, as well as performed maintenance on a number of systems: – Pilatus3 6M installed on 5.0.1. The install went well, and tests with x-rays show that…

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New Pilatus 6M has arrived
Bycorie December 13, 2016

The new Pilatus3 6M detector has arrived and is on the optical bench at 5.0.2, ready for testing tomorrow when we get light!

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Tour of the ALS ring
Bycorie November 17, 2015

After our last PRT meeting on Nov 4, Steve Rossi took a group on a tour inside the ALS ring to point out the future site of the Gemini insertion device. This month and next are a great time to visit the ALS, since the ring tunnel is open and available for touring.

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And… it works!
Bycorie December 14, 2016

Marc collected a lysozyme dataset with the new Pilatus 6M detector. All modules are good.

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Tour for Novartis
Bycorie April 21, 2016

The BCSB was happy to give a tour of the beamlines to a large crew from the Emeryville Novartis group (and some of their friends and family). Here is the tour group:

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