This year’s ALS User Meeting brought a new energy of inspiration and envisioning of a future to come, with old traditions as well as new insights into using machine learning in experimentation. Read more »
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Dula Parkinson Receives the 2025 Tim Renner User Services Award
In celebration of Dula Parkinson’s work, the ALS Users’ Executive Committee presented him with the 2025 Tim Renner User Services Award for his commitment to providing outstanding support at the ALS and helping users succeed in their research. Read more »
Martin Kunz, Nobumichi Tamura, and Simon Teat Receive 2025 Shirley Award
The ALS Users’ Executive Committee recognized beamline scientists Nobumichi Tamura, Martin Kunz, and Simon Teat as the 2025 Shirley Award recipients. At the recent User Meeting, they presented a talk on their development of the Sector 12 hard x-ray diffraction program and the cold cases they’ve been able to solve. Read more »
Greg Hura, SIBYLS Team Receive Halbach Award
Greg Hura and the Structurally Integrated BiologY for the Life Sciences (SIBYLS) team received the 2025 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the recent 2025 User Meeting “for their pioneering work in developing the time-resolved, high-throughput, small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) technique at Beamline 12.3.1.” Read more »
Celebrating the Legacy and Future of Electron Spectroscopy: Highlights from ICESS 2025
The 2025 ICESS conference brought together global experts in electron spectroscopy, emphasizing interdisciplinary research, early career engagement, and collaboration. Hosted in Berkeley and led by the ALS, it featured plenary and invited talks, poster sessions, and networking events, highlighting innovations and future directions in the field. Read more »
Guiliang Xu to Receive 2025 Early Career Award
Guiliang Xu is the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award. The Users’ Executive Committee recognizes his work on synchrotron-based characterization of battery materials. Read more »
ALS at the Farmers’ Market
Once a quarter since the fall of 2023, Berkeley Lab has held a pop-up booth at the downtown Berkeley Farmers’ Market. Last Saturday, ALS staff had the opportunity to highlight the science taking place underneath the iconic dome on the hill. Read more and view photos from the day. Read more »
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) STEM Fair
Berkeley Lab returned to the OUSD STEM Fair in Oakland, offering a hands-on activity where students and their parents learn about the electromagnetic spectrum. The Lab’s booth was staffed by ALS staff members, Gianna Fazioliu, Ian Lacey, and Ina Reichel. Read more »
ALS Structural Biology Beamlines Surpass 10,000 Protein Structures in the PDB
Today, the nine structural biology beamlines at the ALS passed a major milestone of collectively depositing over 10,000 protein structures into the Protein Data Bank (PDB), a worldwide, open-access repository of protein structures. Read more »
2025 Winter Shutdown Recap
After another busy shutdown, the ALS is in the process of returning to user operation later this week. The ALS-U accomplishments of the Winter 2025 shutdown include the accumulator ring installation sectors 1-11, seismic upgrades, ALS-U cable routing and electrical installation, RF infrastructure installation, and the booster bend power supply commissioning. In addition, the teams were able to complete several projects for the current ALS. Read more »
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