Monthly Newsletter of the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Protein Instability and Lou Gehrig’s Disease
A new study uses small-angle x-ray scattering as well as several advanced biophysical techniques to link protein instability to the progression of a lethal degenerative disease: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Read more…
ALS researchers have now made a first-ever observation of the molecular structure of liquid water at a gold surface under different charging conditions. This marks the first time that the scientific community has been able to achieve such high sensitivity in an in-situ environment under working electrode conditions. Read more…
2015 General User Proposals: Timeline for March 4 Submissions
The User Office received 279 new General User Proposals (GUPs) and 421 Beam Time Requests (BTRs) for the 2015-2 running cycle. The User Office has processed all the proposals. Users submitting new proposals should have received an email inviting them to log in to ALSHub to review the proposal PDF that will be sent to reviewers. Read more…
For the user runs from February 19 to March 15, 2015, the beam reliability [(time scheduled – time lost)/time scheduled)] was 98.5%. For this period, the mean time between failures (MTBF) was 53.3 hours, and the mean time to recovery (MTTR) was 58 minutes. There were no significant interruptions.
Detailed information on reliability is available on the ALS reliability bulletin board, which is located in the hallway between the ALS and the control room in Building 80. Questions about beam reliability should be directed to Dave Richardson (DBRichardson@lbl.gov, x4376).
ALS in the News
