Welcome to the new ALSNews layout! Give us your feedback here! In This Issue Director’s Update Structures of Three Membrane Transport Proteins Yield Functional Insights Using Light to Control How X Rays Interact with Matter Proton Channel Orientation in Block-Copolymer Electrolyte Membranes Solving Structures with Collaborative Crystallography A User Support Building Tour This Month’s PollsRead More Read more »

In This Issue Proofreading RNA: Structure of RNA Polymerase II’s Backtracked State X-Ray Imaging of the Dynamic Magnetic Vortex Core Deformation Call for General User Proposals: Deadline January 15 ALS Job Posting: Deputy Division Director, Operations Light-Source Safety Officials Meet for Two-Day Workshop UEC Corner: New Members for 2010, Survey Results Welcome: Shauna Kanel andRead More Read more »

In This Issue ALS Users’ Meeting 2009: Haiku, Top-Off, Nobel, Oh My! Protein Bridges DNA Base and Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathways Robust, High-Throughput Analysis of Protein Structures Thomas Steitz to Share 2009 Chemistry Nobel Prize More UEC Corner Haiku, by Ken Goldberg Guest House Welcomes First User Groups New X-Ray Data Booklet/Spectrum Published ALS Supplier,Read More Read more »

In This Issue Berkeley Lab Guest House Officially Opens Safety First: Shielding-Control End Points Established Site Access Tied to GERT Training Starting October 1 Harnessing the Bacterial Production of Nanomagnets Eli Rotenberg Awarded First Kai Seigbahn Prize UEC Corner: In Haiku, by Ken GoldbergALS Science Cafe Attracts Overflow Crowd Shutdown Features Seismic Retrofit, Air HandlerRead More Read more »

In This Issue Safety First: New Personal Protective Equipment Policies Bilayer Graphene Gets a BandgapHybrid Rotaxanes: Interlocked Structures for Quantum Computing? UEC Corner: Users’ Meeting, Poster Deadline, Awards, and ElectionsGuest House to Begin Taking Reservations September 1 Energy Research Science Cafe on Thursday, August 27 ALS Mutimedia Stars Help Educate the Public Operations News LinksRead More Read more »

In This Issue Towards Heavy Fermions in Europium Intermetallic Compounds Stochastic Domain-Wall Depinning in Magnetic Nanowires ALS Gets 11.3 M in Stimulus Funds for Facility Improvements Contact: Steve Rossi The ALS is receiving 5.8 million to increase brightness by replacing existing corrector magnets with hybrid multifunction sextupole magnets. This lattice upgrade would increase brightness byRead More Read more »

In This Issue Protein Structure Suggests Role as Molecular Adapter Another Landmark Development in Biological Microscopy at the ALS Call for General User Proposals: Upcoming DeadlinesUEC Corner: ALS Users’ Meeting Important DatesUpdate on the Guest House at Berkeley Lab Job Opportunity: ALS Writer-Editor Operations News Links Bilayer graphene gets a bandgap Graphene opens door toRead More Read more »

In This Issue Observation of a Macroscopically Quantum-Entangled Insulator P-Glycoprotein Structure and Chemotherapy Resistance Molecular-Frame Angular Distributions of Resonant Auger Electrons ALS to Participate in Energy Frontier Research Centers UEC Corner: Mark Your Calendars for the 2009 Users’ MeetingReminder: ALS Fellowship Programs Available BESAC Photon Workshop Report Now Posted Online Operations News Links Researchers ShowRead More Read more »

In This Issue Preservation of Fe(II) by Carbon-Rich Matrices in Hydrothermal Plumes How Dynein Binds to Microtubules Top-Off Mode Now at Full Current; Congratulations Team! Meet Our New Deputy Director For Science: Bob Schoenlein Funding and User Support Building Updates Guest House Takes Shape on Hillside Operations News Links Scripps Research Scientists Model 3-D StructuresRead More Read more »

In This Issue Experimental Test of Self-Shielding in VUV Photodissociation of COSelf-Assembly of Polymer Nano-Elements on Sapphire New Responsibilities for Falcone, Schoenlein, Oddone Positive Report from DOE Health, Safety, and Security Audit UEC Corner: Save the Dates for 2009 ALS Users’ Meeting Operations News Links Berkeley Lab to Receive $115.8 Million in American Recovery andRead More Read more »