X-ray free electron lasers (X-FELs) offer the potential to be
high-impact tools for research in biology, chemistry, physics, and
materials sciences.
With FLASH and the LCLS now in operation and producing scientific
results, and with a number of future X-FELs under construction and
development internationally, two meetings of relevance to the use of
X-FELs in biology are taking place -
Frontiers in Biology with X-FELs / bioXFEL 20, 21 October 2010 at
SLAC
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssrl-lcls/2010/program.asp#BioXFEL
(organized by Thomas Earnest, LBNL, and Garth Williams,
LCLS/SLAC) a joint LCLS/SSRL/ALS workshop
and
Biology with FELs 18-21 January 2011 at LBNL
https://sites.google.com/a/lbl.gov/biology-with-fels/
(organized by John Spence, ASU)
The goal for these workshops is to identify long and short term
challenges of high impact in biology that X-FELs
can serve as unique, enabling resources for, and to continue to develop
the experimental and computational
tools in this area. The input from the scientific community in shaping
the direction for these resources over
the next ten to twenty years is critical to their success, so we
strongly encourage your participation in these workshops.
Thomas Earnest
Garth Williams
John Spence
