Dear all To follow up on Dave and Arnaud’s email (thanks!) the deadline for submissions of statements of support has been extended to 23:59 (GMT) on Tuesday 24th November.
There are fantastic proposals across the life and physical sciences for flagship projects for the Diamond II upgrade and statements of support from the community alongside the science cases developed with the user working groups are an important part of the review process. Support statements from our many past, current and future users and supporters of the two flagship MX beamline projects outlined below would be greatly appreciated. You can be from the future generation of structural biologists through to PIs, HoDs, etc from both academia and industry and can submit support both as an individual and/or representing your organisation (Dept, University, DTP, company, etc) as appropriate. Your support will help us shape the future science you can do at Diamond. Statements of support can be submitted via this link<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=dLonnQABDU2B_x1yja6N9sORn9fQKRxBrdwp3-jvXxFURTZRTU9VM1I2VVZEVEVFS1hJTlNHUThISi4u%C2%A0>. Many thanks Dave Hall MX Group Leader Diamond Light Source From: "ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk" <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of David Briggs <david.bri...@crick.ac.uk> Reply to: David Briggs <david.bri...@crick.ac.uk> Date: Wednesday, 18 November 2020 at 10:10 To: "ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk" <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: [ccp4bb] Diamond-II MX beamlines letters of support Dear all, (Apologies for the slightly off-topic cross-post - hopefully, this will be of interest to all MX practitioners, not just Diamond light source users.) As Diamond User Committee MX representatives, we'd just like to remind you that the deadline for letters of support for Diamond-II beamline upgrades is this Friday, 20th November. As you are perhaps aware, the Diamond machine is scheduled for a major upgrade to a 4th generation source 2025-2027. Further information about the upgrade can be found here<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/About/Vision/Diamond-II.html>. All MX beamlines will benefit from a brighter, more focused source – however, two MX beamlines have been selected as flagship projects for significant upgrades. I04-1 > K04 Ultra XChem. The I04-1 fixed wavelength beamline used for the XChem fragment screening will be completely rebuilt as K04. Briefly, K04 will allow higher throughput fragment screening (meaning more projects and more fragments can be screened) and it is hoped the improved characteristics of the Diamond-II beam will allow XChem methodologies to be extended to more difficult targets such as transmembrane proteins. The K04 proposal outline can be found here<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/dam/jcr:bd879384-900b-4a2c-897d-a8e0e818c6e8/MX%20-%20I04-1%20XChem%20reinvention%20as%20K04%20XChem.pdf> [PDF]. I24 > KMX Kinetic micro crystallography. The I24 microfocus beamline will be upgraded to enhance the capabilities of I24 and allowing analysis of smaller crystals, radiation-sensitive crystals, and expanding the serial synchrotron crystallography (SSX) functionality of the beamline. The abilities to conduct room temperature SSX will also be enhanced to allow in-crystal kinetic analysis, with various on-line spectroscopic (Raman, UV-Vis, XES) detectors built into the end station. The KMX proposal outline can be found here<https://www.diamond.ac.uk/dam/jcr:add3277b-5bc2-4e8b-93a2-25d1e0e585f6/MX%20-%20I24%20KMX:%20kinetics%20and%20microfocus%20upgrade.pdf> [PDF] Having read these proposals you will obviously be very excited by the possibilities and will want to submit your letters of support for both of them, by Friday, 20th November Letters of support can be submitted via this link<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=dLonnQABDU2B_x1yja6N9sORn9fQKRxBrdwp3-jvXxFURTZRTU9VM1I2VVZEVEVFS1hJTlNHUThISi4u%C2%A0>. 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