Announcements & Press Releases

2023/04/01 APS is closing for a year-long ring update. During that period GM/CA @ APS will be upgrading beamline optics, endstations, control system and computing infrastructure.
2023/03/01 GM/CA @ APS is hosting 15th CCP4 Crystallographic Summer School "From data processing to structure refinement and beyond". The school is back from virtual to physical particiption.
2022/06/01 GM/CA @ APS is hosting 14th CCP4 Crystallographic Summer School "From data processing to structure refinement and beyond". The school is held virtually: all instructors and students are remote.
2021/06/01 GM/CA @ APS is hosting 13th CCP4 Crystallographic Summer School "From data processing to structure refinement and beyond". Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the school is first time held virtually: all instructors and students are remote.
2020/09/01 The aging Kirkpatrick-Baez focusing bimorph mirrors at beamline 23ID-D are replaced by a transfocator with compound refractive lenses (CRLs).
2020/01/01 White beam slits at 23ID-D and 23ID-B beamlines were replaced by new APS-designed slits allowing for better-quality small X-ray beams.
2019/06/01 GM/CA @ APS hosted 12th CCP4 Crystallographic Summer School "From data processing to structure refinement and beyond".
2019/05/01 GM/CA @ APS implemented automated data processing pipeline for serial crystallography.
2019/05/01 GM/CA @ APS began porting the JBluIce data acquisition and automated processing software from Java to Python. First Python-based graphical interface tab was released.
2019/01/01 GM/CA ID beamlines distributed data storage capacity was doubled to over a petabyte (1,152 TB).
2018/05/01: GM/CA @ APS co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 18 - June 25, 2018.
2017/05/01: GM/CA @ APS co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 19 - June 26, 2017.
2016/05/01: GM/CA @ APS co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 21 - June 29, 2016.
2015/05/01: GM/CA @ APS co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 16 - June 23, 2015.
2015/04/01: GM/CA @ APS co-hosts Membrane Protein Structures Meeting (MPS 2015), April 10-12, 2015.
2014/05/01: GM/CA @ APS co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 24 - July 02, 2014.
2013/05/01: GM/CA @ APS co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 18 - June 26, 2013.
2012/06/19: GM/CA @ APS co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 19 - June 26, 2012.
2011/06/07: GM/CA CAT co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 7 - June 15, 2011.
2010/06/10: GM/CA CAT co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 10 - June 17, 2010.
2009/06/24: GM/CA CAT co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", June 24 - July 2, 2009.
2008/05/23: GM/CA CAT co-hosts APS Data collection workshop and CCP4 school "From data collection to structure refinement and beyond", May 23 - May 28, 2008.
2005/06/14: First users collect data with GM/CA @ APS instrumentation.
2005/02/16: First monochromatic X-rays received from "hard" dual canted undulator on both GM/CA ID beamlines simultaneously.
2005/08/19: GM/CA CAT featured on Argonne news: "Split beamlines can double research capacity at Advanced Photon Source" (locally cached copy).
2005/07/01: GM/CA CAT appeared on R&D Magazine: "Doubling Up a Photon Source" (locally cached copy).
2005/06/29: GM/CA CAT appeared on Chemical & Engineering News: "New Beamlines Dedicated At Argonne" (Locally cached copy is here).
2005/06/23: NIGMS News announces GM/CA CAT dedication: "Researchers Debut New X-Ray Resources for Studying Molecules" (Locally cached copy is here).
2005/04/14: GM/CA CAT appeared on NIGMS News: "New Development Increases Synchrotron Capacity" (Click here [1,2] for locally cached copies).
2001/11/05: NIGMS announced funding for GM/CA CAT: "NIH Funds Synchrotron Beamlines to Advance Studies of Molecular Structures" (Click here for locally cached copy).

 


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