Beamline 19-BM-D: Sector 19 - Bending Magnet Beamline

Description

The SBC mission is to advance and promote scientific and technological innovation in support of the DOE mission by providing world-class scientific research and advancing scientific knowledge: • SBC provides advanced data collection facilities at the APS to the national user community and maintains high-profile user programs. • SBC exploits major advances in macromolecular x-ray crystallography and addresses the most challenging structural biology problems to advance scientific knowledge. • SBC is an important component of integrated biosciences and contributes to the expansion of existing programs and exploration of new opportunities in structural biology, proteomics, and genomics research with a major focus on medicine, bio-nanomachines, and biocatalysis that are highly relevant to energy resources, health, a clean environment, and national security.

Supported Techniques

• Ultra-low-temperature (15K)
• Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion
• Single-wavelength anomalous dispersion

Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition

EPICS and SBC server for beamline and detector control; PMAC ultra lite motor controller; Multiple Linux workstations;  GUI for beamline control and data acquisition;  Automated energy changing and tuning;  SBC SBCCOLLECT GUI for beamline control, data acquisition, and detector control;  HKL3000 for data processing and structure solution.  

Detectors

• ADSC Q210r
• Fluorescence detector - Vortex with automated scans

Additional Equipment

• Biochemistry laboratory with cold room
• Olympus stereomicroscopes
• Xe and Kr Cryositer

Local Contacts

Beamline Specs

For additional information see:
http://www.sbc.anl.gov/