Beamline 19-ID-D: Sector 19 - Insertion Device 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

• Macromolecular crystallography
• Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion
• Subatomic (<0.85 Å) resolution
• Microbeam
• Ultra-low-temperature (15K)
• Large unit cell crystallography
• Single-wavelength anomalous dispersion

Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition

EPICS and SBC server for beamline and detector control; PMAC motor controller; multiple Linux workstations;  GUI for beamline control and data acquisition;  automated energy changing and tuning;  SBC COLLECT GUI for beamline control, data acquisition, and detector control;  HKL3000 for data processing and structure solution.

Detectors

• ADSC Q315r 315mm x 315mm mosaic CCD detector
• Fluorescence detector - Vortex with automated scans

Additional Equipment

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

Local Contacts

Beamline Specs

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