Resources for Environmental and Biological Research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source
Research Development Brown Bag Lunch Webinars
April 25, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM America/Chicago
Do you conduct research that falls within the scope of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) portfolio? Are you interested in learning new techniques using the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the Argonne National Laboratory? This session will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about conducting research at the APS and to meet a key contact for collaboration.
BER is encouraging new projects and applications to leverage the capabilities available at the APS. This session will cover techniques available for environmental research as well as a special process investigators studying BER topics can apply for beamtime.
The presentation will cover several techniques available at the APS:
- Crystallography
- X-Ray fluorescence microscopy
- Ptychography
- Full-field imaging (computed tomography)
- X-Ray absorption
- X-Ray scattering
About the Advanced Photon Source
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory provides ultra-bright, high-energy storage ring-generated x-ray beams for research in almost all scientific disciplines. This premier national research facility serves more than 5,000 (and growing) scientists from across the United States. These scientists, called "users", come to the APS from universities, industry, medical schools, and other research institutions. They ideas for new discoveries in nearly every scientific discipline, from materials science to biology, chemistry, environmental, geological, and planetary science, and fundamental physics.
The Advanced Photon Source is undergoing a comprehensive upgrade to replace its original electron storage ring with a new, state-of-the-art accelerator. This will increase the brightness of APS X-ray beams by up to 500 times, and new beamlines will be constructed to take advantage of these improved capabilities. With this upgrade, the Department of Energy seeks to encourage more research in the biological and environmental sciences.
Speaker
Karolina Michalska – Structural Biologist and Group Leader, X-Ray Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory
Date posted
Mar 4, 2024
Date updated
Mar 4, 2024