Author: Kathryn Burnett

Synchrotron Enabled, High Throughput Small Angle X-ray Scattering For Answers to Cellular Life and Death

Greg Hura, SIBYLS beamline scientist, along with the SIBYLS staff will be presented the 2025 Halbach Award for innovative instrumentation at the Advanced Light Source during the ALS User Workshop (Aug 11 – 13). Dr. Hura will give the Halbach Award talk during the plenary session on the first day of the User Meeting, Aug…
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SIBYLS at ALS User Meeting (Aug 11-13, 2025)

Michal Hammel will be speaking on Small Angle X-ray Scattering at the SIBYLS beamline 12.3.1 during the ALS User Meeting on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. The talk will be part of the Light Sources 101 workshop which is geared toward students and postdocs new to synchrotron experiments. The workshop will be held at the Double…
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Predicting RNA structure and dynamics with deep learning and solution scattering

The use of deep-learning and statistical methods plays a significant role in the prediction of accurate structure and atomistics RNA models.  In this paper, the authors describe new a deep-learning tool they developed called Scoper, which is capable of using experimental SAXS data from the SIBYLS beam line to determine the most likely 3-dimensional conformation of…
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7th DNA Repair/Replication Structures and Cancer Conference : 24 Feb 2026 – 28 Feb 2026 in Playa Mujeres, Mexico

Integrative Structural Biology conference: The 7th DNA Replication/Repair Structures & Cancer Conference (7th DRRSC) will bring together scientists to exchange cutting-edge structural findings and stimulate new ideas and approaches to address the critical challenges in mechanistic cancer research at the interface of DNA replication and repair. Recent breakthroughs in experimental structural methodologies (particularly cryo-electron microscopy,…
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SEC-SAXS highlighted in Baker paper

In this Baker paper, published in Nature Communications in November 2024, the authors describe the design of pseudosymmetric protein hetero-oligomers. These proteins are versatile building blocks for creating functional materials and controlling biological processes. The Baker group utilized SEC-SAXS and SEC-MALS data collected at the SIBYLS beamline in the design of these proteins. Read the…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to longtime SIBYLS user David Baker

David Baker, one of SIBYLS longest and most committed users, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in protein design. SAXS data collected from around 3,000 samples sent by the Baker Lab to the SIBYLS beamline over many years contributed to key advancements in the Baker Lab’s breakthroughs in protein design. Since…
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2024 BioSAXS Workshop

With talks from four fantastic outside speakers, Dr. John Hackett from Florida International University, Dr. David Buckley from Dr. John Tanner’s lab at the University of Missouri, Dr. Alex Kehl from Dr. Patrick Shi’s lab at UC Davis, and Dr. Josh Arens from Dr. Robert Waymouth’s lab at Stanford University, covering their wide-ranging scientific research…
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Time-Resolved SAXS Screen of Small-Molecule Drug Candidates

SIBYLS made the news for work on time-resolved, high-throughput, small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) improving the screening of small-molecule drug candidates, and providing insight into how they stimulate structural transitions in protein targets. Publication: C.A. Brosey, T.M. Link, R. Shen, D. Moiani, K. Burnett, G.L. Hura, D.E. Jones, and J.A.…
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