Category: Announcements

The SIBYLS group (and Halbach award winners) enjoy a well-deserved day out kayaking at one of California’s largest protected coastal salt marshes which provides habitat for a fantastic diversity of birds, plants, marine mammals, and fish. The group was able to observe Southern Sea Otters, Harbor Seals and California Sea Lions in their natural habitat…
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We had a fantastic turnout for our one-day Zoom-based SAXS workshop, with 37 researchers from 25 unique labs across the U.S. in attendance. The user project session and the breakout rooms were particularly successful. During the user project session, five participants presented their research related to SAXS, which provided a great transition into the breakout…
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We are excited to announce a zoom-based SAXS workshop designed to help ensure the success of both past and future projects. This workshop is open to all researchers, from those with little or no SAXS experience to advanced users. The Advanced Light Source (ALS) will be open for three months, from October 14th to December…
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Dr. Gora presented this poster on Structure-Guided Ligand Discovery Under BRaVE Taskforce 5: A Multi-Lab Pipeline Against Emerging Viral Threats for the poster session at the 2025 ALS User Meeting on August 11.

Greg Hura and the SIBYLS team received the 2025 Klaus Halbach award for their work on instrumentation for time-resolved, high-throughput, small-angle X-ray scattering (TR-HT-SAXS). The Klaus Halbach Award is given for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS. Klaus Halbach was a senior staff scientist at LBNL who pioneered the development of undulators using permanent magnets, and other innovations…
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On Tuesday, August 2nd, Michal Hammel gave a presentation on BioSAXS at the SIBYLS beamline. This talk was part of a tutorial session called “LS-101,” designed to give students and postdocs a general introduction to the scientific research possible at the Advanced Light Source.