Category: Announcements

FlbB forms ring for assembly and motility

For this publication, the authors utilized SEC-SAXS data collected at SIBYLS beamline 12.3.1, along with SAXS model fitting, to confirm and further analyze the proteins of interest.  Beamline scientist Michal Hammel and Postdoc Joshua Del Mundo played a vital role in the research. This work provides crucial mechanistic insights into spirochete-specific adaptations and their roles…
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SIBYLS team enjoy Kayaking at Elkhorn Slough Reserve

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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2025 SAXS Workshop a Big Success

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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Register for SAXS Workshop

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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SIBYLS Postdoc Nazar Gora presents poster at 2025 ALS User Meeting

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 SIBYLS team receive Halbach Award at the ALS User meeting 2025

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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Michal Hammel gives talk on BioSAXS

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.

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

Greg Hura gives the Halbach Award talk during the plenary session on the first day of the User Meeting, Aug 11th. Click here for more information on the User Meeting