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.
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
Umanga Rupakheti, Sara Scanlan and Ruhi Rahman from Christopher Berndsen’s lab at James Madison University spent 4 weeks with the SIBYLS at LBNL working on their own research and helping around the wet lab this summer 2025. The students enjoyed hands-on experience collecting both SEC and HT-SAXS data and were mentored by SIBYLS Postdocs and…
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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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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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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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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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