[3dem] Major Diamond upgrade – your support needed

Fri Nov 20 09:16:41 PST 2020

Dear all

Diamond is planning a transformational upgrade which will enhance all beamlines and provide new scientific opportunities (details here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/About/Vision/Diamond-II.html__;!!Mih3wA!XP8XV-0dsW65JEMTEzwCQS5GxjBrl9nIl5-pQt2f-E-xqfRFkoxAn6iqX0YdkgLfpA$ >).

A set of ‘flagship’ projects are being developed across Life and Physical Sciences, but we can’t do them all. In December, our advisory committees will prioritize them. A major consideration in this will be the strength of community support.

There are 13 proposals in total, 5 from Life Science (click to download a pdf summary):

•      Re-invention of ultra-high throughput fragment screening<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.diamond.ac.uk/dam/jcr:bd879384-900b-4a2c-897d-a8e0e818c6e8/MX*20-*20I04-1*20XChem*20reinvention*20as*20K04*20XChem.pdf__;JSUlJSUlJQ!!Mih3wA!XP8XV-0dsW65JEMTEzwCQS5GxjBrl9nIl5-pQt2f-E-xqfRFkoxAn6iqX0Yd5s-Kpg$ >

•      Upgrade of a microfocus beamline for far better cryo, room temp and serial work<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.diamond.ac.uk/dam/jcr:add3277b-5bc2-4e8b-93a2-25d1e0e585f6/MX*20-*20I24*20KMX:*20kinetics*20and*20microfocus*20upgrade.pdf__;JSUlJSUlJQ!!Mih3wA!XP8XV-0dsW65JEMTEzwCQS5GxjBrl9nIl5-pQt2f-E-xqfRFkoxAn6iqX0awu3IcGQ$ >

•      High throughput and cryo-ptychography for micron imaging up to tissue scale<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.diamond.ac.uk/dam/jcr:643fcf03-2f02-41c8-9af5-cf0c4b08ea09/Imaging*20&*20Microscopy*20-*20Upgrade*20I13*20for*20high*20throughput*20and*20cryo-ptychography.pdf__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!Mih3wA!XP8XV-0dsW65JEMTEzwCQS5GxjBrl9nIl5-pQt2f-E-xqfRFkoxAn6iqX0Y-pz6vjw$ >

•      Large Volume Nanoscale BioImaging Beamline: next generation hard X-ray imaging<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.diamond.ac.uk/dam/jcr:e881c571-a76b-408b-b8ec-8be8a8530f34/Bio-Imaging*20-*20Large*20Volume*20Nanoscale*20BioImaging*20Beamline.pdf__;JSUlJSUl!!Mih3wA!XP8XV-0dsW65JEMTEzwCQS5GxjBrl9nIl5-pQt2f-E-xqfRFkoxAn6iqX0bMfmzJTQ$ >

•      X-ray scattering across length scales, X-ray footprinting and single molecule dynamics<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.diamond.ac.uk/dam/jcr:85a5da25-e300-45ae-9876-bc1f24490be3/Soft*20Condensed*20Matter*20-*20New*20High*20flux*20X-ray*20Beamline*20(X4SCM).pdf__;JSUlJSUlJSUl!!Mih3wA!XP8XV-0dsW65JEMTEzwCQS5GxjBrl9nIl5-pQt2f-E-xqfRFkoxAn6iqX0aMFhgXJQ$ >

We have a simple web-form<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=dLonnQABDU2B_x1yja6N9sORn9fQKRxBrdwp3-jvXxFURTZRTU9VM1I2VVZEVEVFS1hJTlNHUThISi4u**A__;wqA!!Mih3wA!XP8XV-0dsW65JEMTEzwCQS5GxjBrl9nIl5-pQt2f-E-xqfRFkoxAn6iqX0ZT5rToow$ > to submit Statements-of-Support for any proposals. Statements can be short and to the point. You don’t need to be an existing Diamond user, and we welcome support from PhD students through to PIs and from academia to industry.

As always Diamond is only as good as its users, and we are critically dependent on your voices.

Deadline end-of-day Tuesday 24th November, click here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=dLonnQABDU2B_x1yja6N9sORn9fQKRxBrdwp3-jvXxFURTZRTU9VM1I2VVZEVEVFS1hJTlNHUThISi4u**A__;wqA!!Mih3wA!XP8XV-0dsW65JEMTEzwCQS5GxjBrl9nIl5-pQt2f-E-xqfRFkoxAn6iqX0ZT5rToow$ > to register support

Many thanks,

Gwyndaf Evans, Dave Hall, Rob Rambo, David Stuart, Martin Walsh

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