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<div style="margin: 0px">NCCAT's next quarterly application deadline for cryoEM access at no cost is January 1, 2020 for<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> 2020’s
scheduling cycle2 (2020-C2)</span>. Given the holiday season, there will be a one (1)-time deadline extension. New applications submitted to our Proposal Central by 5pm on January 3, 2020 will be considered within 2020-C2. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><b>Apply now:</b><span> </span>http://<span style="margin: 0px">nccat</span>.nysbc.org/proposalcentral/ .<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">We have two (2) access categories:<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">1)<span> </span><b>General User Proposal (GUP)</b><span> </span>that supports instrumentation access, and<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">2)<span> </span><b>cross-Training Program (TP)</b><span> </span>that assists users in the development of cryoEM skills needed for independent research.<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">An update, the<span> </span><span style="margin: 0px">NCCAT</span><span> </span>wing at NYSBC is built and we are currently installing the first three (3) <span style="font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">dedicated <span style="font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Titan </span></span>Krios
instruments for the national service center. After these instruments come online we will be rolling out additional access programs. This cycle, we are prioritizing the GUP1 early access program, which supports single-particle cryoEM data collection on one
of our existing three (3) Krios instruments, and our cross-training programs. For your information, GUP2 (Chameleon access) and GUP1 (Krios access) are separate categories and would require separate applications for 2020-C2.<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><i><span style="margin: 0px">NCCAT</span><span> </span>is committed to an open and transparent application process to ensure equal-opportunity nationwide access. For more information visit<span> </span><span style="margin: 0px">nccat</span>.nysbc.org
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<div style="margin: 0px">Best,<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Ed Eng (<span style="margin: 0px">NCCAT</span>)<br>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px"><b>The Transformative High Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy Program </b></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 9px">National Cryo-EM Service Centers</b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px"> - </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px"><a href="http://commonfund.nih.gov/CryoEM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">commonfund.nih.gov/CryoEM</a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px"> </span><span style="font-size: 9px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Center (S2C2) - </span><a href="http://cryoem.slac.stanford.edu/s2c2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 9px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">cryoem.slac.stanford.edu/s2c2</a></div>
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