News And Announcements
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BioCARS Starts a New Zoom Seminar Series
During these times of COVID-19 restrictions, when most BioCARS users cannot travel to BioCARS to conduct their experiments, we deemed it essential to continue regular communications and scientific discussions with our user community. We decided to start BioCARS Zoom Seminar Series to share our user science as well as developments at our facility. We propose to...
2019 Science Careers in Search of Women Conference, Tour of BioCARS
On April 11, 2019, ANL hosted the annual Science Careers in Search of Women Conference (SCSW) and CARS was part of the tour. High-school students from across the Chicago area were provided with the unique opportunity to learn more about STEM careers, in an effort to increase the representation of women in the science and technology fields. At BioCARS, Dr. Vukica...
New BioCARS Director, Prof. Rama Ranganathan
(December 2017) Distinguished biophysicist Rama Ranganathan joined University of Chicago as a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute for Molecular Engineering. He is the new Director of BioCARS facility and will also lead the new Center for Physics of Evolving Systems at the University of Chicago. Prof. Ranganathan lead...
2017 Science Careers in Search of Women Conference, Tour of BioCARS
(May 2, 2017) As in previous years, BioCARS participated again in the ANL-hosted annual Science Careers in Search of Women Conference this year (Click here for more). Participants were provided with the unique opportunity to learn more about STEM careers, in an effort to increase the representation of women in the science and technology fields. At BioCARS, the...
BioCARS User Publication is One of 20 Most Read Articles in Structural Dynamics in 2016
Time-resolved solution scattering studies of a homodimeric hemoglobin conducted at BioCARS 14-ID beamline linked the perturbation in the water cluster at the dimer interface to the kinetics and structures of intermediate states in this hemoglobin. View on Structural Dynamics site Kim, J. G., Muniyappan, S., Oang, K. Y., Kim, T. W., Yang, C., Kim, K. H., Kim, J., and...
2016 Science Careers in Search of Women Conference, Tour of BioCARS
On April 14, 2016, ANL hosted the annual Science Careers in Search of Women Conference and CARS helped facilitate. Female high school students were given the opportunity to learn more about STEM careers, in an effort to increase the representation of women in the science and technology fields. At BioCARS, the students spoke to Dr. Vukica Srajer about time-resolved...