Welcome to a LINXS webinar series introducing the latest scientific breakthroughs and developments at large scale research facilities from all over the world.
For the first time, Science Directors from different x-ray and neutron facilities will explore – together with the participants - the science, the methods, the applications and the collaborations carried out at their research site.
When: Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 14.30-16.00 CET (Please note the change in time!)
Speaker: Laurent Chapon and David Stuart, Diamond Light Source, UK
Title: Science at the Diamond Light Source and future plans for a major upgrade of the facility with the Diamond-II programme
Zoom registration: https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ysc-CtpzwsE9fpCXwgQAX8onHKzSJMn4Ff
BIO Laurent Chapon:
Laurent Chapon received his PhD from the University of Montpellier in 2000 for his work on thermoelectric materials. In 2001 he worked on molecular magnets and magnetic oxides as a post-doctoral research scientist at the Materials Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory (USA), and then at Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin (Germany). He joined the ISIS neutron source in 2002 and became head of the crystallography and engineering group in 2008 before joining the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble (France) in 2011 as a senior fellow and then head of the diffraction group. Since 2016, Laurent is director of Physical Sciences at the Diamond Light source, the UK national synchrotron and programme director of the Diamond-II programme. In the last 20 years, Laurent’s research has been focussed on understanding the properties of complex magnetic systems and multifunctional oxides, using scattering techniques available at neutron and synchrotron sources.
BIO David Stuart
David Stuart is the Life Science Director at Diamond Light Source and is responsible for both beamlines (X-ray, IR and UV) as well as the national centre for cryo-EM (eBIC) which is a key part of Diamond’s life science programme. In addition to this he works on the structure of viruses, structural vaccinology and anti-viral drug discovery. His group have been part of international collaborations studying the structures of the SARS-CoV-2 proteins and interactions with antibodies. The research provides better understanding of how antibodies work against the virus and how variant viruses escape some of these antibodies. The teams at Diamond have also been involved in finding new drugs and helping to identify existing drugs that could be repurposed in the fight against COVID-19. David is also Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford, and Director of Instruct-ERIC
ABSTRACT
We will present the Diamond Light Source, its operation, the experimental capabilities available to academic and industrial users, and the scientific programme in Physical and Life Sciences. We will also present the plan for Diamond-II, a programme aiming to upgrade the synchrotron, beamlines and computational capabilities by 2026.
Webinar moderators
Veronica Lattanzi ( veronica.lattanzi@biochemistry.lu.se ) and Anurag Kawde ( anurag.kawde@linxs.lu.se). Please contact the moderators for any questions or other queries.
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