World's first remote SAXS experiment

[AL]

At 12:00 CET on May 26, 2009, EMBL Hamburg linked up to the Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) School of Biological Science (SBS) in Singapore to conduct the world's first remote synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering experiment. The samples prepared in the group of Prof. G. Grueber (SBS) have been sent by courier from Singapore to Hamburg in advance. The local EMBL team placed them into the automated liquid handling robot at the SAXS beamline X33 (storage ring DORIS, DESY). The team at the SBS could remotely control the beamline experiment from loading the sample through to data acquisition, automated data analysis and three-dimensional model building.

[Jak]

Can we now apply for remote access to X33, or was this a one-off proof of concept?

We would love to use X33 for a single concentration series of our protein to verify a key set of earlier results, and specifically wish to use wavelength 1.5A.
Thanks

[franke]

Can we now apply for remote access to X33, or was this a one-off proof of concept?

Yes, you can apply for remote measurements. Just mention it in your proposal.