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suggestions and advise for improvement in design.
Director, Dr. Keng Liang, first presented the current status
of the TPS project, and then followed by the introduction
of the current status of the civil construction plan, the
accelerator engineering design, and the utility system
design for the TPS project by NSRRC staff.
Five abroad experts were invited to join this miniworkshop
and they presented civil and utility system
design or operation experience of their own facility. There
are about 40 attendees and the following prospects were
achieved at this mini-workshop:
1. Reviewing the design of the utility system of the TPS
project.
2. The general requirement and capacity estimation of
the utility system for the synchrotron facility and the
accelerator laboratories.
3. The correlation between the stability of the utility
system and the beam performance (prevention of
operation interruption, trip rate related to utilities,
photon stability, and orbit stability, etc.).
4. Grounding, electronics noise reduction and vibration
suppression due to the water flow.
Many constructive and valuable comments were
obtained through this mini-workshop and the utility
system design was modified accordingly.
been set up. The main task of this committee is to plan for
the development direction of NSRRC’s scientific research
and accelerator technology and other related matters.
The 1st Academic Development Committee members
are Di-Jing Huang (Chairman), Jin-Ming Chen, Yaw-Wen
Yang, Mau-Tsu Tang, Bing-Ming Cheng, Chun-Jung Chen,
Chin-Cheng Kuo, and Ching-Shiang Hwang and the first
committee meeting was held on May 22.
June 2008
2008 Protein Crystallography Training Course
A six-day Protein Crystallography Training Course was
successfully held at NSRRC from June 25th to July 2nd.
This training course is restricted to domestic user who has
no experience in applying this technique and needs to use
it in the near future. The goal of this training course is to
disseminate experimental techniques of macromolecular
crystallography to researchers or graduate student with an
interest in using this specific method to further extend the
scope of their research.
This course covers broad spectrum of topics on
synchrotron-based protein crystallography ranging
from crystallization of proteins, data collection strategy,
phasing techniques, radiation damage on protein crystals,
to structure determination of proteins. Every attendee
practices how to grow crystal, collect diffraction data,
process data, and determine the structure of Insulin by
S-SAD method all by themselves.
Group photo of Mini-workshop of Utility System for TPS
Project
May 2008
Set up Academic Development Committee
For the long-term planning of NSRRC’s academic
development, the Academic Development Committee has
Attendees on the Training course
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