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The user science poster session provides a great opportunity to share your latest advances and results as well as network with colleagues to learn about new capabilities, technology and research results. The next User Science Poster Session and competition was held on Thursday, September 27, 5-7 pm.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2018 Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Award Competition (and thank you to the SSRL and LCLS UEC Judges)!
Bor-Rong Chen, Stanford University/SLAC SSRL: Understanding Crystallization Pathways of Manganese Oxide Polymorphs Formation by Using in-situ X-ray Scattering
Valentina Rossi, University College Cork, Ireland: Synchrotron-X-ray Fluorescence of Melanosomes Reveals Soft Tissue Anatomy of Fossil Vertebrates
Kelly Summers, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada: 8-Hydroxyquinolines in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: Direct Interactions with the Amyloid Beta Peptide
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2017 Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Award Competition!
Gauthier Deblonde, LBNL: Shedding Light on the Transplutonium Element (Am, Cm, Bk, Cf) Solution Chemistry Using EXAFS - Beam Line 11-2
Izumi Ishigami, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Crystal Structure of CO-bound Cytochrome c Oxidase Determined by Serial Femtosecond X-ray Crystallography at Room Temperature
Ariana Peck, Stanford University: Intermolecular Correlations are Necessary to Explain Diffuse Scattering from Protein Crystals
| PosterNo. | Presenter | Abstract Title | PosterPrize Entry? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | Maged Abdelsamie | Probing Photo-Physical Processes in Organic Semiconductors Using Optical Pump - X-ray Probe Spectroscopy | Yes |
| 35 | Aisulu Aitbekova | Low-temperature Restructuring of CeO2-supported Ru Nanoparticles Determines Selectivity in CO2 Catalytic Reduction | Yes student |
| 6 | Alyssa Alvarez | Expressing, Purifying, and Characterizing a Flavodoxin from the Solvent-Producing Clostridium acetobutylicum | |
| 56 | German Banda | An Experiment in Solubility: Truncating N- and C-Termini of calU17 | |
| 52 | Alexey Boubnov | Theoretical Spectroscopy as a Complement to Experiment | Yes |
| 48 | Kristin Boye | Linking Reactive Pools and Microbial Energetics to Element Cycles and Contaminant Behavior in Floodplain Soils | |
| 11 | Sarah Bradford | Structural Investigation of Arabidopsis thaliana Peroxins: Purifying PEX4 and PEX22 for Crystallization | |
| 22 | José Carmona-Negrón | Synthesis, Structure, Docking and Cytotoxic Studies of Ferrocene-Hormone Conjugates for Hormone Dependent Breast Cancer Application | Yes student |
| 53 | Bor-Rong Chen | Understanding Crystallization Pathways of Manganese Oxide Polymorphs Formation by Using in-situ X-ray Scattering | Yes |
| 70 | Ruchira Chatterjee | Structural Changes of the Mn4CaO5 Cluster in the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Using X-ray Diffraction, Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy | |
| 72 | Alice Contreras | Optimization of PR772 Bacteriophage Preparation for Single Particle XFEL Studies | |
| 46 | Austin Echelmeier | Microfluidic Mixing for Time-resolved Serial Crystallography | Yes student |
| 25 | Nick Edwards | A New Large Range Rapid Scan X-ray Fluorescence Imaging Station at SSRL Beam Line 6-2 | Yes |
| 17 | Chia-Yu Fang | Tracking Dynamic Aggregation-Redispersion of Molecular Rhodium Species in Zeolites Driven by Reactive Atmospheres: Spectroscopic Characterization during Reactions | Yes student |
| 1 | Patrick Frank | Synchrotron X-Radiolysis of L-Cysteine at the Sulfur K-edge | |
| 24 | Carolyn Gee | Use of Ultra-fast Silicon Detectors for Time-resolved Low-keV X-ray Science | Yes student |
| 50 | Natalie Geise | Monitoring Capacity Losses through Operando X-ray Diffraction in Lithium Metal Anodes | |
| 67 | Brenna Gibbons | Using Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Explain Catalytic Activity of Copper-Silver | Yes student |
| 79 | Emmett Goodman | Deactivation in Supported Catalysts by Density-Dependent Decomposition of Particles into Single Atoms | |
| 85 | Sheraz Gul | Liquid Microjet Sample Delivery System for Extreme Temperature Conditions | |
| 81 | Nicholas Hartley | Carbon-Hydrogen Demixing and Hydrogen Metallization | |
| 88 | Kareem Hegazy | Investigating Roaming in NO Dissociation of Nitrobenzene via Electron Diffraction | |
| 27 | Sovanndara Hok | In situ X-ray Diffraction of Shock-compressed Plagioclase | Yes student |
| 33 | Yijing Huang | Mechanism for the Soft-mode Driven Lattice Instability in SnSe | |
| 45 | Izumi Ishigami | Snapshot of an Oxygen Intermediate in the Catalytic Reaction of Cytochrome c Oxidase | Yes |
| 8 | Esther Jimenez | Expression and Purification of JMJC-1(RIOX1) to Determine Its Roles in Histidine Hydroxylation | |
| 15 | Haania Kakwan | Optimizing Expression and Purification of Viral HBV Polymerase | |
| 54 | Robert Kasse | Shedding (X-ray) Light on Lithium Metal Anodes | |
| 87 | In-Sik Kim | Manganese X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Photosystem II Microcrystals and Solutions | |
| 32 | Thomas Kroll | Stimulated X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Systems | |
| 41 | Alan Landers | Studying Hydrogen Intercalation into Palladium Thin Films Using in situ Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Reflectivity | Yes student |
| 77 | Kathryn Ledbetter | Characterizing Electronic and Nuclear Structure of Catalytic Intermediates with Ni K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy | |
| 61 | Sangjun Lee | Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Charge Order Using a Superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES) Array | Yes student |
| 74 | Leon Leu | In Situ Fluid Behavior, Pore Structure and Heterogeneity in Mudrocks | |
| 43 | Benjamin Levy-Wendt | In-situ X-ray Characterization of Quaternary Diamond-Like Semiconductors for Thermoelectric Applications | |
| 80 | Chufeng Li | SPIND: A Reference-based Auto-indexing Algorithm for Sparse Serial Crystallography Data | |
| 42 | Ning Li | Anionic Oxygen Redox in High-Capacity Li-Rich Metal Oxide Cathodes | |
| 60 | Renkai Li | THz-based Sub-femtosecond Metrology for Ultrafast Electron Diffraction | |
| 12 | Xuanxuan Li | Click: A Visualization-based Program for Preprocessing of Serial Crystallography Data | Yes student |
| 68 | Hyeongtaek Lim | Cu K-edge XAS Study of Formylglycine-generating Enzyme | Yes student |
| 83 | Kipil Lim | Switching On & Off Oxygen Redox in Li-rich Layered Oxides | |
| 21 | Darya Marchany-Rivera | Effect of pH on Fe-O2 Bond in the Oxygen Reactive Hemoglobins of L. pectinata by X-ray Crystallography | Yes student |
| 38 | Elizabeth Miller | Investigating Molecular Interactions in Lithium-sulfur Battery Electrolytes | Yes |
| 34 | Stephanie Moffitt | Fundamental Characterization of Anti-soiling Coatings for PV Glass: Application of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering | Yes |
| 59 | Blaine Mooers | The Pymolsnips Library for Faster Figure Making | |
| 18 | Tasmia Nadeem | Expression and Purification of FolP Adaptive Mutant Involved in Trimethoprim-1 Sulfamethoxazole TMP-SMX Resistance | |
| 4 | Chiagoziem Ngwadom | Developing Novel C1 Conversion Methods to Synthesize Multi-Carbon Products through the Enzyme, 2-hydroxyacyl-CoA Lyase (HACL) | |
| 69 | Clara Nyby | Time-varying Shear Strain as an Ultrafast Symmetry Switch in a Weyl Semimetal | |
| 65 | Jose Olmos | Capturing Enzymatic Intermediates via Mix-and-Inject Serial Crystallography | Yes student |
| 66 | Courage Owhonda | Determining the Structure of Adenylate Kinase | |
| 86 | Cindy Pham | Simultaneous X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Emission Studies of Metalloenzymes at Room Temperature Using an XFEL | |
| 63 | Yulia Pushkar | X-ray Emission Spectroscopy at X-ray Free Electron Lasers: Limits to Observation of Unperturbed Electronic Structures | |
| 82 | Thomas Preston | Measurements of the Momentum-dependence of Plasmonic Excitations Around 1 Mbar Using LCLS | |
| 2 | Josell Ramirez-Paz | Expression and Purification of L-asparaginase Cysteine Mutants | Yes student |
| 40 | Marco Reinhard | Picosecond Cooperative Spin-state Switching of Iron-Triazole Nanoparticles | |
| 9 | Carlos Reyes-Leon | 〖Ru[phen]〗_3^(2+)/Cy5 Silicon Nano-Particles for Intracellular Thermometry | |
| 73 | Michael Roders | Modulation of Morphology and Charge Transport Networks in Non-fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Thin Films | |
| 3 | Valentina Rossi | Synchrotron-X-ray Fluorescence of Melanosomes Reveals Soft Tissue Anatomy of Fossil Vertebrates | Yes student |
| 36 | Silvia Russi | SSRL/LCLS MX Data Collection at Ambient Temperature under Humidity Controlled Conditions | |
| 29 | Michael Sanchez | Characterization of TiO2 Crystal Nucleation and Growth Along [001] on Template Stripped Gold | Yes |
| 31 | Suchismita Sarker | Accelerated Discoveries of Amorphous Alloys by Combining AI with High Throughput X-ray Diffraction | Yes |
| 14 | Victoria Savikhin | GIWAXS Error Simulation Tools and Peak Indexing Package in MATLAB | Yes student |
| 19 | Manoj Saxena | Structure of Human Serum Transferrin and Role of Titanium Speciation in Its Binding and Uptake by Human Cells | Yes |
| 49 | Joachim Schuder | Ex-situ AFM Study of Heteroepitaxial Anatase TiO2 Growth on Sapphire | Yes student |
| 26 | Nils Schuth | Effective Intermediate-spin Iron in O2-transporting Heme Proteins Determined by Combination of Valence-to-Core (Kβ) X-ray Emission Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry | |
| 57 | Megan Shelby | First Results from LCLS X-ray Diffraction Studies of Crystalline ApoA1 and Apo E4 Nanodiscs | |
| 51 | Xiaozhe Shen | Ultrafast Manipulation of Mirror Domain Walls in a Charge Density Wave | |
| 62 | Inchul Shin | Crystallization and Structure Determination of SfmD | |
| 39 | Timothy Stachowski | Monitoring Structural Consequences of X-ray Radiation Induced Transforming Growth Factor Beta 1 Activation with SAXS | |
| 13 | Hans-Georg Steinrueck | Interfacial Studies of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Lithium-ion Batteries | Yes |
| 71 | Ganesh Subramanian | STIMULATE and DETECT: Biochemical Reactions probed by X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction | |
| 23 | Shuo Sui | X-ray Compatible Microfluidics for Advanced Room Temperature Crystallography | Yes student |
| 20 | Kelly Summers | 8-Hydroxyquinolines in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: Direct Interactions with the Amyloid Beta Peptide | Yes student |
| 75 | Peiaho Sun | Probing the Fragile-to-Strong Transition in Supercooled Liquid Gallium | |
| 86 | Yanwen Sun | Split-delay on a Breadboard with Sub-microradian Precision | |
| 78 | Kyle Sutherlin | Exploring the Dynamic of PSII at Room Temperature by Femtosecond X-ray Pulses with X-ray Crystallography Coupled with Spectroscopy | |
| 44 | Robert Tang-Kong | Combined Synchrotron Techniques for Probing Transient Electrochemical States during Water Oxidation | Yes student |
| 76 | Samuel Teitelbaum | Modification of Interatomic Forces with Lasers: Beyond Zone Center | |
| 7 | Megan Vu | Analysis of Off-Target Modification in a Three-Component Organometallic Tyrosine Bioconjugation | |
| 37 | Max Wiedorn | Megahertz Serial Crystallography at the European XFEL | |
| 47 | Liheng Wu | In Situ X-ray Scattering Guides the Synthetic Design of Nanocatalysts | Yes |
| 28 | Ke Xu | Revealing the Secrets of Ancient Roman Concrete: Microstructures with X-ray Computed Tomography and Machine Learning | Yes student |
| 5 | James Yan | Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Determination of the Electronic Structure of Oxyhemoglobin and Its Model Complex | Yes student |
| 16 | Xiao-Qing Yang | Combined Imaging and Spectroscopy Studies on Layered Lithium-ion Battery Cathode Materials Cycled in Various Voltage Windows Using TXM and XAS | |
| 64 | Angel Yang | Understanding Active Site for Propene Combustion by Uniform Pd and Pt Bimetallic Nanocrystal | Yes student |
| 58 | Kang Yao | Amorphous Si Thin Film Model Electrodes for Li-ion Batteries | Yes |
| 10 | Yu Zhang | Interference Patterns Observed in Stimulated Emission Triggered by X-ray Free-electron Laser | |
| 30 | Sioan Zohar | Experiment and Theory of Monochromator Bandwidth Effects on Scattering Linearity at X-FELs | |