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XFEL Pulses Demonstrate How Plants Perceive Light

A team of scientists from Sweden, Finland, Japan and the United States led by University of Gothenburg researcher Sebastian Westenhoff and BioXFEL member Marius Schmidt from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have shown, for the first time with time-resolved X-ray structures, how photoreceptors in plants respond to light.

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BioXFEL Scientist, Dilano Saldin, passes away

BioXFEL scientist Dilano Saldin, Distinguished Professor of Physics of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Fellow of the American Physical Society, passed away on March 9, 2020 after a long illness. He will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and the scientific community.  Below is his obituary.

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XFEL structure of melatonin receptor aids discovery of potential sleep disorder drugs

A recent study published in Nature involving a multi-institutional collaboration with BioXFEL researchers has produced novel drug candidates that may help with various sleep disorders. The drugs were designed based on the structure of a melatonin receptor which was published last year by BioXFEL researchers.

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Rising Stars in Physics Workshop Announcement

The Department of Physics at Princeton invites top early career women (postdocs and last-year PhD students) in Physics and Astronomy who are interested in careers in academia to apply for an expenses-paid, two-day workshop (Apr 16-17, 2020).  Participants will have an opportunity to present their research, as well as attend panel discussions with faculty focused on issues related to navigating the early stages of an academic career.

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Imaging at the speed of life

The European XFEL marks in a new age of protein movie-making that enables enzymes involved in disease to be observed in real time.

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Photosynthesis seen in a new light by rapid X-ray pulses

In a new study led by Petra Fromme and Nadia Zatsepin at the Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, the School of Molecular Sciences and the Department of Physics at Arizona State University, researchers investigated the structure of Photosystem I (PSI) with ultrashort X-ray pulses at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (EuXFEL) in Hamburg, Germany.

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