Brilliant Light in Life and Material Sciences

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Brilliant Light Facilities and New Projects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XIV

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   2. SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES, STATUS AND NEW PROJECTS

      • Dieter Einfeld

      Pages 3-20

   3. THE EUROPEAN XFEL PROJECT

      • W. Decking

      Pages 21-30

   4. SPEAR3 SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE

      • James Safranek

      Pages 31-43

   5. STATUS OF THE ALBA PROJECT

      • Joan Bordas

      Pages 45-55

   6. STATUS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF SIBERIAN SYNCHROTRON AND TERAHERTZ RADIATION CENTER

      • G.N. Kulipanova, A.I. Ancharov, E.I. Antokhin, V.B. Baryshev, E.L. Goldberg, B.G. Goldenberg et al.

      Pages 57-68

   7. CANDLE SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE PROJECT

      • V.M. Tsakanov

      Pages 69-80

   8. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CANDLE LIGHT SOURCE PROJECT CANDLE project impact

      • M. Baghiryan

      Pages 81-88

   9. KHARKOV X-RAY GENERATOR NESTOR

      • V. Androsov, A. Agafonov, E. Bulyak, J.I.M. Botman, V. Grevtsev, A. Gvozd et al.

      Pages 89-93

3. Research in Biophysics and Biochemistry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XIV

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   2. X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

      • Graham N. George, Ingrid J. Pickering

      Pages 97-119

   3. BIOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION: FROM ARTEM ALIKHANYAN TO NOWADAYS

      • A.A. Vazina

      Pages 121-131

   4. RECENT ADVANCES IN AUTOMATION OF X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC BEAMLINES AT THE EMBL HAMBURG OUTSTATION

      • Matthew R. Groves

      Pages 133-139

   5. 3D MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE ANALYSES: APPLICATIONS IN PLANT PROTEINS

      • Filiz Dede, Gizem Dinler, Zehra Sayers

      Pages 141-151

   6. ALIGNMENT OF MOLECULS IN SOLUTION

      • Aleksan Shahkhatuni

      Pages 153-163

   7. STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF ORDERING IN BIOPOLYMERS

      • Vladimir F. Morozov, Yevgeni Sh. Mamasakhlisov, Anna V. Mkrtchyan, Artem V. Tsarukyan, Tatyana Yu. Buryakina, Shushanik Tonoyan et al.

      Pages 165-174

   8. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN OF SECRETORY GRANULE MEMBRANE

      • Anna Boyajyan

      Pages 175-184

   9. EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY IN BIOPHYSICAL MACROMOLECULAR RESEARCH

      • BORIS KIERDASZUK

      Pages 185-197

   10. INFLUENCE OF LOWINTENCITY ELECTROMAGNETIC IRRADIATION ON THE WHEAT SEEDLINGS CHROMATIN FRACTIONS

       • L. A. Minasbekyan, V.P. Kalantaryan, P. H. Vardevanyan

       Pages 199-203

A NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Brilliant Light Facilities and Research in Life and Material Sciences” was held from July 17 to July 21, 2006. The workshop was hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission, Yerevan - the newly established institute in Armenia with the aim to create a synchrotron radiation facility, CANDLE, as an international laboratory for advanced research in life and material sciences. About 50 researchers from NATO, partner countries and Armenia gathered at Yerevan to discuss modern trends in developments of advanced light sources with high spectral brilliance and applications in basic and applied research in a wide range of fields. Research with high brilliant photon beams are used, for example for practical applications in pharmacy, electronics and nanotechnology. Such practical relevance promoted the design and construction of now more than 50 such facilities worldwide. Overview and specialized talks on the status and highlights of newly constructed light sources (ALBA, SPEAR3, European XFEL Facility, Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Center, CANDLE), on instrumentation and development of experimental techniques, and frontier research in life and material sciences using synchrotron radiation have been presented. More than 60% of the program was devoted to application of synchrotron radiation in biophysics, biochemistry, biomedicine, material and environmental investigations. The workshop brought together scientists from a wide spectrum of research fields emphasizing the wide application and demand of synchrotron radiation and underlining the necessity of user involvement in the early design stages of a new project.

• Absorption
• Biophysics
• Biopolymer
• Laser
• Optics
• Synchrotron
• Synchrotron radiation
• X-ray
• bone
• electromagnetic
• electron transport
• imaging
• living systems
• tissue
• x-ray absorption

• Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries Using Light Emission, Yerevan, Armenia

  Vasili Tsakanov

• Advanced Physics Department and SSRL/SLAC, Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.

  Helmut Wiedemann

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