IMPORTANT NEWS:

The GCPCC beamline at CAMD is down until approximately October 1st 2009.   The wiggler that produces the x-rays for the beamline is being rebuilt in Novosibirsk Russia.   We expect the wiggler to return at the end of August and we will install and test it in September.   There will be user beam starting in October but lifetimes will be short until the ring vacuum recovers.  We expect to have normal running by early November.

Please check this page for updates go to the links below.

For more information see the News section of CAMD's web site

Beamline Update:

     We are now scheduling users for access to the beamline. Prospective users can contact us via e-mail at hbellamy[at]lsu[dot]edu or call Henry Bellamy at (225) 578- 9342.

Operation Schedule:

     CAMD operates 14 hours a day when delivering user beam, 8 am to 10pm. The ring is shutdown on Sundays.  The schedule consists of 9 days of  user time followed by 3 days for machine studies and maintenance.  To view the scheduled operation of the synchrotron, please visit CAMD's beamline schedule web page.

     We continue to offer mail-in crystallography to both consortium members and outside users.  Those wishing to utilize mail-in crystallography should contact Henry Bellamy.

Overview:

The Gulf Coast Protein Crystallography Consortium (GCPCC) consists of eight universities in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.  The consortium's goal is to foster cross-disciplinary research and education in the field of protein crystallography.  A major part of meeting this goal is the GCPCC protein crystallography beamline operated at the CAMD synchrotron at LSU.  This beamline began user operation in 2003 and has quickly become a valuable tool in research and education for the scientific community.

Contacts

Support for the construction of the beamline was provided by the NSF through the biological infrastructure award DBI-9871464 with interagency matching funds from the NIGMS at the NIH and the GCPCC member institutions.

Last Changes: 10 June, 2009 hbellamy[at]lsu[dot]edu