list of contents and message from the responsible director

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Message from the Director - General

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A Message from the Director Steven Ealick

In May 2009, NE-CAT applied for a high end equipment grant from NCRR to fund the purchase of a Pixel Array Detector (PAD). As a class, PADs are generally acknowledged as the near-term successor to CCD’s at 3rd generation synchrotron crystallography beamlines. The PILATUS-6M, from Dectris Ltd., is the first commercially available PAD suitable for synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallographic...

A Message from the Director Steven

A Message from the Director Steven Ealick Welcome to the latest edition of NE-CAT Communications, our biannual newsletter. NE-CAT concludes 2009 very successfully with excellent scientific productivity and improvements in all areas. The installation of an improved ALS-style sample automounter on the 24-ID-E monochromatic beamline is complete and the improvements have received rave reviews from ...

A Message from the Executive Director

On behalf of the team at WINS, I am pleased to share our achievements of 2015. Facing the headwinds of tough economic times, Calgarians stepped up in so many ways to help one another and I express my sincere gratitude to the donors, volunteers, customers, grantors, funders and community partners who helped make the past year a success. Together, we created hope and new beginnings for 1,800 indi...