U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Energy Research
Office of Biological and Environmental Research

Structural Biology Program

A major component of the structural biology program of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research is the support of user facilities for studies in structural biology. These user facilities are available to academic, industrial, and government laboratory researchers.

The structural biology program provides support for beamlines and end stations at the synchrotron sources located at several National Laboratories.

These supported facilities are dedicated to crystallographic and spectroscopic studies of biological macromolecules, as well as to the application of small-angle scattering of x-rays and x-ray microscopy to biological systems.

User stations are also supported at neutron beam facilities.

A research objective of the structural biology program of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research is the improvement of instrumentation available for studies in structural biology.

In addition, support is provided for research using the full suite of structural biology techniques, aimed at determining the three-dimensional structures of important proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological materials.

See also the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

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Contact:

Roland F. Hirsch, Ph.D
e-mail: roland.hirsch@oer.doe.gov

Charles Edmonds, Ph.D
e-mail: charles.edmonds@oer.doe.gov