⚛🌍 Diamond Light Source CEO, Gianluigi Botton, recently spoke with Physics World about the £519m Diamond-II upgrade and what it means for the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Read more in the Physics World piece below. 👇 https://lnkd.in/ekxMKeg2
Diamond Light Source
Research Services
Didcot, Oxfordshire 15,935 followers
The UK's National Synchrotron Light Source
About us
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. By accelerating electrons to near light-speed, Diamond generates brilliant beams of light from infra-red to X-rays which are used for academic and industry research and development across a range of scientific disciplines including structural biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, earth and environmental sciences. 🕔 This account is monitored 9-5 weekdays
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- Industry
- Research Services
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Didcot, Oxfordshire
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2002
- Specialties
- synchrotron, research, science, software, engineering, and electron microscopy
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Harwell Science & Innovation Campus
Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, GB
Employees at Diamond Light Source
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🏗 The Diamond Expansion Building (DEB) is now taking shape! This steel construction phase is expected to take approximately five more weeks to complete. 🛠 The DEB will be used for girder assembly and temporary on-site storage whilst also providing additional office and laboratory space. ♻ The storage space will be re-purposed post Diamond-II installation to allow various facilities currently located in the synchrotron building and blocking future development to be relocated.
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🧊 On Diamond’s B24 beamline, researchers can perform correlative fluorescence microscopy and X-ray tomography, imaging proteins using structured illumination microscopy under cryogenic conditions (cryoSIM) and capturing cellular ultrastructure from the same cells using cryo-soft-X-ray tomography (cryoSXT). 🦠 An international team of researchers used this correlative light X-ray tomography (CLXT) approach to study the roles of nine genes in virus assembly in herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1). This multi-modal imaging strategy allowed a 3D study of viral assembly, highlighting the contributions that key HSV-1 proteins make to virus assembly and underscoring the power of correlative fluorescence and X-ray tomography cryo-imaging for studies of this type. Find out more in the science highlight below. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/ecG7Tg_U
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Diamond Light Source reposted this
Happy #FriendshipDay! Shout out to our #synchrotron friends around the globe! 👯♀️🔬 Lightsources.org ALBA Synchrotron, Advanced Light Source, ANSTO, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), Diamond Light Source, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, ESRF - The European Synchrotron, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM), Synchrotron SOLEIL, MAX IV Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, DESY, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Centrum SOLARIS, PSI Paul Scherrer Institut
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💎 A team based at Diamond Light Source is part of an exciting collaborative grant programme, which will lead in developing new software for macromolecular crystallography (MX) scientists across the world. 🤝 This £0.5M investment from BBSRC to Diamond will bring together a consortium of research teams from the Universities of Southampton, Liverpool, Newcastle and York, as well as the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC) and LMB Cambridge. Find out more here. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/dybU3vGp BBSRC | STFC | University of Southampton | University of Liverpool | Newcastle University | University of York | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
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⏪ Last month, Diamond took part in the Harwell Open Week! Throughout the week we welcomed staff, students and the public through Diamond's doors, with over 3000 visitors coming to Diamond on the public day! A big thank you to everyone who attended and made this event happen. 🤝 STFC
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It was great to welcome the group to Diamond and programmes like this are important to accelerate more people into fulfilling #WorldChangingScience careers!
Meet Haneef, Israel and Kehinde, three interns working at STFC this summer as part of the 10,000 Black Interns programme. This year, we’re hosting ten interns through the programme, based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Daresbury Laboratory and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre. Haneef Shittu is an electrical and electronic engineering student interning at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. “The highlight of working here so far is simply the atmosphere. With flexible hours, no strict dress code and a facility that feels like a campus, it is very easy to settle in. “Also being able to see all the major equipment up close and understanding how they work is a surreal experience.” Israel is working at RAL Space as a Quantum Sensors Intern, where he’s using software to spot patterns in experiments at the atomic level. “I am hoping to understand the public sector more and also see if a more academic route is a possible career path, especially in Science and Technology.” Kehinde’s placement is at STFC ASTeC at Daresbury Laboratory, where he’s working on an inventory management system for the CLARA particle accelerator. “The highlight of my internship has been the incredible support from my team and line manager. Their reception, guidance, and enlightenment have been invaluable.” #NationalInternDay #DiscoverWhatsPossible #10000BlackInterns The 10,000 Interns Foundation
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🔬 Event: Diamond-CCP4 Data Collection and Structure Solution Workshop 2024 🗓️ Date: 29/10/2024 - 02/12/2024 📌 Where: Online and In-person, Diamond Light Source The workshop will bring together leading experts in the field of MX to teach best practice in data collection and analysis. Open to PhD students, postdocs and young researchers bringing their own crystals or data. Read more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/edgkf3R5
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Diamond Light Source reposted this
A brighter future for Harwell. We are excited to see the newly installed solar panels that cover the entire roof of Diamond Light Source are now fully operational. Diamond’s roof covers an area of 32,000m2 which offers an exceptional opportunity to maximise energy efficiency through these panels. The energy generated by the solar panels is an annual supply of 2.3GWh/y. This output amounts to around 5% of the facility’s total annual energy consumption and will mean yearly savings of some half a million pounds. This will additionally contribute to energy savings of more than £2M per year. Gianluigi Botton, CEO of Diamond Light Source, said: “The completed solar panel installation demonstrates our commitment to lowering the carbon footprint of our world-changing science. This is significant in the high-tech, specialised research and development sector that Diamond operates in. The Government’s Net Zero ambition will require substantial additional investment, but we are working to develop an achievable roadmap for this. Installing solar panels is one of the many steps needed and will not only provide considerable monetary savings, but also emphasises our aim to move towards more sustainable operations.” Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/egwfCzxk #solarpower #energy #cleanenergy #netzero #sustainability #innovationhub