EMBL@PETRA III
EMBL Hamburg is building an integrated infrastructure for life science applications using synchrotron radiation. The facilities are situated at the PETRA storage ring, operated by Helmholtz Research Centre DESY in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The ring is being converted into a dedicated low emittance synchrotron radiation facility with leading optical parameters, named PETRA III.
EMBL is responsible for building and operating three undulator beamlines of which two will be dedicated to macromolecular X-ray crystallography and one to small angle X-ray scattering applications of biological material. These beamlines are being integrated into advanced facilities for biological sample preparation and characterisation as well as for X-ray data processing and evaluation.
Access to these beamlines will be selected and prioritised based on scientific criteria only. The project is open for specific partnerships with other academic organisations and industrial enterprises.
The first call to submit projects for beamtime at the EMBL PETRA beamlines is planned for mid-December 2011. The experiments following this call will start on April 1st 2012 at the earliest.