The Structural Biology Program of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research supports access to DOE’s national 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 light sources located at several National Laboratories:

• Brookhaven National Laboratory-National Synchrotron Light Source
  Protein Crystallography
  UV Spectroscopy
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-Advanced Light Source
  Crystallography
  X-ray Spectroscopy
  Small Angle X-ray Scattering
  X-Ray Microscopy
  Infrared Spectromicroscopy
• Argonne National Laboratory-Advanced Photon Source
  Structural Biology Center
• Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

• Los Alamos National Laboratory-Protein Crystallography Station
  
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory-Small Angle Neutron Scattering

The Structural Biology Facility Program provides funding for the unique Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The program also contributes to the Federal government’s support for the Protein Data Bank, the international database of three-dimensional structures of proteins, protein complexes, and other biological macromolecules.

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