Reminder : DEADLINE for the new FAST Team Call for Applications is 15 December 2019. Call for Applications for Faculty-Student Teams to Spend Two (2) Months During Calendar Year 2020 at Participating Advanced Light Sources ICSU has awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) a… Read More FAST Team Call for Applications
The SA-ESRF-2019 Conference took place on 11-13 November 2019 : Johannesburg. The meeting builds on more than a decade of deep commitment to develop the ESRF User Base in South Africa. The broadness of the current user base already reflects the global nature of science and the ESRF as a leading international facility. The SA-ESRF… Read More SA-ESRF-2019 Conference
The AfLS project was well represent at the National Society of Black Physicist (NSBP) conference in Providence, RI held from Nov 14-17. The NSBP conference program is 30% professional development workshops and 70% technical. The professional development workshops aim to help students and faculty to make the various transitions to becoming active scientists. The NSBP… Read More AfLS at NSBP
Congratulations to Fortune Mokoena and Alicia Potgieter who were awarded the SA-ESRF Internships, for an MSc and PhD period respectively. They will study and work with the Engineering Groups at the ESRF-EBS in Upgrade and R&D Development areas. This begins a new era where Science and… Read More Deep Training Internships at the ESRF
Setting up new infrastructures would play an important role in preventing best-trained African researchers from emigrating. The physicist Prosper Ngabonziza states that having a synchrotron light source would be very beneficial for the continent as a whole. Read the full article here
One of the reasons – Scientists can develop cures for diseases of particular relevance to Africa, that may not be receiving sufficient research attention. The idea from structural biology is that structural information helps to elucidate protein function and, in particular, the mechanisms of enzymes. This understanding inspires the design of new drugs Synchrotrons are… Read More Why Africa needs a Light Source !
The title of the article Q&A: Herman Winick, accelerator physicist and human rights activist in Physics Today, 7 May 2019, is changed slightly in the title above to emphasise Herman’s Winick’s contribution to bringing large scale science infrastructures to the developing world, in particular, his contribution to the African Light Source Project.
The Roadmap towards the African Light Source received a boost on the 27th March, a series of presentation to mark the launch of the START Programme. The acronym is for Synchrotron Techniques for African Research and Technology and it includes a grant of £3.7M grant to support capacity building and research access to Diamond by African scientists.… Read More AfLS attends START Launch Event (Mar 2019)
The second African Light Source Conference AfLS2, took place in Accra, Ghana from 28 Jan – 3 Feb 2019. It was held in parallel with the second Pan African Conference on Crystallography PCCr2. The conference was an opportunity to showcase African Science conducted at international light sources, to assess the evolving capacity of light sources… Read More AfLS2 in Accra, Ghana (Feb 2019)
The Biophysics & Structural Biology at Synchrotrons workshopl took place from 17-24 January 2019 in Capetown. The aim is to introduce young bioscience researchers to the power of synchrotron based facilities. Here the bioscientists can learn with theoretical and practical sessions to carry out molecular structure determinations leading to vaccine design, drug discovery, industrial enzymology and agrochemicals.… Read More Biophysics & Structural Biology at Synchrotrons (Jan 2019)