<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I want to bring to everybody’s attention a few things about iNEXT Synchrotron Access proposals, as they seem to surface up often.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">- “BAG” proposals are possible, but only when under a common translational scientific theme; not simply based on lab proximity.</div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">- iNEXT funds complete projects, both beam time and travel; arguing that "we have beamtime, just give us travel money” will likely get your proposal rejected.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">- Please be clear to state that you have crystals and/or justify what the SAXS experiments are answering.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Please keep in mind a specific difference from past schemes: you do not need to submit a separate proposal to the synchrotron site to get beam time!</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">A successful iNEXT application will be received by the site(s) you apply for, and only safety data will be requested and</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">a technical review will be done based on the existing application. </div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">We are looking forward receiving your applications for high-end synchrotron data collection, but also for :</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">1. Structural Audit (including crystallisation trials and SAXS: please advertise to your biochemistry colleagues!)</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">2. Macromolecular Interactions (Biophysics for quantitative characterising)</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">3. Cryo-EM sample optimisation (if you have negative stain images)</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">4. High-end NMR data collection</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">5. High-resolution EM (if you have good cryo conditions, and also for tomography and CLEM)</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">… and more modalities to come soon!</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><a href="http://www.inext-eu.org/access/" class="">http://www.inext-eu.org/access/</a> </div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">On behalf of the iNEXT team,</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Tassos</div></body></html>