I'm passionate about the Australian Synchrotron and it's a real privilege to be able to contribute to its future success as part of such a fantastic team.


 

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This month our short interview features Dominique (Dom) Appadoo, who heads the Australian Synchrotron's high-resolution far infrared beamline.


 

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Australia may once have ridden on the sheep’s back, but it’s a New Zealand researcher who has discovered the secret of making sheep leather as strong as cowhide.

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Beamtime submissions for round 2011/3 (September-December 2011) will close on 23 June 2011.

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It’s almost four years since the Australian Synchrotron first opened its doors to users and we’re contacting researchers whose work has been featured in Lightspeed to find out what progress they’ve made since they used our beamlines.

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Business operators and industry leaders looking to innovate are connecting with researchers working on new technologies and government representatives who can assist the innovation process.

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Biological remains of extinct animal entombed in stone
Tooth decay breakthrough
Frogs legs galvanised into action again
Could city s**t be good for farming?

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"The user accommodation rooms will be so good that we're worried our users won't want to leave," says Alexis Kouts from the Synchrotron's Major Projects and Technical Services Group.

Although the user accommodation won't be finished till 2012, several of the other new building facilities at the Australian Synchrotron are close to completion. The National Centre for Synchrotron Science has an upper floor and walls on three sides, cables are being installed inside the extended switchroom, and the technical services building and the office extension pod are expected to be ready for staff to move in within two months.

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Commissioning of the imaging and medical beamline (IMBL) has recommenced following several months of construction activity. The first high-resolution imaging experiments in the satellite building are scheduled for October 2011.

 

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Two new user cabins are being constructed for the convenience of users and staff on the x-ray fluorescence microscopy (x-ray microprobe) beamline at the Australian Synchrotron.

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The Australian Synchrotron is "... structurally in excellent shape for continued operation and expansion", according to Ted Baker, chair of the facility’s science advisory committee.

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The top 20 most-cited papers based on research undertaken at the Australian Synchrotron have been cited a total of 351 times in the scientific literature, according to the Scopus index as of 14 June 2011.

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Do you know someone who has the breadth and depth of synchrotron research experience to assess and rank merit proposals to use Australian Synchrotron beamlines?

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The winner of our inaugural photo competition is ...

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Synchrotron-related events in Australia and overseas.

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