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	SSRL Users' Organization 2003 Executive Committee

	Environmental Sciences Graduate Student LCLS Macromolecular Crystallography Materials Chemistry SSRL Liaison Structural Molecular Biology

 

	Uwe Bergmann (Chair) SSRL, ESRD, 2575 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025
	Scientist in the Physical Bioscience Division at LBNL and assistant researcher in Department of Applied Science at UC Davis. Uwe was a postdoc at ESRF and LBNL and holds a Ph.D. in Physics from SUNY Stony Brook. Research interests include transition metals in biology, hydrocarbons, water. Work is based on application of novel synchrotron based x-ray techniques including time-domain Moessbauer spectroscopy, high-resolution x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and x-ray Raman spectroscopy.
	email: bergmann@slac.stanford.edu	ph: 650-926-3048 fax: 650-926-4100
	Corwin Booth (Ex-Officio) LBNL, Chemical Sciences, MS 70A-1150, Berkeley, CA 94720
	Staff scientist in the Actinide Chemistry Group at LBNL. Corwin conducts x-ray absorption investigations on a wide variety of materials with interesting electronic, chemical, or structural properties. These include transition-metal oxides, intermetallic compounds (esp. heavy fermions), borides as well as materials that relate to environmental concerns, such as waste-form glasses, actinide species in solution, and other materials containing transuranic elements.
	email: chbooth@lbl.gov	ph: 510-486-6079 fax: 510-486-5596
	Ben Bostick (Vice-Chair) Dartmouth College, Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH 03755
	Faculty member in the Earth Sciences Department at Dartmouth College. Ben's research at SSRL involves the study of structural environments of ions sorbed on the surfaces of geologic materials. Reaction mechanisms and the redox transformations of these surface species and minerals in response to changing environmental conditions are of particular interest.
	email: benjamin.c.bostick@dartmouth.edu	ph: 603-646-3624
	Richard Brennan Oregon Health Sciences University, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park, Portland, OR 97201-3098
	Richard T. Jones Professor of Structural Biology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Oregon Health & Science University. Dick's research focusses on structure-function studies on (1) protein-nucleic acid interaction, (2) multidrug recognition and binding by both cystolic and membrane bound proteins and (3) enzymes involved in nucleobase salvage. Dick and his lab members have used SSRL for its intensity data collection and MAD experiments exclusively over the past several years.
	email: brennanr@ohsu.edu web: http://www.ohsu.edu/som-biochem/faculty/brennan.shtml	ph: 503-494-4427 fax: 503-494-8393
	Jane DeWitt CSU San Francisco, Chemistry & Biochemistry, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132
	Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University (1995-present). Jane's research involves using XAS to investigate the speciation of heavy metals in plants. Jane worked at SSRL from 1987-1992 as a graduate student.
	email: dewitt@sfsu.edu web: http://lewis.sfsu.edu/dewitt/	ph: 415-338-1895 fax: 415-338-2384
	Andrew Fisher UC Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616
	Associate professor of chemistry and molecular & cellular biology at University of California-Davis.  Andy's research focuses on biological macromolecular structure-function relationships in enzymes involved in sulfate activation/assimilation and viral proteins that suppress apoptosis. His research has required extensive use of SSRL beam lines over the past eight years and has been a general user of synchrotron radiation sources since the late 80’s.
	email: fisher@chem.ucdavis.edu web: http://www-chem.ucdavis.edu/people/fisher.shtml	ph: 530-754-6180 fax: 530-752-8995
	Cathy Knotts (SSRL Liaison) SSRL, User Research Administration, 2575 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025
	Manager of User Research Administration since November 2000. Prior to that time, Cathy managed administrative operations and corporate communications in the biotechnology industry. She was a management analyst for National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health before moving to Northern California in 1994. Cathy received a B.S. from the University of Maryland majoring in Health Science and Policy.
	email: knotts@slac.stanford.edu	ph: 650-926-3191 fax: 926-926-3600
	Richard Lee LLNL, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA 94550
	Senior Scientist in the Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory responsible for developing scientific efforts in high and moderate energy density science. Dick has been a member of the LCLS Science Advisory Committee since its inception and was the team leader for the Plasma and Warm Dense Matter experiment that was one of the five 'First Experiments for LCLS'. He is currently actively involved in both experiment and theory related to ultra fast x-ray scattering studies of laser-excited solids.
	email: dicklee@llnl.gov	ph: 92-422-7209 fax: 925-423-2463
	Anneli Munkholm Lumileds Lighting, Research & Development, 370 W. Trimble Rd., San Jose, CA 95131
	Senior scientist at Lumileds Lighting.  Anneli's research interests include surface x-ray scattering, real-time x-ray studies of crystal growth, and III-V materials. Anneli was a graduate student at SSRL from '93 to '97. She was a postdoc and held a staff position in the Materials and Chemistry Divisions at Argonne National Laboratory, where she worked at the APS and was involved in a wide variety of synchrotron experiments incl. GIXS, XSW, ASAXS and time-resolved EXAFS.
	email: anneli.munkholm@lumileds.com	ph: 408-435-6801 fax: 408-435-6335
	Erik Nelson LLNL, Chemistry & Materials Science, 7000 East Ave., MS: L-231, Livermore, CA 94550
	Postdoctoral research associate at LLNL. He received an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University in 1993, a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and was a postdoctoral research associate at NIST/NRC. Erik’s research interests lie in the determination of atomic and electronic structure of highly correlated electron materials, as well as environmental studies of actinide chemistry on mineral surfaces, using XANES and EXAFS on beamlines 4-1 and 11-2. His dissertation work was done on soft x-ray and VUV beam lines 3-3, 8-1 and 10-1, and involved UPS, XPS, X-ray absorption, and X-ray standing wave experiments of alkali metal adsorption on silicon surfaces. In his postdoctoral work, Erik used beam line 3-3 for experiments to help develop a site-specific valence photoelectron spectroscopy technique utilizing X-ray standing waves.
	email: nelson87@llnl.gov	ph: 925-422-2186 fax: 925-423-9719
	Nicholas Pingitore UTEP, Environmental & Geosciences, El Paso, TX 79968-0555
	Analytical geochemist/professor at the University of Texas at El Paso with broad research interests and synchrotron experience involving the geological, environmental, and archaeological sciences. Nick's current research is funded by NSF, EPA, DOE, and NASA. Nick recognizes the contribution of the SSRLUO-EC to sustaining SSRL as a user-friendly facility, and he thus understands the responsibility of membership on the EC.
	email: nick@geo.utep.edu web: http://www.geo.utep.edu/Faculty_Staff/pingitor.html	ph: 915-747-5754 fax: 915-747-5073
	Martina Ralle Oregon Health Sciences University, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 20000 N.W. Walker Rd., Beaverton, OR 97006
	Research scientist at OHSU in Oregon. Martina's research involves XAS spectroscopy as a probe for metal binding in proteins involved in copper homeostasis in humans. She has been a general user since 1994 and comes to SSRL 2-3 times a year to measure samples and to swim with the Stanford masters.
	email: ralle@bmb.ogi.edu web: http://www.bmb.ogi.edu/BMB/ralle.html	ph: 503-748-1384 fax: 503-748-1464
	Deanne Jackson Rudd Stanford University, Chemistry, MC: 5080, Keck Bldg., Rm. 201, Stanford, CA 94305
	Graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University. Deanne's research at SSRL involves using XAS K-edges and EXAFS to probe the electronic and geometric structure of metalloproteins and protein model complexes.
	email: deanne@stanford.edu	ph: 650-723-2479 fax: 725-0259
	Dave Stout The Scripps Research Institute, Molecular Biology MB8, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037-1093
	Faculty member in the Dept. of Molecular Biology at The Scripps Research Institute. Dave's research entails experimental crystallography of biological macromolecules with projects focused on iron-sulfur proteins and enzymes, RNA-protein and DNA:RNA complexes, membrane bound enzymes (cytochrome P450, transhydrogenase), fertilization proteins, and synthetic peptides. This research has made extensive use of SSRL beam lines over the past several years.
	email: dave@scripps.edu web: http://www.scripps.edu/mb/stout/index.html	ph: 858-7843-8738 fax: 858-784-2857

 
 

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