Program (Pacific Time Zone):

  7:30 AM  Welcome 

                   Session Moderators:  

                   LCLS UEC Vice Chair - Matteo Mitrano, Harvard University

                   SSRL UEC Vice Chair - Blaine Mooers, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center

  7:35 AM  User Survey: Results and Actions - Elisa Biasin, LCLS UEC Chair

  7:50 AM  SLAC's Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Intro  - Natalie Holder , SLAC Chief Diversity Officer

  8:00 AM  LCLS Young Investigator Presentation, Yijing Huang, PULSE institute, Stanford University, Discovery and characterization of a novel photoexcited lattice instability in SnSe using ultrafast x-ray scattering

  8:30 AM  LCLS Young Investigator Presentation,  Archana Raja, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Visualizing rapid energy sharing at a van der Waals interface using Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

  9:00 AM  LCLS Young Investigator Presentation, Philipp Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Inspired by Nature: Structure/Function Correlations in Catalytic Reactions of Proteins

9:30 AM  BREAK

10:00 AM   SSRL William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award & Presentation - Saket Bagde (U Texas El Paso/Cornell University):  How nature synthesizes antibiotics using a molecular assembly line

• Bagde is being recognized for his successful efforts to describe the structures and mechanisms of several biologically important enzymes. 

10:30 AM   SSRL Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award & Presentation - Chengcheng Fan (California Institute of Technology):  Structure, function, and application of ABC transporters

• Fan’s X-ray crystallography work at SSRL moves us closer to a more protective coronavirus vaccine and a better understanding of how vital materials flow in and out of cells.

11:00 AM SSRl Farrel Lytle Award - to be Announced by Graham George, SSRL UEC Chair

11:10 AM  Poster Competition Award Announcements & Summary Presentations

•   Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Competition Awards
  • Fatma Betul Ertem, Koc University,  A-3:  X-ray Crystallography and AlphaFold Reveal the structure of Acetyl-CoA carboxylase from N. maritimus 
  • Anudeep Mangu, Stanford University, D-3:  Dynamics of a Light-Induced Phase Transformation Probed by Single-Shot X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy at LCLS 
  • Maya Engel, Stanford University, C-3:  Unique Fe-rich Colloids from Slate River Floodplain  (will not be able to present)
    
•   Outstanding Poster Awards Sponsored by BioXFEL 
  
  • Margaret Doyle, LBNL, A-2: Molecular-dynamics simulations of Photosystem II crystals combined with time-resolved XFEL serial crystallography 
  • Kenneth Shui, Monta Vista High School, B-2:  2D Phase Retrieval for X-ray Free Electron Laser Diffraction Data with Improved Iterative Algorithms  (will not be able to present)
• We also recognize these poster presenters for honorable mention - -
  
  • Monty Cosby, Stanford University – D-1
  • Kevin Gu, University of California, Davis – A-4
  • Zhaoheng Guo, Stanford University – B-1
  • Daniel Haden, University of Nevada, Reno – D-7
  • Ilkin Yapici, Koç University – A-8

11:25 AM  Announcement: Fundamentals at SSRL & LCLS Speaker Awards Presented to - -

• Andrew Lee, Stanford University: Dual Role of Hydrogen During Fracture in Iron Revealed using Transmission X-Ray Microscopy
• Linxiao Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Elucidating the Dynamics of TiO2-Supported Single Metal Atoms and Their Catalytic Consequences with X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS)
  
  We also recognize these speakers for honorable mention - -
• Pranav Kakhandiki, Cornell University: Modes Reconstruction for X-ray Free Electron Lasers using Neural Networks
• Tiffany Slater, University College Cork, Ireland: The plight of a feather: tracking the degradation of feather corneous beta proteins and identifying their remnants in fossil feathers
  
  

11:30 AM  Announcements:  LCLS Staff Award, LCLS Young Investigator Award

11:45 PM  Conclusion/Thank you from the Organizing Committee, SSRL and LCLS UEC Chairs, and Associate Laboratory Directors

12:00 PM  Join in the Poster Sessions:  Materials Science - Hard Condensed Matter; Matter in Extreme Conditions

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