Speaker
Description
Health and life sciences research represents one of the largest and most diverse user communities at MAX IV. The suite of imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopy techniques allows investigations from the millimetre to Ångstrom scale. The complementarity between x-ray techniques often enables studying the structure, chemical identity, and evolution of living materials with very high precision. Incorporating time further extends measurement to an additional dimension, with potential for microsecond (and lower) resolution. Beyond x-ray measurement, the lab supports various microscopies including IR and cryo-EM, and fragment-based screening, and in the future in vivo tomography.
The proposed MAX4U upgrade [1] to the 3 GeV storage ring promises significant advancement at the forefronts of health and life sciences synchrotron research. High-resolution imaging (tomography and ptychography, and scanning SAXS) and time-resolved techniques (SAXS, MX) which take advantage of the increased coherence and flux densities, albeit with consideration of radiation damage and heating effects, from a more brilliant source.
In this talk, I present an overview of health and life science research at MAX IV. I will emphasize high-impact publications which highlight the capabilities of MAX IV’s today. Further, I will present how health and life science research community can most benefit from MAX4U.
References
[1]. A. Robert et al., Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 495 (2023)
