Following the Government of Jordan’s directives to restrict the movement of people to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and for the health and safety of SESAME’s staff and visitors to the Centre, SESAME is closed until further notice.
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On 4 March, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay visited SESAME on her first official visit to Jordan.
Maher Attal, an accelerator physicist who has been acting Technical Director of SESAME since 24 September 2019, has now been confirmed in this position.
The first published paper utilizing data taken at the recently operational IR (Infrared) spectromicroscopy beamline of SESAME describes an interesting possible research path in the identification of the background of preeclampsia, a serious hypertensive disorder with unclear etiology and lack of reliable diagnostic tests.
The second round of SESAME-Sweden-MAX IV Laboratory scholarships is being launched. It will cover the years 2020-2021.
On 16 February, Andrea Lausi arrived in Jordan to take up the position of Scientific Director of SESAME.
No less than 151 proposals have been submitted in response to SESAME’s third call (Call “2”) for experiments on its three beamlines that closed on 27 January, thus confirming the ever-increasing demand for use of its facilities.
We are pleased to announce the 4th International Workshop on X-ray Crystallography in Structural Biology and will be held on February 25th-27th, 2020, at The Islamic University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan.