2000/2001 SSRL Users’ Organization Executive Committee Ballot
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The SSRL Users’ Organization Executive Committee represents the scientific user community to the SSRL
administration, the SSRL Science Policy Board and the DOE in matters of operation, policy and
improvements.
Members serve a two-year term.
Members are elected by the SSRL user community via majority vote.
Present Committee - Continuing Members
Name
Institution
Field
Institution
Type
Paul Alivisatos
Pat Allen
Corwin Booth
Bruce Clemens
Paul Foster
Marilyn Olmstead
Bob Scott
U.C. Berkeley
LLNL
LBNL
Stanford Univ.
U.C. San Francisco
U.C. Davis
Univ. of Georgia
Materials/Chemistry
Environmental/Geosciences
Materials/Chemistry
Materials/Chemistry
Macromolecular Crystallography
Macromolecular Crystallography
Structural Molecular Biology
University
Gov't. Lab
Gov’t. Lab
University
University
University
University
Office
Ex-Officio
Chair
Vice-Chair
* graduate student
Slate of Nominees
Vote for 1 graduate student (any discipline), 1 environmental/geosciences representative, 1
structural molecular biology and 1 macromolecular crystallography representative.
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Name
Institution
Field
Institution
Type
Susan Carroll
Nancy Hess
Satish Myneni
Brad Tebo
LLNL
PNNL
Princeton Univ.
U.C. San Diego
Environmental/Geosciences
Environmental/Geosciences
Environmental/Geosciences
Environmental/Geosciences
Gov’t. Lab
Gov’t. Lab
University
University
K. Christopher Garcia
John Peters
Glen Spraggon
Stanford Univ.
Utah State Univ.
GNF
Macromolecular Crystallography
Macromolecular Crystallography
Macromolecular Crystallography
University
University
Res. Inst.
Martina Ralle
Vittal Yachandra
Oregon Grad. Inst.
LBNL
Structural Molecular Biology
Structural Molecular Biology
University
Gov’t. Lab
Lipika Basumallick
Ben Bostick
Dominik Schmidt
Stanford Univ.
Stanford Univ.
Stanford Univ.
Materials/Chemistry
Environmental/Geosciences
Materials/Chemistry
University
University
University
Mark
choice
with an X
* graduate student
PLEASE RETURN BALLOT BY OCTOBER 18, 2000 TO:
SSRL User Research Administration
Fax: (650) 926-3600
Email: ura@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu
2000/2001 SSRLUO-EC Ballot
Environmental/Geosciences
Susan Carroll: Research expertise is experimental and field investigations of equilibrium- and kinetically-controlled waterrock interactions. For the past 8 years she has used synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy to determine the
local coordination and bonding of heavy metals to mine drainage and estuary sediments and of Sr to pure minerals
suspensions.
Nancy Hess: Actinide and Trace Metal Geochemistry Group, Biogeochemistry Department, at PNNL. Her research focus
is environmental geochemistry and radiation effects in waste materials. She has specialized in the speciation of actinides
and trace metals and the structural investigation of solid phases over a range of length scales using molecular
spectroscopic methods such as XAS, diffuse x-ray scattering, vibrational and fluorescence spectroscopies.
Satish Myneni: Assistant Professor at Princeton University, and conducting hard and soft X-ray spectroscopy on
geochemical and environmental systems.
Brad Tebo: Brad Tebo: Microbiologist at Scripps Institute of Oceanography (UC San Diego) with research expertise in the
molecular genetics and biochemistry of manganese oxidizing bacteria. Synchrotron-based studies (XAS and XRD) have
focused on the mechanisms of bacterial Mn oxidation and manganese oxide biominerals.
Macromolecular Crystallography
K. Christopher Garcia: Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Structural Biology at Stanford
University. Conducts structural and functional studies of cell-surface receptor/ligand complexes relevant to human health
and disease. Reliant on synchrotron radiation for macromolecular crystallography of large, multi-protein complexes.
John Peters: An Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Utah State University. His research interests deal mainly with
investigating the biochemical mechanism of reactions catalyzed by enzymes that contain transition metals. In this pursuit,
synchrotron radiation is being used for the determination of new enzyme structures and structures of enzymes poised in
various defined intermediate states.
Glen Spraggon: Staff Scientist at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF). Uses synchrotron
radiation for research focused on structural genomics: primarily in the development and application of techniques for highthroughput determination of protein structures by X-ray crystallography and the utilization of this information in biomedical
problems.
Structural Molecular Biology
Martina Ralle: Research Scientist at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in Portland, Oregon.
Research focuses on the spectroscopic characterization of metal containing biomolecules. Past and present activities at
SSRL include X-ray absorption spectroscopy (EXAFS) and X-ray powder diffraction.
Vittal Yachandra: Research Scientist in the Structural Biology Department at LBNL. His research interests focus on X-ray
absorption spectroscopy studies of metalloproteins, specifically the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex. He also uses
other spectroscopic methods in his research.
Students
Lipika Basumallick: Graduate student in the Chemistry Department at Stanford University. Research includes the use of
core and valence photoelectron spectroscopy as a probe to define electronic structure of iron centers in biological electron
transfer sites. The primary objective is to correlate electronic structure to redox properties.
Ben Bostick: Graduate student in the Geological and Environmental Sciences Department at Stanford University.
Research at SSRL involves a 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.
Dominik Schmidt: Graduate student in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University studying thin film
semiconductor detectors using nano-EXAFS.
2000/2001 SSRLUO-EC Ballot
2000/2001 SSRLUO-EC Ballot