Demographic Information
How many years have you been an independent investigator? ____
If you are not an independent investigator, stop here. Thank you.
What is your research environment?
___ University ___ Industry ___ Government ___ Laboratory
___ Other (please specify): _______________________________________
What is your source(s) of research support? (Check all that apply)
___ NIH ___ NSF ___ DOE ___ Industry ___ Foundation
___ Other (please specify): _______________________________________
What is the total annual support (direct costs) for all projects in your laboratory that rely on synchrotron radiation? (Choose one)
___$0 ___$1K-50K ___$50K-150K ___$150K-250K ___>$250K
How large is your research group today?
___ Number of postdocs, research associates or equivalent
___ Number of graduate students
___ Number of other support personnel (e.g., technician, programmer)
___ How large do you think your group will be in 5 years? (Postdoc + graduate students + technicians)
Does your use of synchrotron radiation include scientific collaboration on the projects of other independent investigators who do not have expertise in synchrotron science?
___ Yes ___ No
If yes, with how many such independent investigators have you done collaborative synchrotron experiments in the past three years?
___ 1994 ___ 1995 ___ 1996
Synchrotron Information
1. Please estimate how many days of beamtime your group used at each of the following synchrotron sources. (If none, leave blank)
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | |
| Stanford (SSRL) | |||
| Cornell (CHESS) | |||
| Brookhaven (NSLS) | |||
| Berkeley (ALS) | |||
| Argonne (APS) | |||
| Daresbury (SRS) | |||
| Orsay (LURE) | |||
| Hamburg (DESY) | |||
| Tsukuba (PhFac) | |||
| Grenoble (ESRF) |
2. How many publications (excluding conference abstracts) from your group in the past three years reported results obtained with synchrotron radiation?
___ 1994 ___ 1995 ___ 1996
3. How have you used synchrotrons in the past, for the following types of experiments?
| Choose from: 1=Major use 2=Occasional use 3=Once only 4=Never | ||
| Protein crystallography: | monochromatic | ____ |
| MAD phasing | ____ | |
| Laue | ____ | |
| Small angle scattering: | static | ____ |
| time-resolved | ____ | |
| X-ray spectroscopy | static | ____ |
| time-resolved | ____ | |
| X-ray imaging/microscopy | ____ | |
| Wide angle x-ray scattering | ____ | |
| Other | ____ |
Please specify other: _______________________________________
4. How important is synchrotron radiation to your future research plans?
___ Critical ___ Very Important ___ Moderately Important ___ Unimportant
5. What will be important future uses of synchrotron radiation for your research?
Choose from: 1 = Very frequent 2 = Regular 3 = Occasional 4 = Rare 5 = Never
___ Crystal structure determination by monochromatic techniques.
___ Crystal structure determination by multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD).
___ Determination of multiple crystal structures for proteins provided by site-directed mutagenesis, or as
part of drug/ligand studies.
___ Time-resolved structure analysis.
___ Non-crystalline diffraction.
___ Solution scattering of biomolecules and their complexes.
___ X-ray spectroscopy.
___ Direct imaging by X-ray microscopy.
___ Other (please specify): ____________________________________________
6. What factors limit your use of synchrotron radiation? (Check all that apply):
___ Don't need it for my research.
___ Can't readily get synchrotron beam time.
___ Insufficient user support at synchrotron facility.
___ Insufficient research support to enable travel to the synchrotron.
___ Too much time between application for beam time and experiment.
___ Key instrumentation for experiment unavailable at synchrotron facility.
___ Too much radiation damage to samples.
___ Burdensome requirements for beamtime proposals.
___ Other (please specify): _____________________________________________
7. Please rate the importance of each of the following synchrotron research facilities for your research.
Choose from: 1 = Essential 2 = Important 3 = Helpful 4 = Occasionally helpful 5 = Unimportant
___ High brilliance/intensity/flux.
___ High energy resolution.
___ Fast, efficient X-ray detectors.
___ Detectors with high spatial resolution.
___ User-friendly environment.
___ Helpful, readily accessible support staff.
___ Intellectually stimulating environment.
___ Good ancillary facilities, e.g., cold room, biochemistry lab, stock room.
___ On-site data processing.
___ Good communication e.g., user group, Web site, documentation.
___ Good housing and convenient services.
___ Rapid access for single experiments or feasibility studies.
___ Repeated access for long-term projects.
___ User training.
___ Computing and network services.
___ Other (please specify): ____________________________________________________
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