News and announcements


  • Save the dates: The course RapiData 2025 on Data Collection and Structure Solving will take place from May 5 to May 10, 2025. See the course announcement for more information. Application deadline: January 31, 2025.

  • The Mentored Structural Biology of Human Pathogens Summer Program at Meharry Medical College from May 19 to July 25, 2025 is accepting applications (deadline February 7, 2025).

  • New BAG Proposal Option: Click here to learn more about all beamtime proposal mechanisms.

    • Run Schedule

    The Spear3 operation schedule for the 2024-2025 run is available here. Spear access and Machine Physics days are marked PAMM and AP respectively.

    New Features

  • New Eiger X 16M Detector at BL9-2.

  • Automated data processing is now implemented on all beamlines. Data processing will start after the data collection run is completed. The new Blu-Ice Processing tab displays information for each data processing run.

  • RADDOSE-3D in the BluIce Collect Tab.

  • New Helical Collection sub-tab in Collect tab with shutterless helical collection on beamlines 12-1 and 12-2.

  • Diffraction Quality Strip chart in Collect tab.

  • Remote access to room temperature/crystal dehydration experiments on 12-1.

  • New Eiger2 XE Detectors at BL12-1 and BL12-2.

  • Interceptor is Live! Art Lyubimov's ACA 2022 talk of the new real-time data monitoring application, now running on all beamlines.

  • New software: HKL3000 is now available to all SMB SSRL users. To run the old version, HKL2000, please use the following command: module switch -f HKL3000 HKL2000

  • New SMB unix account password expiration notice: starting on the last week of January 2022 an email from passhelp@smb-mail.slac.stanford.edu will be sent 14, 7, 3, 2 and 1 days before SMB unix accounts password expiration date. A final reminder will be sent the date the password expires.
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