Proposal Study Panels
Two Proposal Study Panels (PSPs) exist at the ALS, one for the general sciences and one for protein crystallography. Each PSP consists of members appointed by the ALS Director based on nominations submitted by the Users' Executive Committee (UEC). Every attempt is made to have all the scientific disciplines at the ALS represented on the panels.
Current members of the General Sciences PSP, as of October 2008, are
Harald Ade, North Carolina State University
Peter Fischer, Berkeley Lab
Carol Hirshmugl, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Yves Idzerda (Past chair), Montana State University
Peter Johnson (Chair), Brookhaven National Laboratory
Ronald Phaneuf, University of Nevada, Reno
Ingrid Pickering, Univerity of Saskatchewan
Kevin E. Smith, Boston University
Craig Taatjes, Sandia National Laboratory
Stefan Vajda, Argonne National Laboratory and Yale University
Barry Wells, University of Connecticut
Current members of the Protein Crystallography-SAXS PSP are
Linda Brinen, University of California, San Francisco
Greg Bowman, Johns Hopkins University
Jamie Cate, Univesity of California, Berkeley
Carl Correll, University of Chicago
Russ Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
Steve Holbrook, Berkeley Lab
Martin Horvath, Univeristy of Utah
Peter Hwang, University of California, San Francisco
James L. Keck, University of Wisconsin
Dave McKay, Stanford University
Ethan Merritt, University of Washington
Dan Minor, University of California, San Francisco
Luke Rice, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Erica Ollman Saphire, Scripps Institute
Glen Spraggon, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Steve Sprang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ron Stenkamp, University of Washington
Mark Wilson, University of Nebraska
National Center for X-Ray Tomography (NCXT)
Steven Ruzin,University of California
Zena Werb, University of San Francisco
Gayle Woloschak, Northwestern University
Note: Users are urged NOT to contact any members of the panels directly.
The General Sciences PSP meets twice a year to evaluate general user proposals submitted to the ALS. Proposals are graded on a scale of 1-5 (see General User Proposals for additional information on the review process). The Protein Crystallography-SAXS PSP evaluates proposals on a rapid access basis every two months. The PSPs follow the guidelines endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) in the IUPAP Recommendations for the Use of Major Physics Users Facilities in evaluating the proposals under review.