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 January 2007, are
Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Fischer, Berkeley Lab
Yves Idzerda (Past chair), Montana State University
Peter Johnson (Chair), Brookhaven National Laboratory
Lisa Miller, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Ingrid Pickering, Univerity of Saskatchewan
Kevin E. Smith, Boston University
Craig Taatjes, Sandia National Laboratory
Barry Wells, University of Connecticut
Michael White, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Current members of the Protein Crystallography-SAXS PSP are
Jim Berger, University of California, Berkeley
Ed Berry, Berkeley Lab
Jim Bowie , University of California, Los Angeles
Carl Correll, University of Chicago
Russ Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley
Chris Garcia, Stanford University
Marvin Hackert, University of Texas-Austin
Chris Hill, University of Utah
Steve Holbrook, Berkeley Lab
Peter Hwang, University of California, San Francisco
Patrick Loll, Drexel University
Dave McKay, Stanford University
Ethan Merritt, University of Washington
Doug Ohlendorf, University of Minnesota
Thomas Poulos, University of California, Irvine
Phoebe Rice, University of Chicago
Janet Smith, University of Michigan
Glen Spraggon, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Steve Sprang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ron Stenkamp, University of Washington
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.