Archived NewsLuciano Maiani, President of Italian CNR, visits EPN campus
On 8 April 2011, EPN campus welcomed a delegation from Italy headed by Professor Luciano Maiani, President of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), the entity that funds and coordinates a major part of the country’s public research. CNR also represents the Italian interests in the ESRF and ILL Council. Professor Maiani was accompanied by the Heads of the Italian delegations to the Councils of the ILL and ESRF along with other high-ranking officials. [More on the ESRF website] How Arctic fish antifreeze proteins work
Neutron scientists at ILL have discovered for the first time how ‘antifreeze’ in arctic fish blood kicks in to keep them alive in subzero conditions. The results could provide benefits for areas as diverse as cryosurgery, food processing and agriculture. [more]
Understanding the magnetic glue of superconductivity at ILLNew evidence suggests fluctuating magnetic stripes are the cause of mysterious hourglass magnetic spectrum of high temperature superconductors.
Colloidal Quasi-Crystals discoveredMicelles, as many other colloids, can self-assemble in aqueous solution to form ordered periodic structures. So far these structures exhibited classical crystallographic symmetries. In recent experiments at D11 with its new detector, and for the first time, colloidal water-based quasi-crystals with 12-fold diffraction symmetry have been observed. Results have just been published in PNAS. [more]
A new bacterial strategy to control immunityScientists from the IBS, Pasteur Institute, INRA, INSERM and CNRS laboratories have demonstrated that Listeria monocytogenes, a pathogenic bacterium, is capable of reprogramming genes in order to activate or not the immune system. This work, published online by Science on January 20, 2011 received funding from the European Community (ERANET PathoGenoMics program and ERC). Read more
Good chemistry between ESRF and ILL and local 'Pôles de Compétivités'40 industrialists from the local 'Pôles de Compétitivité' visited the EPN Science Campus on 18 January, to discover our facilities and the opportunities for industrial R&D. [more]
Ammonites’ last meal: new insight into past marine food chainsScientists have discovered direct evidence of the diet of one of the most important groups of ammonites, distant relatives of squids, octopuses and cuttlefishes. The discovery may bring a new insight on why they became extinct 65.5 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous. [more]
ESRFNEws and ILL News for users just releasedThe December 2010 ILL news issue is now online. The ESRFnews December 2010 issue is also available in a new and improved digital edition
Deadline to submit your proposals: 1st SeptemberSummer is, in many countries, a quiet period when scientists can catch up with ongoing papers and work that has been slowly piling up. It is also a great time to start writing your proposals for experiments at the ESRF and ILL. The deadline is on 1 September, for both institutes: keep it in mind!
Newsletters June 2010Three publications of interest to the epn campus scientists have just been released:
Winners of the EU contest for young scientists visit the EPN science campusEach year, the ESRF and ILL welcome two winners of the European Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) which is organised by the European Commission to promote co-operation and exchange between young people interested in science. The students - Damian Steiger from Switzerland (left) and Karl Larsson from Sweden (right) - are first selected at a national level and then compete at the European level. The final stage of the contest is a showcase of the best of European student scientific achievement. As prizes, the winners receive an invitation to visit the European research organisations of EIROforum.
Eva Pebay-Peyroula appointed Chairwoman of the National Research Agency (ANR)Eva Pebay-Peyroula has been chosen to succeed Jacques Stern as President of the National Research Agency (ANR), the French national funding agency for research projects.
Next ILL experiments cycle delayed to mid-JuneDue to an unexpected problem encountered during the filling in of the ILL reactor pool with heavy water, the reactor’s restart – foreseen on 10 June -was delayed. The experimental cycle (cycle #158) therefore started on 15 June and will stop on 30 July.
Contaminated water causes more than 2 million deaths a year. Water treatment usually involves chemical coagulants but some, for example aluminium salts, have health implications. This has led to a search for alternative natural solutions and the most promising is from the Moringa tree. Scientists, in order to develop future treatments from Moringa seeds, need to know exactly what processes take place during the purification. Thanks to the ILL, researchers are now a step closer to understanding how these seeds work.
EPN-campus future developmentThe ILL and ESRF have launched an ambitious project to extend the facilities already offered by our international site. Both institutes have agreed on a joint plan defining the facilities required to modernise the site and further boost its scientific appeal. The plan includes scientific partnerships along with labs, to be hosted in a new Science Buidling of about 3000 m2.
4th International Workshop on Dynamics in ConfinementCONFIT 2010, ILL, Grenoble, France The posters will be presented in the Joint ILL-ESRF library on:
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