Welcome to the MX beamlines homepage!

This space contains technical information and instructions for the MX1 and MX2 beamlines. If you can’t find information you need, please contact the MX beamline scientists.

Getting to know MX	Preparing for your experiment	Running your experiment
After your experiment	Handy links and resources	Workflows

AS	Australian Synchrotron	MX1	Macromolecular Crystallography Beamline
BM	Bending magnet	GUI	Graphical User Interface
CC	Channel Cut (crystal)	MX2	Micro Crystallography Beamline
DCM	Double Crystal Monochromator	OPI	Operator Interface
DiD	Defence in Depth	PSS	Personnel Safety System
EPS	Equipment Protection System	EA	Experiment authorisation
FSM	Facility Status Monitor	VM	Virtual Machine
ID	Insertion Device	YAG	Yttrium Aluminium Garnet
MAD	Multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction	SOP	Standard Operating Procedure
PX	Protein crystallography	CX	Chemical crystallography
VT	Variable temperature	DAC	Diamond anvil cell

Name	Role	Email	Mobile	Extension
Stephanie Bird	Scientist	boers@ansto.gov.au	0431 392 783	-
Eleanor Campbell	Scientist	campbele@ansto.gov.au	0434 308 281	-
Stephen Harrop	Scientist	harrops@ansto.gov.au	0436 806 575	5386
Santosh Panjikar	Senior Scientist	santoshp@ansto.gov.au	0467 770 815	4276
Jason Price	Scientist	jasonp@ansto.gov.au	0409 157 273	4247
Alan Riboldi-Tunnicliffe	Principal Scientist	alanr@ansto.gov.au	0431 295 002	4159
Rachel Williamson	Principal Scientist	rachelw@ansto.gov.au	0419 351 988	4136
Tom Caradoc-Davies	Acting Lead Scientist - MX3	thomasc@ansto.gov.au	0434 307 453	4187
Daniel Eriksson	Senior Scientist - MX3	daniele@ansto.gov.au	0400 926 934	5382
Chris Szeto	Scientist	szetoc@ansto.gov.au	0475 246 364
Rosie Young	Scientist	youngr@ansto.gov.au	0475 734 345
Yogesh Khandokar	Scientist	khandoky@ansto.gov.au	0469 311 609	-

	MX1	MX2
Energy range (user controlled) (keV)	8.5 - 17.5	8 - 21
Beamsize at sample position (FWHMHxV) (µm)	120 x 120	25 x 15
Detector	Dectris EIGER2 X 9M	Dectris EIGER X 16M
Detector closest approach	Check the MotD	Check the MotD
Goniometer	Mini-Kappa
Camera zoom	Fixed length camera (5X)	Zoom camera (8X)
Minimum recommended crystal size	Protein crystals > 50µm; chemical crystals as small as 10µm (with strongly scattering elements)	Protein crystals > 10µm; chemical crystals as small as 5µm (with strongly scattering elements)
Additional features	Mini-kappa, LEDs, DACs	Micro collimators