December 2019    -   View this e-mail in your browser   
Caterina Biscari, chair of LEAPS in 2020 
More than 180 participants from around Europe met up for the second Plenary meeting of the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources (LEAPS) held last November at PSI (Switzerland). During the event, Helmut Dosch handed over the symbolic LEAPS baton to Caterina Biscari, who will take over as Chair of LEAPS in January 2020.
The mayor of Barcelona visits the ALBA Synchrotron 
Accompanied by Joan Subirats, councilor and director of the area of Culture, Education, Science and Community, and Marta Cruells, head of the Feminisms and LGTBI Department Cabinet, Ada Colau had the opportunity to visit the facility and know more about the science developed at ALBA.

ALBA hires five people through the programme "Empleo Joven"

During two years, they will give support to the areas of communication, experiments, accelerators and computing. 

A winning picture celebrating the International Day of Light

Photographer Sergio Ruiz wins the Technology and Science Prize of the #IDL2019 Photo Contest with a picture at the CIRCE beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron. 

HIGHLIGHTS

Crocodile teeth and bones enlightened by synchrotron light   
BL04-MSPD 
 
Samples, from the existing Nile species and from fossils dated 70 million years ago, have been analysed at ALBA. These life records offer information about crocodiles’ biology and evolution, from the Cretaceous to the present. The study is carried out thanks to the collaboration among the UAM, the UAH, the ICV-CSIC and the UVic-UCC. 
New biocompatible nanoparticles for breast cancer therapy   
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A research team has studied the efficacy of new CHO/PA polymeric nanoparticles for the sustained delivery of a drug used in breast cancer therapy. Some of the experiments have been carried out in the NCD-SWEET beamline at ALBA.  
Fast magnetic domain walls, out of the shadow    
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Researchers have unveiled new dynamical properties of magnetic domain walls when subjected to an electrical current in ferromagnetic cylindrical nanowires. Part of the experiments used the shadow XMCD PEEM technique at the CIRCE beamline of ALBA.
The mechanism of the most used antimalarial drugs unveiled    
BL09-MISTRAL 
 
Quinoline has been an effective compound in antimalarial drugs, although no one knew its mode of action in vivo. A team has discovered its mechanism in infected red blood cells in near-native conditions, by using synchrotron light techniques.

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ALBA is the only synchrotron light source in Spain. It is a complex of electron accelerators to produce synchrotron light, which allows visualization and analysis of matter and its properties at atomic and molecular levels. In operation since 2012, ALBA has eight beamlines and four more under construction. It generates about 6,000 hours of beamtime and hosts more than 2,000 academic and industrial researchers every year.
   

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