Support for European Access to Life Sciences (SEALS)

Diamond's bioSAXS beamline, B21, is available for mail-in sample processing

As a partner in iNEXT Discovery, Diamond provides access to:

Macromolecular crystallography (MX)

• !24 and VMXi for serial and in situ crystallography experiments
• I23 for long wavelength phasing experiments
• VMXm for sub-micron crystallography experiments (available from 2022)

Correlative light and x-ray imaging (CLXM)

•  Beamline B24

Small-angle x-ray scattering (bioSAXS)

• Beamline B21

Cryo-electron microscopy

• The Electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC)

1. Single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) experiments
2. Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) experiments
3. Access to FIB milling for sample preparation

Fragment screening

• Beamline I04-1 (XChem)

iNEXT Discovery is a funding stream for structural biology, which is itself funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 871037. It has a total of 23 partners (participating institutions) throughout Europe. 

The ambition of iNEXT-Discovery is to enable user access to versatile state-of-the-art structural biology facilities to maximise their impact in biomedical research, food science, biotechnology and biomaterials. iNEXT-Discovery users will not only gain access to an integrated network of world-leading structural biology facilities, but also increasingly to the outstanding expertise of the facility staff. This will allow a broader than ever community of specialist and non-specialist researchers to benefit from the latest structural biology technologies and methods to perform translational research.

iNEXT-Discovery brings together all major structural biology technologies, by co-ordinating a carefully chosen network of Europe’s highest-end infrastructures. This in turn allows us to share best practice procedures, optimise the use of different facilities and synergistically work towards interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary structural biology research strategies.

All European users requiring financial support for access, travel, and subsistence must ensure they have a valid iNEXT proposal.

Instruct-ERIC is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology, making high-end technologies and methods available to all European researchers.

Researchers from Instruct member countries can request access to the service/technologies offered through the Instruct-ERIC Centres.

Click here to check if you qualify for Instruct ERIC funding.