Registrations with abstract submissions are open for the 31st edition of LNLS Annual Users Meeting (RAU)! Promoted fully online by the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), located at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), the 31st RAU will be held from November 8 to 11, 2021.

The first study with data collected by researchers using Sirius has just been published. Sirius is the state-of-the-art synchrotron light source of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), a private non-profit organization under the supervision of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovations (MCTI). The work, published in a special issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology, reveals details of the maturation process of the main protease of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Registrations are now open for XAYNAN Workshop - International Sirius Workshop on X-ray Nanospectroscopy, Nanodiffraction and Nanoimaging. The second edition of the event will be held online and free of charge from October 4-5, 2021 via the Zoom app.

Registrations are open for the second edition of the Groundwater Remediation using Nano/biotechnology with focus on the Contaminated Resources in Brazil (GRUN II). Organized by the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), part of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), jointly with the Teesside University (UK) and the Grounwater Research Center (CEPAS/USP), the event will be hosted fully online from 28 June to 2 July, 2021. The GRUN Conference focuses on nanotechnology and novelty remediation processes for groundwater and soil, using nano and biotechnology, among others. Invited speakers from Brazil and around the world will discuss the state-of-the-art in groundwater and soil remediation technologies and the applications regarding to Brazilian resources. Registrations with abstract submissions are from 19 April to 23 May, 2021. More information at https://pages.cnpem.br/grun/

During the pandemic period of COVID-19, CNPEM has adopted exceptional policies for its users, seeking to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. These rules reinforce CNPEM's commitment to serving the scientific community, always seeking to ensure the health of users and employees.

Registration is now open for the Ricardo Rodrigues Synchrotron Light School (ER2LS), which will take place from July 12 to 23, 2021. Promoted by the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), this edition will be fully online, through the Whova platform, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Registrations are now open for the online edition of the international PALSA 2021 and its satellite event, the 2nd AgroEnviro Workshop, to be held from April 12 to 16, 2021 via the Whova platform. Deadline for registrations and abstract submissions is March 1st, 2021.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), one of the world’s leading laboratories in particle physics and the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), an organization supervised by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology for Innovations (MCTI), have signed today, December 4^th, a wide scientific and technological collaboration agreement.

The agreement establishes legal conditions for collaboration in research and resource sharing in any area of mutual interest, especially in technologies applied to the physics of particle accelerators, magnets, and superconducting materials. Such knowledge is of enormous value for the development of new technologies, both in science and in the industry.

In the last few months, the first experiments on the MANACÁ beamline were carried out by external researchers dedicated to studying the molecular mechanisms related to the action of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Now, continuing the scientific commissioning phase of this beamline, researchers from other fields are invited to submit their proposals to use the MANACÁ beamline, dedicated to macromolecule crystallography, which allows the study of the three-dimensional structure of human proteins and enzymes and pathogens, with atomic resolution.