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Call for User Proposals:  The Molecular Foundry

Call for Proposals Begins:  Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Submission Deadline:Â Â Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Dear Colleagues,

The Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a Department of Energy (DOE) national nanoscience user facility, is currently accepting requests for user access to its instruments, capabilities and skilled technical staff from scientists and engineers who are seeking to enhance their own research projects.  Requests from potential users, in the form of web-based proposals, must be received not later than October 14, 2009 to be considered in this current call.Â

The mission of LBNL’s Molecular Foundry is to provide researchers from academic, government and industrial laboratories from around the world access to instruments, materials, technical expertise and training in nanoscience.  Access to the Foundry is free of charge for research that is in the public domain and intended for open publication.  Users wishing to generate as well as maintain confidential information and data will pay full-cost-recovery rate, but also have greater latitude regarding collaboratively generated intellectual property. Â

The Molecular Foundry hosts six Facilities focusing on the multidisciplinary development and understanding of “soft” (biological and polymeric) and “hard” (inorganic and microfabricated) nanostructured building blocks and their integration into complex functional assemblies. These research facilities serve as a particularly valuable resource for users pursuing multidisciplinary research in nanoscience (e.g., physicists interested in learning biological techniques, biologists seeking nanofabrication expertise, experimentalists pursing theoretical studies). All projects that may benefit from Foundry capabilities are welcome, particularly those which relate to our broad research themes and reflecting areas of expertise of the Molecular Foundry staff. The Foundry strongly encourages project submissions that take advantage of our other LBNL user facilities, including the Advanced Light Source, Energy Sciences Network, Joint Genome Institute, the National Energy Research Scientific Center, and the National Center for Electron Microscopy. 

Prospective users are invited and strongly encouraged to contact Molecular Foundry staff in the respective theme areas to discuss proposal ideas and to learn more about special capabilities of particular interest (visit the “Our Scientists” section at the Foundry web site). We encourage the discussion of your proposal's central ideas to ensure the Foundry has the appropriate facilities, equipment and staff to perform your requested research.  Decisions reached in this round of proposal submission will be announced approximately eight weeks after submission deadline; for this call we anticipate a notification date of December 21, 2009.  All approved projects will receive user access and work may begin as soon as scheduled after this notification. Â

For further information, please visit:

The User Program
http://foundry.lbl.gov/user_program/index_user.html /Â Â Â

Molecular Foundry Staff Scientists
http://foundry.lbl.gov/people/2_scientific_staff.html

LBNL User Facilities
http://www.lbl.gov

We look forward to receiving your new proposal.  Should you have any questions regarding this process, please contact us at foundry@lbl.gov or by phone at 510-486-7493.

Sincerely,
David A. Bunzow

--   The Molecular Foundry http://foundry.lbl.gov/ foundry@lbl.gov ph: 510.486.6312