The GSY (Synchrotron Group)

Historic

The GSY has been created in 1991 to fulfil several tasks : the building, the working and the improvement of the French beamlines at the ESRF synchrotron for protein crystallography.

First, the GSY had in charge the D2AM beamline, shared with the physicist community, and then in order to satisfy the increasing demand of beamtime, the FIP beamline (French beamline for Investigation of Proteins).

FIP is dedicated exclusively to protein crystallography and has been available to users since 1999. This is a CRG (Collaborative Research Group) beamline (60 % of beamtime devoted only for the French community) particularly adapted for anomalous diffraction experiments (SAD, MAD).

The GSY tasks

The GSY has to:

• insure the working of FIP,
• develop the instrumental for increasing the FIP capabilities and use,
• provide user support (local contact).

The GSY also develops, in parallel, a research activity in structural biology in the following areas :

• the secondary metabolism of plants,
• the health

References The reference list is detailed here.