A femtosecond X-ray pulse from an X-ray free electron laser intersecting a droplet that contains photosystem II crystals, the protein extracted and crystallized from cyanobacteria.
Franklin Fuller, postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, sets up the photosystem II experiment at the Macromolecular Femtosecond Crystallography (MFX) station at LCLS.
Berkeley Lab and SLAC scientists (from left) Ernest Pastor, Jan Kern, Sheraz Gul, and Franklin Fuller at the Macromolecular Femtosecond Crystallography (MFX) station at LCLS.