Harwell Campus


Harwell Campus is home to Diamond Light Source and Research Complex at Harwell.


Diamond Light Source offers access to a range of technologies and services, including fragment screening, cryo-electron microscopy, serial crystallography, soft x-ray tomography, and long wavelength experiments.  Through the Research Complex at Harwell, services for molecular biophysics, membrane protein production, and crystallisation are available.

Diamond Light Source

Harwell Science & Innovation Campus

OX11 0DE, Didcot

United Kingdom

www.diamond.ac.uk

Visitor information


How to find us

By road

The Campus is located directly off the A34, accessed from Junction 13 of the M4 motorway in less than 10 minutes (9 miles). Junctions 8 and 9 of the M40 are both within 30 minutes of the Campus.

Parking

Harwell Campus has limited parking available, but spaces are available in the RAL site visitors carpark.

By train

The nearest rail station is Didcot Parkway, served by trains from London Paddington.

By taxi

The Harwell Campus is about a 15-20 minute drive from Didcot Parkway railway station, and about 35-40 minutes from Oxford railway station.

By bus

A regular bus service runs to the campus.

ST1 timetable – the ST1 runs every half hour from 7am to 7pm between Harwell Campus and city of Oxford.
Thames Travel bus timetable – a dedicated bus shuttle service, with four buses per hour in each direction from 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday, serves the Didcot Parkway Rail Station to Harwell Campus route (bus numbers 43 and 94).


Travelling from airports

Harwell is about one hour’s drive from Heathrow Airport and two hours from Gatwick Airport.

 

Facilities on the Harwell Campus

Accommodation

There are a number of hotels nearby and also accommodation can sometimes be arranged on the campus at Ridgeway House or in Abingdon at The Cosener’s House.

Restaurant

Restaurant facilities are provided both on the RAL site and as part of the meeting and conference facilities at The Cosener’s House.

Further information about the Harwell Campus is available at: www.harwellcampus.com


Flagship Service/Technology at Harwell Campus:

Fragment screening through Macromolecular Crystallography at Diamond’s XChem facility at beamline I04-1, supporting 1000+ compound screens

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Other Services/Technologies at Harwell Campus:

The Electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC) provides scientists with state-of-the-art experimental equipment and expertise in the field of cryo-electron microscopy, for both single particle analysis and cryo-tomography. Currently eBIC houses five Titan Krios microscopes, a Talos Arctica, Glacios, and a Scios and Aquilos cryo-FIB/SEM.

 



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The Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL) at the Research Complex Harwell is a research and training user facility open to scientists from laboratories anywhere in the world that are interested in the Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins. The laboratory combines recently developed high throughput technologies for membrane protein production and crystallisation with the latest developments in X-ray diffraction data collection systems at Diamond MX beamlines. Our team of in house support scientists are on hand to help visitors with all aspects of their experimental design and setup.



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Macromolecular Crystallography (MX)

Diamond provides a range of techniques for academic and industrial researchers studying the machines of life. As one of those techniques, Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) reveals the shape and arrangement of biological molecules at atomic resolution, knowledge of which provides a highly accurate insight into function. This can be combined with complementary information from many other techniques available at Diamond alongside lab based investigations to reveal the broader picture of molecular interactions and their effects.

Small Angle Scattering (SAXS)

Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) covers the major disciplines of Biology, Chemistry and Physics delivering structural and dynamic information in nanoscience, mesoscopic architectures, supramolecular structures and nucleation/growth of crystals. SAXS is also proving important in archaeological, environmental and conservation sciences,  indicating an ability to span a wide range of scientific disciplines.

 



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Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans
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X-Ray Crystallography X-ray Data Collection cryo-ET
electron crystallography microED

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Martin Walsh
Martin Walsh
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X-Ray Crystallography X-ray Data Collection Structural Genomics
Biochemistry

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Frank von Delft
Frank von Delft
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Biochemistry Epigenetics Structural Genomics
X-Ray Crystallography X-ray Data Collection

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Robert Rambo
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Maria Harkiolaki
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Armin Wagner
Armin Wagner
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X-Ray Crystallography
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Andrew Quigley
Andrew Quigley
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Membrane Proteins Biochemistry Structural Biology
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