Participating Research Teams (PRTs) are groups of researchers from one or more institutions that construct and operate beamlines and have primary responsibility for experiment endstation equipment. They are entitled to a percentage of the beamline's operating time based on the resources the PRT contributes to the beamline. To establish a PRT, team members submit a proposal in the form of a white paper outlining the scientific motivations for their request. The proposal is presented to the ALS Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) which reviews the submission and advises the ALS director on the formation of a new PRT.

For information on joining a PRT, contact the appropriate PRT spokesperson (see ALS Beamlines Directory).

Current PRTs at the ALS

PRT Group	Beamline	PRT Spokesperson	Function
National Center for X-ray Tomography (NCXT)	2.1	This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (510) 486-5890	Cell Biology / Tomography
Molecular Biology Consortium (MBC)	4.2.2	This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (510) 486-6652	Protein Crystallography
Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB)	5.0.1 5.0.2 5.0.3 8.2.1 8.2.2	This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (510) 495-2594	Protein Crystallography Protein Crystallography Protein Crystallography Protein Crystallography Protein Crystallography
Center for X-Ray Optics (CXRO)	6.1.2 6.3.2 11.3.2 12.0.1	This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (510) 486-4529	High resolution zone-plate microscopy EUV optics testing Inspection of EUV lithography masks EUV optics testing
UCB / UCSF	8.3.1	This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (510) 666-2749	Protein Crystallography
Chemical Dynamics	9.0.2	This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (510)-486-4754	Chemical Dynamics
SIBYLS	12.3.1	This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (510) 486-4158	Protein Crystallography / SAXS