The three-story, 330,000-square-foot Advanced Technology Research Facility has nearly 40,000 square feet designated as partnership space (shown in blue) for co-location of collaborators from industry, academia, nonprofit sectors, and other government agencies. The partnership space, combined with multiple conference rooms and meeting areas, encourages both internal and external collaborations.

The opening of the Advanced Technology Research Facility conference center more than doubles the amount of meeting space now available at the Frederick National Laboratory.

By the end of October, the Advanced Technology Research Facility will be one of the few facilities in the world to house all of the latest DNA sequencing technologies.

Ulrich Baxa, Ph.D., director of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory (EML), enjoys finally having his staff all in one place. “Our lab is now all in one location, as compared to our previous situation, with two different locations,” he said. “This will make daily work much easier, in particular for me since I am able to have an office next to the other EML staff.”

For the first time, the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) is under one roof, as a result of their move to the Advanced Technology Research Facility. The move is expected to streamline their work as well as provide greater opportunities for collaboration with other researchers, both internal and external.