Several members of the Haas group, and our collaborator Dr. Dominic Babinni, traveled to Stanford, CA to spend five days at the Synchrotron. Our long-time collaborator, Dr. Jake Pushie, met us there where he organized and delivered a comprehensive workshop on X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The whole group took shifts on the beam line so that we could collect data 24 hours a day on the Cu binding sites of some important human proteins. We are grateful to Dr. Pushie for his excellent training and the opportunity to learn from him! It has been a fun and productive trip and we look forward to the next one!