The crystallization plates with the screw caps shown 8 minutes into the film can be purchased from Qiagen (They used to be made by a company called Nextal but Qiagen bought them out a few years ago). I've been using these plates for years and love not having to deal with the vacuum grease.
Here is a link: http://www1.qiagen.com/Products/Protein/Crystallization/Tools/EasyXtalTool.aspx Cheers, Jim On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Narayanan Ramasubbu <ramas...@umdnj.edu>wrote: > mb1pja wrote: > >> Dear Fred >> >> A really nice video that would be great for giving non-crystallographers >> (including colleagues and 1st year students, and perhaps also friends and >> family) an overview of what we do. Thank you for pointing it out - and of >> course very many thanks to Dominique Sauter for making it. I am sure it will >> prove very popular. >> >> bet wishes >> Pete >> >> (Pete Artymiuk) >> >> >> >> On 11 Nov 2009, at 09:44, Vellieux Frederic wrote: >> >> >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Thought I'd share this with you: >>> >>> I located this through Ms Ines Kahlaoui, from the Beja Higher Institute >>> of Biotechnology in Tunisia (Ines has to teach and locates videos on the >>> internet, which she then downloads and uses for teaching). Ines located this >>> jewel: >>> >>> >>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7084929825683486794&ei=M3b5SvXqD6em2AK3jY33CQ&q=Plongee+coeur+vivant# >>> This is the French version (explains everything about Structural >>> Molecular Biology, but for the maths :-( , but also shows what we >>> crystallographers have known for a long time, since the first colour E&S >>> graphics workstations in fact, that the electron are blue :-) ). >>> >>> Both French and English versions can be downloaded from >>> >>> http://cj.sauter.free.fr/xtal/Film/ >>> >>> No rights associated with the movie, and the Strasbourg group intends to >>> release a higher quality version on DVD soon. Please contact them about >>> that... I am only sharing what I thought was good for educational purposes. >>> 18 minutes of your life, but worth it I think. So feel free to share this. >>> >>> Wish you all a nice day, >>> >>> Fred. >>> >>> >> >> >> > Hi: > Could someone point out the name and where to get these crystallization > plates used in the video? > By the way, this is a wonderful video. > Subbu > -- Jim Fairman, Ph D. Post-Doctoral Fellow National Institutes of Health - NIDDK Cell: 1-865-748-8672 Lab: 1-301-594-9230 E-mail: fairman....@gmail.com james.fair...@nih.gov
