[ccp4bb] Registration now re-open for the 12th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples, PSI, Switzerland 3rd-5th June 2025.

now OPEN again, is case anyone else would like to come: https://indico.psi.ch/event/16600/ Registration and Abstract submission will now close on 14th April. Best wishes Elspeth Garman (on behalf of the organisers, Martin Weik, Florian Dworkowski, Vincent Olieric, Sonia Reber) From: Elspeth

Re: [ccp4bb] naturally obsessed - the movie

Thanks for this! Just really enjoyed watching it. Quality fine. If you watch it PLEASE use gloves to protect your hands from liquid nitrogen! Best wishes Elspeth From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Oleg Sobolev Sent: 14 March 2025 05:32 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] naturally

Re: [ccp4bb] Unexplained electron density

Is it big enough to be a trapped CO_2 molecule from partial decarboxylation of the Asp? Best wishes Elspeth From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Jakub Švéda Sent: 07 March 2025 16:11 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Unexplained electron density Dear all, I have unexplained electro

[ccp4bb] Registration now open for the 12th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples, PSI, Switzerland 3rd-5th June 2025.

on the Workshop Website, and are looking forward to in depth discussions. Note that since we are restricted to a total of 70 participants, early registration is recommended! Best wishes Elspeth Garman on Behalf of the Organisers From: Elspeth Garman Sent: 11 September 2024 15:26 To: CCP4BB

[ccp4bb] 12th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples, PSI, Switzerland 3rd-5th June 2025.

Workshop Announcement: The 12th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples will be held in person at the Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland 3rd-5th June 2025. The Workshop will address essential questions and challenges of radiation damage to biological sam

[ccp4bb] RADDOSE-3D news

Dear CCP4BBers If you are interested in estimating the dose absorbed during your MX experiments (or SMX, SAXS, Powder, XPS studies), we wanted to let you know that the WWW.RADDO.SE site is up and running again. There has been a hiatus during which we have been transferring R

[ccp4bb] PDRA available at Kings College London

Dear BBers I am posting this PDRA advert on behalf of Prof James McDonnell at Kings College London. The advertisement is below, or can also be found at LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3894686078 Best wishes Elspeth Structure-based drug discovery in immunology, King's College London, T

Re: [ccp4bb] British X-ray Crystallographers

Also many thanks to Gerard for spotting the typos! Elspeth Sent from my iPhone > On 24 May 2023, at 10:28, Gerard Bricogne wrote: > > Dear Jon, > > Quite a line-up indeed. > > Might someone at the RSC correct the typo in Elspeth's surname (in two > places)? Or is it a plural form ;-

Re: [ccp4bb] British X-ray Crystallographers

Thanks a lot Harry! Unfortunately there is only one of me so it should indeed be ‘man’ not ‘men’, although in these days of political correctness it should really be ‘Garperson’! Also Microsoft often changes it to ‘ Garmin’. Best wishes Elspeth Sent from my iPhone > On 24 May 2023, at 10:56,

[ccp4bb] HTCC5 announcement

Dear Colleagues, The Croatian Association of Crystallographers is inviting you to the fifth edition of its advanced crystallography workshop "Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography" to be held in Dubrovnik, Apr. 16 - 21, 2023, and dedicated entirely to macromolecular crystallography. Worksh

[ccp4bb] ACA Abstract call for a session on Rosalind Franklin's legacy

Dear CCP4BBer Joseph Orgel (Illinois Institute of Technology) and I are organising a session at this year's virtual ACA meeting entitled 'Rosalind Franklin: 101st Anniversary'. This is to be held virtually but we hope live on 2nd August 2021 from 12pm till 3pm Eastern Daylight Time (UK 17:00 to

[ccp4bb] Elemental Analysis

Dear Andy Yes! I have regular runs of micro-PIXE. Happy to discuss with you off line. Best wishes Elspeth From: CCP4 bulletin board mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>> On Behalf Of Andrew Lovering Sent: 07 January 2021 14:13 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Ele

[ccp4bb] 11th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples (RD11) goes Virtual 14th-16th Oct 2020

researchers to meet each other in the absence of coffee/tea breaks. We look forward to 'seeing' you there! Best wishes Elspeth on behalf of the workshop committee: Elspeth Garman (Oxford University, UK), Martin Weik (IBS, France), Ian Carmichael (Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, USA

Re: [ccp4bb] flow rate for cooling stream?

Yes, if you don’t match the inner and outer stream rates you get turbulent flow at the boundary between them and ice build up on the sample. Best wishes Elspeth From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Marcus Winter Sent: 03 July 2020 09:29 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] flow rate for

[ccp4bb] Reminder: 11th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples. Swiss Light Source, 25-27th March 2020: registration and Poster Abstract submission open with DEADLINE of 14th

Sources - XFEL and 4th generation synchrotrons 5) Radiation Damage in Complementary Fields (incl. CryoEM, ED, imaging) Best wishes Elspeth Garman On behalf of the Organising Committee Elspeth F. Garman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Senior

[ccp4bb] Announcement of 11th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples. Swiss Light Source, 25-27th March 2020: registration and Abstract submission now open

synchrotrons 5) Radiation Damage in Complementary Fields (incl. CryoEM, ED, imaging) Best wishes Elspeth Garman On behalf of the Organising Committee Elspeth F. Garman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Senior Kurti Fellow, Brasenose College

Re: [ccp4bb] Where is M.Harding's website for metal coordination geometry

Hi Eddie Snell and I were recently in contact with Marjorie Harding to track down her metal database website, and she told us that it is sadly no longer available since she retired from Edinburgh. She thought an archived copy might be available if it could be dug out though. Best wishes Elspeth

Re: [ccp4bb] change in unit cell volume

Dear Murpholino Unfortunately no rule of thumb has been established, although I have only seen contraction once and have seen expansion for very many proteins. Seems to depend critically on the particular crystal (and probably its density of stacking imperfections/dislocations) and even crystals

Re: [ccp4bb] Thoughtful remark...

Dear Leo I would argue that it is better to have no crystal in the loop as then there is always the possibility that the ones still in the drop that were not yet harvested might diffract! Elspeth -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of gr

Re: [ccp4bb] photograph of Enraf-Nonius FAST detector

I have one of the LMB Cambridge one. Can dig it out for you but not till Monday. Is that too late? Elspeth Sent from my iPhone On 27 Nov 2018, at 12:35, Harry Powell <193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: Hi I was wondering

Re: [ccp4bb] crystals that dont diffract :( :(

Yes, essential to test at room temperature without changing their buffer medium before getting worried! If they don’t diffract at RT, they are very very unlikely to diffract at cryotemperatures, whatever you do to them before hand! Best wishes Elspeth From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JIS

[ccp4bb] Poster Abstract deadline, 17th August: 10th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples. Brookhaven National Laboratory, 13-14th September 2018

) Damage at New Sources - XFEL and 4th generation synchrotrons 5) Radiation Damage in Complementary Fields including Biological Imaging Best wishes Elspeth Garman On behalf of the Organising Committee Elspeth F. Garman, Professor of Molecular

[ccp4bb] Poster Abstract submission for 10th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples. Brookhaven National Laboratory, 13-14th September 2018

Radiation Damage at Synchrotrons 4) Damage at New Sources - XFEL and 4th generation synchrotrons 5) Radiation Damage in Complementary Fields including Biological Imaging Best wishes Elspeth Garman On behalf of the Organising Committee Elspeth F

[ccp4bb] Announcement of 10th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples. Brookhaven National Laboratory, 13-14th September 2018

including Biological Imaging Best wishes Elspeth Garman On behalf of the Organising Committee Elspeth F. Garman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Senior Kurti Fellow, Brasenose College, University of Oxford Postal address: Laboratory of Molecular

[ccp4bb] Announcing the 9th International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological Crystalline Samples, March 9-11 2016, Lund, Sweden

ght previous workshops in this series were held in 1999 (ESRF, France) 2001 (APS, USA) 2003 (ESRF, France) 2006 (SPring-8, Japan) 2008 (SLS, Switzerland) 2010 (SSRL, USA) 2012 (DLS, UK) 2014 (EMBL & DESY, Germany) Organizing committee Elspeth Garman (Oxford, UK) Martin Weik (IBS, Grenoble, France

[ccp4bb] Still a few places for the 8th International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological Crystalline Samples, April 10-12 2014, Hamburg

synchrotrons Session 5 Radiation Damage in Complementary Fields Session 6 Additional Aspects of Radiation Damage The organizers are: Elspeth Garman, Martin Weik, Gleb Bourenkov, Henry Chapman, Alke Meents, Sean McSweeney, Colin Nave, Arwen Pearson, Raimond Ravelli, Gerd Rosenbaum, Thomas

[ccp4bb] Full programme for the Eighth International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological Crystalline Samples, April 10-12 2014, Hamburg

/sponsorship/index.html), we are able to offer 5 Bursaries of E150 each to PhD students who would like to attend the Workshop and bring posters. Please contact Elspeth Garman (elspeth.gar...@bioch.ox.ac.uk) before 13th March if you would like to apply for one of these, and include a supporting

[ccp4bb] structural homologs as cross seeds

Also see Acta Cryst. (2013). D69, 1433-1446[ doi:10.1107/S0907444913015126 ] Best wishes Elspeth From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Allister Crow Sent: 27 December 2013 21:31 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: R

[ccp4bb] Registration open for the Eighth International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological Crystalline Samples, April 10-12 2014, Hamburg

if you would like to be considered for this in the comments box on the registration form. The organizers are: Elspeth Garman, Martin Weik, Gleb Bourenkov, Henry Chapman, Alke Meents, Sean McSweeney, Colin Nave, Arwen Pearson, Raimond Ravelli, Gerd Rosenbaum, Thomas Schneider and Soichi Wakatsuki

[ccp4bb] Announcing the Eighth International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological Crystalline Samples, April 10-12 2014, Hamburg

like to be considered for this in the comments box on the registration form. If you have suggestions for speakers, please contact Martin Weik (w...@ibs.fr) or Elspeth Garman (elspeth.gar...@bioch.ox.ac.uk). The organizers are Gleb Bourenkov, Henry Chapman, Alke Meents, Thomas Schneider, Elspeth G

[ccp4bb] PhD (DPhil) place available: Marie Curie Action

cond Crystallography. Supervisors Simon Newstead and Elspeth Garman For details see: http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/fgDetails/52824 -- European Crystallography Meeting, Warwick University 25-29th August 2013. Registration for ECM28 is ope

[ccp4bb] ECM28: Final Call for Abstract Submissions! Closing date 31st May 2013

Dear CCP4BB Colleagues The 31st May Abstract Submission closing date for The 28th European Crystallographic Meeting 25th - 29th August 2013, Warwick University, UK Submit your Abstracts Online at: http://ecm28.ecanews.org Looking forward to seeing many of you there! Best wishes Elspeth

[ccp4bb] PhD (DPhil) place available: Marie Curie Action

aphy. Supervisors Simon Newstead and Elspeth Garman For details see: http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/fgDetails/52824 -- European Crystallography Meeting, Warwick University 25-29th August 2013. Registration for ECM28 is open at: http://e

[ccp4bb] ECM28 and the Bragg 100 year anniversary

Dear Colleagues The 28th European Crystallography Meeting will be held in Warwick University Arts Centre from 25th to 29th August 2013. The Programme and Abstract submission guidelines (deadline 31st May) are at: http://ecm28.ecanews.org/ Early Bird registration closes on 6th May. For each of

[ccp4bb] Professor Dame Louise Johnson FRS

Friends and colleagues of Professor Dame Louise Johnson will be very saddened to learn that she suffered a serious and very incapacitating heart attack with complications in August 2011 and has been in hospital since then. Louise is visited daily by members of her family, and, starting very rece

[ccp4bb] Abstract (to be considered for oral presentation) deadline 6th Feb.2012 for 7th Int. Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological Crystalline Samples, Diamond Light Source, 14-16th March

radiation damage mechanisms. Ian Carmichael, Kristina Djinovic Carugo, James Holton, Alke Meents 2. Temperature-dependent (including RT) radiation damage. Sasha Popov, Robert Thorne, Martin Weik 3. Reducing and mitigating radiation damage Matt Warkentin, Elspeth Garman, Robin Owen

[ccp4bb] British Crystallographic Association

Dear Crystallographer Following my pitch on behalf of the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) at the 2012 CCP4 Study Weekend in Warwick, I wanted to encourage any interested macromolecular crystallographers to become members of the Association. The UK will host the European Crystallographi

[ccp4bb] Seventh International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological Crystalline Samples, Diamond Light Source, 14-16th March 2012: Registration now open.

-dependent (including RT) radiation damage. Sasha Popov, Robert Thorne, Martin Weik 3. Reducing and mitigating radiation damage Elspeth Garman, Robin Owen 4. Practical aspects of managing radiation damage. Tom Burnley, Zbyszek Otwinowski, Tatiana Petrova, Enrique Rudino-Pinera 5

Re: [ccp4bb] dark progression of radiation damage

Also, cacodylate contains arsenic which is heavy, and thus has a much larger X-ray absorption cross section than do buffers constituted of lighter atoms. There is therefore a bigger dose (Joules/kg of crystal) absorbed with cacodylate in the buffer than there would be without it (and no extra d

[ccp4bb] cryo protection

Dear Len This is a classic sign of osmotic shock. You can try matching the osmotic pressure of the mother liquor and the cryoprotectant buffer. For a protocol see Acta Cryst D (1999) 55, 1649 section 6.4 Good luck Best wishes Elspeth -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto

[ccp4bb] Seventh International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological Crystalline Samples, DLS, 14-16th March 2012

racts will be selected for oral presentation - please indicate if you would like to be considered for this in the comments box on the registration form. If you have suggestions for speakers, please contact Martin Weik (w...@ibs.fr<mailto:w...@ibs.fr>) or Elspeth Garman (elspeth.gar...@bio

[ccp4bb] XVII BCA/CCP4 Summer School in Macromolecular Crystallography 5-10th September 2010, Oxford

Re: 5-10th September 2010 XVII BCA/CCP4 Summer School in Macromolecular Crystallography: Applicants who do not arrange for a letter of support from their supervisor to be sent to elspeth.gar...@bioch.ox.ac.uk by 5pm GMT on Tuesday 4th May will not be considered for a place on the School. We

[ccp4bb] XVII BCA/CCP4 Summer School in Macromolecular Crystallography: closing date for pre-registration 1st May 2010

has been sent to elspeth.gar...@bioch.ox.ac.uk by midnight on 1st May. We currently only have supporting letters for about 60% of our >80 pre-registrants. All supervisors whose support letters have been received so far should have had acknowledgement e-mails from Elspeth Garman. Best wis

[ccp4bb] Sixth International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological,Crystalline Samples, SSRL, 11th-13th March 2010. Registration now open.

like to be considered for this in the comments box on the registration form. The organizers are Ana Gonzales, Elspeth Garman, Colin Nave, Sean McSweeney, Raimond Ravelli, Gerd Rosenbaum, Soichi Wakatsuki and Martin Weik. -- Professor

[ccp4bb] BCA/CCP4 XVII Summer School in Protein Crystallography 5th-10th Spetember 2010

BCA/CCP4 XVII Summer School in Protein Crystallography Biochemistry Department and St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. 5th-10th September 2010. Scope. The BCA Summer School is a combined taught and practical course intended primarily for students and researchers new to crystallography. I

Re: [ccp4bb] amino acid analysis for SeMet incorporation

Dear Marija This can be done by Proton Induced X-ray Emission on a tiny sample (0.2microl) of liquid protein to get the sulphur to selenium ratio and thus work out the substitution of Selenium. See: http://www.ionbeamcentre.co.uk/index.php?target=3:68 and contact Dr. Chris Jeynes for this servi

Re: [ccp4bb] Test of cryoconditions without X-rays or cryostream

or see concentrations given in: McFerrin and Snell J.Appl.Cryst (2002) 35, 538 and Mitchell and Garman, J.Appl.Cryst. (1996) 29, 584 Good luck EFG Paul Leonard wrote: Hi Claudia It really is best to test the cryo condition in an X-ray beam. However, if you don't have access to X-rays in hous

Re: [ccp4bb] cryosolvent

That is a heavy PEG, and they arent such good cryo-agents. If you get ice-rings when you test your buffer aone, try adding 15% of a much lighter PEG (400 or 600). Happy cryo-cooling Elspeth Roger Rowlett wrote: With that much PEG in your mother liquor, I don't think you will need any cryosolve

[ccp4bb] Announcement of the Sixth International Workshop on X-ray Radiation Damage to Biological,Crystalline Samples. SSRL 11-13th March 2010.

metalloproteis and study of protein function 6: Radiation Damage in Electron Microscopy and Electron Crystallography 7: Pulsed Sources: Radiation damage issues. 8: Complementary (or non-crystallographic) methods to study radiation damage The organizers are Ana Gonzales, Elspeth Garman, Colin Nave, Sean

[ccp4bb] Gordon Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology 2008

Dear All, Just to remind you that the closing date for registration is now just 1 week away (22nd June). Best wishes Elspeth Garman (Chair) and Andrew Leslie (Vice Chair) Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology July 13-18, 2008, Bates College

[ccp4bb] Blake and Phillips 1962

m: Elspeth Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Elspeth Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Dear All I ahve sent this to Andrew, but hesitate to `post' a pdf to the CCP4 BB. Just e-mail me direct if you would like it and I will e-mail it to you. Best

[ccp4bb] Blake and Phillips 1962

Dear All I ahve sent this to Andrew, but hesitate to `post' a pdf to the CCP4 BB. Just e-mail me direct if you would like it and I will e-mail it to you. Best wishes Elspeth To the CCP4 community, I believe I have identified 2 appropriate citations for the use of cryocooling to mitigate the eff

[ccp4bb] 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology

There is still time to apply to attend this GRC, relevant to researchers interested in Methods Development - details below! The official closing date is 22nd June, but places are limited to a total of 125. Best wishes Elspeth Garman and Andrew Leslie Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction

[ccp4bb] BCA/CCP4 2008 Summer School on Macromolecular Crystallography XV: please pre-register by 1st May.

NOTE that the CLOSING DATE for applications to attend this Summer School is THE FIRST OF MAY 2008. ALSO would all those who have already applied please make sure we have a reference from their supervisor by then. BCA/CCP4 Summer School XV Biochemistry Department and St. Edmund Hall, Universi

[ccp4bb] 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology

Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology July 13-18, 2008, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA Co-Chairs: Elspeth Garman & Andrew Leslie The 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology will encom

[ccp4bb] BCA/CCP4 Summer School on Macromolecular Crystallography XV

BCA/CCP4 Summer School XV Biochemistry Department and St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. 7th-12th September 2008. Scope. The BCA Summer School is a combined taught and practical course intended primarily for students and researchers new to crystallography. Its aim is to provide compre

Re: [ccp4bb] bigger size - > better diffraction?

For room temperature testing, it is much easuier to use a cryoloop enclosed in a capillary (with some mother liqour at the top) or the plastic tubes supplied by MiTeGen as per the method detailed in: Skrzypczak-Jankun, E., Bianchet, M. A., Amzel, L. M. and Funk Jr., M. O. (1996). /Acta Cryst./

[ccp4bb] EBSA/BBS Eurobiophysics Congress, London, July 2007

The 6th EUROBIOPHYSICS CONGRESS will take place in London, from 14 - 18 July 2007. http://www.eurobiophysics.org There are just 10 days left for abstract registration (deadline 14th April), and ~60 short oral presentations are still to be selected from the abstracts, which cover 26 themes.

[ccp4bb] 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology

Call For Speakers Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology July 13-18, 2008 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA Co-Chairs: Elspeth Garman & Andrew Leslie The 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Struct