Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-28 Thread Watanabe Nobuhisa
Does your system eliminate the need for cryoprotection? Since the method removes water on the crystal before freezing, in some cases, we can go with lower concentration of cryoprotectant, like Paratone-N. But I usually use cryoprotectant for safety. Also, how do you time the buffer-remova

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-27 Thread R.M. Garavito
Patrick Loll To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:35 AM Subject: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner Pretty cool, but the examples shown are all gigantic. Having just spent a frustrating several hours chasing 5 um crystals, I'd give half my kingdom for a simple

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-27 Thread Kevin Jude
As an undergrad late in the last century, I used a micromanipulator, quartz capillaries, and a device similar to a patch pipet (manually operated via a screw) to do just this. It was just about the time that nylon loops were coming into wide use, though, and I gladly abandoned he capillary method

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-27 Thread Jacob Keller
Evanston IL 60208 lab: 847.491.2438 cel: 773.608.9185 email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu *** - Original Message - From: "Watanabe Nobuhisa" To: Cc: "Jacob Keller" Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Cr

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-27 Thread Jacob Keller
the dewar? Jacob - Original Message - From: Patrick Loll To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:35 AM Subject: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner Pretty cool, but the examples shown are all gigantic. Having just spent a frustrating sev

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-27 Thread Patrick Loll
Date: March 27, 2009 8:41:53 AM EDT To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner Reply-To: Patrick Shaw Stewart Jacob Have you seen the Crystal Catcher system, developed in Japan? http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008APExp...1c7002K Some of us saw it at a recent IUCr meeting,

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-27 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
letin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jacob Keller Sent: 26 March 2009 19:43 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner Dear Crystallographers, Has anybody ever heard of mounting crystals in tiny crystal-sized capillaries, such as are pulled by patch-pipet

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-26 Thread Watanabe Nobuhisa
I am not sure this is the answer for your question, but please check, http://www.nusrc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/WatanabeLab/XtalMount/index.html We named it as a "loopless" mounting method in the paper, but now we leave the loop... The vacuum cleaner I have used for the method is "my mouth". But we h

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Pflugrath
: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:43 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner Dear Crystallographers, Has anybody ever heard of mounting crystals in tiny crystal-sized capillaries, such as are pulled by patch-pipet machines, or those used in microfluidics? The material

[ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner

2009-03-26 Thread Jacob Keller
Problems installing tasks to CCP4i.Dear Crystallographers, Has anybody ever heard of mounting crystals in tiny crystal-sized capillaries, such as are pulled by patch-pipet machines, or those used in microfluidics? The material could be either glass or plastic, and one could have some method of