Let me pick up Eleanor’s comment: is there something like a crystallographer today ? I mean in the true sense ? I think as a “crystallographer” you won’t be able to survive the next decade, you need to diversify your toolset of techniques as pointed out in this article http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7485-711a
And I’m not quite sure how software developers see themselves, as I would argue they are typically maybe not doing so much wet lab stuff related to crystallography (I may be wrong here) but rather code these days. What “type” of crystallographer is a software developer ? I think like our beloved crystals “we” come in different flavors. And we need to train the next generation of students with that perspective in mind. Just my two cents on a snowy day (>30cm over night) Jürgen ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Office: +1-410-614-4742<tel:%2B1-410-614-4742> Lab: +1-410-614-4894<tel:%2B1-410-614-4894> Fax: +1-410-955-2926<tel:%2B1-410-955-2926> http://lupo.jhsph.edu On Feb 13, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Eleanor Dodson <eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk<mailto:eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk>> wrote: I agree with Frank - it keeps crystallographers modest to know how challenging wet lab stuff still is.. Eleanor On 12 February 2014 19:23, Robbie Joosten <robbie_joos...@hotmail.com<mailto:robbie_joos...@hotmail.com>> wrote: It's not an e-mail bulletin board, but Researchgate seems to be quite popular for wet lab questions. IMO the Q&A section of the social network is a bit messy. That said, the quality seems to improve gradually. Cheers, Robbie Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ Van: Paul Emsley Verzonden: 12-2-2014 19:23 Aan: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Onderwerp: Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs On 12/02/14 15:59, George Sheldrick wrote: It would be so nice to have a 'sister CCP' for questions aboud wet-lab problems that have nothing to do with CCP4 or crystallographic computing, The is clearly a big need for it, and those of us who try to keep out of wet-labs would not have to wade though it all. FWIW, the remit of CCP4BB, held at jiscmail-central, is describes as: /The CCP4BB mailing list is for discussions on the use of the CCP4 suite, and macromolecular crystallography in general./ Thus wet-lab questions are not off-topic (not that anyone recently described them as such). Having said that, Jiscmail mailing lists are easy to set-up (providing that you can reasonably expect that the mailing list will improve knowledge sharing within the UK centered academic community) and relatively low maintenance. I, for one, would not be entirely unhappy to miss out on questions about lysis. Paul.
