[ccp4bb] X-FELs and biology

2010-09-28 Thread Thomas Earnest
internationally, two meetings of relevance to the use of X-FELs in biology are taking place - Frontiers in Biology with X-FELs / bioXFEL20, 21 October 2010 at SLAC http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssrl-lcls/2010/program.asp#BioXFEL (organized by Thomas Earnest, LBNL, and Garth

[ccp4bb] X-FELs and biology

2010-09-28 Thread Thomas Earnest
internationally, two meetings of relevance to the use of X-FELs in biology are taking place - Frontiers in Biology with X-FELs / bioXFEL20, 21 October 2010 at SLAChttp://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssrl-lcls/2010/program.asp#BioXFEL (organized by Thomas Earnest, LBNL, and Garth Williams

Re: [ccp4bb] How small is a microbeam?

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Earnest
AM *To:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK *Subject:* Re: [ccp4bb] How small is a microbeam? On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:03, Thomas Earnest wrote: The other use for these ultra-small beams is to illuminate part of a larger xtal to find the best diffracting (or leat mosaic

Re: [ccp4bb] How small is a microbeam?

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Earnest
The other use for these ultra-small beams is to illuminate part of a larger xtal to find the best diffracting (or leat mosaic) regions and/or to raster out of the radiation damaged areas. This way even large xtals can benefit from this. Nukri should chime in on this point as well since GMCA-CAT

Re: [ccp4bb] foam dewar usage ?

2008-10-13 Thread Thomas Earnest
thanks, gerry. sorry to jog the memory. Gerry McDermott wrote: Thomas, I can’t believe that after a 4 year hiatus I re-subscribed to ccp4bb for the sole purpose of making a post on the history and evolution of foam Dewars at the ALS! Until a few days ago I had been living life blissfully

Re: [ccp4bb] foam dewar usage ?

2008-10-09 Thread Thomas Earnest
cryo-transport units. Also they are machined with a bit more precision than a carpet knife would give, and this eliminates the burrs or other bits that may tend to flake off, as well as allowing for shaping to need. - Thomas Thomas Earnest, Ph.D. Senior Scientist and Group Leader Structural

Re: [ccp4bb] finicky protein / cell disruption

2008-03-03 Thread Thomas Earnest
biomolecules. - Th Thomas Earnest, Ph.D. Senior Scientist and Group Leader Structural Proteomics Development Group Physical Biosciences Division MS64R0121 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510 486 4603 Mads Gabrielsen wrote: I am not a big fan of sonication

Re: [ccp4bb] To bathe or not to bathe.

2007-11-25 Thread Thomas Earnest
mosiacity scanning as was earlier mentioned. - Thomas Thomas Earnest, Ph.D. Senior Scientist and Group Leader Structural Proteomics Development Group Physical Biosciences Division MS64R0121 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510 486 4603 Ethan A Merritt

[ccp4bb] CXDI workshop at the APS

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Earnest
, following the main APS User Meeting program that begins on May 7th. With best regards, Ian McNulty APS / ANL Qun Shen APS / ANL John Miao UCLA Thomas Earnest LBNL