ACA 2001 Exhibitors

ACCELRYS #212,21
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY #115

AREA DETECTOR SYSTEMS #505,507
12550 Stowe Drive
Poway, CA 92064
Tel: 858-486-0618
Fax: 858-486-0722
Email: sales@adsc-xray.com
Web: www.adsc-xray.com

Advanced CCD x-ray detector systems for applications in protein crystallography at synchrotron sources will be displayed.

BEDE SCIENTIFIC INC. #408,410

BLAKE INDUSTRIES, INC. #210
660
Jerusalem Road
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
Tel: 908-233-7240
Fax: 908-233-1354
Email: blake4xray@worldnet.att.net
Web:

Will be exhibiting Huber and Blake instruments and accessories for x-ray diffraction and crystallography with sealed tube, rotating anode or synchrotron sources.

BRUKER AXS #510
5465 East Cheryl Pkwy
Madison, WI 53711
Tel: 608-276-3000
Fax: 608-276-3006
Email: info@bruker-axs.com
Web: www.bruker-axs.com
CAMBRIDGE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE #208
12 Union Road
Cambridge, CB2 1EZ
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-1223-336408
Fax: 44-1223-336033
Email:
Web:

CCP4 #109
Daresbury Laboratory
Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 4AD
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-1925-603826
Fax: 44-1925-603825
Email: ccp4@ccp4.ac.uk
Web: www.dl.ac.uk/ccp/ccp4

The Collaborative Computational Project No. 4 (CCP4) provides a software suite for macromolecular structure determination by x-ray crystallography used by academic institutions and commercial organizations around the world.  Income from the project supports maintenance, distribution and development of the software, and funds additional activities including sponsorship of educational workshops, an annual Study Weekend, hosting e-mail discussion lists, and producing a bi-annual newsletter.  CCP4 staff will be available to discuss any aspect of the project, including the latest release (4.1), and to demonstrate the CCP4 graphical user interface CCP4i and the data processing package MOSFLM.

CHARLES SUPPER COMPANY, INC. #406

 

COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION #204

 

CRYO INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA #401
11124 S. Willow Street
Manchester, NH 03103
Tel: 603-621-9957
Fax: 603-621-9960
Email: cryo@cryoindustries.com
Web: www.cryoindustries.com

Cryocools - continuous cooling and ice free nozzle without using shield gas.  Cryocools can be customized to exactly meet your specific requirements.  Cryocool-LN2 features variable high flow rate and stable variable temperatures using LN2.  Cryocool-CF3 is cryogen free and operates with nitrogen or helium gas down to 30K.  Cryocool-UPG upgrades your LT-2 to Cryocool technology.  Cryocool-LHE uses liquid helium allowing crystal temperatures below 10K.  New! Cryocool-CF2 is cryogen free at a price below most liquid nitrogen based systems, features ‘push and play’ at 100K.  New! Cryocool-LNF refills your existing liquid nitrogen dewar using air, a portable liquid nitrogen liquefier!

DOUGLAS INSTRUMENTS #206
Douglas House, East Garston
Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 7HD
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-1488-649090
Fax: 44-1488-648975
Email: janey@douglas.co.uk
Web: www.douglas.co.uk

Designs and manufactures the IMPAX 1-5 and Oryx 1-6 systems for automatic protein crystallization.  Both systems are mainly designed to carry out crystallization by the microbatch method, although Oryx 1-6 can also perform crystallization by vapor diffusion.  Microbatch has many advantages, including greater speed - and also the fact that it is truly micro - and consequently uses less protein.  Recent studies have shown that microbatch finds a comparable or (in one case) a much greater number of hits than vapor diffusion in screening experiments.  The company also makes miniaturized plates especially for crystallization by both vapor diffusion and microbatch.

EMERALD BIOSTRUCTURES #105
7869 NE Day Road
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Tel: 206-780-8535
Fax: 206-780-8549
Email:cchadwick@emeraldbiostructures.com
Web: www.emeraldbiostructures.com

A MediChem Life Sciences company, offers an integrated set of research tools and services in protein crystallography and x-ray structure determination.  As part of the MediChem group of companies, we have expanded our product line to include products from ThermoGen, Inc., a pioneer in the discovery and engineering of thermostable biocatalysts for efficient chiral reaction chemistries.  Please visit our booth in the exhibit hall.  Get free samples of our Clover Plates™ for a throughput increase of 300% in your crystallization trials.  Check out our new Stock Solutions, and E-SCREENSs™, crystallization screening sets made to your specifications. ThermoCat® Biocatalysts will be on display.  These unique thermostable biocatalysts are designs to expand the chemist’s toolbox for chiral reactions.

GILSON/CYBERLAB, INC. #509,511
3000 W. Beltline Hwy
Middleton, WI 53562
Tel: 608-836-1551
Fax: 608-831-4451
Email: cthums@gilson.com
Website: www.gilson.com

Will display their automated preparation systems for protein crystallography. The new C-240 protein crystallography workstation is designed for high throughput crystallization experiments involving rapid screening protocols. The system employs a 96-well crystallization plate that uses very low protein and well solution volumes. Customized pipetting tools and specialized accessories increase productivity and help reduce the time to determine optimum screening conditions.  The C-250 can perform hanging and sitting drop vapor diffusion techniques in addition to microbatch techniques. Gilson/Cyberlab will also show their industry-standard C-200 protein crystallography workstation for rapid and custom screening protocols.

GREINER BIO-ONE INC. #610
1205 Sarah Street, Suite 141
Longwood, FL   32750
Tel:  800.884.4703
Fax:  407.333.3001
Email:  INFO@GreinerBioOneInc.com
Web Site: http://www.greinerbiooneinc.com/

GREINER will feature our new CrystalScreenTM  Protein Crystallization Plate, developed in collaboration with the Max-Planck-Institute and the Protein Structure Factory, and manufactured by Greiner Bio-One. This revolutionary 96-well crystallization plate allows for automated high throughput crystallization and screening in a low reagent volume format, saving you both time and reagents.

GREINER’s novel VIEWseal Microplate Sealer, for CrystalScreen and other microplates, offers easy sealing (due to microencapsulated adhesive) minimizing evaporation and cross contamination. Our line of MultiWell Plates, polypropylene plates, tubes and other accessories for protein crystallization will also be displayed.

Greiner Bio-One has been manufacturing high purity, exceptional quality, laboratory plastics for over 35 years. Pease stop by our booth to learn about our products, and to find out how to receive a Free T-Shirt (while supplies last.)

HAMPTON RESEARCH #309,311

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY #107
PO Box 941
Chester, Cheshire, CH2 2WA
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-1244-376386
Fax: 44-1244-373675
Email: as@iucr.org
Web: www.iucr.org

International Tables for Crystallography will be a prominent feature of the IUCr exhibit, especially the brand new Volume F: Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules and the latest editions of Volumes A: Space-group Symmetry and B: Reciprocal Space.  Visit our stand also for a demonstration of the IUCr’s constantly evolving electronic journals service at journals.iucr.org, Crystallography Journals Online - for instance, did you know that the complete text of all IUCr journals, right back to 1948, will be online in 2002?! New subscribers to the IUCr journals at ACA 2001 will receive a free copy of Crystallography Across the Sciences.

MAR USA, INC. #408,410
1880 Oak Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Tel: 847-869-1548
Fax: 847-869-1587
Email: info@mar-usa.com
Web: www.mar-usa.com

Develops, markets and supports state-of-the-art x-ray instrumentation for protein crystallography and other x-ray diffraction applications and is the only company producing both imaging plate and CCD instruments for synchrotron and rotating anode x-ray sources.  The marCCD, mar345 imaging plate and the marCAM are all on display at our ACA booth.  Our instrumentation and software developers are also here to discuss your specific application.

NASA#113

OSMIC, INC.
1788 Northwood Drive
Troy, MI   48084
Tel: 248-362-1290
Fax: 248-362-4043
Email: makowske@osmic.com
Web: www.osmic.com

Introduces the MicroMax® - a 40 watt microfocus x-ray source coupled with Osmic’s Confocal Max-Flux® Optics to achieve rotating anode flux and resolution for protein crystallography and SAXS. Osmic also manufactures the MolyMax® - for small molecule crystallography. Confocal Max-Flux® Optics, Max-Flux® Optics and hardware for many x-ray crystallography applications.  By focusing or collimating, and filtering divergent x-rays from a point focus source, Confocal Max-Flux® Optics improve flux and resolution compared with alternative optics technology. Osmic engineers custom components and instrument assemblies for many x-ray applications.

OXFORD CRYOSYSTEMS #406
220 Wood Road
Braintree, MA 02184
Tel: 781-843-5900
Fax: 781-843-5945
Email: info@oxfordcryosystems.com
Web: www.oxfordcryosystems.com

A leading manufacturer of open flow nitrogen and helium systems for x-ray crystallography.  These systems include the cryostream cooler and the Oxford helix.  Also see Oxford Cryosystems’ range of cryo accessories and x-ray diffraction software, Crystallographica.

OXFORD DIFFRACTION AND OXFORD INSTRUMENTS #305,307
Oxford Diffraction
20 Nuffield Way
Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1RL
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-1235-532132
Fax: 44-1235-528005
Email: leigh.rees@oxford-diffraction.com

A creative new force in x-ray diffraction. Our product portfolio includes the extremely successful Xcalibur single crystal diffractometer, the sapphire ccd detector, KM6 and KM4 synchrotron diffractometers and the open flow helium jet - Helijet, capable of temperatures of <15K.Exhibited along side the Xcalibur and Helijet is the Oxford Instruments’ nitrogen jet-cryojet, providing sample cooling from 90-300K with quiet operation and no moving parts; eliminating blocking and icing risk.

Oxford Instruments
130A Baker Avenue Extension
Concord, MA 01742
Tel: 978-369-9933
Fax: 978-369-6616
Email: snelling@ma.oxinst.com
www.oxford-instruments.com

Cryojet - cryogenic cooling systems
Oxford Instruments has drawn upon its forty years experience in the design of cryogenic systems to develop a unique product for single crystal cooling in XRD applications. The novel sealed design of the Cryojet means it has no pumps, no line driers, no moisture trap requiring regeneration, and no moving parts, resulting in dependable continuous operation and minimal maintenance requirements.

POLYCRYSTAL BOOK SERVICE #604

 

PROTEIN DATA BANK #111
Dept of Chemistry - Rutgers University
610 Taylor Road
Piscataway, NJ   08854-8087
Tel: 732-445-0103
Fax: 732-445-4320
Email: info@rcsb.org
Web: www.pdb.org

An international resource for the processing and distribution of 3-D macromolecular structure data primarily determined experimentally by x-ray crystallography and NMR.

PROTEIN SOLUTIONS, INC. #606
1224 West Main Street, Suite 777
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Tel: 804-817-7177
Fax: 804-817-7178
Email: mike@protein-solutions.com
Web: www.protein-solutions.com

Gain critical information about your proteins in solution prior to crystallization trials.  Our DynaPro dynamic light scattering instruments provide size, aggregation, and distribution information so you can optimize solution conditions for monodisperse conditions-which are more likely to yield crystals.  The DynaPro is the only dynamic light scattering instrument optimized for crystallographic applications.

RIGAKU/MSC #310
9009 New Trails Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77381
Tel: 281-363-1033
Fax: 281-364-3628
Email: marketing@rigaku.com
Web: www.rigaku.com

Molecular Structure Corporation, a Rigaku company, is the world’s leading resource for single-crystal X-ray diffraction hardware, software and contract services.  MSC offers fully integrated small and macromolecule applications, Rigaku generators, X-ray optical systems, cryo-cooling devices and peripheral devices.  In addition, MSC provides small and macromolecular structure determination services on a contract basis.

SYRRX #608

WYATT TECHNOLOGY CORP #301
30 South La Patera Lane, B-7
Santa Barbara, CA 93117-3253
Tel: 805-681-9009
Fax: 805-681-0123
Email: info@wyatt.com
Web: www.wyatt.com

Light scattering for the masses!  The DAWN family of multi-angle light scattering (MALS) instruments for determining the absolute masses and sizes of proteins in solution.  These detectors interface with any HPLC separation technology and can confirm such diverse phenomena as aggregation, molecular assembly or disassociation, and antigen-antibody reactions.  The DAWN’s can also be used to predict protein crystallization conditions when used in “batch“ or “micro-batch“ mode.