Exhibit Show 2000 An exhibition of the latest instruments and techniques for sample isolation, purifications and preparation; crystal growth and data collection, of computer software for data storage, retrieval analysis, of graphics systems and databases; and book, journal, and other materials essential to the conduct of modern crystallographers is scheduled to begin on the afternoon of Sunday, July 23 and run through Wednesday, July 26. The show will be held in Exhibit Hall A of the RiverCentre.The Exhibition Show is being managed by the Advertising and Exhibits Division of the American Institute of Physics; Bob Finnegan, Advertising and Exhibits, AIP, 2 Huntington Quadridge, Suite 1N01, Melville, NY 11747-4502, Phone (516) 576-2433, Fax (516) 576-2481, rgf@aip.org. AREA DETECTOR SYSTEMS, CORP. 12550 Stowe Dr., Poway, CA 92064 Tel: 858-486-0618, Fax: 858-486-0722 Contact: Tom Hontz, Email: sales@adsc-eray.com www.adsc-xray.com Will display advanced CCD X-ray detector systems used as global synchronotron sources for protein crystallography applications. Booths 213, 215. BEDE SCIENTIFIC, INC. 14 Inverness Dr. East, Suite G-104, Englewood, CO 80112 Tel: 303-79-8647, Fax: 303-790-8648 Contact: Stacey Lowenberg, Email: Stacey@bede.com www.bede.com Manufactures X-ray diffraction equipment for materials characterization. Of particular interest to the crystallographic community are the state-of-the-art D1* diffractometer, which can employ the Microsource® X-ray generator for small sample analysis and the latest ZDS search/match software for materials analysis from XRD data. Bede has also introduced its new Mercury auto-fitting software that has been developed to enhance the popular Bede RADS and REFS simulation software, and provides the ability to automatically fir the X-ray diffraction and reflectivity data.Booth 309. BEEVERS MINIATURE MODELS West Mains Rd., Dept. of Chemistry University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JJ Scotland Tel: 44-131-650-4824, Fax: 44-131-650-4824 Contact: Sheila Gould, email: Bmmu@demon.co.uk www.bmmu.demon.co.uk Models have been a key tool in the dissemination of the tangible results of the years of crystallographic research since the days of Bragg and Bragg. The structures of new drugs, proteins, microchip materials, and laser crystals are all illuminated by our attractive, accurate, small-scale (1cm=1$) models made from acrylic balls and stainless steel rods. Beevers Models have a large range of models in the catalogue, and we are also always happy to make any model of particular interest to you, including ones made from your own coordinates. These models have a great teaching, research and museum display potential. Booth 310. BLAKE INDUSTRIES, INC. 660 Jerusalem Rd., Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 Tel: 908-233-7240, Fax: 908-233-1354 Contact: David G. Rognlie Email: blake4xray@worldnet.att.net Will be exhibiting Huber and Blake instruments and accessories for x-ray diffraction and crystallography with sealed tube, rotating anode or synchrotron sources. Booth 414. BRUKER AXS, INC. 5465 E. Cheryl Pkwy, Madison, WI 53711 Tel: 608-276-3043, Fax: 608-276-3006 Contact: Jerry McLain II, Email: info@bruker-axs.com www.bruker-axs.com Manufactures X-ray diffraction and fluorescence instruments and accessories. SMART CCD systems are optimized for crystallographic structures, featuring SMART APEX ans SMART 1000 for chemical crystallography; SMART 6000 for biological macromolecules; and SMART 1500 and 6500 for applications at synchrotrons. GADDS systems are optimized for polymers, fibers and materials characterization. Booths 301, 303, 400, 402. CCP4 Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD United Kingdom Tel: 44-1925-603544, Fax: 44-1925-603124 Contact: Dr. Peter Briggs, Email: ccp4@dl.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 both academic institutions and commercial organizations around the world. Income from the project supports maintenance, development and distribution of the software, in addition to activities such as sponsoring frequent educational workshops (including an annual Study Weekend), hosting e-mail discussion lists and producing a twice-yearly newsletter. CCP4 staff will be on hand to talk about the project, the latest release of the CCP4 suite (version 4.0) and to demonstrate the CCP4 graphical user interface CCP4i. Booth 407. CAMBRIDGE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB2 1EZ United Kingdom Tel: 44-1223-72-534, Fax: 44-1223-336-033 Contact: S.J. Maginn, Email: maginn@ccdc.cam.ac.uk www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk The Cambridge Structural Database, with its new access software ConQuest, will be on display, alongside CCDC's other products. These products include knowledge-based libraries such as IsoStar, based on information in the CSD, and applications programs such as SuperStar, which use that knowledge to solve real problems of scientific practical importance. Booths 410, 412 CRYO INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA 11124 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH 03103 Tel: 603-621-9957, Fax: 603-621-9960 Contact: Gloria Svenconis, Email: cryo@cryoindustries.com www.cryoindustries.com The Cryocool has been designed to meet your demands! Benefits include continuously variable flow control, 10-minute cooldown, long-term reliability (no moving parts), unlimited running time, quiet operation, high temperature control stability, automatic refills and huge liquid nitrogen savings. Never-ice technology eliminates icing forever. Hence, no shield gas is needed - ever. "The samples, transfer line and nozzle remained absolutely clean of frost and contaminants after 6,000 hours of continuous operation - literally without a minute of stoppage!" Also available is the cryogen-free Cryocool CF3 with hi-lo temp option providing an operating temperature range of 30K to 450K. Booth 203. EMERALD BIOSTRUCTURES, INC. 7869 N.E. Day Rd. West, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Tel: 206-780-8535, Fax: 206-780-8549 Contact: Lance Stewart, Email: lance@emeraldbiostructures.com www.emeraldbiostructures.com Offers an integrated set of research tools and services in protein X-ray crystallography. Visit our booth in the Exhibit Hall for a full demonstration of Crystal Monitor™, the relational database application for protein crystallization - featuring high speed data collection by voice, automated plate movement, and powerful crystal query and optimization utilities. Check out our E-SCREENs™, crystallization screening sets made to your specifications, and delivered by next day air courier. Receive free samples of our Clover Plates™ which increase throughput of crystallization trials by 300%. Find out more about our RoboHTC™ - Robotic High Throughput Crystallization research services. Booths 300, 302. GILSON INC. 3000 West Beltline Hwy., Middleton, WI 53562 Tel: 608-836-1551. Fax: 608-831-4451 Contact: Gordon Hunter, Email: ghunter@gilson.com Web: www.gilson.com Will display their C-2000 Robotic Workstation for vapor diffusion crystallography. The workstation and integrated software completely automate the vapor diffusion method of crystallography using the hanging drop method. The workstation replicates the method performed by hand, with no need to validate a new method or proceedure. Booth 304. HAMPTON RESEARCH 27632 El Lazo Rd., Suite 100, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 Tel: 949-425-1321, Fax: 949-425-1611 Contact: Bob Cudney, Email: info@hrmail.com www.hamptonresearch.com Crystallization research tools and solutions for crystal growth. All new xenon chamber and recovery system for efficient xenon derivatives. Grease machine for greasing VDX and Linbro plates. Temperature incubator for crystallization. Crystallization screening kits for optimization. Crystallization Grade, preformulated, Optimize and Stock Options reagents the refinement of preliminary crystallization conditions. Siliconized cover slides and crystallization plates for hanging, sitting, and sandwich drop vapor diffusion, as well as microbatch and liquid-liquid diffusion. Cryocrystallography tools for the mounting and storage of crystals under cryogenic conditions. Capillaries, labels, books, and more. Booths 113, 115. IUCR PO Box 951 , Chester, Cheshire, CH2 2WA United Kingdom Tel: 44-1244-376386, Fax: 44-1244-373675 Contact: Andrea Sharpe, Email: as@iucr.org Web: www.iucr.org Will be announcing the launch of its first electronic-only structural journal - Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. Visit our stand for a demonstration of the IUCr's constantly evolving electronic journal service at journals.iucr.org, Crystallography Journals Online. Register for our free e-mail alerting service and ensure you have full access to the online journals by subscribing to the corresponding printed version; new subscribers at ACA 2000 will receive a free copy of Crystallography Across the Sciences! Place advance orders for new editions of International Tables for Crystallography Volumes A: Space-Group Symmetry and B: Reciprocal Space. Booth 212. KRATOS ANALYTICAL, INC. 100 Red Schoolhouse Rd., A6, Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 Tel: 914-426-6700, Fax: 914-426-6192 Contact: Jeannette DeGennaro, Email: jd@kratos.com www.kratos.com Kratos/Shimadzu X-ray diffractometers provide solutions from routine qualitative/quantitative analysis to state change analysis including stress; residual austenite quantitation; crystallite size/lattice strain; crystallinity calculation; analysis via overlaid Z-ray diffraction patterns; enhanced material evaluation and sample heating analysis. Also supported is crystalline structural analysis including precise lattice constant determination and crystal system determination. New EDX-800 benchtop X-ray fluorescence spectrometer with one touch operation offers high performance, automation and ease of use with exceptional research capabilities. A large chamber with a complete selection of turrets accommodates all sample types including whole wafers. Software features provide simple, yet comprehensive operation including multilayer analysis and the measurement of unknowns. Booth 208. MAR USA, INC. 1840 Oak Avenue, Suite 304N, Evanston, IL 60201 Tel: 847-869-1548, Fax: 847-869-1587 Contact: Michael Blum, Email: info@mar-usa.com www.mar-usa.com Mar 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. Booths 312, 314. MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS, INC. 9685 Scranton Rd., San Diego, CA 92121 Tel: 858-458-9990, Fax: 858-459-0136 Contact: Byron Konold, Email: materials@msi.com Web: www.msi.com Booths 210,212. MOLECULAR STRUCTURE CORP. 9009 New Trails, The Woodlands, TX 77381 Tel: 281-363-1033, Fax: 281-364-3628 Contact: Susan Duncan, Email: sll@msc.com www.msc.com Molecular Structure Corporation, a Rigaku Company, is the world's leading resource for single-crystal X-ray diffraction hardware, software, and contract services. This year at the ACA meeting, MSC will display small and macromodule equipment, X-ray optical system, cryo-cooling devices and new peripheral devices. Booths 101, 103, 105, 200, 202, 204. NASA C070 Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL 35812 Tel: 256-544-2977, Fax: 256-544-4716 Contact: Barbara Douglas Email: barbara.douglas@msfc.nasa.gov  NASA's microgravity program will be present to provide outreach and educational awareness about biotechnology research conducted at Marshall Space Flight Center. Booth 307. NONIUS CO., LP 1650 Sycamore Avenue, Suite 8, Bohemia, NY 11716 Tel: 631-589-2885, Fax: 631-589-7053 Contact: Liz Levin Email: elevin@nonius.com Booths 311, 313, 315. OCEANEERING SPACE SYSTEMS 16665 Space Center Blvd., Houston, TX 77058-2268 Tel: 281-228-5414, Fax: 281-228-5546 Contact: Reginald Beer, Email: rbeer@oss.oceaneering.com Web: www.oceaneering.com Precision robotics and automation products for high throughput crystallization and beamline productivity enhancements. Booth 308. OSMIC, INC. 1788 Northwood Drive, Troy, MI 48084 Tel: 248-362-1290, Fax: 248-362-4043 Contact: Mary Makowske, Email: makowske@osmic.com www.osmic.com Manufactures Confocal Max-Flux™ Optics, Max- Flux™ Optics and hardware for protein, powders, SAXS, small molecule, and other 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 also produces custom optics and hardware. Booths 205, 207. OXFORD CRYOSYSTEMS 3 Blenheim Office Park, Lower Road Long Hanborough, Oxon, OX8 8LN Tel: 44-1-99-388-3488, Fax: 44-1-99-388-3988 Contact: Donald Goodwin, Email: donaldg@ocna.com Booth 406. OXFORD INSTRUMENTS 130A Baker Avenue Extension Concord, MA 01742 Tel: 978-369-9933, Fax: 978-369-6616 Contact: Andrew Broadbent, Email: broadbent@ma.oxinst.com www.oxford-instruments.com Supplies x-ray beamline components, complete beamlines and end stations for protein crystallography, and other applications, to Synchrotron facilities around the world. We will be exhibiting the popular Cryojet single crystal liquid nitrogen cooler (featuring no moving parts, and with high reliability). Other end station components supplied include the popular Cyberstar X1000, a fast, integrated scintillation counter system (optimized for use at synchrotrons, with remotely controllable electronics module), ion chambers, again with integral electronics and the PX210, a state-of-the-art, large and fast CCD camera system developed specifically for protein crystallography. Booth 211. PROTEIN DATA BANK Stop 8314, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8314 Tel: 301-975-2213, Fax: 301-975-8717 Contact: Phoebe Fagan, Email: phoebe.fagan@nist.gov www.rcsb.org/pdb The international repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D macromolecular structure data primarily determined experimentally by x-ray crystallography and NMR. Booth 210. PROTEIN SOLUTIONS, INC. 1224 West Main Street, Suite 777, Charlottesville, VA 22903 Tel: 804-817-7177, Fax: 804-817-7178 Contact: Mike Blanchette, 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. Booth 214. CHARLES SUPPER CO., INC. 15 Tech Circle, Natick, MA 01760 Tel: 800-323-9645, Fax: 508-655-3913 Contact: Lee Supper, Email: Cn@charles-supper.com www.charles-supper.com Entering our 60th year of providing quality manufactured products, goniometer heads, cameras and accessories, and distributed products such as glass, quartz, and boro-rich capillary tubes (51 sizes stocked), MVD/24 multi-vapor diffusion chambers for sitting drop crystallization, Kodak and Polaroid XRD film and the Ingersoll Double-Mirror Focusing System. Booth 109. WYATT TECHNOLOGY CORP. 30 S. La Patera Lane, B-7, Santa Barbara, CA 93117 Tel: 805-681-9009, Fax: 805-681-0123 Contact: Geofrey Wyatt, Email: info@wyatt.com Web: www.wyatt.com The DAWN family of multi-angle light scattering 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 combinations. The DAWNs can also be used to predict protein crystallization conditions when used in a "batch" or "micro-batch" mode.