Equipment and Screens

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The X-ray facility offers a large panel of automated equipment featuring accurary and precision for setting up and monitoring crystallisation experiments with a minimum amount of protein.

(click on each to learn more)

Mosquito Crystal

Allows a high precision pipetting

of nanoliter volumes with zero cross-contamination (Book a time slot here and fill out the number of plates here)

Mosquito LCP

Allows an automated liquid cubic phase (LCP) setup for membrane protein crystallization (Book a time slot here and fill out the number of plates here)

Dragonfly Crystal

Allows a precise preparation of crystallization gradients and optimization screens, even with viscous liquids (Book a time slot here and fill out the number of plates here)

OLT shifter / Nanuq

A combination that allows an automated crystal harvesting paired with fast cryocooling and puck loading (Book a time slot here)

Rockimager 1000 Rockmaker

Allows an automated incubation and imaging for the crystallisation plates

(Monitor your crystallization plates here)

Screens ordering In order to get a predispensed commercial screen, please reach out to Violla Bassim on slack or email us on ucsfxrayfacility@gmail.com.

Dewars usage (users responses can be tracked here for inter-organization)

Please fill out this google form when you are using a shipping dewar

Can't find your favorite commercial screen?

https://xtalscreenorder.pythonanywhere.com/shop/backorder_form/

If you need to use the facility's common pucks for your beamtime, please register using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fB6QJi8PvMv5PjiNNAO3_-2Ik90UeecOp1j_IPyzyIg/edit

Images sources:

https://www.sptlabtech.com/resources

https://www.sptlabtech.com/products/mosquito/mosquito-lcp

https://www.sptlabtech.com/products/dragonfly/dragonfly-crystal

https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/Fragment-Screening/The-XChem-Pipeline.html

https://formulatrix.com/protein-crystallization-systems/rock-imager-crystallization-imagers/

Google Sites

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