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LOCKING ROD MUST BE IN PLACE FOR SHIPPING
...are the words at the top of every shipping cane. How many of us have read the words or even noticed that they exist? What happens if you don't put the locking pin in the hole before shipping your pucks?
Learn about APS-U plans at NE-CAT, new options in Remote and a class on using crystallography programs in this newsletter.
Starting this run, we are sending scheduling emails from a central address: necat@anl.gov Please feel free to send emails to that address if you need to request time as well. We are letting everyone know of this change, because it seems to be going to SPAM for some people, or getting overlooked since it’s not expected.
If you have any needs for this run, please feel free to reach out to necat@anl.gov
Structures based on data collected by Asim Bera, Institute of Protein Design, is part of work by David Baker's lab featured on the APS website.
Work by the Jin lab in collaboration with beamline scientist, Kay Perry, is now a scientific highlight on the APS website.
The NE-CAT newsletter has been on hiatus since 2016, but it is back with many updates.
Work by the lab of Yury Polikanov, a frequent NE-CAT user, on ribosome-binding antibiotics has been featured as a scientific highlight on the APS website.
Dr. Kay Perry will be a Featured Friend in the Molecular Biology and Chemistry Seminar Series at Christopher Newport University on Wednesday, October 13, 1pm EDT. The seminar will be held via Google Meet.
Sometimes, a dewar arrives warm and without any visible or noticeable breaks in any of the common breakpoints, such as the neck. In these situations, it is possible that the vacuum has been lost on the dewar over time, preventing it from holding temperature. NE-CAT can check the integrity of the vacuum by pumping down the dewar, then, while the dewar is under vacuum, Ed Lynch flows helium gas over the outside of the vacuum vessel, especially at the seams.
At the start up of operations for the 2021-2 run, it was discovered that one of the cards which aggregates data from multiple modules in the EIGER2 detector on 24-ID-C was faulty. As a result, NE-CAT was forced to reschedule all users on 24-ID-C for the first week of user operations. However, Dectris was able to immediately send us a replacement part which was successfully installed by Ed Lynch, Jim Withrow, and Malcolm Capel. Replacing the card did require removal of the EIGER2 from the 24-ID-C A-frame and its subsequent re-installation.