[ccp4bb] Open Positions at Rigaku

2022-03-02 Thread Joseph Ferrara
Posted on behalf of Mark Benson: Rigaku has two open positions in the US for Single Crystal Regional Account Managers. Ideally, one position will be East Coast-based and the other and West Coast-based. However, all US locations will be considered. Either opportunity would be an excellent

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] freezing in ethane / propane - unipucks ?

2022-01-26 Thread Joseph Ferrara
When using Xe derivatization for SAD phasing, we (mostly Jim Pflugrath) used carbon tetrafluoride. CF4 has a melting point of 89.5K, just four degrees warmer than propane and is not flammable. Joe Ferrara -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of James Holton Sent:

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] saturn 724 query

2020-10-28 Thread Joseph Ferrara
Magnus, Harry is correct about the Saturn 724. I'd like to follow up in detail but let's take that discussion offline to make sure the system is configured properly for the best results. Cheers, Joseph D. Ferrara, Ph.D., NREMR CSO, Rigaku Americas Corporation Deputy Director, X-ray Research

Re: [ccp4bb] How many microfocus beamlines are in the world?

2020-06-24 Thread Joseph Ferrara
I agree with Phil. We did not consider sources to be "micro-focus" until we hit 70 microns or so in projection, circa 1999 for rotating anodes and a bit earlier for sealed tube sources. It was Uli Arndt's paper, Focusing optics for laboratory sources in X-ray crystallography, J. Appl. Cryst.

[ccp4bb] ACA Annual Meeting has gone virtual!

2020-06-11 Thread Joseph Ferrara

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] Question about small molecule crystallography

2020-06-02 Thread Joseph Ferrara
I would like to point out Rigaku has organized two sets of lectures, via Zoom webinar, on the practical aspects of small molecule crystallography. The first set of lectures started yesterday while the second set is scheduled to start July 6. The first lecture, an introduction, is available

[ccp4bb] Sales Position at Rigaku Europe

2019-05-23 Thread Joseph Ferrara
Direct sales position at Rigaku Europe SE managing Germany, Switzerland and other territories. The primary responsibilities are to acquire new customers while retaining and growing the existing customer base for all Rigaku products related to X-ray diffraction. Main Duties * Effectively

Re: [ccp4bb] Sulphur SAD at home source

2018-04-03 Thread Joseph Ferrara
Jim Pflugrath and a couple of high school interns shot a short video on halide quick soaks a few years back. You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Qc3jOPaKY. Cheers, Joseph D. Ferrara, Ph.D. CSO Deputy Director, X-ray Research Laboratory Vice President, American Crystallographic

Re: [ccp4bb] protein quasicrystals?

2018-02-15 Thread Joseph Ferrara
Nakane-san, There is also CrysAlisPro, which can handle multiple crystals and may already support your detector. If you send me the data, offline, I would be happy to pass it onto the CrysAlisPro development team for testing. Joseph D. Ferrara, Ph.D. CSO Deputy Director, X-ray Research

[ccp4bb] Application Scientist, Rigaku Oxford Diffraction, Wroclaw, Poland

2017-09-15 Thread Joseph Ferrara
Job: Application Scientist - Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Location: Wrocław, Poland Salary: Competitive package Closing Date: October 16, 2017 Description: Rigaku Oxford Diffraction is an international manufacturer of scientific instrumentation priding itself on being a customer

Re: [ccp4bb] Pilatus Issues

2017-07-16 Thread Joseph Ferrara
[mailto:g...@globalphasing.com] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 5:24 AM To: Joseph Ferrara <joseph.ferr...@rigaku.com> Cc: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Pilatus Issues Dear Joe, On second thought, it seems to me that a vertical gap would be even better suited to t

Re: [ccp4bb] Pilatus Issues

2017-07-16 Thread Joseph Ferrara
Gerard, You are correct that a vertical gap is best when 2theta.eq.0 and we did explore orienting the Pilatus with the gap vertical early in the hardware integration process. However, we concluded that when 2theta.ne.0 at least two 2theta settings would be required to prevent systematically

Re: [ccp4bb] Reason for Neglected X-ray Fluorescence

2009-04-24 Thread Joseph Ferrara
On Friday 24 April 2009 11:53:27 Jacob Keller wrote: Aha, so I have re-invented the wheel! But I never made sense of why f' is negative--this is beautiful! Just to make sure: you are saying that the real part of the anomalous scattering goes negative because those photons are sneaking