[ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread vikas navratna
Dear all Kindly make a note. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Molecular Biophysics Unit (http://mbu.iisc.ernet.in/) Opening for Assistant Professor Positions. Applicants, preferably below 35 years, should have a Ph.D. with postdoctoral experience with an excellent publication record.

[ccp4bb] off topic: ITC program error

2012-10-29 Thread Rashmi Panigrahi
Hi All Sorry for this off-topic, but I need an urgent help. We have an Origin 7 version of VP-ITC Microcal. I had shut it down 2 days back and switched it on today. When I am trying to open the VPviewer2000 where I can start my run it says that error as missing last inj. I had tried to run as

Re: [ccp4bb] How to start my XDS journey after HKL2000?

2012-10-29 Thread Huw Jenkins
ORGX=1016.0 ORGY=1066.8 !Detector origin (pixels). ORGX=NX/2; ORGY=NY/2 Have you checked the beam centre? It's usually the first thing to check when indexing doesn't give you the expected result. Huw

[ccp4bb] Post-Doctoral Position at Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland

2012-10-29 Thread Rondeau, Jeanmichel
NIBR Presidential Postdoctoral Program Would you like to contribute to innovative research with the goal of improving human health? Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research has a variety of postdoctoral positions in biology, chemistry, and computational sciences that provide excellent

[ccp4bb] inflluence of pH for crystallization on protein 3-D structure

2012-10-29 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
Acoot You may be interested in some data-mining that we did a few years ago http://www.douglas.co.uk/PDB_data.htm#Acid-base We didn't see any obvious correlations On 28 October 2012 03:00, Acoot Brett acootbr...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear All, A protein crystal can be got at pH 5 or 8, or a pH

Re: [ccp4bb] How to start my XDS journey after HKL2000?

2012-10-29 Thread Chang Qing
Hi, everyone Now I can get collect result after setting ORGX and ORGY to 1024. Thank Manfred for his help. Thank everyone who helped me. Best regard Chang 2012/10/29 Manfred S. Weiss manfred.we...@helmholtz-berlin.de: The same is true for the third data. I would suggest the following.

Re: [ccp4bb] Orientation of the crystal and it importance in data collection

2012-10-29 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear B. Vijay, for single-wavelength (as opposed to Laue) X-ray crystallographic data collection it is in general helpful to mount your crystal in an arbitrary orientation. If you happen to mount it such that a symmetry axis is parallel to the

Re: [ccp4bb] How to start my XDS journey after HKL2000?

2012-10-29 Thread saleem raza
I have a question regarding model building. can anyone guide how to find and add water molecules in electron density map in coot. regardsSaleem Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:23:00 +0900 From: robie0...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] How to start my XDS journey after HKL2000? To:

[ccp4bb] how to find and add water molecules in electron density map in coot??

2012-10-29 Thread saleem raza
I have a question regarding model building. can anyone guide how to find and add water molecules in electron density map in coot. regardsSaleem Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:23:00 +0900 From: robie0...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] How to start my XDS journey after HKL2000? To:

Re: [ccp4bb] Orientation of the crystal and it importance in data collection

2012-10-29 Thread Peter Keller
Dear Tim and B. Vijay, On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 12:02 +0100, Tim Gruene wrote: Dear B. Vijay, for single-wavelength (as opposed to Laue) X-ray crystallographic data collection it is in general helpful to mount your crystal in an arbitrary orientation. Well, this depends on the sample, and

[ccp4bb] Different residue type with same number in refmac?

2012-10-29 Thread Fred Kerff
Hello, The protein preparation I'm working with is not homogeneous. It comes from a natural source and few amino acid are not conserved. Is there a way to take this into account in refmac5. In other words having two alternative conformations with two different residue names? Thanks for your

Re: [ccp4bb] Different residue type with same number in refmac?

2012-10-29 Thread Boaz Shaanan
Yes. It's not different from two alternate conformations of the same residue as far as refmac is concerned. Just name one AXXX, the other BYYY and give them each occupancies less than 1. Refmac5 will handle them properly. Boaz Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion

Re: [ccp4bb] inflluence of pH for crystallization on protein 3-D structure

2012-10-29 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
An example for how crystallization at non-physiological pH (and non-physiological concentrations and non-physiological environmental) may influence behavior of the protein is the Botulinum A LC protease. Under normal conditions (upon endocytosis of a few molecules at best into the nerve cell),

[ccp4bb] Postdoc vacancy in the Boettcher lab - Edinburgh

2012-10-29 Thread Laura Spagnolo
Dear Colleagues, I am forwarding this message from Bettina Boettcher. Please get in touch with her if you have any queries about the opening. Best regards, Laura I have a PostDoc position in my lab at the University of Edinburgh. I am looking for a good biochemist with a keen interest to

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread U US
Dear Friends, There is no need to apply to this position, we suggest. It is a PREDETERMINED SELECTION, i.e. candidate is fixed and this (advertisement, screening, selection board, selection and approval) is just the procedure. It does not matter whether you apply or not. If you apply and

[ccp4bb] XFEL and Synchrotron Computation at LBNL: Postdoc and Proj Scientist Positions

2012-10-29 Thread Nicholas Sauter
Dear Colleagues: Two NIH-funded positions are available immediately in the Computational Crystallography Initiative group (http://cci.lbl.gov) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Massive datasets generated by ultrafast detectors at both conventional sources and X-ray free-electron lasers

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Narayana VL Sthanam
Sham, who so ever you are, if you have such a long list of complaints, why don't you put your name clearly and complain openly, instead of hiding behind some anonymous 'SHAM' name. What you write about IISc may be all true or it may be reflection of your frustration for not getting a job at

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Alok Sharma
My dear Sham, Who ever you are, first I would like to tell you, if you are not aware, that CCP4bb is not a platform for the kind of you mail you have written. I am an alumnus of MBU (IISc) and would be happy to answer your doubts emerged of frustrations. I am sending this mail to the whole

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Pius Padayatti
This is not a reply to the post by some one called Sham or the original post calling for a faculty position. Everyone here who ever had an experience to be an IIScian and especially any one who been fortunate to experience Molecualr Biophysics Unit will disagree with what was writen about the

[ccp4bb] Very sorry for one more message == RE: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Mathews, Irimpan I.
I fully agree with Pius. I am very sorry other CCP users for sending one more message and filling your mail box for some crazy guys reply. Thanks, Mathews -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Pius Padayatti Sent: Monday, October

Re: [ccp4bb] Very sorry for one more message == RE: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread G. Sridhar Prasad
As an IISc alumnus and Ex-MBUite, I outright reject the contents of the email posted by Sham. It is sad to see how a platform such as CCP4BB, which is so educational and informative is being misused by one individual to spread false message and discredit one of the esteemed institute of

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Narayan Viswam
Sham is very right about the institute. Narayana Sthanam's illustrious former colleague Krishna Murthy who faked so many structures retracted quite a few papers was an alumnus of the institute. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:21 PM, James Stroud xtald...@gmail.com wrote: The agism in the

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Chittaranjan Das
Please allow me to share with you some history here. Late Prof. GN Ramachandran (of Ramachandran Plot) was a faculty of MBU, IISC. If you want to find out yourself how good/bad it is, please register for the upcoming conference on International Conference on Biomolecular Forms and Functions:

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Manoj Tiwari
Just to let Narayan Viswam know more about HM Krishnamurthy. He did his PhD from IISc long long back in 1979 on small molecule crystallography. Then he did his postdoc in protein crystallography from two top most Universities of USA. He had been mentored by really really great protein

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Phoebe A. Rice
I have no idea about Bangalore, but I know from personal experience that already-filled job ads exist and waste everybody's time. One of the junior faculty jobs I intereviewed for in the 90s at a prestigious US medical school turned out to be just such a thing - before I went people in the

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread U US
Dear Patrick, Thanks and Nice query. As stated, Almost all cases they select and load many times inferior candidates even though candidate was not seen by anybody (selectors) or interviewed. This means all what they are. In all cases it is their mutual understanding to fix their own people,

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2012-10-29 Thread Kavyashree Manjunath
Dear CCP4 users, It is extremely sad that CCP4BB has failed to moderate/screen for such spam mails! Thanks kavya Dear Friends, There is no need to apply to this position, we suggest. It is a PREDETERMINED SELECTION, i.e. candidate is fixed and this (advertisement, screening,