Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

[Crissy Lynette Tarver]

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Crissy L Tarver
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine

From: CCP4 bulletin board  on behalf of Tim Gruene 

Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:53:32 AM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Subject: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

Dear all,

can you make suggestions for how to disinfect computer keyboards, and
instrument panels?

Our facility is going to reboot next week, with shifts so that people
don't meet. The main interface will be the computer keyboards, as well
as the door of our X-ray diffractometer and the mounting of the
crystals.

The keyboard labels may not like alcohols (and the efficiency of
injecting disinfecting through the USB cable is also under discussion,
so I heard).

One way would be to use individual keyboards, and wearing gloves for
replugging, and to use gloves for mounting crystals.

But maybe there are other ways that won't require gloves?

Best regards,
Tim

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Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Vienna

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Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

[Crissy Lynette Tarver]

Hello,

I agree with wiping instruments down with 75-80% ethanol (as used to clean 
during cell culture). However, the BEST precaution is simply not touching your 
face and washing your hands for 20-30 seconds after touching anything. I made 
it a habit of scrubbing my hands with Hibiclens after every shift when I worked 
in ER, and I was ill only 3 times in 12 years.

Crissy L Tarver
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine

From: CCP4 bulletin board  on behalf of Andrea Thorn 

Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 12:41:57 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards


Hi Tim!


100% alcohol is less effective than 80%, and in order to completely be sure, 
the keyboard needs not only to be wiped. One can buy keyboards that can be 
disinfected because they are waterproof, such as the Cherry JK-1068DE-2 for 
about 50 €.


We clean the keyboards in our lab occasionally anyway, and have used 70% 
alcohol on them without problem. Disinfectant wipes, a detergent cleaner (such 
as Viss Glass & Flächen) and cotton swabs also offer some help. We wipe our 
mobile phones with a disinfectant wipe after washing our hands when arriving 
home/at work.

I would also be really interested in what could be done with a UV light, if 
someone knows?

If the computer is used by one person during the shift, individual keyboards 
for each person could be a solution. If people sit down, the desk surface, 
which may be touched, should likely also be wiped at the beginning and end of 
the shift I would say.

Stay save and best wishes,



Andrea.



Am 29/04/2020 um 21:04 schrieb Diana Tomchick:

​100% ethanol or isopropanol work really well on the microscopes, I soak a 
Kimwipe and then clean the eyepieces and the knobs for changing magnification 
and focus, as well as the door handles, bench tops, etc.


Diana


**
Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816
diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
(214) 645-6383 (phone)
(214) 645-6353 (fax)

From: CCP4 bulletin board  
on behalf of Diana Tomchick 

Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 2:00 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards


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​You could try doing what my technician does with her keyboard; she wraps it in 
a clear, thin food wrap that can be taped to the back of the keyboard. This is 
usually done to keep food and other things (liquids) from damaging the 
keyboard, but you could simply replace the wrap every time someone else uses it.


Personally I like using a Kimwipe soaked with 100% isopropanol, I've never yet 
encountered a keyboard that suffered from having the writing removed with that 
or 100% ethanol. Both work and as long as they are 100% (no water), the 
keyboard and mouse have no issues.


Diana


**
Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816
diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
(214) 645-6383 (phone)
(214) 645-6353 (fax)

From: CCP4 bulletin board  
on behalf of Tim Gruene 

Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 1:53 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

Dear all,

can you make suggestions for how to disinfect computer keyboards, and
instrument panels?

Our facility is going to reboot next week, with shifts so that people
don't meet. The main interface will be the computer keyboards, as well
as the door of our X-ray diffractometer and the mounting of the
crystals.

The keyboard labels may not like alcohols (and the efficiency of
injecting disinfecting through the USB cable is also under discussion,
so I heard).

One way would be to use individual keyboards, and wearing gloves for
replugging, and to use gloves for mounting crystals.

But maybe there are other ways that won't require gloves?

Best regards,
Tim

--
--
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Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Vienna

Phone: +43-1-4277-70202

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Re: [ccp4bb] Macromolecular Crystallography workshop in South America 2020

[Crissy Lynette Tarver]

A similar workshop is taught annually here at SSRL. I was a tutor for the 
hands-on workshop in 2019, and I found an even gender distribution among the 
speakers/tutors. Even though not all of the females were developers of 
crystallographic software, they are expert users and instructors. Here is a 
link to the online program for anyone interested:

https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/rapidata/rapidata-2019/schedule.html

Crissy L Tarver
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine

From: CCP4 bulletin board  on behalf of Eleanor Dodson 
<176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:26:53 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Macromolecular Crystallography workshop in South America 
2020

Hmmm - interesting discussion but no-one has stated the obvious. There were at 
least fifteen years of my life (ang Guy's) when we were just TOO busy to 
contemplate travelling so far, even if invited. Mixing  family responsibilities 
with any effective working meant we did not stray far away from home.  That 
must rule out many younger people - we should all be grateful for those who are 
willing and able to teach.
I hope the organisers recruit as many local tutors as they can, and that there 
is no "gender bias" there.
Good luck to everyone involved.
Eleanor

On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 20:04, Newman, Janet (Manufacturing, Parkville) 
 wrote:
Hi all,

Interesting discussion, and personally, I think Rasmus has hit the nail on the 
head. Here is a challenge to the CCP4bb - can we make a list 10 female 
developers of crystallographic software who would be appropriate invitees as 
instructors to this course? (I can only think of 4)

Cheers, Janet

Janet Newman
Principal Scientist / Director, Collaborative Crystallisation Centre (C3)
CSIRO Material Science and Engineering
343 Royal Parade
Parkville.  VIC. 3052
Australia
Tel +613 9662 7326
Email janet.new...@csiro.au


From: CCP4 bulletin board mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>> 
on behalf of Rasmus Fogh 
mailto:rhf...@globalphasing.com>>
Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 6:26 AM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>>
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Macromolecular Crystallography workshop in South America 
2020

Hi,

People may have missed that this particular meeting is not about
presenting ideas or research results. The meeting is billed as a
"Hands-on workshop with lectures, practical tutorials and plenty of time
for problems-solving with X-ray diffraction data", for people who are
already beyond the basics and actively doing crystallography.
Participants are encouraged to come with their own, likely quite
difficult, data, and the tutors are expected to not only present
strategies and programs for data processing, refinement and model
building at master level, but provide in-depth individual explanations,
deal with quirks of the various programs, and do immediate problem
solving on projects they have never seen before. This requires tutors
with both a detailed understanding of the software and extensive
experience in using it, and the tutors on the speaker list are generally
top developers from the groups that actually develop the software.
Collectively the tutors have to cover all aspects of the field. A
further limit is that such workshops (though not this particular one)
are often held at synchrotrons, which adds the requirement of setting up
and running actual experiments for people, without prior knowledge of
their projects. Understandably the limited group of people who have
developed experience in this kind of activity tend to reappear at
workshop after workshop.

Crystallography as a discipline is certainly full of highly qualified
women, but the scope for asking "more junior women" to teach these
particular workshops - or in general for broadening the base of tutors -
is limited by the fact that the pool of people with the qualifications
and experience to teach such courses at a high level is truly tiny.

Yours,

Rasmus Fogh


On 05/02/2020 18:21, Diana Tomchick wrote:
> Then ask more “junior women.” This isn’t rocket science, after alll.
>
> Diana
>
> **
> Diana R. Tomchick
> Department of Biophysics, Rm. ND10.214A
> University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
> 5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
> Dallas, TX 75061 USA
> 214-645-6383 (office)
>
>> On Feb 5, 2020, at 12:09 PM, Goldman, Adrian
>> mailto:adrian.gold...@helsinki.fi>> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> EXTERNAL MAIL
>>
>> Phoebe and all,
>>
>> What I heard recently (I have no idea whether it applies in this
>> particular case…) is that organisers of conferences/meetings often
>> have considerable difficulty getting women speakers in the first place
>> - apparently 85% of the XYs asked say “yes” and only 50% (less?) of
>> the XXs. Presumably not to GRCs, or to keynote a major international
>> symposium