Current and Future Trends in Macromolecular Crystallography Experiments: Focus on Automation, High Data Rate Analysis and User Interfaces
Synchrotron Radiation Macromolecular Crystallography has been on the forefront of biological studies requiring access to structural information. It has seen several major updates and upgrades ranging from sample standards, robotic sample changers, micro-focus beamlines, pixel array detectors to distributed and automated data processing, and the list goes on. In the last few years, several major facilities began operation and a few more were upgraded to what is the state of the art today. Along these upgrades, all facilities have updated and upgraded equipment, high performance computing and the associated software to allow researchers to continue pursuing the most impactful areas of life science research. In the coming years, more facilities will be upgraded, including two in the US.
All of these advances are required for groups from academia and industry to increase their rate of discovery, relying on either the brightest beams to tackle the most challenging projects, or higher level of automation, so that researchers can not only achieve more, but most importantly can invest valuable time tackling the difficult projects and rely on automation for their other projects.
In this workshop, we will have presentations dealing with sample automation and standards, presentations about high data rate MX analysis as well as on user interfaces and remote access. In all sessions, we will emphasize the current state of the art and planned upgrades. Ideally, we would like the spirit of the workshop to be cooperative, even sparking collaborations to elaborate common solutions to deal with common problems.
We encourage individuals working at Synchrotron facilities worldwide to register as presenters and welcome all to participate in the discussions.
Event ID: 0000003583
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12:00 PM
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12:15 PM
Welcome + Intro 15mSpeaker: Local Organizers
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12:15 PM
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12:40 PM
Automation for Macromolecular Crystallography at NSLS-II 25mSpeaker: Edwin Lazo (NSLS-II, BNL)
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12:40 PM
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1:05 PM
MASSIF-1: Player piano dystopia or brave new world? 25mSpeaker: Matthew Bowler (EMBL Grenoble, France)
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1:05 PM
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1:30 PM
Next Generation Remote Experiments 25mSpeaker: Aina Cohen (SSRL, SLAC, US)
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1:30 PM
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1:55 PM
CrystalDirect-to-Beam pipeline and FlexHCD sample changers at ESRF 25mSpeaker: Gergely Papp (EMBL Grenoble, France)
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1:55 PM
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2:05 PM
Sample automation routine at the BioMAX beamline at MAX IV 10mSpeaker: Ishkhan Gorgisyan (MAX IV, Sweden)
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2:05 PM
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2:25 PM
Discussion / Flash Talk1 / Break (10 / 10 / 10) 20mSpeaker: All Participants
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2:25 PM
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2:50 PM
GM/CA@APS macromolecular crystallography sample-changer upgrade for higher capacity and throughput 25mSpeaker: Oleg Makarov (GM/CA, APS, ANL, US)
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2:50 PM
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3:15 PM
Rapid sample exchanger SPACE-II at SPring-8 25mSpeaker: Kazuya Hasegawa (SPring-8, Japan)
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3:15 PM
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3:40 PM
New endstations at NE-CAT: MD3UP microdiffractometer and 30 puck ALS-style loader 25mSpeaker: Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT, APS, ANL, US)
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3:50 PM
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4:10 PM
Discussion / Flash Talk2 / Break (10 / 10 / 10) 20mSpeaker: All Participants
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4:10 PM
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4:20 PM
Sample Automation at the ALS Flash Talk 3 + Flash Talk 4 to come 10mSpeaker: Kevin Royal (ALS, LBNL, US)
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4:20 PM
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4:30 PM
The MX3 Beamline at the Australian Synchrotron: Automation 10mSpeaker: Tom Caradoc-Davies (Austalian Synchrotron)
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4:30 PM
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4:55 PM
High-Throughput Sample Changer at P11 25mSpeaker: Sofiane Saouane (PETRA P11, Desy, Germany)
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5:20 PM
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5:50 PM
Discussion 30mSpeaker: All Participants
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5:50 PM
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5:55 PM
Closeout 5mSpeaker: Local Organizers
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12:00 PM
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12:15 PM
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12:00 PM
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12:15 PM
Welcome 15mSpeaker: Local Organizers
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1:05 PM
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1:30 PM
Data Acquisition, Management, and Real-Time Analysis at the EMBL Beamlines 25mSpeaker: Marina Nikolova (EMBL, Germany)
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1:30 PM
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1:55 PM
Implementing expertise in data collection without loss of automation 25mSpeaker: Gerard Bricogne (GPhL, UK)
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2:05 PM
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2:15 PM
Predicting experimental phasing success for data triaging 10mSpeaker: Melanie Vollmar (DLS, UK)
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2:15 PM
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2:25 PM
Discussion 10mSpeaker: All Participants
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2:25 PM
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2:50 PM
Integrated Crystallographic Data Analysis at GMCA@APS 25mSpeaker: Qingping Xu (ANL, US)
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2:50 PM
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3:15 PM
Jungfraujoch: A Data Acquisition and On-the-fly Analysis System for High Data Rate Macromolecular Crystallography 25mSpeaker: Filip Leonarski (PSI, Switzerland)
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3:50 PM
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4:00 PM
TBD 10mSpeaker: Gabriella Carini (BNL, US)
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4:00 PM
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4:10 PM
The cctbx.xfel GUI: processing serial crystallographic data at massive scales 10mSpeaker: Aaron Brewster (LBL, US)
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4:10 PM
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4:35 PM
Crystallography Live: Processing and Analysis of X-ray Diffraction Data in Real Time 25mSpeaker: Artem Lyubimov (SSRL, US)
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4:35 PM
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5:00 PM
Hierarchical clustering to classify multiple state of protein structures from mixed-state diffraction data 25mSpeaker: Hiroaki Matsuura (Riken SPring-8, Japan)
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5:00 PM
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5:25 PM
The future of high data rate MX at the ESRF 25mSpeaker: Gianluca Santoni (ESRF, France)
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5:25 PM
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5:55 PM
Discussion 30mSpeaker: All Participants
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5:55 PM
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6:00 PM
Closeout 5mSpeaker: Local Organizers
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12:00 PM
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12:15 PM
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12:00 PM
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Welcome 15mSpeaker: Local Organizers
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12:15 PM
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12:40 PM
MXCuBE3 @ ESRF: a new paradigm in remote data collection 25mSpeaker: Daniele de Sanctis (ESRF - The European Synchrotron, France)
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12:40 PM
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1:05 PM
Current status of automatic data collection by ZOO at SPring-8 25mSpeaker: Kunio Hirata (RIKEN / SPring-8, Japan)
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1:05 PM
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1:30 PM
The year 2020 of remote user operation at the beamline P11 25mSpeaker: Guillaume Pompidor (DESY / PETRA3, Germany)
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1:30 PM
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1:55 PM
User Interfaces and Automated Data Collection at PSI 25mSpeaker: Kate Mary Louise Smith (PSI, Switzerland)
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1:55 PM
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2:05 PM
UX and Remote Access @ Berkeley Center for Structural Biology 10mSpeaker: John Taylor (LBL/ALS, US)
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2:05 PM
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2:15 PM
MxLIVE (Mx Laboratory Information Virtual Environment): Web application for shipment, experiment, and data management at MX Beamlines 10mSpeaker: Kathryn Janzen (Canadian Light Source)
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2:15 PM
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2:25 PM
Discussion 10mSpeaker: All Participants
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2:50 PM
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3:15 PM
Current developments and future perspectives of beamline control environment MXCuBEQt 25mSpeaker: Ivars Karpics (EMBL-Hamburg, Germany)
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3:15 PM
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3:40 PM
PyBluIce: Modular MX Data Collection Software for Fully Automated, High Data Rate and Long Duration Experiments 25mSpeaker: Mark Hilgart (Argonne National Laboratory, US)
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3:40 PM
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3:50 PM
MxDC – Macromolecular Crystallography Data Collector: User-friendly data collection application for MX Beamlines 10mSpeaker: Michel Fodje (Canadian Light Source)
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3:50 PM
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4:00 PM
Current developments of the new microfocus MX beamline at the ALBA synchrotron 10mSpeaker: Judith Juanhuix (ALBA Synchrotron, Spain)
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4:00 PM
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4:10 PM
Discussion 10mSpeaker: All Participants
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4:10 PM
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4:35 PM
User Interfaces, Unattended Data Collection & Operational Changes In times of the pandemic, at the Diamond Light Source 25mSpeaker: David Aragao (Diamond Light Source, UK)
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4:35 PM
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5:00 PM
Data Acquisition, Processing and Monitoring at the NSLS-II Life Science Beamlines - an adaptable Approach for Long-Term Development 25mSpeaker: Jun Aishima (BNL / NSLS-II, US)
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5:00 PM
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5:25 PM
U[sers] Can't Touch This: Remote Access with SSRL at SLAC 25mSpeaker: Jeney Wierman (SLAC / SSRL, US)
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5:25 PM
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5:55 PM
Discussion 30mSpeaker: All Participants
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5:55 PM
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6:00 PM
Closeout 5mSpeaker: Local Organizers
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12:00 PM
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12:15 PM