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The primary intent of this
informal workshop is to discuss automated systems (such as purpose built
mechanical devices and robots) to mount and dismount pre-cooled sample
crystals on the beamline diffractometer. However, we also intend to spend
some time on methods to electronically view and center the crystals in
the x-ray beam. Please note that we do not intend to cover automated
techniques for wet mounting macromolecular crystals in cryo-loops.
This is intended to be a small and informal workshop
between people who have either, already built systems of this type, or
have put a fair amount of thought into such systems with the intent of
developing devices of this kind in the near future. We plan to have talks
presented on the Thursday afternoon and early Friday morning, leaving plenty
of time for discussion of ideas during the remainder of the Friday morning
session. For those requesting to present a talk, please provide a title,
and a few words outlining the subject matter to be covered. A slide projector,
overhead projector for view graphs, and an LCD computer display projector
will each be available for presentations. It will be necessary to provide
a write-up of your contributed talk to the organizers on departure from
SSRL on Friday afternoon to be included in the proceedings of the workshop. |