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ID23-2: Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography

Contacts

Tel: +33 (0) 476 88 +ext

ID23-2 Control Cabin: 2590

Max Nanao 4087
Scientist in charge

Shibom Basu +33 (0) 476 20 7875
Beamline Scientist (EMBL)

David Flot +33 (0) 476 88 1763
Beamline Operation Manager

Anmol Gautam +33 (0) 476 88 2180
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Carole Clavel 2571
Beamline engineer

 

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Synopsis

ID23-2 is a fixed energy beamline dedicated to MX. ID23-2 offers a standard MX sample environment, but with a focused microbeam (10x4 micron).
Status:  open

Disciplines

  • Life Sciences

Applications

  • Macromolecular crystallography

Techniques

  • MX - macromolecular crystallography
  • Microbeam

Energy range

  • 14.2  keV

Beam size

  • Minimum (H x V) : 1.0 x 2.0  µm²
  • Maximum (H x V) : 8.0 x 25.0  µm²

Sample environments

  • Microdiffractometer MD3Up
  • UNIPUCK+SPINE pins only (no SC3)

Detectors

  • DECTRIS EIGER X 9M

Technical details

This beamline offers diffraction data collection on microcrystalline MX samples and on fine needle MX samples, as well as determination of the region of highest diffraction quality from larger MX samples.

ID23-2: an automated and high-performance microfocus beamline for macromolecular crystallography at the ESRF

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