Macromolecular training
Rigaku holds three-day training sessions tailored towards the needs of macromolecular crystallographers and their staff. The topics covered during the course are listed below. Sessions begin Wednesday at 8:15 a.m. and end Friday at 6:00 p.m.
Upcoming session(s):
March 26-28, 2008Filled- September 17-19, 2008
The three-day program fee is $1500 for the first person from a facility and $1100 for each additional person from the same facility. We are offering a 20% discount of these fees for participants from facilities with a current Rigaku service contract. The session will be limited to twelve (12) persons total (dependent on demand, we reserve the right to limit enrollment to one person per facility). Separating into two groups of 6 facilitates an individual approach to the training.
We reserve a block of rooms at a nearby hotel with a special rate for the
training session. Rigaku's own travel agent is available to help you with your
travel arrangements. Payment may be made by purchase order, facility check or
credit card. Lunch each day and the group dinner are included in the program
fee. Please return the registration form and survey
form no later than four weeks prior to the session you plan to attend this
session. Further instructions/information will be forwarded upon receipt of the
registration.
Tentative program
Wednesday, beginning at 8:30 a.m.
- Welcome
- Radiation safety
- Basic maintenance/operation of Rigaku rotating anode generators and related
equipment
- Warning lamps
- Burned out lamps
- Vacuum leaks and troubleshooting
- Shutter problems
- Anode rebuild (belt drive)
- Filament changes
- Basic maintenance - R-AXIS IV++
- Erase lamps
- IP belt
- Group dinner (6:30 p.m.): Restaurant to be announced
Thursday, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
- Basic maintenance/alignment of Rigaku Confocal Blue
optics
- Demonstration of mirror alignment
- Hands-on mirror alignments
- CryoCooling maintenance procedures
- Cryocooling, basic maintenance
- Operation CryoSystem
- Cryocrystallography
Friday, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
- Lecture: Introduction to data processing
- Hands-on data processing
- CrystalClear™
- d*TREK®
The instructors will be:
- Jim Pflugrath, Angela Criswell and Kris Tesh - Software and detector alignment
- Richard Dean - X-stream™ systems
- Bret Simpson - Radiation safety
- Julio Hernandez, Vasili Carperos, Mike Noonan and Neal Apfelbeck - X-ray generator systems and R-AXIS general maintenance and trouble shooting.