Crystallography Education

Nonius Kappa CCD Paper model

One of the major diffractometer manufacturers of the 20th century, Enraf-Nonius, hired a designer to create a paper model of their Nonius Kappa CCD diffractometer. The model is now available free thanks to the permission from Bruker. If built with heavy stock paper (and 25-50 % larger than format A4) the model would look robust. Note that it has moving parts as well! If you build a model please share your photos with us. Two files contain all the information: Nonius Kappa CCD paper model and Nonius Kappa CCD paper model instructions.

Crystallography School Information: 

The sub-committee tracks US and Canadian crystallography school information. In the past two years, several schools have not occurred or have been virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 2023 ACA Summer Course, June 19th-26th, 2022, Northwestern
  • Info/Application link: https://acasummercourse.net/
• CCP4/APS School in Macromolecular Crystallography: From data collection to structure refinement and beyond, virtual March 27th-April 3rd
  • Info/Application link: https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/APS-2022/
• 24^rd National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, APS/ORNL, August 6th-18th, 2023.
  • Info/Application link: https://neutrons.ornl.gov/nxs
• Topas School at ICDD headquarters
  • Info: https://www.bruker.com/de/news-and-events/events/topas-school.html

Crystallography Meetings Offering Workshops: 

• American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, July 7th-11th, 2023
  • Info/Application link:
  • 8 workshops associated with this meeting:
    • Workshop #1:?Workshop In Single Particle Cryo-EM & Cryo-ET
    • Workshop #2:?SAMPREP (Sample Attributes for Multiple-techniques and Principal Requirements for Experiments in Pan-structural biology) Workshop
    • Workshop #3:?Structure refinement and disorder modelling with Olex2 and NoSpherA2
    • Workshop #4:?Best Practices of the Quantum-Mechanics (QM) driven Macromolecular Refinement
    • Workshop #5:?Simple and Advanced Single Crystal X-Ray Structure Refinement Using ShelXle

In addition, the CCDC is also trying to keep track of crystallography conferences/events, including international ones like ECM, and related meetings such as the ACS national meetings that may have educational/workshop components:

https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/News/Events/

For information on CryoEM related schools, a well-kept list was curated by EMDataResource:

https://www.emdataresource.org/

Crystallography Education Policies for the Physical and Life Sciences (ACA and AUC)