The facility director is Dr. Temple Burling, and overall supervision is provided by Drs. Hao Wu and Frederick Maxfield. This facility provides equipment and expertise to assist investigators in obtaining crystallographic structures of macromolecules and in analyzing and visualizing protein structures. Potential users should meet with the facility staff to discuss their individual project. Some examples of use of the facility are provided below.
Crystallography can be a complex and time-consuming effort.
Depending on various factors it may require years of effort to obtain a structure. In most cases users will collaborate with one of the crystallography laboratories at the Medical College. Collaborations may include preliminary data acquisition in the local facility followed by data acquisition at a synchrotron source. Co-authorship of potential manuscripts should be discussed at the early stages of planning a project. Some users may have sufficient technical expertise to carry out data acquisition and analysis with assistance of the facility staff.