Purdue Center for Macromolecular Crystallography

Overview of Services

The Purdue Center for Macromolecular Crystallography (PCMC) provides instrumentation and expertise used by researchers to perform high-throughput crystallization screening, data collection, and structure determination of proteins, viruses, and nucleic acids. The PCMC consists of a crystallization core in HOCK 284 with state-of-the-art automated instrumentation for growing crystals, and a diffraction core in 289 with a newly installed X-ray diffractometer for rapid in-house data collection on crystals for structure determination. The PCMC also offers staff assistance and training and we can also collaborate on projects for non-crystallographers.

Getting Started

Contact the Lab manager Tim Schmidt (tschmidt@purdue.edu) or Nick Noinaj (nnoinaj@purdue.edu) to initiate projects and for training. For those with little or no background in X-ray crystallography, assistance in understanding the basic fundamentals of X-ray crystallography is also provided.

Leadership

Dr. Nick Noinaj - Director

765-496-0061

nnoinaj@purdue.edu

Tim Schmidt - X-Ray Lab Manager

765-496-3131

tschmidt@purdue.edu

Location

Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology

Rooms 284 (Crystallization Core), 289 (X-ray Diffraction Core), 307 (Mosquito-LCP), Chirascan (HOCK 163C)

240 South Martin Jischke Drive

West Lafayette, IN 47907

iLab

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Please contact the center manager for further information.

Contacts

Name	Role	Phone	Email	Location
Tim Schmidt	Lab Manager	765-496-3131	tschmidt@purdue.edu	HOCK 320
Nick Noinaj	Director	765-496-0061	nnoinaj@purdue.edu	HOCK 333