Molecular Dimensions Ltd. is a company dedicated to supplying products for the structural biology community. We specialize in supplies for protein crystal growth, such as screening kits, optimization kits, plates, coverslides, ESRF sample changer kits, dry shippers and robotics. Our aim is to provide you with the materials and products you need for protein crystal growth quickly and efficiently. Molecular Dimensions has formed strong alliances with leading crystallographers world-wide to develop innovative ideas to provide intelligent solutions for the challenge of growing protein crystals.

Genevac will be exhibiting the miVac range of concentrators for genomics, proteomics and molecular biology.

Technology and engineering innovation combined with an understanding of the needs of biochemists working in this field led Genevac to produce a world-leading line of sample concentrators.  Easy to use, compact and with superb performance, Genevac evaporators are ideal for the busy molecular biology laboratory needing to dry down or concentrate samples.

Invitrogen provides products and services that support academic and government research institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide in their efforts to improve the human condition. Invitrogen provides essential technologies for disease research, drug discovery, and commercial bio-production, Invitrogen’s products and services accelerate discovery by providing optimized, ready-to-use tools and processes.

ACCEL Instruments GmbH is a worldwide engineering and manufacturing company specializing in custom-designed equipment for research and industry in the fields of particle accelerators, synchrotron radiation instrumentation, and medical applications. We design, manufacture, assemble, install, and commission components, systems and full beamlines as turnkey systems. Recently we have increased our activities also in the field of experimental stations, e.g. for Protein Crystallography and X-Ray Microscopy. Additionally, we develop components based on customer specifications or build to print with our design office and our in-house workshops.

Hamilton Life Science Robotics is a world leader in the supply of innovative technologies for automated liquid handling, specialising in a range of applications: Genomics, Proteomics, Cellomics and Drug Discovery. Founded in Reno, Nevada in 1955, Hamilton is a multinational organisation involved in the design and manufacture of products for liquid handling. From the World's first microlitre syringe to today's range of automated instruments.

Oxford Diffraction Limited, based in Abingdon, near Oxford in the UK, was spun out of Oxford Instruments plc in March 2001 in order to develop, manufacture and supply analytical instrumentation for X-ray Crystallography. The company emerged from a successful alliance between Oxford Instruments and a dynamic young company in Wroclaw, Poland, called Kuma Diffraction, which itself had spun out from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1993. Since it's start, Oxford Diffraction has grown extremely rapidly and now has over 100 X-ray crystallography systems for both Chemical and protein crystallography installed all around the world. These are supported from our regional offices in Europe, North America and Asia, or our distributors and agents in other territories.

BIOXHIT (Biocrystallography (X) on a Highly Integrated Technology Platform for European Structural Genomics) is a unique FP6-funded project in line with the priority theme "Life Sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health".
BIOXHIT aims at making the determination of three-dimensional structures of bio-molecules much easier for scientists across Europe. This effort is essential to answer basic questions about life and create practical applications, such as the search for new drugs.

The IUCr will be exhibiting the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, which provides comprehensive coverage of the entire field of synchrotron radiation research including instrumentation, methods and novel applications. Recent special issues have covered nanobiosciences, X-ray damage to biological crystalline samples, BioXAS and metallogenomics, and diffraction structural biology. The IUCr's structural biology journals and reference works will also be showcased.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. The company enables its customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer by providing analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, analysis, discovery and diagnostics.
With annual sales of more than $9 billion, Thermo Fisher Scientific has 30,000 employees and serves more than 350,000 customers in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental, industrial quality and process control settings.
The company delivers the industry's broadest selection of analytical instruments, equipment, consumables and laboratory supplies. Its growing portfolio of products includes innovative technologies for mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, molecular spectroscopy, sample preparation, laboratory automation, informatics, fine and high-purity chemistry production, cell culture, RNA interference analysis and immunodiagnostic testing, as well as air and water quality monitoring and process control. The company also gives its customers the most convenient purchasing options, including a direct sales force of 7,500 professionals, catalogs and e-commerce.

Area Detector Systems Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures large-area, tiled CCD array X-ray detector systems for protein crystallography (PX). ADSC recently celebrated its 24th year (1983-2007) in business and throughout this time we have been committed to building, writing software for, and installing the highest quality X-ray detectors possible with the technology and materials available at the time. We build and service our detector systems on premises to ensure the highest quality product and best service in the industry.

CLIK is the wholly owned commercialisation company of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). STFC is the new Research Council formed from the merger of CCLRC and PPARC and has the responsibility for operating the UK large science infrastructure. CLIK’s role is to manage and exploit the intellectual property of the STFC and to arrange access for commercial customers to the STFC facilities, services and expertise.

DECTRIS, a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland, is the first company worldwide to sell novel CMOS hybrid-pixel X-ray detector systems which operate in single-photon counting mode. Although an independent company, DECTRIS remains closely linked to PSI to stay at the cutting edge of X-ray detector development. We develop, produce and calibrate detectors at our premises in Switzerland in order to be able to deliver the highest possible quality detectors. We attach great importance to the support of our customers and believe that our advanced detector systems and application know-how can significantly benefit the customers application

The ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) is a European research institute funded by eighteen countries, producing hair-thin beams of light, at mainly X-ray wavelengths, which are among the most brilliant and intense available in the world.
Researchers from across the Continent – from industry and academia – come to the ESRF to use this ‘synchrotron light’ in experiments that underpin advances in scientific knowledge and technical innovation for the benefit of society at large.
The outstanding properties of these X-ray beams are used in a wide variety of disciplines : biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, material science, environmental science among others.

Genomic Solutions develops, manufactures, and sells instrumentation, software, and consumables used to determine the activity level of genes, that can isolate, identify and characterize proteins, and to dispense small volumes of biologically important materials. The company's products and systems, marketed under GeneMachines ®, BioRobotics, Investigator (TM) Proteomic System, and Cartesian™ nanoliter dispensing systems, enable researchers to perform complex, high volume experiments at a lower cost and in less time than traditional techniques. As a result, Genomic Solutions products and systems facilitate rapid and less expensive drug discovery.

Hamamatsu Photonics is a world leader in the manufacture of Optoelectronic components and systems. With over 50 years experience, our Company’s corporate philosophy stresses the advancement of photonics through extensive research and yields products that are regarded as state-of-the-art. Our range of products covers the entire optical spectrum and provides solutions for a wide variety of applications.
For the 9th International Conference on Biology & Synchrotron Radiation, Hamamatsu will be showcasing our specialist range of digital cameras for synchrotron facilities. This line-up includes low energy direct detection X-ray cameras, monolithic CMOS X-ray flat panel detectors and FOP input X-ray Cameras.

Incoatec develops and manufactures sophisticated X-ray optics for in-house crystallography and synchrotron applications in the fields of life science and materials research, such as small molecule and protein crystallography, high-resolution X-ray diffraction, wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence, micro-beam diffraction and small angle X-ray scattering. We will present our 2-dim focussing and collimating multilayer optics for crystallography and our latest product IµS. IµS stands for “Incoatec Microfocus Source”, and contains a 30 W microfocus sealed tube with high brilliance. It gives you a performance beyond traditional 5.4kW rotating anode sources, with the ease of handling of sealed tube systems.

Oxford Cryosystems has earned the trust of the global crystallographic community over the past 20 years with the Cryostream, the world's favourite low temperature device for X-ray crystallography. We have now broadened the range to include closed cycle and open-flow helium systems and the Cobra, our non-liquid Cryostream which uses nitrogen gas rather than liquid.
Both the 700 series Cryostream and the Cobra offer temperature ranges of 80- 500 Kelvin, combined with stability of 0.1 Kelvin, very low nitrogen consumption, easy single-step cool function and superior laminar flow.
Through a combination of high quality engineering, experience and innovation, Oxford Cryosystems aims to become the preferred provider of cryosystems and services to the global crystallographic community

Mosquito is a compact, bench-top instrument for liquid handling capable of accurately aspirating and dispensing a wide range of liquid types and viscosities in the range 50nL-1200nL. It uses a continuous reel of low-cost, disposable, positive displacement micropipettes to eliminate cross-contamination, thus combining the performance of fixed-tip dispensers with the convenience of disposable pipettes. Mosquito’s ability to miniaturise assay volumes can dramatically reduce reagent and consumable costs. Its off-the-shelf applications include protein crystallography, miniaturised assays, genotyping, low-volume compound additions and serial dilutions. It can address most SBS-format microtitre plates, from 96 to 1536 well format, including numerous application-specific plates.

Zinsser Analytic are a supplier of flexible, modular robotic instrumentation for liquid and powder handling, whose systems have proved invaluable throughout various industries worldwide. Zinsser Analytic’s ProCrys Protein Crystallisation system is a turnkey solution for the high throughput preparation of samples for protein crystallisation. It comprises a liquid handling platform for the fast preparation of the buffer solutions, a low-volume dispenser for the preparation of the crystallisation plates and a plate sealer to prevent evaporation. In conjunction with proprietary D of E software, ProCrys offers a high throughput, truly “walk away” solution for protein crystallisation

Rayonix, L.L.C. (formerly Mar USA) has a new name, but a long history of developing state-of-the-art area detectors for X-ray diffraction. The current products of Rayonix include a single-chip CCD detector – the SX165 (updated version of the popular MarCCD), and various multi-chip CCD detectors: the MX225, MX300, and MX325. Rayonix recently developed the new high efficiency MX225-HE, the first mosaic detector built with thinned back-illuminated CCD chips. This highly sensitive detector is especially suited to SAXS and micro-crystal diffraction. We also distribute Marresearch GmbH products in North America including the Mar345 Image Plate, MarDTB goniometer, and MarCSC cryogenic sample changer.