The Grenoble Instrumentation Group

Interests of the Grenoble Instrumentation Group lie in the improvement of synchrotron data collection techniques to aid structural biologists in their quest for detailed atomic structures used for understanding biological functions of macromolecules. Our background activity is to develop, maintain and operate X-ray macromolecular beamlines (MX) at the ESRF. Foreground developments focus on the improvement of data quality, on new methodologies for data collection on radiation sensitive crystals and on automation of X-ray data collection. In addition, members of the group are involved in collaborations on cytoskeleton- and leucine-rich repeat proteins.

The instrumentation group works in close collaboration with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) on the MX joint structural biology group (JSBG) beamlines. The group also provides scientific and technical support for the UK CRG beamline BM14 at the ESRF. It furthermore contributes to technical developments at our second neighbouring large-scale facilities, the ILL.

We take a particular interest in making our technology available to the scientific community. Most of our major developments have been or are being industrialised, in association with EMBLEM.

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X-Ray instruments and softwares developed
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 HC1 Crystal Humidity Control
Portable Instrument Use it at the ESRF
ESRF ID14-x		 Application Forms:
Word / PDF
md1
md2 MD2 Diffractometer (Microdiffractometer)
SLS  X06S; ESRF  ID14-3; MRC-France  ESRF BM14 CRG; APS NE CAT, LS CAT; Bessy
md2m MD2M Diffractometer (Minidiffractometer)
ESRF  ID14-1, ID14-2, ID14-4, ID29, ID23-1, ID23-2
sc3 Sample Changer SC3, download a video load/unload 1 sample (real time)  4.3 Mb
ESRF  ID14-1, ID14-2, ID14-3, ID14-4, ID29, ID23-1, ID23-2 ; MRC-France  ESRF BM14 CRG
MiniKappa Mini Kappa Goniometer Head, download videos
ESRF  ID14-4, ID29, ID23-1; MRC-France  ESRF BM14 CRG, ESRF BM30 CEA-IBS CRG, APS  LS CAT; Diamond; ALS; Bessy
Microspectrophotometer,
ESRF ID14-x
Use it at the ESRF
auto_centring results Automatic Crystal Alignment Library C3D
ESRF  ID14-1, ID14-2, ID14-3, ID14-4, ID29, ID23-1, ID23-2 ; MRC-France ESRF BM14 CRG
OAV On Axis Video-microscope
ESRF BM30  FIP CNRS/IBS GRG +
Piezoelectric_Shutter Piezoelectric Shutter, download a video 1" exposure 5 passes ( real time 5 x 0.2")  215Kb
ESRF  ID14-1, ID14-2, ID14-3, ID14-4, ID29, ID23-1, ID23-2; APS NE-CAT
XtaLink XtaLink
Portable instrument
                                                                                                                                                              
Neutrons instruments developed
vivaldi FINDER (VIVALDI)
ILL VIVALDI, LADI3; ANSTO QLD