KU NMR Lab User Pages
Contact information (all area codes 785):
Main campus office, 3003 Malott Hall, 1251 Wescoe Hall Drive (David
Vander Velde, Sarah Neuenswander 12-4 pm);
phone
864-4187,
fax 864-5326
400 Lab, 3002 Malott; 500 Lab, B042 Malott; phone 864-4231
Molecular Structures Group business office: this position is
vacant. Refer fiscal questions to Ann Smith at KUCR, 864-7271, or
Carla Ramirez at 864-7345.
800 Lab, 100 Structural Biology Center; 400 Lab, 104 SBC; NMR Office
(David Vander Velde), 111 SBC, 2121
Simons
Drive,
864-3746
600 NMR Lab, 102 MRB
- There are 7 NMR spectrometers in the NMR Laboratory, with the
following
default configurations:
Field
strength Hostname
Location
Default
probe
How to access
400
florence
3002
Malott
H/C/P/F/D
autoswitching
Self-service by reservation
400
yosemite
104
SBC
H/C/P/N/D
autoswitching
Self-service by reservation
400
bigsur 104 SBC
Broadband
Self-service
by reservation (CMLD only)
500
paris
B042
Malott
Broadband
Self-service by reservation
500
siena
B042
Malott
Dual C/H
cryoprobe
Sign sample in on clipboard and leave in sample rack--samples run by
automation
600
kunmr6 102 MRB
Inverse H/C/N
triple
resonance Fill out
sample submission form
(available
online) and leave in sample rack
800
grandteton
100
SBC
TCI cryoprobe
Same as
600
Samples are typically run on the 500 within a few hours on the same
day they are received. The 600 and the 800 schedules are made to
accommodate
multi-day experiments on proteins and getting on those instruments may
take up to a week, although it is usually substantially less.
Announcements:
- We use a scheduling program for the NMR spectrometers called
"reserve,"
which was developed at Texas A&M. In order to
use it
from your own computer, you will need to have a secure terminal
program,
ssh, installed on it. Mac OS X and Linux computers have ssh
software as part of the operating system.
There is a free version of ssh for Windows PC's as a standalone program
called PuTTY.
Installing
this program takes only a couple of minutes. You can download it here. Instructions for
using
"reserve," and installing and configuring PuTTY are here.
- We have a data server which automatically archives data from the
spectrometers on a RAID-5 redundant disk array. Instructions on
accessing the server are here. However,
we still highly recommend that
individual users make their own backups/archives and keep them in a
safe
place. The Dell PC's offer several ways to make backups:
- Zip disks
- USB "pen" drives
- FireWire/USB combo drives
- We have convenient CD burning software, "Nero,"
under Windows, and a similar program, 'k3b," under Linux. See the link
below for instructions on
how to use it.
Get familar with at least one of these
backup options, and we recommend you make a backup at least every six
months.
Local forms and documentation:
- If you are bored, you might find some diversion in these pages
describing
what's on the lab walls: