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Dear Georg, You could have asked the beamline staff :). Transporting live viruses at LN2 temperatures is a problem and is the main reason for us only offering CL3 experiments for room temperature samples. I hadn't appreciated that you would have the same problem with HG2 samples. Do you still have some crystals in crystallisation plates? If so, they could be transported at room temperature (I can give more advice on this offline) and then cryo-cooled on-site or we could do in-situ experiments using the crystallisation plates. Regards, Katherine Dr K McAuley Principal Beamline Scientist, I03 Diamond Light Source, UK On 17 Jul 2012, at 20:11, "Georg Zocher" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hi all, an additional possibility would be to transport the crystals on dry ice. This might be a completely stupid idea as the temperature is only -78°C. But as dry ice shipment of such kind of material is less problematic and transport material is available it would be fairly easy. And you can easily put your crystals in a robot puk (higher thermal capacity, more stable) which by itself can be placed into a "primary container". Does someone of you have transported crystals on dry ice? Cheers, Georg Am 17.07.2012 20:42, schrieb Kris Tesh: I would contact Cole-Parmer (http://www.coleparmer.com/) and see what they recommend. They have been very helpful in the past. Kris Kris F. Tesh, Ph. D. Department of Biology and Biochemistry University of Houston ________________________________ From: Georg Zocher <[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, July 17, 2012 12:45:22 PM Subject: [ccp4bb] transport of fully functional virus crystals Dear Community, I have to face the problem that I have to transport fully functional and infectious virus crystals (frozen) to a synchrotron. The virus has biosafety classification 2 (HSE group 2) and therefore transport by e.g. Fedex has to fullfill the packing instruction 650, better 602 according to IATA (http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dangerous_goods/Documents/DGR52_PI650_EN.pdf). As far as I have seen by my google search all the dry shippers do not fulfill these criteria. Therefore my questions are: 1.) Has someone of you have had the same problem and found a solution? 2.) How have you done the transport? 3.) Is there a dry shipper available which fulfills the requirements for packing instruction 650? Any comment is welcome. Thank you very much for your efforts. Cheers, Georg -- Universität Tübingen Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie Dr. Georg Zocher Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 4 72076 Tuebingen Germany Fon: +49(0)-7071-2973374 Mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de<http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de/> -- Universität Tübingen Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie Dr. Georg Zocher Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 4 72076 Tuebingen Germany Fon: +49(0)-7071-2973374 Mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom