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Alhtough perhaps a little more macabre--maybe you could crystallize hemoglobin or myoglobin from blood or muscle (meat?). I recollect some story of whale myo- or hemo-globin crystallizing on the salty decks of a whaling ship... Jacob On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:59 AM, David Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear crystallographers, > > I am working on an outreach program through the APS to get motivated high > school students some/more research experience. As I work at a > crystallography beamline (LS-CAT), we are trying to get a > crystallographically centered experiment in place that will be interesting > to a high school student. Among other ideas, I had mentioned to the > teacher the possibility of crystallizing lysozyme directly from egg > whites. The teacher picked up on this idea as the one he and his students > would like to pursue. I have done a bit of reseach and I have found the > Alderton and Fevold paper from '46 about direct crystallization from egg > whites. However I am unable to find any papers that refine or expand upon > this experiment. While there appears to be some literature about lysozyme > and crystallizing the same, these papers do not use lysozyme directly from > hen egg whites. Do any of you know of any more recent papers or procedures > that would be relevant or easily adapted to an high school environment? > > Our goal is to get diffraction quality crystals, expose the crystals at > the beamline, and present a poster of the experience. > > Cheers and thanks, > > David Smith > > -- > David W Smith > Research Scientist > LS-CAT > APS, Argonne IL > W:(630)343-9811 > F:(630)252-4664 > -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program email: [log in to unmask] *******************************************