Staff at EMBL

Florent Cipriani

Team Leader
Cipriani Team

EMBL Grenoble, BP 181, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

Biography

BSc 1974, Physics, University of Grenoble, France.
Senior engineer in nuclear and medical industries.
At EMBL Grenoble since 1991.
Team Leader since 2003.

Publications

Automation instrumentation for high-throughput macromolecular X-ray beamlines. Cipriani, F. et al.

Improving diffraction by humidity control: a novel device compatible with X-ray beamlines. Sanchez-Weatherby, J., Bowler, M.W., Huet, J., Gobbo, A., Felisaz, F., Lavault, B., Moya, R., Kadlec, J., Ravelli, R.B. & Cipriani, F. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2009 Dec;65(Pt 12):1237-46. Epub 2009Nov 17. PubMed

Colouring cryo-cooled crystals: online microspectrophotometry. McGeehan, J., Ravelli, R.B., Murray, J.W., Owen, R.L., Cipriani, F., McSweeney, S., Weik, M. & Garman, E.F. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2009 Mar;16(Pt 2):163-72. Epub 2009 Feb 25. PubMed

C3D: a program for the automated centring of cryocooled crystals. Lavault, B., Ravelli, R.B. & Cipriani, F. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2006 Nov;62(Pt 11):1348-57. Epub 2006Oct 18. PubMed

Automation of sample mounting for macromolecular crystallography. Cipriani, F., Felisaz, F., Launer, L., Aksoy, J.S., Caserotto, H., Cusack, S., Dallery, M., di-Chiaro, F., Guijarro, M., Huet, J., Larsen, S., Lentini, M., McCarthy, J., McSweeney, S., Ravelli, R., Renier, M., Taffut, C., Thompson, A., Leonard, G.A. & Walsh, M.A. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2006 Oct;62(Pt 10):1251-9. Epub 2006Sep 19. PubMed

UV laser-excited fluorescence as a tool for the visualization of protein crystals mounted in loops. Vernede, X., Lavault, B., Ohana, J., Nurizzo, D., Joly, J., Jacquamet, L., Felisaz, F., Cipriani, F. & Bourgeois, D. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2006 Mar;62(Pt 3):253-61. Epub 2006Feb 22. PubMed

High throughput sample handling and data collection at synchrotrons: embedding the ESRF into the high throughput gene to structure pipeline. Beteva, A., Cipriani, F. et al. ActaD, submitted

Automation of macromolecular crystallography beamlines. Arzt, S., Beteva, A., Cipriani, F., Delageniere, S., Felisaz, F., Forstner, G., Gordon, E., Launer, L., Lavault, B., Leonard, G., Mairs, T., McCarthy, A., McCarthy, J., McSweeney, S., Meyer, J., Mitchell, E., Monaco, S., Nurizzo, D., Ravelli, R.B.G., Rey, V., Shepard, W., Spruce, D., Svensson, O. & Theveneau, P. Prog Biophys Mol Biol 2005 Oct;89(2):124-52. PubMed

Using image analysis for automated crystal positioning in a synchrotron X-ray beam for high-throughput macromolecular crystallography. Andrey, P., Lavault, B., Cipriani, F., & Maurin Y. J. Appl. Cryst. 2004 37 265-269

VIVALDI - A diffractometer for all seasons. Wilkinson, C., McKintyre, G.J., Cowan, J.A., Cipriani, F. & Myles, D.A.A. In "Proceedings of the ILL Millenium Symposium and European User Meeting", (6-7 April, 2001), pp. 298-299.

Protein microcrystals and the design of a microdiffractometer: current experience and plans at EMBL and ESRF/ID13. Perrakis, A., Cipriani, F., Castagna, J.C., Claustre, L., Burghammer, M., Riekel, C. & Cusack, S. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 1999 Oct;55 ( Pt 10):1765-70 PubMed

Neutron Laue diffractometry with an imaging plate provides an effectie data collection for neutron protein crystallography. Niimura, N., Minezaki, Y., Nonaka, T., Castagna, J.C., Cipriani, F., Hoghoj, P., Lehmann, M.S. & Wilkinson, C. Physica B 1998 241-243 1162-1165

Large area neutron and X-ray image-plate detectors for macromolecular biology. Cipriani, F., Castagna, J.C., Claustre, L., Wilkinson, C. & Lehmann, M.S. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. 1997 A 392 471-474