Jena Bioscience Blog

We are pleased to announce that we have entered into a distribution agreement with Omscientia, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA, USA) to offer our entire suite of protein crystallization products. Omscientia will be offering Jena Bioscience’s products which include nucleotides and their non-natural analogs, recombinant proteins & protein production systems, and reagents for the crystallization of biological macromolecules. For the crystallization of biological macromolecules - which is the bottle neck in determining the 3D-structure of any protein – Jena and Omscientia now offer specialized reagents for crystal screening, crystal optimization and phasing that can reduce the time for obtaining high quality crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction from several years to a few days. The Jena Bioscience products are immediately available directly from Omscientia. Jena Bioscience and Omscientia are both excited about the new agreement and believe it will help bring a wider array of choices to crystallographers in North America.

We are happy to announce that we have entered into a partnership with
Tocris Bioscience.
Tocris Bioscience will distribute our products in all territories served by Tocris USA.
The availability of our products through Tocris will benefit scientists working in a diverse range of fields, including neuroscience, cancer and metabolic disease.

Jena Bioscience products can be ordered by customers in the USA, Canada, Mexico and Central/South America directly from the Tocris USA office.
Customers in UK, Europe, Asia and Rest of World are invited to email customerservice@tocris.co.uk for pricing and availability information.

Delivery vans keep running against the porch roof at Jena Bioscience’s main entrance!

The Jena Bioscience building - view from Wiesenstrasse
A picture of our main entrance will follow as soon as the roof is repaired!

Jena Bioscience again sponsored the prices for the three best posters in the category “biological structures”at this year’s DGK annual meeting (DGK = Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie, German Crystallographic Association) in Hannover. This has become sort of a tradition - we sponsored the price for the third time this year. Although we were not exhibiting at this meeting, Thomas went up to Hannover to attend the conference banquet and to hand over the prices to the lucky winners.

With this sponsorship, Jena Bioscience aims to support young creative scientists from the crystallography community. And no, we were not part of the jury that chose the best posters :-)

Congratulations again to the three of you!

DGK 2009 poster price winners - from left to right: 3^rd price: Anja Menzel, University of Halle/Wittenberg, 2^nd price: Tobias Beck, University of Göttingen, 1^st price: Karolina Cupelli, University of Tübingen …and Thomas on the right side.

Many of you have been waiting for it and now it’s available:
The new General Catalog No.5!
There are 4,275 life science products on 526 pages and many hours of work in it. Our special “thanks” goes to our graphic design agency Timespin for making many night shifts to finish their work on the catalog on time.
Click here to download the pdf or order your copy online!
Please scroll down to view our cover gallery of all Jena Bioscience general catalogs.

February 2009: Catalog No.5 is available and has a new design.

Autumn 2005: Jena Bioscience released Catalog No. 4.

Summer 2003: The 2003/2004 Catalog was ready for distribution.
It had 180 pages.

2002: The globe appeared on a Jena Bioscience catalog for the first time.

The first Jena Bioscience catalog!

I would like to thank all of you for visiting this blog in 2008. We experienced that our blog is a full success; we had much more visitors than expected! I wish you good and relaxing holidays and a Happy New Year!

The Jena Bioscience team at the 2008 Christmas party

India is a growing economy and a growing player in the field of crystallography with around 40 groups now. The 2008 EMBO World Lecture Course on “RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY” took place in Pune from November 9th to 14th. The lecturers, both from
India and elsewhere, included internationally renowned scientists such as
Ted Baker, Eleanor Dodson, Zbyszek Dauter, Gerard Kleywegt, S. Mande.,
T.P. Singh, Joel Sussman, M. Vijayan and B-C. Wang.
Our very special thanks go to Biotech Desk, our distributor in India. Biotech Desk represented us at the lecture and Shradha -who is the managing director-awarded the poster prizes that were sponsored by Jena Bioscience.

Shradha with two of her sales managers at the booth:
Susanta Paul, based at New Delhi; Shradha Goenka, managing director; and Jaganmay Anand based in Hyderabad

Shradha spoke at the lecture and awarded the poster prizes

Jhansi from Biotech Desk at the booth