Equipment
Transmission Electron Microscopes
Cameras/detectors: Gatan OneView IS (4k) CCD
Applications: Plastic/thick section electron tomography & Cryo-electron tomography, CryoTEM, single particle analysis screening and data acquisition, High-resolution TEM
Cameras/detectors: Gatan K3 (4k) direct electron detector, Gatan US4000 (4k) CCD
Applications: Plastic/thick section electron tomography & Cryo-electron tomography, CryoTEM, single particle analysis screening and data acquisition
Cameras/detectors: AMT 2k x 2k side-mounted CCD (fast scanning), FEI Eagle 4k x 4k CCD (higher resoltuion)
Applications: plastic/thin section imaging, immunoEM, negative stain imaging, nanoparticles/material samples
Other Microscopic Equipment
Inspect cryo-stage for use in cryo Correlative Light Electron Microscopy (CLEM) as well as live-cell imaging prior to fixation.
Sample Preparation Equipment
Cryofixation tool capable of generating specimens for cryo-sectioning, freeze-substitution and freeze-etching.
Other Sample Preparation Equipment
Leica Automatic Freeze-Substitution Systems (AFS)
Plunge freezers:
- FEI Vitrobot Mark IV
- Manual plunge freezer (custom design)
Ultramicrotomes:
- Leica UC Enuity
- Leica UC6
Electron Microscopy Sciences Carbon Evaporator
EMITEC Glow Discharge Unit
Computer Work Stations:
- SPA processing
- Electron tomography processing